Posts Tagged ‘s2000’

You’ve all probably seen several spoofs about Hitler hunkered in his bunker right before the end, throwing a girly fit because a certain motorcycle or appliance belonging to him was damaged beyond repair. These spoofs are based on certain scenes from the movie “Downfall” and have come to become popular memes on the internet. An [...]

The S2000 is a roadster, a car Honda designed to connect the driver with the purity of man, machine and the curving road ahead, and with that in mind, everything about the car was designed to elicit a pure, direct driving experience. There are similar cars, the MX-5 and Boxster immediately come to mind, but [...]

Carbon fiber, the very words evoke beauty, strength, agility, and lightness. The very thought of installing a CF component causes the gearhead in us to mentally salivate thinking of the benefits. Owing to its unique properties and advantages, carbon fiber has become the norm for exotic cars as well as race cars. Seeing how the [...]

All good things come to an end. Likewise, production of the S2000 also came to an end much against our desire that it be built into perpetuity. Our member aphex4000 decided to commemorate the demise of the S2000 by compiling a video entitled “The Last Run”. He downloaded all the video content from Honda’s website [...]

For this week, we’ve dug up a video that was supposedly shown at the time the S2000 was launched. If that is indeed the case, then it appears that Honda had a premonition of the kind of roads on which the car would be driven and tried to subliminally influence all of us to stay [...]

Suzuka Circuit is hallowed ground for the Honda faithful. Designed in 1962 by Honda as a test track, the circuit’s appeal has endured through the last 49 years. Suzuka is host to the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix and is also famous as the proving ground on which Senna fine-tuned the NSX. With its complex [...]

A technical Q&A section in Roundel (BMW Car Club of America’s magazine) contained a response stressing the need for frequent checking of brake fluid. It went on to say that BMW’s maintenance schedule required an annual brake fluid replacement (if need be) until the time they started offering the four year maintenance on their cars [...]

I do think that after you’ve been away from your car and you drive it again for the first time, you definitely sense the passion with every shift, with every curve, with every spirited drive. You can feel the dedication and the dream that it took to craft this car. In fact, I feel like [...]

It doesn’t get much better than a pair of S2000s fitted with camera equipment driving the tail of the Dragon. Do we need to say anymore? Click through and enjoy our video of the week. S2000 Compilation from Deals Gap/Tail of the Dragon 2010 from killboy on Vimeo.

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 [...]

At the risk of being repetitive, we bring you yet another Top 10 list that the S2000 has made it to. There are top 10 lists and then, there are top 10 lists. What we mean is there are those that hit the nail on the head and make you think, “Golly! That’s what I [...]

The S2000 is not a car meant to be drifted. This is a usual statement that we hear and read on the web; however, there are some drivers including myself who think otherwise. We believe that the driver of the S2000 in today’s Video of the Week would agree with us. As you shall notice, [...]

“’Tis the season” said JulieU and SakiGT concurred by saying “probably make a good home page article”. We at the News team are talking about the Holiday season that is upon us, more specifically talking about what you asked Santa for for your S2000. Now we hope each of you have been good throughout the [...]

Have you ever pondered the pros and cons of pet ownership while daily driving an S2000? Surely the S2000 is not the most convenient vehicle to carry your pets, but how can we ever imagine leaving our cat or dog at home. That is bound to definitely cast a cloud on a sunny top down [...]

I searched all over and never did find a DIY for rebuilding an S2000 transmission, and I needed to rebuild mine so I decided to go for it and what follows is my attempt to document my rebuild with lessons learned (this is my first transmission rebuild) Hopefully it will be helpful to someone else [...]