My '00 has a button that turns the cruise off and on. When it's on a little green light on the button lights up.

 

Actually Ole' Bill said:
"It depends upon what the meaning of the word is means. If is means is, and never has been, that's one thing. If it means, there is none, that was a completely true statement."

 

Every time I see a renewal of this discussion, I go out and drive my wife's Passat with DBW and each time, the lag from a dead start is still there. It used to be worse, but after 6 months of no action and then filing a BBB complaint against Volkswagen of America, they sent out an engineer to reprogram the ECU. That helped greatly, but sometimes the lag gives me enough time to eat half an In "N" Out burger before the car really starts moving (OK, maybe a small bite).

I have no way to determine whether Honda will have better throttle control software than VW and I hope they do for the sake of those folks who buy the '06 model. After my VW DBW experience and the failure of the stability ECU on my Mercedes (an almost $1K repair, I might add), I feel like I've donated enough R&D dollars to car manufacturers.

I've settled for the cable on my '05 and am quite happy, thank you.

 

Thanks for the correction. I actually felt uncomfortable trying to use a Bill Clinton line anyway.

 

Got this from TOV:

"I very briefly drove an '06 S2000 on Friday night. My biggest concern when I saw the '06 specs was the drive by wire throttle. I feared that the drive by wire system would kill the S2000's amazing throttle response, but it seems like Honda may have gotten it right. The car I drove only had around 20 miles on the odometer so I didn't drive it very hard, but the throttle lag seemed minimal. Good news indeed. I will try to spend more time with another '06 S2000 when they become available for loan here in Atlanta. At that point I'll be able to really give it a thorough evaluation. "

Notice this line:
"but the throttle lag seemed minimal."

This would tell me that lag does exist.

 

My TSX has DBW, and I can't say I particularly like it. The first quarter-inch or so of the pedal is too 'binary': you push it a little bit and nothing happens, and then bam you get power all of a sudden. My wife, who can drive several manual transmission cars, can't drive the TSX to save her life, because the gas is difficult to modulate.

One plus is that lifting your foot off the gas rapidly ikeeps the engine much smoother than doing so with a standard cable throttle.

When I do get an S2k, I'll go for an '02 or '03, so I won't ever have to find out what DBW does to the S2k's excellent throttle response.

 

Wow, learn something new every day.

I guess starting in MY 01 they added the button to the left of the steering wheel (below the instrument cluster), that enables it or disables it.

 

The button is there from the very first S2000. It's just that whenever you turn on the engine, the cruise is ON. The button is to turn it OFF.

 

So if you turn the cruise off, and shut off the car, your cruise is on by default when you restart the car?

 

My Sons fiance has an 05 Scion that is DBW. I have always been a heel / toe guy and always double clutch and rev match when shifting.

It's funny but this EC just doesn't understand what you are trying to do. Her's another weird one, the ECU is trying to "help" on upshifts. If you watch the tach as you accelerate, then just let off the gas and depress the clutch, every time you do this the ECU throttles the engine up 300 RPM. Does it every time.

It also seems that if come off of a main road say in to a neighborhood that you can feel the ECU trying to get that lean setting for fuel mileage but tends to make the car a little surgy.

Just my $.02