Today’s Nice Price or No Dice S2000 might not appear to be a spaceship, nevertheless it’s completed virtually sufficient miles to make it to the moon. Let’s see if its price ticket will make this an out-of-this-world deal.
Have you ever had the expertise the place having revealed deep-rooted emotions for somebody you have been crushing on, you have been rebuffed with a disheartening response alongside the traces of “Eww, gross”? The 1980 Pinto Squire we checked out yesterday was on the receiving finish of a lot of such dispiriting responses. Few of you wished something to do with the ’70s staple wagon, and the $7,800 asking worth wasn’t serving to both. In the top, that earned the Pinto a considerable 65 p.c No Dice loss.
As everyone knows, time wounds all heels, and issues have modified loads within the intervening years between the disco decade of the Seventies and the daybreak of the current century. As an instance of the progress we’ve made within the automotive world, take into account the distinction in output between the two.3-liter engine in yesterday’s Pinto and that of the two.0-liter in as we speak’s 2001 Honda S2000. Both are naturally aspirated and though the Honda options much less displacement, it’s extra superior, that includes a further camshaft and twice the variety of valves. The Honda’s 11:1 compression ratio can be considerably larger than the 9.0:1 of the Ford, and it makes its merriment a superb 3000 rpm greater within the rev band. That finally ends up giving the Honda 240 horsepower and 153 lb-ft of torque, which, on the time of its debut, made it the highest-output naturally aspirated manufacturing engine on this planet. On a superb day, the Pinto 4 managed 88 horses and 119 lb-ft or twist, making it unremarkable even for its less-than-competitive period.
In addition to having a contemporary, record-shattering engine below its hood, this Honda sports activities automotive has a couple of extra methods up its sleeve. According to the advert, the two-seater can be a one-owner automotive that has been “Immaculately Maintained” and stays in “Pristine Condition.” It is being bought as “Nearly 100% OEM,” save for the stereo, and with a brand new prime, a well-maintained motor, and a lot of different big-ticket replacements below its belt. It additionally has a staggering 212,000 miles on the clock.
Yikes, that’s quite a lot of miles. The automotive doesn’t appear to indicate them, although. The Silver Stone paint seems to nonetheless pop, and the headlamps are appreciably un-yellowed. The manufacturing facility AP2 alloys are additionally in respectable situation and are carrying new Hankooks. Above all that, the substitute prime seems to be taut and apparently goes up and down with no downside.
The cabin reveals a little bit of proof of the automotive’s age and people super-high miles. The most blatant of that’s the put on on the shift knob and a few scratches and a detaching boot surrounding that. That’s all very minor, and other than a considerably floppy driver’s aspect seatbelt, there’s nothing else price complaining about within the house aside from its tight proportions.
According to the vendor, the automotive has a clear title, a current smog take a look at, and powerful compression readings, all inside 5 kilos of one another throughout all 4 cylinders. That all goes a good distance towards mitigating the automotive’s scary mileage. Could a $23,999 price ticket do likewise?
What’s your tackle this S2000 and that $23,999 worth? Do the miles not matter in a automotive as nicely maintained and cared-for as this one appears to be? Or would you continue to favor for both the miles or the worth to be far decrease?
You determine!
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