Anyone hear about this??

http://www.leftlanenews.com/?p=390

Sorry if this is a repost. Haven't found a thread here yet, but the notion of the S2K going away in a few years to be replaced by something else... hmmm....

 

By my count, the S2000 has been in production for a total of 8 model years. Are you going to believe a report from someone who can't count?

 

1) 2000
2) 2001
3) 2002
4) 2003
5) 2004
6) 2005
7) 2006

 

They had a 1999 model in some countries.

What? You think America is the only market in the world?

 

but I think the 1999 is technically a MY00

 

But did you have a MY'00? Or did it just go from '99 to '01? If this is the case, then I stand corrected. Also, how about in Japan?

 

also, I don't think the S2000 was not a sucess for Honda. Honda did not intend to sell large numbers of S2000's wasn't only like 5-6k a year or so (in America at least) and they have sold well over that around 7-9k typically, right? At least thats what I thought I've read.

Also, only being offered with a manual transmission was purposeful, they knew it would keep away many buyers, but they wanted it to be more pure.

 

[QUOTE]Honda

 

[QUOTE=xviper,Oct 31 2005, 06:09 PM]And exactly who is this guy anyway?

 

Thanks for the info and heads up. I really didn't know who he is. In any case, head of R&D may not necessarily call the shots when it comes to the destiny of a whole line of cars. The Japanese do things is a different kind of way. The most progressive manufacturer in the sense that they put concepts into production may very well be Chrysler today and even there, R&D have input and don't always call the shots.