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It’s been a banner year for Honda. After winning both the prestigious Motor Trend Car and Truck of the year awards with the all new for ‘06 Civic and the innovative Ridgeline, Honda has done it again. The big new development… something small. For model year ’07 Honda has brought to America its latest accomplishment, [...]

The SCCA Honda Cup held its second race weekend of the year at Phoenix International Raceway last weekend. With only one S2000 entered to this event, (The semi-legendary Grey Ghost driven by owner Richard Laifatt (rlaifatt) the lone S2k) the field was wide open for the FWD cars to gain some momentum in the points [...]

Honda executives in Japan have stunned the automotive community with the declaration that 2006 will be the last year for the current S2000. The announcement was surprising coming from the usually tight lipped Honda brain-trust, and is most likely a response to Nissan’s recent announcement of the new Skyline GT-R. (Honda is aggressively pursuing a [...]

In a bit of brilliant detective work, undercover agents in the state of Texas will begin infiltrating taverns and clubs to arrest individuals for being intoxicated. The announcement came this past Wednesday from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. The first of these undercover operations was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents arrested 30 [...]

As reported here earlier, this past weekend was the start of the 2006 Honda Cup season. The place was Buttonwillow Raceway in Southern California. The cars were running configuration number one, a challenging 3 mile course featuring tight corners, high speed sweepers, esses, off camber switchbacks, and five different places where the cars get over [...]

 The 2006 SCCA Honda Cup Season kicked into full gear this past weekend at Buttonwillow Raceway in Southern California. With 2005’s most dominant driver out of the picture, the field is wide open. Saturday December 10, 2005: With only two races this weekend left to finish the season, S2000 driver/owner David Karner had built such [...]

 For those of you who may have been on a deserted island visiting the cast of Lost this past few weeks and therefore haven’t seen/heard the news, you may not understand the significance of those words. The rest of us know those words to be the second lamest excuse for a serious auto accident ever [...]

S2ki Vintage forum members are again hosting their annual “Get yer S out of the garage and drive it!” event. Spring Fling 2006 is now official!! The celebration will be held in the Watkins Glen area of NY, in the Finger Lakes region, June 9-11, 2006 and registration is already completely filled. (Sorry folks) The [...]

Spring has nearly sprung and it’s time again for the S2KI community to awaken the dragon from his long winter sleep with the fourth annual “Wake the Dragon” run. For those of you not familiar with this particular stretch of US highway #129, here’s a bit of info: The Dragon is an 11 mile section [...]

March 12th is two days away, and the Formula One season will kick off this year with the Bahrain Grand Prix. (The Commonwealth Games in Australia causing the opener to be held elsewhere this time) The 5.4 km 12 turn Bahrain circuit is one of the most challenging in F1 and should provide an exciting [...]

“Programs… get your programs here; you can’t tell the players without a program…” Never was this phrase more true in NASCAR than in 2006. Free agent fever has hit Stock Car racing with a vengeance, and drivers changing teams as quickly as they run the superspeedways.

In an unprecedented move, Motor Trend has selected two vehicles from the same manufacturer to honor with its highest honors. We earlier reported on the selection of the all-new Civic as Car of the Year, but Honda’s recent entry into the already crowded truck market, the innovative Ridgeline, has been unanimously selected 2006 Truck of [...]

Honda’s four exciting new Civic models have been collectively named Motor Trend’s 2006 Car of the Year. “Honda deserves a standing ovation for not playing it safe again,” said Angus MacKenzie, editor-in-chief of Motor Trend. “With the sizzling Si, a sleek coupe, an elegant sedan, and a Hybrid that averages 50 miles per gallon, each [...]

The First Toyo Tires Dubai 24 hours is won by Austrian Duller Motorsport in the Red Bull BMW M3 E46 GTR. After a cautious start from their pole position the team took the lead at the end of the first hour and lost it only in the fourth hour due to a mechanical problem. After [...]

My first exposure to track driving was watching a Bestmotoring VHS tape imported from Japan.  This video showed Tsuchiya, the “Drift King”, controlling cars with grace and accuracy.  I was in complete awe after watching him and have since been trying to tune and drive cars according to his style.  During this past year, I [...]