Posts from ‘December, 2011’

Seasons Greetings and a Happy New Year

On behalf of the Owners, Admins, Moderators and our Community Organizers, we would like to wish you and yours all the best for the holiday season and the upcoming new year. At the time of writing we are nearing 20 million posts and have crossed the 100,000 membership mark. Amazing numbers for a community that [...]

S2000 in the News – Crashes Galore, Recognition and the EV-Ster

In this edition of S2000s in the News (our random news feature in which we troll the internet in search of news related to the S2000), we have reports of crashes, one of which could have been avoided while the other appeared to have been inflicted on the unsuspecting S2000 owner. Montgomery News, a regional [...]

Christmas Down Under

Who knew that S2000′s could talk (or type) with a distinctly Aussie accent? In the first-ever recorded case of human-machine linguistic communication (because siri really is a person responding from a call center overseas), we hear from one S2000 that has found a home in Perth, Australia, telling us how Christmas is celebrated down under [...]

New S2ki Store Items

We have just launched a few new shirts and also a bunch of fleece into the store. It’s been a long while since the last batch of new gear. Order yours today from the S2KI Store http://store.s2ki.com!  

The Season of Receiving

  ‘Tis the season of receiving. We say that knowing fully well that most of you have either a list of goodies or some expectation of what you want to receive this season for your S2000. Being the motorheads that we are, it is par for the course. We started a debate of sorts amongst [...]

Halo Car?

 There is something to be said about Halo cars – they provide street cred to a manufacturer and its fans, bragging rights about ‘Ring Times’ and opportunities galore to exploit young impressionable minds via social media outlets. Nissan has the behemoth GT-R, Toyota has that curious carbon creation, the Lexus LF-A, Chevy has the Corvette [...]

Simplify and Add Turbochargers

I live by “simplify and add lightness”, both as an engineer and a driver, and the Lotus 7 has always seemed to be the purest road-legal interpretation of that philosophy. They are, however, exceedingly rare in the United States, so when the opportunity to purchase a Birkin S3 arose, I was overjoyed. Less than ten [...]