2000 Honda s2000 from The Fast & The Furious

Despite the notoriety of American muscle cars driven by Vin Diese (Dodge Charger, Chevy Chevelle SS), the movie series, The Fast & The Furious, is very much about imports street racing in the US.  Imports street racing has been very popular around the US for close to 20 years now, maybe more.  "Racer X", the Vibe Magazine article that inspired the movie was printed in 1998.  The guy nicknamed Racer X had been racing in the streets illegally far longer than that.  The backdrop for import street racing is part of the featurettes in the DVD.

Johnny Tran's Black Honda s2000

In the movie The Fast & The Furious (2001), one of the street racers, Johnny Tran, drove a black 2000 Honda s2000 with Asian graphics.  In Race Wars, he beat Jesse for pink slips.  Jesse drove a white 1995 Volkswagen Jetta GLX.

Honda s2000 is a roadster, a little 2-door with tiny high revving engine that goes fast.  Its debut in the US market is the year 2000, which was the model of Johnny Tran's Honda s2000.  The 2000 Honda s2000 has a feisty 2.0-liter 4 cylinder inline engine that redlines at 9,000 rpm.  It could put out 240 hp which is a lot for an engine that small (Edmunds.com).


The Honda s2000 is from a family of roadsters that Honda made in the 1960s (S500, S600 and S800).  These cars have been discontinued with the Honda s2000 as the latest generation.

Here's a video of a really souped up S2000 that was built by an outfit called T1 Race Development. The video claims 701 whp. Check it out for yourself.

Pictures of 2000 Honda S2000