No flames please, but since so many people are getting worked up over the possibility of the 2004 model being a 2.2 liter and the name still being S2000, I just had to wonder if everybody is correct in the naming convention.

The assumption is that the S2000 was named for its 2.0 liter, but are we certain it wasn't named because it was released as a year 2000 model car? If so, that makes the whole argument pointless.

Personally, I don't see why anybody is bent over the naming convention anyway and arguing for it to be renamed an S2200

I'm just wondering if anybody has documentation to substantiate the basis for this controversy.

 

the S2004???

 

s2ooo released in 1999 in Japan.

 

yeah its about heritage. The S600 didn't come out in 600AD, nor the S500.

The name is all about displacement.

Read Dan Carney's S2000 Book.

 

Heh...just found this quote from a website to verify that its named for displacement

"The S2000 designation refers to the 2.0-liter displacement, not the model year in which it will go on sale in North America, Japan, Europe and Asia "

http://www.europeanhonda.demon.nl/honda_s2...s2000_debut.htm

Guess that settles that

 

Yup. And like Krazik sez, check out Dan Carney's S2000 book. It will give you our wonderful heritage and loads of very good information about our S.