2002 Honda S2000 Interior Review at Automotive.com
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2002 Honda S2000 Review: Interior

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2002 Honda S2000 Review

Life begins at 9000 rpm.
Interior
This is a two-seater without much room for anything else. The leather seats, which are standard, are highly supportive for hard driving and comfortable for cruising. Aside from a couple of tiny bins sequestered between the upper portion of the seatbacks, there's just no place to put odds and ends. Door panel net storage pockets were added for 2002, but there's no glovebox. In this regard, the S2000 is even less practical than the Mazda Miata. In short, there's nowhere to put anything in this car.

Rainbow-shaped digital instruments offer relatively poor legibility. A digital tachometer arcs across the top of the array like an electronic rainbow; there's a digital speedome-ter in the middle and the arrangement is flanked by small fuel and coolant temperature gauges. A big tachometer is standard competition practice -- most race cars don't even have speedometers -- but as racy as it is, we'd still prefer an analog speedometer in this car because analog instruments provide rate-of-change information and digital readouts don't. So, while the instruments are playful, they are not as useful as analog gauges.

The hidden AM/FM/CD stereo is a nice feature. The buttons on it are small, but that is addressed by redundant controls just to the left of the steering wheel.

Thankfully, a glass rear window has been added to the S2000's soft top. The top is power-operated. An aero windscreen was added last year to reduce buffeting when the top is down. As mentioned, a removable hard top is also available.

Air conditioning, power windows, power mirrors, cruise control, keyless remote entry, and tilt steering are all standard. Starting the S2000 reminds us we're driving a thinly disguised race car: just press the big red starter button to the left of the steering wheel. Another race car cue: The tall, square, carpeted driveshaft tunnel that runs down the middle is reminiscent of a racing prototype or homemade hot rod. Next Page


2002 Honda S2000