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Originally Posted by iLuveKetchup
I had 3 s2ks - 06 track only, CR autox only, & 08 stock. Even with tires, JRZ RS Pro & alignment, it doesn’t handle any better than a plain jane SSC spec’d twin. I’ve driven lots of s2ks and an original owner since 05.
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Maybe all the S2ks you've driven were poorly set up? You're not running "UK spec" rear toe, are you?
Maybe it's a personal preference "feel" thing and you just don't like sitting well behind center of rotation in the S2k.
All the S2ks mentioned are AP2s and do not have the worst AP1 handling trait, which is really the only impeachable aspect of that car's handling IMO. And even with that, the car is not as twitchy and evil-handling as you describe, not to me anyway...
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Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the s2k handles horribly. It’s above average, but it can’t comapre to a twin. imo
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Above
average? Can't even
compare to a twin?
I've driven and been driven in a lot of student's cars at the track over the years, and the only stock cars I would say handled "better" *to me* than the S2000 were Lotus Elise and Exige. And of course properly modded and set up S2000s handle phenomenally.
I don't think you can *objectively* show that the twins are so inherently "better-handling" than the S2000, so it must be down to taste. But that's very odd to me because the twins and S2000 are more alike than different relative to other cars that are typically tracked.