If Recaro was hired to design these seats they must not have been paid very much, they lack many of the nice design features that Recaro are famous for. I might believe the comment about the 3rd gen Prelude seats, they were some of the best Honda seats I've ever owned, very nice seats.

 

design features add weight, weight kills performance.

I find the S2000 seats quite luxurious compared to the seats I had for 34 years before that. Yeah, had my first car 34 years and it was a FIAT, going to see if I can beat that with the S2000.

The S2000 seats are absolutely perfect !

 

Maybe he meant this guy?

 

my previous car was a camaro. the seats on it were oh so comfy....but not so grippy like the S. I just wish they made ALL s2000 seats suede/alcantra instead of leather.

 

I HATE LEATHER.

Other than that the s2000 seats are quite good. I agree with the Prelude seats being very very nice.

 

I find on long drives that the seats are a bit uncomfortable. It may just be me though but I also feel like I am sitting at a strange angle.

 

I like the seats for short drives (like my 45 min commute) and spirited driving, but on my first long drive with my 06 (my 02 never gave me issues) the seats actually caused me to get (or they at least hurried it up) sciatica. We drove from Philly to Killington VT (~6.5hrs) and I was in terrible pain for a few days, but I kept driving all around VT because it was just too much fun not to!

 

and aint our seatbelts made by takata?

 

yes im pretty sure most honda seat belts are made by takata... i know my 93 civic's are cause it says it on the tag lol

 

Yes, it could well be legend. The first article I ever read about the S (R&T Jan.'99) specifically mentioned Recaro seats but there is precious little out there from either Honda or Recaro to confirm. Recaro's site itself lists just 4 Honda models (3 Type R's that had Recaros standard, and the JDM Odyssey that had them as an option; does not include the Prelude someone mentioned.) But then it also lists very few models overall (and just 1 Ferrari model -- does that seem likely?).

Anyway I did a search of my own S2000 media archives and found just one item of Honda S2000 literature citing Recaro seats: a 6-page brochure from 2002 by Honda Motor Europe for the French market. It's in French of course, but it does state in both the descriptive text and in a "standard features" list that the car has sièges baquets “RECARO” ("RECARO" bucket seats). Note that the capital letters and quotes are used in both instances in the brochure.

So does that qualify as confirmation from Honda? I tend to think not, but hey it's something. It's possible that some sort of licensing arrangement forbade Honda from explicitly including the Recaro logo or mentioning it in its literature, even if the seats were made (or designed) by Recaro. Or maybe Honda didn't want any non-Honda logos in the car. Who knows what sort of branding/licensing agreements get negotiated over these things. Whatever the case, Honda clearly never made a big deal about the specific brand of seat in the car; in fact a 2002 U.S. dealer-info kit made no mention of Recaro despite including a photo and several sentences specifically about the seats.

You can find the French brochure at DarrenDriven's S2000 media site:
http://www.toyotareference.com/guts/s2000/