DrivingEnthusiast.net Prior Blog Posts by Date DRIVING: that's what it's ALL ABOUT! A blog and website for automotive driving enthusiasts, featuring my interests as I see them: news and opinion about manufacturers of interest, significant enthusiast cars, and driving them hard and well. January 2007 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       Dec   Feb RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Index of prior posts by title Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date. Friday, January 05, 2007    S2000 sales for December: writing is on the wall   The final numbers are in for December, and thus the year. It is not a good story... S2000 sales are down 19.9% from December 2005; and 19.1% from the year of 2005. I'll remind readers that Motoatsu Shiraishi, Honda’s chairman of research and development, said in October 2005:  "The S2000 has not been a success for us... It was offered only with a manual gearbox and this limited its appeal in many markets." Shiraishi hinted that its successor would have to offer paddle-shift gearchanges and other options to broaden their appeal.  Given the poor sales, and the apparent lack of support from Honda R&D, the writing is on the wall for the make-no-compromise approach of the current S2000. We know there wil be a successor, but also that it will lose the sharp edge. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: Honda - S2000 Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net
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