From Car and Driver:
http://www.caranddriver.com/article....&page_number=4

Our own 0-to-60 time of 6.3 seconds was set with a hole shot just south of the redline on a car with only 369 miles on the odo, but that's behavior reserved for people who can do clutch changes on their lunch hour. Regular Joes can expect 60 mph to arrive closer to the 7.6 seconds of the S2000's 5-to-60-mph time, the second-slowest rolling start ahead of the Audi.
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The S2000 produces most of it's power above 6000 RPM. I seriously doubt the "ate us for dinner" claims.