My dealer told me that S2000 are fuel injected.... Is that true?

 

Hold your horses!

A Honda S2000, if we are talking original 240 bhp it does 0-100 kph in 6.2 secs. That is the best figure I have seen from the most magazines.

To get below 5 secs you either need a four wheel drive or a very light car with a weight/bhp ratio of less than 5 kilos per bhp.

 

Try the fall, when Honda typically releases new models. Minus the big three, new cars come out in September and October. They have been releasing models earlier to hope to boost sales, bad planning IMO. New models come out, people buy them and then you are in the same boat as before. Honda is releasing models as they always have. It will be 2003, not 2004.

 

[QUOTE]Consumers Reports are not car people - they are toaster people...

 

something tells me edmunds, popular mechanics and motorweek weren't dropping in at high revs...

 

webmaecker,

Are you still on your plight to convince others that the S2000 in stock form has a chance of hitting 4's?

 

Boban, webmaecker, the two of you both realize that 100 km/h is faster than 60 mph, and that 0-100 times are typically a few tenths slower than 0-60 times, right?

As for Consumer Reports, I agree with the toaster people comment. I've never seen any comments to the effect of "this car needs more rear rebound damping" or text describing the fastest way to launch the car in Consumer Reports; their target audience doesn't want analysis at that level, so they don't provide it, and quite likely don't test for it. They would be one of my first stops for reliability info, but they would be one of my last stops for handling info.

Steve

 

there are two forms of data from CR ---

editorial tests - which i agree are terrible and generally useless.

consumer reports of reliability - which is unbiased data based on surveys of car owners. this information is EXTREMELY useful, because it is not based on a review. it is based on consumer vehicle repairs. the charts illustrate percentage of owners needing clutch repair, brakes, electrical system, etc. so, if clutches are often replaced on an S, it will show up on the chart. a simple scan of american cars vs euro cars vs asian cars shows a huge reliability gap... this is not the opinion of a "toaster tester" --- or of a writer with a bias for high revs or torque...

this is where i would stick in some sort of smiley face, but i dont see how to add that in the "Quick Reply", so here

 

holy sh#$. it gave me a winking face with a semi-colon and parenthesis... that was unexpected... hmm. i wonder if this will work:

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by webmaecker
[B]

ouch... toaster people? more like they are an unbiased non-profit org that reports consumer experience with machines... i was always curious as to why people would buy cars with continuously terrible reliability results. i guess the easiest thing to do is discredit the naysayers....

*** if u believe they are impartial, i suggest you read the transcripts from the Bose/CU trial.