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Euro Meet 2009 Revisited – Part One

The 2009 Easter weekend saw S2000s from all over Europe assemble for EuroMeet 2009 in Trento, Italy, a town nestled just south of the Italian Alps. This was an event organized within the S2KI community, including the significant local organization by S2K Italia Club and the UK community. More than 220 S2000 owners from Europe [...]

A Word of Caution and a Request to Send Wishes for Recovery

Anger is a volatile and negative emotion. It tends to cloud your judgment and have you do that which you would never attempt when in a rational mood. Anger does not mix very well with a task like driving either, and it becomes potentially deadly when alcohol is involved in the mix as well.  ap1willie, [...]

Arkansas Boston Mountains Tour

A weekend of bliss. There is no better way to describe the S2000 Arkansas Boston Mountains Tour (BMT) to a gearhead/twisty-road addict. The BMT is not for the faint of heart, nor for the quarter-mile-at-a-time crowd. It’s a full day of driving an impeccably planned route throughout Northwest Arkansas on roads seemingly purpose-built for sports [...]

Tsunami in Japan

Japan was hit by a huge quake and a tsunami today. In the aftermath, estimates are still coming in about the total damage and loss of life. The severity of the tsunami has resulted in after effects and tsunami warnings have been issued around the world including in Hawaii and Australia. Together, let’s hope that [...]

S2000 Registry – Data Analysis Reveals Interesting Facts

Click here to Register NOW! As of Wednesday, February 23, 2011, we had 1,188 participants in the Registry. This number represents approximately 1% of the S2000s still on the road. Not a tremendous number, but a number big enough to give validity to some statistical analysis. I started slowly, with simple analysis and as the [...]

Earthquake in New Zealand

Christchurch, New Zealand was devastated by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. In this moment of loss and grief, we at S2KI stand by our members from the area and with the nation of New Zealand. Often times, it is easy to overlook that we are indeed an international community with clubs spanning the globe. The Australia [...]

Top-Down in a Blizzard – How Cool Is That?

MTR CTY, an auto-related blog, posted a story about a driver driving top-down in blizzard conditions in Detroit. Subsequently, the story was picked up by Jalopnik and has since spread across the blogosphere. Typical comments have centered around how awesome it is to go out and do what no other person would even dare to [...]

Magic Milestone: S2000 Registry Reaches 1000 Entries

S2000 Registry: Click here to sign-up Did you ever have the opportunity to meet almost 1,000 other people who have the same passion as you? I have. Since I’ve started theS2000 Registry I’ve been lucky enough to meet, albeit on line, nearly 1,000 others who feel the same way and who are thrilled to belong [...]

Two Years On – A Community Remembers One of Their Own

Today Oklahoma S2000 Owners are remembering one of their own on the second anniversary of his passing. Travis Honeycutt (Janet&Travis) passed away on January 15, 2009 having touched several of us with his enthusiasm for living life to the fullest and his contagious smile.

A Special Trip to The Ring

Over the second weekend in September Jonner and Myself were given the opportunity to join some of our European S2000 friends and experience the S2000 as it was intended, on the world famous Nürburgring Nordschleife. This was suggested by Kotaro Yamamoto with the aim of experiencing the Ring as it should be. With over 1000 [...]

Video of the Week: Winter Sun and Top-Down Fun in Puerto Rico

Our Puerto Rican members recently got together for a drive along the west coast. Per aresk3b, “It was a very sunny day and, even though there were some grey clouds, we encountered no rain. The temperature was really warm, spring-like (as winter in the Caribbean can get) and everybody enjoyed their top down ride”. Now [...]

Rolling Ap1/Ap2 Hoodies were a Success

Greek S2000 Owners: Day trip to Nafplio

On October 17th, the Greek S2000 owners‘ community made a day trip to the historic seaport town of Nafplio, the first capital of modern Greece. Fifteen cars set off against a rain forecast driving through the winding roads of Peloponnese. One could say we were driven by our passion for the S2000. This also gave [...]

S2KI Homecoming II – Back-Cracker’s official word on the event

[EDIT: HC II was held on September 25th, 2010. Details of the event were held back from reporting till date based on a request by the organizers.] S2K International Homecoming II was in the making for over 13 months.  Over this period, there were many obstacles overcome and tackled.  Our members decided to contribute to [...]

Video of the Week: The 2010 DragonBall Run X-perience!

Following Airgate’s write-up on DBRX, we now would like to share with you a video that was presented to all those that attended the last DBR event. This video was put together by Airgate and is a tribute to the excitement and experience that are a part of the DragonBall Run events. The video contains [...]