willinathen

One of the articles I read on the website indicated that parts of the s2k are hand built. I've tried a search but can't find much information on the assembly of the car other than a few pictures. does anyone know where i can find out more about how they build these cars?

Willinathen

AlX Boi

If you take off the spark plug cover and look under it, it'll tell you who built your car. My says "Hand Built WITH Pride by Ichiban Sukiyaki"

44Runner

lol......


There is a big difference between hand built and hand assembled....the S2k is the latter.

You've got me picturing some poor little Japanese dude slaving away in a factory with a roll of sheet metal and a bunch of metal working tools...not the case

Somehondaguy

haha...ok but how much of ordinary cars are hand assembled? aren't they all touched by humans? I mean are people tightening every bolt on our car by hand or what?

Deaf Pimp

I thought 2000-2001 MY were assembled by hand, but from 2002+ it is all assembled on a assembly line.

Elistan

No, they've always used the same process. Sometime in '05 (I think, don't recall exactly) the process moved from Tochigi to Suzuka. Many of the people assembling the cars moved as well.

It's an assembly line, with the cars being moved from one station to another by hand.

The only robotic part is the frame welding. Everything else is put together by hand. I can't comment on the source of all those parts.

floridawriter

The engine and body are hand assembled on the same line as the NSX--the only other car that Honda hand assembles.