People also get the HT if they rip out their soft top, which weighs a significant amount. Other than weight savings, and maybe high speed aero, I doubt it adds much to stiffness.

But your friend sounds like he assumed all mass-production verts were made the same way. I can't really blame him too much; I thought the same before I knew the details of the S.

Hell a lot of S owners still think strut bars do something significant on our cars.

 

wow, this guy is a soemthing else! Do not forget to tell him that all the paint color names for the S2000 are named after famous race tracks!

 

[QUOTE=asukadc,Mar 8 2009, 02:01 AM] show him this and tell him to STFU.

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=120&i=10015

X-Bone frame chassis

The S2000 has no scuttle shake, that bane of soft tops, because it uses what Honda calls an X-bone frame. (see picture). It's extremely rigid chassis, the centrepiece of which is a box-section central tunnel. From it, two diagonally projecting arms at the front connect to side rails and support the rear of the engine. Also two diagonally-projecting arms at the rear are fixed to a rear transverse rail. The diagonal arms and central tunnel form the X-bone shape.

The top of the centre tunnel and the front and rear longitudinal rails form a horizontal plane; these components are all at the same height. This height -- the centre line rigidity height -- is said to be at the same height as the centre-line rigidity of closed roof