This Honda S2000 Is a "Fast and the Furious" Movie Icon

This is a Honda

s2000

and it's a little different than most of the cars I review because it's bright pink and heavily modified, and it was in a

movie

that

this

s2000

had a starring role in Too Fast and the Furious, which was the second

movie

. of the series. and the

furious

franchise and today I'm going to review it before we start make sure you check out the cars and bids which is my new enthusiast online car auction website with cool modern era cars up for auction every day if You are If you are looking to sell a cool car from the 1980s onwards, deals are the place to sell it, you will get the best community and the most money for your car, and if you are looking to buy a cool car from that era, cars and bids has some very interesting vehicles, as you can see here.

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this

s2000 from the Peterson museum here in Los Angeles, which has one of the most incredible automobile collections and displays ever assembled. You're in Los Angeles and want to see the best car museum. Check out the Peterson. You can also visit the Peterson Museum by clicking the link in the description below. So let's talk about the s2000. Now you probably already know the s2000. It was the rear-wheel drive from Honda. sports car manufactured between 2000 and 2009 and almost all enthusiasts know that it is a two-seater with a manual transmission and rear-wheel drive.

It was a fantastic car, one of the best sports cars made during the 2000s, but then there is this s2000, this s2000 also came too

fast

.

furious

and had a prominent role was driven by suki in a street race against an r34 skyline gtr, a supra and an rx7 and the s2000 jumps a drawbridge to avoid being in last place now this car didn't actually jump a drawbridge but It wasn't all special effects either. In a few minutes for now I'm going to review this s2000 and show you all the cool quirks and features of a movie car, a real car that starred in a real movie and not just any movie but Too Fast and Furious which really was a gem of the franchise.

So I'll take it out on the road and see how it drives and then I'll give it a dig score, okay I'm going to start with the quirks and features of the s2000 too

fast

and furious on the outside. I want to talk about all the things you see and, frankly, I think it's great, pretty well done, very surprising now in the movie. This car was driven by Suki, obviously a female character and apparently they wanted a color scheme to fit so they went with pink and then they have these graphics on the side. These were touched up by an artist named Noah Elias who did some other movie cars and some other car art type stuff and you can see that all the graphics look great on the outside of this car, frankly it's a pretty good look given what they were going for, they did a good job and of course since this car would be in the movie and important car in some important scenes they wanted it to look as good as possible so in addition to the paint scheme and airbrushing they also added a body kit, a veil type side kit, which you can see on the front, there is a lower spoiler that is incredibly low and makes it easy to transport. this car was quite a task, you also had modified rocker panels on the side again to give this car a more striking look and on the rear you had a different rear bumper again to make it stand out compared to a normal s2000 and the modifications exteriors no We won't stop there, there's even more: you can see the giant wing on the rear also painted pink to help give this car a striking look and the cover over the top area with the top down again, a modified accessory also painted pink and also helps complete the special look of this car on the outside this car looks tremendously well done with the art the body kit the color really looks nice from the outside and that makes sense because that's where it was going to be shown in the movie, so they needed it to look good and seem representative of a car that belonged in a Fast and Furious movie, but ultimately the thing about movie cars is that they are designed to look good with a purpose on camera and in the case of this car, its purpose was to be seen from the outside while Suki is driving it in that street race, so when you get inside this s2000 and start looking at the details, things become crumble, we will start at the door panel, where you can see it is blurry, this is a bath mat that has been cut and reused to fit the door panel of the s2000.

I'm not exaggerating, this is literally a fuzzy bath mat, like you would buy at Target, taped to the door panel and that's where that fuzz comes from. It's the same in the seats. see the material surrounding the seats also blurry also the bath mat, this is what it is again for a movie, they don't necessarily look for the highest quality stuff, just what will look good on camera in the scenes they need, so the bath mat worked and there is also more bath mat in the center, you can see it on the center console lid, it's fluffy and it's also a reused bath mat, like everything else, probably the worst part It's the gear lever, the shift cover is again a reused bath mat, it's actually quite well made.

It really doesn't look that good now, you might be wondering why the bath mat, why did they use fluffy bath mats for the interior of this car? Well, as I mentioned, it looked good on camera, but it looked especially good on camera back then, the movie was in 2003. 17 years ago, this rug looked great and you can see it in some scenes and it just looks like seats custom shaggy and fluffy, of course, being a bath mat material, it hasn't actually aged that well and this is how it looks. Nowadays, of course, if you really wanted soft seats in your car, you wouldn't use a bath mat, but they just needed the seats to look nice and soft for a few scenes 17 years ago and then continued with the rather questionable modifications to this one. car. you move to the center console where you have a sort of reddish blackish carpet in the center, I'm not exactly sure why that went in there, it certainly doesn't look good, maybe it was to minimize reflection or something, but this center console It is carpeted.

Same thing on the center control sucked with the cover over the stereo. There's a little piece of felt stuck here. If you press it, it opens and you can see the stereo, but for some reason, when it's closed, they put this felt here. I'm not exactly sure why that's just some movie magic in another questionable mod and things don't get better from there. One of the effects the film crew wanted as the car was driven in front of the camera was a sort of pink glow coming from the interior matches the exterior, so they placed lights throughout the interior installed in a rather sloppy manner.

You can see, for example, a small light next to the seat, between the seat and the door panel, you have it on the driver's side and on the passenger's side. There's another one there, you also have a light in the center behind the fire extinguisher that could provide more of a pink glow and you have two more lights on the center console near the handbrake and gear lever again, these would provide that pink glow and they would they changed. on and the car was being driven in front of the camera now once again this created a bit of a problem if you wanted a pink glow to come out of your interior you would do your best to hide the lights and integrate them into your interior panels but if you just wanted it pink glow appeared on a movie for a few seconds of screen time, you would glue the lights inside as poorly as possible and you can see just the excess glue so the lights would stay in the place they didn't need to. to make it look good they just needed to make the pink shine here and that's a functional decision and the questionable mods continue from there, on the passenger side of the dash you can see there are three gauges, you have boost temp and water temp . and if you unhook these meters you can see that they are connected to something with wires but nothing functional.

I had driven the car a bit before and these gauges don't do anything but they certainly look cool as accessories which is probably what they are doing there and it's the same story next to the gauge cluster where you have another gauge, a giant one , this is a tachometer which again is a questionable modification because it is placed right next to the actual tachometer on the car, I'm not really sure you need it. both but they put it there because it looks good on the camera and it certainly does but again it's not functional it doesn't work but the most obvious modification to the dash comes on the passenger side where you have this panasonic screen on. a mountain sticking out of the board now in the movie, suki actually sees something on this screen right before the race or during the race, i don't remember and you can see it pretty prominently in the movie and it looked cool on a screen like that. in your car what you don't see in the movie is how sloppy the placement of that screen is, it looks like they just removed the airbag to have enough room to put it here and then put it in and it just didn't hold up well over time, but again it didn't matter much as it only needed to look good during a few scenes in the movie and by the way, speaking of removing the airbag, this car also had the driver's side airbag removed because it has a Sparco steering wheel not genuine.

You can also see that coming off the steering wheel there are two red buttons labeled n2o nitrous. These buttons, of course, do nothing. You press them and absolutely nothing happens, although there are some wires behind them that go somewhere. So maybe they did something at some point but they certainly aren't working now and speaking of removing safety features this car doesn't have seat belts which is interesting you would think you could tell the person driving the car on the screen. Hey, they don't wear the seatbelt, they just took it off, it's gone, so driving this isn't exactly the safest experience without airbags or seatbelts and by the way, more on the wheel during the driving part, let's say that the The fact that it has fake nitrous buttons and that the airbag has been removed is the least of the steering wheel's worries.

You see what I mean and in fact there is one more questionable safety modification to mention that would be the rear view mirror for some reason. It was moved from its original location and hangs from this piece of metal from the top of the windshield frame. I'm not exactly sure why they did this. I suspect it's because they wanted to make sure the mirror didn't block the camera angles showing the driver's image. face when I was behind the wheel so they had to move it, but either way the mirror is now dramatically flimsier than before and frankly a little too low to give you a good view behind you, not really the most functional, another questionable security. modification for the sake of Hollywood cinematic glory and then we move under the hood where the modifications continue, including one rather desirable modification.

This car is supercharged. In fact, you can see the Paxton supercharger here, which gives it more power, which is kind of surprising for a movie car. They usually just lie about modifications and more power. This car actually has a supercharger and it also says supercharged on a sticker under the hood. I suspect it's because they created several different versions of this car for the movie, but this was the hero car. she actually drove, she was probably the only one who actually got the supercharger and she said there are some pretty questionable mods under the hood starting with the pink and I'm not talking about the fact that they spray painted under the hood pink, I'm talking about the fact that there is excess pink paint basically everywhere else you can see on the sides of the engine bay, there is just pink on a lot of different engine components on the passenger side and on the driver side, this car was clearly painted very sloppily before its beautiful final airbrush painting. all that overspray was applied shows that they clearly didn't care much and throughout the car you can see that the areas were spray painted pink if they thought they probably wouldn't show up on camera but maybe they would so let's paint it with sprinkler. just to be sure but you can see the pink spray paint doesn't really match the pink color of the outside but it was pink anyway again it needed to look good from 10 feet away or for a split second on camera, so spray paint was clearly the way to go and then another questionable modification here below you had more lights ofneon which I guess gave off more of a pink glow.

You can see they are mounted on the underside of the hood and again they are just glued on in a very sloppy way, no one cared how it looked as long as they stayed in place. Now these lights really are the definition of a low quality installation. To start, there is a little package that I assume turns on and off the light that you can see on the driver's side. It's literally taped in place to make sure it doesn't fall, meanwhile if you look at the battery you can see that these lights are literally clipped to the battery, it doesn't necessarily seem like the safest way to do it but it is what which it did because again the car just needed to have that pink glow for a couple of seconds on the screen and also the last interesting item here on the front of the engine bay you can see there is a label that says First Unit of the main car, only now as I mentioned that other pink S2000s were made for the movie, but this was the main car, in other words, the hero car, the most important main car, that looked better and that was going to be used more on screen, but it wasn't the car I made the jump to for that interesting story.

I must borrow some knowledge from Craig Lieberman, who was involved in the production of the Fast and the Furious movie and specifically the car stuff. He has a YouTube channel where he tells many stories about the Fast and the Furious movies which I will link in the description below. Now Craig Lieberman says that several s2000s were made, including a remote control version, so there was a pink s2000 that looked like this except you could drive it with a remote control and it was the one that went off a ramp, not really a drawbridge, but completed a jump with a driver driving him remotely from another location.

Which is cool now Craig Lieberman also says that the chase car, the camera car, which was a Dodge Durango, couldn't stop in time when the s2000 went off the ramp and also went off the ramp with stuntmen driving and suffered minor injuries. as a result but the s2000 actually completed the jump but not this s2000 and not with a real human being driving just a pretty cool remote control setup and finally we move to the back of the s2000 and specifically to the trunk you open the trunk . cover it with this giant wing and you can see inside the trunk, like everywhere else, it doesn't really look that good, this part was never going to be shown on camera, so they didn't have to worry about what it would look like.

It looks so bad now that this car has a fuel cell instead of the original fuel tank, that's part of the reason it looks so bad here, they basically had to cut a place to mount the fuel cell and I must say it definitively. it smells like fuel when you open the trunk and that is the culprit and then another interesting item worth noting, behind the trunk area you can see that this body kit bumper has cutouts for the exhaust tips and on the movie, the car had some upgraded modifications. exhaust tips, although I was told they were non-functional, now that you get under the car you can see that the exhaust actually comes out somewhere in the middle under the car, so those exhaust tips were probably just for show , but either way they are no longer in the car, I'm not sure what happened to them, they were lost in time in the 17 years since this movie was made.

Also under the car at the back you can again see more excess paint, I guess because of the spray paint it doesn't really show at all. that good, but again, they didn't really care, no one was going to see this until now and finally, as for the s2000 itself, the not too fast and too furious version, if you want to see the quirks and features of that, I have reviewed a regular s2000 and did a full walkthrough of that car, obviously very different from the movie car, but if you want to see a modified non-movie s2000, I'll link that video in the description below and those are the quirks and features . of the

honda

s2000 too fast and furious now it's time to take it out on the road and see how well it drives driving the suki s2000 it just occurred to me that I drive the car first it just occurred to me that I don't have seat belts and while I say this, by the way, I also notice that the direction of the steering wheel when you are going straight is at a 45 degree angle, so I am completely straight and the steering wheel is obviously turned, that's how it was.

It's not installed correctly, no one during filming cares about things like this, sitting at a traffic light you really get the chance to fully enjoy the experience of what this car is. I'm driving it before recording the part you saw before with the quirks and features and It's so bad that the cars in the movies are so bad that there's no attempt to make them look good unless they're actually going to be shown up close on camera. ; Otherwise they just want them to be as functional as possible, so you have these gauges that don't work, but they look cool and you have this screen that is just absurd, it's kind of stuck there instead of the airbag.

I just realized, uh, but it looks cool and blah, blah, blah, you can see a lot of this stuff, everything in here. it just seems like it's the part that looks like a fast and furious car, except it sucks of course, then there's also the aspect of this sheer embarrassment of driving around los angeles in a bright pink s2000. This really isn't how I want it. To pass my time I also just realized that it may not be limited to 4000 rpm, but unlike every other s2000 that comes alive between four and five thousand rpm, this one basically has nothing above four or five thousand rpm.

I'm completely sure why, but I imagine they disabled something or the car just needs work from sitting for so long. I stop at a red light and I want to straighten the steering wheel because that's what you do, but if you do that. so that sends the car to the left straight wheel sends the car to the left doesn't really work but anyway it doesn't seem like the car really wants to accelerate above four or five thousand rpm um, I don't know if that was intentional for the movie , they didn't want it to go too fast or what the deal was, but I'm throwing it at four, it makes noise but that's all it does, I don't know if the clutch is working or what.

The deal is, but that's how movie cars are, they're just not treated very well, people don't care, eh, it just works, it does what we need for the scene, that's all we really care about . and it doesn't matter how many holes you put in it or how much glue you have, you know, the apps you make, as long as it works, that's what's important for a movie, the problem is when you put the turn signal on to turn it requires you to straighten the wheel again for turns they don't turn off, but if you straighten the wheel, oh no the turn signal just doesn't cancel out, sorry, I assumed that's how it was, why would I make such a dumb assumption?

I have to be honest, even here in Los Angeles, where nothing attracts people's attention. Everyone is focused on themselves. They've seen a million celebrities. Nothing is cool anymore, even here in Los Angeles. People are looking at me now. I'm not going to say it's because I'm fine, it's because I'm driving a bright pink s2000 and I look like a complete idiot, but overall it's pretty neat, the way I would describe this car is the hat, the interior is a mess, it looks terrible, uh. a lot of things don't seem to work, it's just a nightmare, but it gives you a great insight into what happens during a production and how a movie car that you know is made and what goes into everything that they don't need.

It looks good, they just need to make it look good enough to make the exterior of this car cool, I mean it worked great for the movie, it looked cool on the screen, but you get in the car, you drive it, you're in a normal way. on tuesday you start to realize that this is not as good as it seems, but that in itself is super interesting and that is the

honda

s2000 from too fast too furious this car is obviously ridiculous it is ridiculous on the outside it is ridiculous on the inside and it has some very questionable modifications, but it's really cool to spend the day with a movie car and check out its quirks and features.

This is certainly not a normal s2000 but it is quite famous and now it's time to give this s2000 a doug score starting with the weekend categories and styling, in fact I like the body kit and I like how looks, but the pink leaves something to be desired and gets an acceleration of six out of ten due to any mechanical failure that really does not allow it. It accelerates, it's not as fast as the original. I give it a 1 out of 10. The handling doesn't feel up to par either, but it's still an s2000 so it's pretty good and gets a 7 out of 10.

Fun factor. okay it doesn't accelerate very fast and there are no seat belts so it's a little more horror factor than fun factor and it gets a 6 out of 10. Finally cool factor and this is high, imagine driving at a really fast pace fast and Furious. movie car gets an 8 out of 10 for a total weekend score of 28 out of 50. Below are the daily categories and features. It is the same as a normal s2000, it has the basics and gets a 3 out of 10. The comfort is also the same as a normal s2000 and gets a 4 out of 10. The quality is lower.

It started life as a normal s2000, but then had lights stuck into the interior and bathroom mats stuck to the panels, now it gets a 4 out of 10. The practicality is less than that of a normal s2000, the trunk is occupied by a fuel cell that smells like fuel and the drivability is hampered by the steering wheel problem and the lack of seat belts, and finally it gets a value of one out of ten and I have no idea what this is. would sell, but whatever it is, it's a cool movie car, it has real value, unless it's just a lot of money, it gets a 6 out of 10 for a total daily score of 18 out of 50.

Add it up and the Excavated score is 46 out of 100 which puts this S2000 up here against other Japanese sports cars of this era. The simple truth is that this thing is worse than a regular s2000, much worse, but it's also cooler and it's interesting to see what a real movie car is like up close. The answer is highly. compromised but it sure looked good on the screen.