can't be bothered to read all the posts..

here is info from the last copy of Hyper Rev I have got for the S2000 which makes list of the generations of the car...as opposed to model year..

1999 15th April AP1 100
2000 7th July AP1 110
2001 13th September AP1 120
2003 9th October AP1 130

 

I have V763HCR [November 1999] one of the first of the original 500 S2000 that came into the UK. I will check he vin no tomorrow and post it.
Point of interest, first 500 cars in the UK came with a commemorative book on the S, + a few other freebies

 

WGAF. stop wasting your time, and go and drive it!! 99 or 00 whatever

 

sell it to me on ebay.

 

If it's the black hard bound book in the black sleave case (which I suspect it is), they are readily for a very low price through vendors on this site. They are not much more than a very extra cool S2000 brochure but they are nice to have if you plan on keeping your car.

 

oh i didn't realize this was something mass produced. does hardtopguy carry it?

 

Yes. Here's the link. The book originally was listed at $70 and now is available for under $20 (less than I paid).

http://www.hardtopguy.com/store/customer/home.php

 

My car was manufactured May '99 according to the door stickers. I took delivery of what everyone agrees is a 2000 Honda S2000 in Sept. '99.

No North American Honda dealer ever sold a "1999 S2000".

No Helm manual is available for a "1999 S2000".

By the discussion here, evidently "model year" is a North American concept that does not readily translate to any other world market.

I'm inclined to say there was never a "1999 Honda S2000".

 

Well, we have proved I think that there are MANY "1999 Honda S2000s" - MY1999 S2000s are what we are looking for.

 

if we can get one of the first model S2000's from japan to post their "applied model" code, we'd have our answer. though again, if Honda follows japans layout for those codes, then that dictates there would have to have been MY99 S2000's in japan, since vehicles manufactured before Oct99 automatically had to be stamped as a MY99 vehicle.