The "S" probably relates to the shape of the roads you want to take in the car. Man, I love cornering a city street at 40 mph.

 

If you want to know what the "S" stands for, then you will need to know what the Japanese word for sport is. I highly doubt it starts with an "S" and since the S500 was AFIAK a JDM car, what the "S" means is not what you think it does. Honda calls their main sport bike line CBR whatever and the CBR means absolutely nothing. Some say it stood for Closed Body Racer, Honda had a CB line and it had no body, so that negates that theory.

 

"S" stands for...
"SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC- EXPIALIDOCIOUS"

We did this awhile back. https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...25&pagenumber=1

 

Not true, there is a 1999 model that was sold in Japan before being released to the rest of the world. S2000 has nothing to do with the year 2000.

 

2 liter motor,
hauls "S"

 

The S stand for Sivic.

 

isn't the S of Secuka ( dont know how to spell it) the city in which they are produced?

 

How about "S" as in Soichiro as in Soichiro Honda, the founder of Honda Motor Company.

 

(Rewind back to fall of 1999)

The "2000" indicates that Honda will only make the car for one year, and that the people who are able to buy 2000 models have a collector's car that no one else but them will ever have an opportunity to own.

(Fast forward to reality)

The S2000 just follows in line with Honda's other roadsters with stratospheric redlines- S500 (500 cc), S600 (600 cc) and S800 (guess the engine size).

Don't you think that S1997 is just a bad name?

EDIT: there were MY 1999 S2000s in other parts of the world, just not here.

 

Honda had the S360, which had a 356cc engine, and 9000RPM redline. They also had a T360, which was a truck

Then there was the S500 was 492cc and then later 537cc. This engine went to 9500RPM. This was also their first production car. They also had the T500, another truck.

Next was the S600, with 606cc and 8500RPM redline. The S600 was their first mass marketed car.

Along came the S800 and had 791cc displacement. They sold close to 1000 of these, about 25% were coupes and 75% were convertibles. Then it under went an update and got a live axle and they sold 600 roadsters and around 70 coupes. Other changes were done later as well; they sold a total of over 11,000 S800's. The S800M was introduced and as aimed at the American market, but none were ever imported. The S800 was cancelled in 1970, mainly due to the engine polluted too much.

Honda also produced the L700, P700, L800 and P800. The L series was a station wagon (they called it a light-truck), while the P series was a pick-up truck. Let's not forget the N800, which was a compact car and was only a prototype and never produced.