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Honda S2000 Facelift
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Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.
Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (3) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 5,641 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
Regarded as one of the great naturally aspirated roadsters, with a 9,000rpm redline that remains unmatched by any modern rival. Values have nearly doubled since 2016 as owners increasingly hold onto clean, low-km examples rather than sell.
The high-revving nature of the F20C demands strict maintenance discipline, and neglected examples show it through worn valvetrain components. It lacks forced induction, so outright performance trails newer turbo rivals at a similar price. The Australian sample is three results and two cars, all of them under 39,000 kilometres, so the value at the expected distance rests on a slope borrowed from the AP1 record rather than measured here. The international market is flat rather than climbing.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
A Berlina Black example sold at Rouse Hill, New South Wales in November 2022 at 38,832 kilometres for $65,000, and again at Wilton in December 2023 at 38,911 kilometres for $73,500. Seventy-nine kilometres apart, and the two listings describe the same repainted rear bumper, the same 17-inch twin five-spoke wheels on Falken Azenis, and the same inventory down to the two main keys and one valet key.
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That is a repeat sale - the only measurement that holds condition constant - and it is the clearest evidence in this library that the AP2 market rose through 2023.
The evidence grade counts transactions and there are three; the population behind the value is two, and a reader should know that.
At Sydney in February 2025 for a 2006 car at 28,387 kilometres, second owner, with a partially stamped book and a recent minor service.
And 38,911 kilometres - so the odometer term of 1.9 per cent per 10,000 kilometres is carried from the AP1 record rather than measured here. Three cars inside eleven thousand kilometres of each other cannot produce a slope, and this record does not claim one.
Is that an unmodified Australian-delivered AP2 under 40,000 kilometres trades between $65,000 and $75,000, and that the market moved up inside that band over two years.
The published figure describes a car at the expected distance, which this record set at 130,000 kilometres, and every car in the sample sits between 28,387 and 38,911. Carrying that gap at 1.9 per cent per 10,000 kilometres, $52,000 predicted $62,041 for the Sydney car that made $75,000 and $61,006 for the Rouse Hill car that made $65,000 - under every observation, two of them by more than twenty per cent. A model that is wrong in the same direction on all three of its own data points is not noisy, it is miscalibrated.
The 130,000 figure was inherited from the AP1 record, and the AP2 is five years newer; 110,000 is where these cars actually read. De-adjusted to it, the February 2025 result implies $64,930 and the December 2023 result $64,752 - a difference of less than $200 between two independent cars fourteen months apart. At $64,000 the model now returns $73,926 against an actual $75,000, and $72,646 against an actual $73,500.
The November 2022 Rouse Hill sale comes in 11.8 per cent under the model - and that is the same car as the December 2023 sale, which the model now fits to within one per cent. The gap between the two is the 13.1 per cent the repeat sale measured. The model is not missing that car; it is correctly reporting that the market moved between the two occasions on which it sold.
The distance term. Every car here is under 39,000 kilometres and the 1.9 per cent slope is carried from the AP1 record, so the value at 110,000 kilometres rests on a curve nothing in this sample tests. A single high-distance Australian AP2 result would be worth more to this record than three more low-distance ones.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Honda S2000 Facelift is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Honda S2000 Facelift, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.