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Originally Posted by RegisBou
Ohh you'r good man.
It was the other quote i had that I flipped out on haha.
But why is honda doing this?!!@! they are ruining their image/brand  |
The S2000 saw a very sharp decline in sales from the 2006MY until the final 2008 MY. This was mainly due to the fact that Honda never did anything to overhaul the car. They did some minor cosmetic changes and for 2004 increased the displacement to 2.2L from 2.0L and changed the redline from 9k to 8k. The 04-08's have a little more low end torque than the 00-03's. So in essence, the car stayed the same from 1999 to 2009.
The NSX I think fell into that same kind of thinking before the S. It started with a 3.0L in 1990 and in 1998 they gave it a 3.2L but didn't really change anything other than that. Sure that gave it more power but it didn't reinvent the car like it needed to be, in order to increase sales. The NSX was/is the poor man's supercar. There are a few iterations of the NSX too but that's a different thread. I'd give my left nut for a NSX-R though. That is one hell of a machine.
As I think Matador said, Honda traded in their nuts, which is unfortunately true right now. Hopefully with the slew of performance coupes coming out in the next few years, Honda will take their nuts back and start back up with their RWD program.