[QUOTE]Originally posted by w1ngman
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Waaaaiiiiiiiit a minute! Honda makes this kick-ass ride with a heritage prototype named the SSM (Sports Study Model)...and the best we can figure is the S stands for Sports???

Naaaaaaah!

 

Yes, this is it.

 

True, true..."studly" ain't for everyone obviously But I reeeeaaally did subliminally mis-read "Sport Study Model" as "Sport Studly Model". Oh well...how 'bout we agree its Sexy one way or the other .

- Dave

 

As Dicky Vitale would say:

"SUPER, SCINTILLATING BABY"

 

S stands for Sport. At the time of the S-Series' inception, Honda was known for its motorcycles. Born of Japan's post-war economic surge and combined with Soichiro Honda's spirit and drive to excel, the company had forged itself into a motorcycle-manufacturing power. At this point, Mr. Honda's gaze wandered to four-wheeled concerns. Once the company's scope had widened beyond the world of two wheels, things like the S-Series were a logical outcome, on par with the quality and performance exhibited by Honda's motorcycles. Another intrinsic facet of Mr. Honda's ideology was motorsport, and from the word "go" the S500, 600 and 800 were run in sports car series all over Japan, and subsequently Europe, with fine results. An early gray-market S600 was run for a class win by Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme at the Nurburgring.

Honda Motor Company's sojourn into passenger car manufacturing was fueled by Soichiro Honda's notion that the Japanese people would embrace a "sportier" option when shopping for personal vehicles that conformed with the government's small-displacement tax breaks.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by w1ngman
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True, true..."studly" ain't for everyone obviously

 

LIES, ALL LIES......The S, believe it or not...stands for "sol" as in Del Sol, because that is really what our car replaces....i know....no one envisions the S as a new del sol, but thats what it is.....all this info is from a very reputable source, who is honda all the way, history especially.


So, we drive a Honda Sol 2000....hehe...kinda wierd sounding!

 

WTF? There is not "S" in Japanese.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Johnny--2K
[B]LIES, ALL LIES......The S, believe it or not...stands for "sol" as in Del Sol, because that is really what our car replaces....i know....no one envisions the S as a new del sol, but thats what it is.....all this info is from a very reputable source, who is honda all the way, history especially.

 

I always thought that the "S" was Honda's notation for "Sportscar". The open cockpit (softtop), 2 seat cars that they have produced have always carried this notation.

The straight forward simplicity of it seems to be in keeping with Honda's philosophy.