Posts Tagged ‘S2KI News’

This is the EV-ster. It scares me. I love everything about internal combustion. I love the noise, the mechanical complexity, the endless variation in character and delivery between motors; the smell of uncatalyzed exhaust wafting from the track is better than coffee on a cold morning. Electric motors have precisely none of these things, yet [...]

“Don’t get a ticket, and don’t get dead.” It takes a different part of your brain to speak than it does to think, so sometimes it’s important to verbally reaffirm your goals before you set out for the day. It had been a long week, so I thought I’d set out on a beautiful, sunny, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  ‘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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]

We got word from fellow news team member, JulieU, that a write-up was brewing  from one of  the crew that attended the 2011 Boston Mountains Tour (BMT). A significant other and forum member, Ms. Goes Fast, was so inspired by the event that she wrote a speech for a class project about the Boston Mountains [...]

Over the past weekend we received a PM from a member who short-listed their favorite articles and asked us if we could publish them. Seeing how these articles are representative of the community and also considering that we are heading into the holiday season, we felt it would be appropriate to republish links to these [...]

Here in sunny Singapore, with a total population of only 5 million, the S2000 is a rare sight with latest head count estimates putting the total number of S2000s at just under 50. Most of the owners, like myself, generally meet online to chat and discuss about tracking or modifications, but meets and drives have [...]

The Mid-Ohio course is well-known to all of us as the place where our members and their Honda S2000′s participate in the parade laps for the Honda Indy 200 (IndyCar) race with the drivers riding shotgun. This event has become a tradition for the Ohio S2000 owners. Little known though is the fact that the [...]

  It used to be that cars didn’t have lights, then they had a couple, and now they have a lot. How they function and their purpose has changed over the years, so here’s a little history. High beams used to be the norm in driving. There was so little traffic you would drive and [...]

The art of communicating with your car is frankly a dying art; people can’t even be bothered with turn signals anymore, but it used to be the case that everyone used the lights on their vehicles to communicate with one another. It’s part of a lost art of driving, so here’s a refresher or lesson [...]

We have all heard tales of the Nurburgring, have seen cars being tested or setting lap records. Sir Jackie Stewart labeled it “The Green Hell” for the toll it took on several lives. Over the years, modern safety standards and changes to the layout have improved safety, but the Nurburgring continues to be a cruel [...]