4 model families in the catalog.
1963–1970Ancestor
Honda's First Sports Car: The S500, S600, and S800 (1963–1970)
Soichiro Honda drove the S360 prototype himself around Suzuka Circuit on 5 June 1962, with project engineer Yoshio Nakamura riding beside him. It was a company demonstration as much as a road test: Honda had spent the 1950s building motorcycles and had only just decided to become a full automaker, and its founder…
1999–2009
The Honda S2000: A Birthday Present That Became a Ten-Year Icon (1999–2009)
Honda built the S2000 to celebrate its own fiftieth anniversary, and that origin shows in almost everything about the car. It was never meant to be a volume seller or a direct rival to the Mazda MX-5 on price; it was meant to be a statement about what Honda's engine department could still do at the end of the twentieth…
1990–2005; 2016–2022
The Honda/Acura NSX: An Everyday Supercar, Twice Over (1990–2005; 2016–2022)
Honda set out in the mid-1980s to build something that had not really existed before: a mid-engine exotic that a Ferrari or Lamborghini owner would recognize as a genuine supercar, but that also started reliably every morning, held its temperature in traffic, and did not punish its driver with an unsorted chassis or…
1991–1996; 2015–2022
Kei-Car Sports Cars: The Honda Beat and S660 (1991–1996; 2015–2022)
Japan's kei-car category exists because of a regulatory ceiling, not because of any particular design philosophy: cars built to a maximum displacement and, later, a maximum footprint and power output qualify for lower taxes and reduced parking and licensing requirements. Effective 1 January 1990, Japanese regulators…