Thought I read somewhere that this book was cancelled. I too was interested in buying a copy. Cheers, Mike

 

The book from Veloce was changed to "Comming soon" status, yes. Maybe because we are in dire need of more books about the Porsche 911 and the Jaguar E-Type...
But my last information is that i will be printed this summer. ??

The Black Press-Mapp Book of the Honda S2000 is very interesting, a wonderful read with beautifull technical drawings. I am also interested into getting one.
This was online as high quality PDF Document at the H-Tune forums, but the forum was closed down just as i wanted to create a account.

 

Seems like some places are now suggesting 15 September publication date for Brian Long book.

Here’s one for example https://www.bookdepository.com/Book-.../9781787112148

Cheers, Mike

 

I had a pre-order in for the Veloce book last year with a local store and if I remember correctly the bookseller told me that the book had been cancelled. It would be great if this ever does come to light. I am not at all familiar with the Black Press-Mapp book that you are referring to. Do you have any other information that you could share on this particular publication?

 

It appears that just like most anything else involving the S2000, these books are rising in value. In this case a lot. There is a specialty bookstore in Seattle called books4cars — their business name pretty much tells you all that you need to know. Back in 2017 when I first found out about them and they had a copy of this book for around $60 if I remember correctly. Now I see that they have one and are asking $140! That seems pretty crazy to me for what it is, but just as with anything and with collectibles in particular supply & demand is the driving force behind such prices.

I have purchased books from books4cars when the prices of the books I was interested in were in the reasonable range in order to support such a business and to get what I wanted. But they also serve as a good resource to find out about books that I was not aware existed before seeing them listed on the books4now site. Some of them you can sometimes elsewhere for less, others i don't think you'll likely find anywhere else. Here are the books that they currently have listed for the S2000, including the slipcover book that you were asking about.

 

Sorry for the confusion, i referd to the book posted in message # 15 here as the "Black press map", because to my limited knowledge it was given to journalists as helpfull information when the S2000 was released in 1999.
And i make a second mistake, i mixed up "map" and "folder". Double Sorry. In german, Folder = Mappe. Sometimes i stumble over some similarties in our languages.

 

I’ve been a collector of Honda S2000 memorabilia over the years and have owned all the books etc in this thread including the limited edition ‘black book’ which I sold last year for £250.

The rarest piece I have come across and currently own, is the only genuine Honda S2000 pen which was produced



in the early 2000’s by World famous German company Lamy. It is a beautifully crafted titanium coated tri pen; black ink, red ink & pencil! Is has the embossed Honda S2000 logo and comes in a lovely case and sleeve. Produced and mainly given to Honda staff, I’ve yet to hear of anyone else having one or seeing one for sale. Does anyone out there own one?

 

I have the book and most of the memorabilia, that I bought around the time when I bought my 2005 new from the dealership.
Kept all of it, and packed it away.