Tag: VTEC

There is no point in denying that the S2000 will go down as one of the greatest sports cars in history. It will. End of story. The recipe for the s2000 is the stuff of dreams: a small, maneuverable chassis, with double wishbone suspension; a high-revving inline-four producing 240 horsepower paired to a six-speed manual […] More »

Is SEMA too blasé for your discerning tastes? Are you sick of the show cars that spend all of their time hardparked 99.9% of thier lives? Well, the PRI show is right up your alley. Standing for “Performance Racing Industry,” PRI connects manufacturers of race parts with buyers, distributors and racing teams who will use, sell […] More »

Can someone explain why extremely odd things always seem to happen in the Down Under? First, a man saves his dog from a kangaroo and gives it a right hook to the face. Now apparently there’s been a 2007 S2000 that’s been sitting in the showroom floor of a Honda dealership in New South Wales […] More »

It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate the impending weekend with a Best Motoring: Hot Version all-Honda track battle. As is the way with all Hot Version entrants, the cars are modified for track work. The battle at hand is around a very wet Tsukuba Circuit, featuring two S2000’s, two NSX’s and a first-generation CRX, which handily covers […] More »

Last week there was a bolt-on and tuned 9th gen Si here, and now we have another one, this time complete with a K20/24 frankenstein engine. In what has become the de facto hotrod Honda motor mash up, you can take the head from a K20Z3/K20A/K20A2 and combine it with the K24 block from a […] More »

Ah, Best Motoring, Japan’s finest car “review” program and arguably coolest concept for an automotive video show. Best Motoring and it’s Hot Version spin-off pitted Japan’s best motorsport drivers against each other in track and touge battles. Driving a car hard and setting fast laps is one thing, but to so casually make notes and […] More »