One to Buy: 42 mile Silverstone Metallic 2000 Honda S2000
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Although Honda’s early automotive efforts largely focused on open top two-seat models,by the time the company made its breakthrough into the four-wheel market with the first generation Civic, it had completely shied away from the roadster market in favour of mass market eco boxes.
A little later, the odd hot hatch followed along with the flagship NSX, but it wasn’t until the dawn of the 21st century that Honda decided to revisit its roots and create a successor to the S500, S600 and S800 models that had done so much to help establish Honda as an auto maker during its formative years.
Appropriately, this latest iteration of the two-seat roadster theme, created to celebrate Honda’s 50th anniversary as a car builder, was dubbed S2000.
Set to go under the hammer at Broad Arrow Auctions’ Amelia Island sale in Florida between March 7th and 8th is an early S2000 showing a remarkable 42 miles from new.
Configured in Silverstone Metallic with Black upholstery, chassis JHMAP1149YT007691 was ordered by Hedy Cirrincione and delivered through Drum Honda in Watertown, New York, as a sister car to a New Formula Red S2000 that served as Miss Cirrincione’s daily driver.
Honda eventually completed a little over 110,000 examples of the S2000 during a ten year production run between 1999 and 2009, however, it is unlikely that a much better example of the breed exists anywhere in the world.
