2000 Honda S2000 - Car and Driver (blog)
When it comes to sports cars, auto enthusiasts, as a credo, always want more. Honda, it seems, has been listening, and is about to offer just that. This September, sports-car fans, the car of your dreams will finally arrive. Honda's S2000 comes to market with one goal: driving fun. It has the stuff sports-car fantasies are made of: a front-engine, rear-drive layout. The S2000’s crown jewel, however, is a 2. 0-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine pumping out an incredible 240 horsepower at 8300 rpm and revving to an 8900-rpm redline. Only one current naturally aspirated production engine comes close to equaling the S2000's "revability"—the 3. 6-liter, 8500-rpm-redlined V-8 from the $170,000 Ferrari 360 Modena. Honda's small, rev-happy engine creates a wonderfully unique driving experience. Since few of us are used to the sound of an engine screaming away at 8900 rpm, we had to watch the tachometer for the first few shifts to avoid short shifting. At engine speeds below 7000 rpm, one can hear and enjoy the burbling exhaust note. If it weren't a Honda, we might have thought we were hurting something up under that long, chiseled. Source: www.caranddriver.com
