Posts Tagged ‘2009’

Euro Meet 2009 Revisited – Part Three

Euro Meet 2009 Revisited Continues from Part Two. leftfootbraking on EuroMeet 2009: Arriving at a T-junction we turned out on to the SS 45 and towards the San Severino parking area in Trento. Fast smooth roads guided us into the city centre. San Severino parking area was filled with S2000s all forming neat orderly lines. [...]

Euro Meet 2009 Revisited – Part Two

Euro Meet 2009 Revisited Continues from Part One. leftfootbraking on EuroMeet 2009: I quickly arrived back with the car and we off loaded our bags. At this stage I noticed that everyone else was washing and polishing their cars. Having covered over 2000km since home my Grand Prix White S2000 was only a few shades [...]

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 [...]

Video of the Week: Euro Meet 2009 – Celebrating the 10th anniversary of production of the S2000

During the 2009 Easter weekend over 220 Honda S2000 owners and their friends from more than 15 countries gathered in Trentino, Italy in the biggest event on its kind in Europe to celebrate the 10th anniversary and the last year of production. This is a video record of that meeting and of driving on some [...]

Video of the Week: Meet of the Midwest (MOM) 2009

Last year, we gathered in Lee’s Summit, Missouri for the semi-annual Meet of the Midwest. The day started off chilly, but turned out beautiful and many went home with sunburnt heads and faces. Thanks again to Bruce McWilliams, JulieU and LordStanley for organizing an amazing day that has made the Kansas S2000 community even better. [...]

Ode to an S2000

Did you ever got inspired by something or someone to write a poem about? Well, David got inspired by his S2000 and composed an Ode to An S2000. I’m an S2000! I like clear highways and twisty roads. Don’t box me in with your old truck loads! I’m an S2000! You better be fast to [...]

Official photos of the Euro Meet 2009 are now released!

“Please take good care of your S2000, keep it by your side for long and enjoy it from the bottom of your heart. And share the quality and legacy of the S2000 with many friends so that the legend of the S2000 will continue for long” These were the words by Shigeru Uehara San, chief [...]

Honda Insight awarded as Car of the Year 2009-2010 by the Committee of Japan Automotive Hall of Fame

Honda Insight gets a very significant award by the Committee of Japan Automotive Hall of Fame as the Car of the Year 2009-2010. The three basic factors which led to this award are, the strategy of affordable pricing Honda used in marketing the hybrid Insight; the Insight’s balance of driving performance and environmental performance and [...]

Official Honda Press Information of the 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009

For those who really want to get into more details of Honda’s showroom at the 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009, please find below a very useful link that describes and gives you a complete Press Information of Honda’s participation. Follow this link to the Press Information

Euro NCAP gives five stars on safety to Honda Jazz

The Honda Jazz has been awarded the maximum 5-star rating which follows on from the five star results achieved by both, Honda Civic and Honda Accord. The new rating scheme, which was introduced in February 2009, uses a weighted score, combining many aspects of a car’s safety performance for adult (50%), child (20%) and pedestrian [...]

Shigeru Uehara San joins in at the Euro Meet 2009!

With less than a month to go before the start of Euro Meet 2009, Shigeru Uehara San, chief designer of both the NSX and the S2000 has announced that he will be joining us for the S2000 10th Anniversary party in Trentino, Italy. More than two hundred S2000s from thirteen countries across Europe will participate [...]

Consumer Reports 2009: Honda On Top Once Again

One thing is for sure when you hear the name Honda and this is reliability. Honda once again is on top at the Consumer Reports 2009, as the best in predicted reliability. Subaru and Toyota follows next and is no surprise that Japanese manufacturers are on top of the list. However the American car makers [...]

Honda Motorsport Strategy to Reclaim Podium

Honda Motor Co. Ltd. announced the motorsports strategy to claim the podium of the world class racing events. Under the Honda NSX-GT Project within Japan, Honda is focused on reclaiming the double titles of individual and team championships in the Super GT. At Formula Nippon, Honda will supply three teams and five cars with the [...]

Honda Sales & Production

The year of 2008 was a successful year for Honda. The announcement by Honda with Sales & Production figures and Worldwide Production Charts gives a positive summary, but at the same time a concern of how the year of 2009 will affect Honda. It is not something new but Sales & Production of 2009 will [...]

2009 is the Last Year of Production for Honda S2000

Following previous news regarding the end of S2000, V8 program and CR-Z convertible Honda officially announced that the year of 2009 is the last year of production for the S2000. “A sports convertible that was designed by enthusiast for enthusiasts”, John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc said. He added that [...]