For its 50th anniversary, Honda decided to bring to market a car based on the prototype SSM first shown in autoshows in 1995.
    The car is now (finally) a reality and it seems that Honda lived up to the expectations, with the most powerful naturally aspired engine on production today (240 horsepower at the flywheel and 120 horsepower per liter!). All this while complying to the strongest emission regulations (California's LEV, Euro 2000 and Japanese)
    The body, although open is highly rigid and complies with Honda's strict crash test specifications (both front and semi-side impacts), which exceed all current legal regulations.
    If you look at performance figures, there are not so many cars that could compete with the Honda.
The first that comes to the mind is the BMW Z3, then we could also name the Mercedes SLK and eventually the
  Porsche Boxter.
None of those offers the same performance, Porsche being the closest with the Boxter Type S, which develops 245 horsepower. But all those competitors come at a pretty hefty price (a comparably loaded Boxter is about $75,000 -and that's not the S grade yet; while a Z3 is 100hp less for the same price!)

For a pic of the S2K, click here