2007 Honda S2000 - Autos.ca
Century, he said that the car represented “Honda leading the way in sports cars in the next millennium. ” Apparently, the S2000 was a final mainstream performance flourish from Honda as attention turned toward more mundane conveyances like the Insight, Element, Ridgeline, and eventually the Crosstour. But before all that happened, Honda had this guy, Shigeru Uehara, who was the executive chief engineer of the supercar-challenging NSX. Making its 240 horsepower from the combination of torque and high engine speed in the Honda tradition, the original “AP1” 2. 0-litre S2000 (2000–2003) redlined at a screaming 8,900 rpm (peak horsepower arrived at 8,300 rpm), emitting a joyful wail... Well, a bit too crazy, it turned out (although these engines, packed with racing technology, didn’t blow up or anything). It’s just that they didn’t have much when it came to acceleration at lower rpm, so for the 2004–2009 models (designated AP2), the 153 lb-ft of torque at 7,500 rpm was increased to 162 lb-ft at more conservative 6,500 rpm (at 3,500 rpm, torque was... the punch came at about 6,000 rpm, when Honda’s two-stage valve timing system (VTEC) switched between its two sets of exhaust and intake cams. Source: www.autos.ca
