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2000 Honda S2000 Review

 Jill Amadio Jill Amadio
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If you're looking for a wonderful weekend car, the Honda S2000 is a fabulous choice. Since weekends are normally given over to fun, this little roadster is guaranteed to deliver enjoyment above and beyond the norm. Assuming, of course, you can squeeze into its snug cabin.

Whittled down to a design that wedges every inch of you into one of the most efficient and best-arranged passenger compartments in the sports car industry, the S2000 is definitely not for doughnut-lovers. It fits closer than a latex glove. You'll get in fine but getting out may not be as easy. That's because people tend to slide in sideways but slide out front-ways. (And in case you're rude enough to wonder, I weigh 138 lb. Maybe it’s my hips...)

Squeezing notwithstanding, it's worth every pulled-in breath to drive this great little sports car. Although it isn't Honda's first roadster — it built the S500 back in the 1960s — it is the first to go on sale here while BMW's Z3 and Porsche's Boxster designers are already on to their next-generation models.

Racecar characteristics and features abound. Armed with a red starter button on the left side of the dash, contoured leather Recaro seats to send you into Grand Prix fantasyland, and a little four-cylinder engine that's astonishingly powerful, this two-seater convertible should be in everyone's spare side of the garage.

Hype confirmed

Quickness, steering precision and responsive horsepower teamed with a Formula 1 style cabin are the closest you might come to automotive nirvana this year. I'm pretty cynical when it comes to non-luxury roadsters, especially when magazines like Car and Driver and Motor Trend twist themselves into knots slathering praise all over something that's often uncomfortable, difficult to shift, sits you practically on the pavement, has a ragtop that flaps over your head, and provides no room for even a small portmanteau.

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