The 2008 Honda S2000 represents the purest announcement of Honda fun-to-drive DNA with its 2-seat, open-topped auto agreement and adult front-engine, rear-wheel-drive platform. As a accurate sports car that can serve as a applied and fun circadian disciplinarian and additionally feel appropriately at home on a racetrack, this abstraction added evolves with the accession of a club racer-inspired S2000 CR to the 2008 Honda lineup.
The S2000 CR introduces added track-oriented abeyance settings, aerodynamic-enhancing bodywork, a disposable hardtop, college acerbity and bargain weight to the S2000 formula. The added actualization are advised to address to enthusiasts who adore accessible clue day contest and additionally accommodate a added ideal starting point for racers who adapt the S2000 for antagonism in club antagonism events.
"Open clue canicule and club antagonism contest accept rapidly acquired acceptance as new antagonism venues and committed organizations accomplish clue time added added attainable," said John Mendel, controlling carnality admiral of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "The S2000 CR is advised as the ideal car to drive to the track, drive at the clue and drive home from the clue with basal fuss."
As a quintessential roadster-style sports car, the S2000 is a achievement figure for the Honda cast that combines racetrack-inspired achievement with accustomed usability. The advanced engine, rear-wheel-drive S2000 rewards active enthusiasts with a almighty 2.2-liter, 16-valve DOHC VTEC® 4-cylinder agent and a precise, short-throw 6-speed chiral transmission, forth with adamant administration and an ideal 50/50 weight balance.
The acclaimed high-revving agent delivers 237 application at 7800 rpm and 162 lb-ft. of torque at 6800 rpm. Perfectly complementing the engine's high-output appropriate is a compact, longitudinally-mounted, close-ratio 6-speed chiral chiral that actualization a absolute bond for absolute alive and quick throws. Added achievement actualization accommodate a advanced and rear bifold wishbone suspension, electric ability council and a torque-sensing limited-slip rear differential.
The S2000 comes with 17-inch aluminum admixture auto (new caster architecture for 2008), ABS and Agent Adherence Assist (VSA), additionally accepted as cyberbanking adherence control. While VSA serves to finer enhance disciplinarian ascendancy during acceleration, braking, and cornering, the arrangement can be disabled with the blow of a button back altitude warrant. Air conditioning and an AM/FM/CD audio arrangement are accepted accessories on the S2000, alternative on the S2000 CR for weight savings.
New for 2008, the S2000 has revised bounce and damper affability that cautiously influences council feel and aerial acceleration agent behavior. The apparatus console has a revised beat architecture for the ammunition and temperature gauges, abacus to the aesthetics of the display. Specifically, the ammunition and temperature meters now abide forth the arc formed by the tachometer instead of a semi-circle agreement beneath and to the appropriate of the tachometer. Also, a Annoy Pressure Monitoring Arrangement (TPMS) has been added.
The S2000 has dual-stage, dual-threshold advanced airbags (SRS) for the disciplinarian and passenger, three-point bench belts with amount limiters and automated tensioning system, cycle bar hoops and able windshield posts. For banal safety, the awning hinges and windshield-wiper pivots are advised to collapse and advice abbreviate the severity of a arch abrasion to a pedestrian.
S2000 CR
The S2000 CR is an absolutely new trim akin for 2008. The lighter, stiffer and added advancing all-embracing architecture is engineered to aerate the S2000's abeyant on a racetrack with the ambition of substantially-improving clue times, anatomy antithesis and feel. Compared to the S2000, the factory-tuned S2000 CR provides added advancing track-oriented abeyance settings, added anatomy and anatomy rigidity, all-embracing weight reduction, and aerodynamic spoilers acquainted for bargain lift and added anatomy antithesis at aerial speeds. A disposable aluminum auto replaces the convertible bendable top.
The aerodynamic amalgamation reduces lift through ample and specially-tuned advanced and rear spoilers. Absolute anatomy actualization accommodate a quicker council ratio, added advancing Bridgestone Potenza RE070 tires (in abode of RE050 tires), a beyond rear annoy size, firmer springs and dampers, beyond balance confined and the S2000's new caster architecture in Kaiser Silver. A rear anatomy brace has been added to the breadth ahead active by the bendable top, consistent in added rigidity. Relative to the abject 2008 S2000, accumulative weight accumulation absolute 51 pounds (hardtop installed) and 99 pounds (hardtop removed). A sport-tuned muffler adds to the cartage acute achievement feel.
The S2000 CR autogenous follows acceptable racecar themes. Fabric basement surfaces with chicken bond advice actualize a adventurous actualization while constructed suede bolsters enhance crabbed grip. An absolute all-around aluminum about-face bulge on the S2000 CR rests 12.6 mm lower for a 6 percent abridgement in about-face achievement compared to the accepted S2000 annular about-face bulge (aluminum/leather wrapped). Additionally, about-face amount accomplishment increases by 10 percent for alike added absolute acknowledgment back agreeable a gear.
The S2000 CR apparatus console meters accommodate a "peak-power indicator." Back the agent is operating at aiguille power, a round, blooming ablaze illuminates to the appropriate of the agenda speedometer. To save weight, air conditioning and an AM/FM/CD audio arrangement are alone accessible as factory-installed alternative equipment.
The architecture and engineering abstraction for the S2000 is to bear race-car-like achievement and handling-something an enthusiast disciplinarian could use and enjoy, alike in accustomed active situations. In addition, the S2000 is advised to be a modern, socially-responsible auto with low emissions. The S2000's auto blueprint additionally captures the spirit of the allegorical high-performance sports cars of the past, as able-bodied as Honda's actual aboriginal sports car, the S500 roadster. However, the S2000 makes no attack to be a awakening sports car. It is a unique, Honda estimation of a avant-garde sports car - with aerial performance, advanced technology, style, and Honda durability, affection and refinement.
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