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"Its only a Honda"
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From: Huntsville
If someone really uses that type of phrase and the type of tone you're meaning, I usually say something like:
sarcastic loser: "Oh, it's JUST a Honda?"
Me: Yea, same as the Accura NSX. You probably don't know what that car is either, but the S2K is it's little brother, hand assembled in the same tiny flagship factory in Tochigi, the Takanezawa plant adjacent to Honda's giant R&D complex, where they periodically swap between the two models for limited production runs. You don't know anything about this car since it's a limited import, non-marketed, Formula 1 wannabe's dream. It was designed and built mainly to celebrate Honda's 50 year anniversary and stroke the designer's egos, not to impress the small brained, big block, gas guzzling, emissions spewing, typical american car buying market.
sarcastic loser: "Oh, it's JUST a Honda?"
Me: Yea, same as the Accura NSX. You probably don't know what that car is either, but the S2K is it's little brother, hand assembled in the same tiny flagship factory in Tochigi, the Takanezawa plant adjacent to Honda's giant R&D complex, where they periodically swap between the two models for limited production runs. You don't know anything about this car since it's a limited import, non-marketed, Formula 1 wannabe's dream. It was designed and built mainly to celebrate Honda's 50 year anniversary and stroke the designer's egos, not to impress the small brained, big block, gas guzzling, emissions spewing, typical american car buying market.
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From: Gunma Prefecture,
I try to educate people when they inquire about the car. I give them specs and a little history. But there's always a prick. I was at a stop light with the top down. A guy in a Bonneville pulls up next to me. The next thing I here is "pu$$y car". Surprised to hear it, my response was, "yes, you can pull a lot of pu$$y in this car." And his response was "No! only pu$$ies drive that car." I shrug, look away... and then the light went green. 
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From: Plano
I say:
"Yep, its a Honda. A Honda with a 9K redline, 240 hp and the most horses per liter of all the cars in the WORLD!!!" This usually shuts them up. Most of the people who have to ask cant understand what the statistics mean, anyways.
It still amazes me how many people have never seen or heard of the S2000. There are always people selling crap and trying to get donations at the stoplights around here. One time, I overheard one of them say, "Oh, I gotta talk to this guy in the Porsche." I was too busy laughing at this obviously automotive ignorant person to talk to them. The light turned green, and I was gone. So many people are unaware of what's out there. They just follow the masses and get their info off the TV. I'm extremely glad that the S2000 reputation is based more on word of mouth, and not pushed onto everyone through radio and TV ads.
"Yep, its a Honda. A Honda with a 9K redline, 240 hp and the most horses per liter of all the cars in the WORLD!!!" This usually shuts them up. Most of the people who have to ask cant understand what the statistics mean, anyways.
It still amazes me how many people have never seen or heard of the S2000. There are always people selling crap and trying to get donations at the stoplights around here. One time, I overheard one of them say, "Oh, I gotta talk to this guy in the Porsche." I was too busy laughing at this obviously automotive ignorant person to talk to them. The light turned green, and I was gone. So many people are unaware of what's out there. They just follow the masses and get their info off the TV. I'm extremely glad that the S2000 reputation is based more on word of mouth, and not pushed onto everyone through radio and TV ads.
