Posts from ‘June, 2011’

My S2000 is ruined. There’s no one to blame but myself. I chose what I thought was a reasonable, budget-friendly option, and it turned out to be a horrible mistake. The only thing keeping me from complete misery is the knowledge that time and more money are all that’s required to rectify the situation. In [...]

Owning a sports car that has excellent reliability is a rare thing. When you consider the thrashing the cars regularly receive from their owners at the local track day or on an enthusiastic canyon carving drive, most sports cars would light up the maintenance required icon on their dash. I, for one, dread the thought [...]

It does seem odd that a community so vocal about driving with the top down gets all teary when the convertible top frame wears a fine hole through the material. One second you’re a jingoistic top-down proponent cocking a snook (thumbing your nose) at other convertible drivers who are blissfully unaware that the roof can [...]

I used to loathe and despise stability control. Call it ESP, DSC, VSA, or any other acronym; I considered it to be a blight on the dynamic prowess of the vehicle and a hindrance to the development of real driving skills. From the moment I stepped from my non-ABS, non-traction controlled, two-pedals-and-an-emergency-brake 1996 Saturn into [...]

Urban Dictionary contains several connotations that modern society has attached to the word “unicorn”. For the purposes of this article and considering that this is a family friendly section of a car website, we will define a unicorn as that vehicle for which you’d go any distance to own, keep, drive and cherish forever.

Recently, discussion about the “heel-and-toe” downshift technique has raised quite a bit of interest in our Racing and Competition forum as also on my local (Singapore) motoring forum. It is the norm for most (if not all) driver coaching / instructing schools to teach their students to proficiently perform the heel-toe technique. It is widely [...]

Eight weeks had passed since the fraught weekend on which I purchased my S2000. I had finished final exams, survived a disastrous week at the Formula SAE competition in Michigan, and moved to Maryland for a summer internship. It turns out you can carry everything you need for three months in an S2000 if you’re [...]

This past weekend was the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance that in all probability had a big crowd in attendance. It was also one of the rare weekends in which the northeast had plenty of sun and no heavy rain in the forecast. Those out and about would surely have run into several classic cars brought out [...]

At least once a year, this community is set abuzz by rumors that a successor to the S2000 is under development. So far, Honda has instead given us the deeply weird Crosstour and slow but strangely entertaining CR-Z. This has given me time to think about what I believe is essential to build a genuine [...]

We all have it, but some of us don’t know of its existence. It hides in plain sight camouflaged by all that surrounds it. It is associated with mystery and intrigue, although we are pretty sure that, nine times out of ten, it is discovered serendipitously and without subjecting one’s mind and body to the [...]