The air had a bit of a bite, but there was no better way to enjoy the fading days of fall than by humming along a twisty back road in a roadster, the top down (and the heater cranked up), listening to the burble of the exhaust while a rooster tail of leaves swirled behind in a cloud of colours.

It's precisely the scenario that suits the Honda S2000.

It is a modern version of the quintessential sports car, featuring the refinements of the... // Windsor Star

The Honda S2000 is a tight package that can be appreciated by all sport car enthusiasts

The air had a bit of a bite, but there was no better way to enjoy the fading days of fall than by humming along a twisty back road in a roadster, the top down (and the heater cranked up), listening to the burble of the exhaust while a rooster tail of leaves swirled behind in a cloud of colours.

It's precisely the scenario that suits the Honda S2000. It is a modern version of the quintessential sports car, featuring the refinements of the latest automotive technology without compromising the attributes that make a roadster so much fun to drive.

Honda launched the S2000 in the spring of 1999 as a 2000 model to mark the Japanese automaker's 50th anniversary. There had been other roadsters in the... // Financial Post

The air had a bit of a bite, but there was no better way to enjoy the fading days of fall than by humming along a twisty back road in a roadster, the top down (and the heater cranked up), listening to the burble of the exhaust while a rooster tail of leaves swirled behind in a cloud of colours.

It's precisely the scenario that suits the Honda S2000. It is a modern version of the quintessential sports car, featuring the refinements of the latest automotive technology without compromising the attributes that make a roadster so much fun to drive.

Honda launched the S2000 in the spring of 1999 as a 2000 model to mark the Japanese automaker's 50th anniversary. There had been other roadsters in the company's history -- the S550, S600 and S800 -- but this model was a high-tech machine with... // National Post

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Most impressive is the performance upgrade. Honda made a few relatively simple adjustments to the engine -- a new camshaft profile, larger intake valves, a revised intake manifold -- squeezing three more horses and a couple extra lb-ft of torque out of its 3.5L V-6. Along with a revised, shorter gearing, the massaged six helps the 2009 Ridgeline accelerate to 60 mph in 7.7 sec (almost a second faster than last year's model) and through the quarter mile in 16 sec, an improvement of a half-second. Those numbers, by the way, are within just two tenths of the 2009 Ford F-150 Lariat with its hulking 5.4L V-8 on board. And the Ridgeline returns slightly better fuel economy numbers than the... // TruckTrend Magazine

It's funny, but in the svelte design world of Honda, where cars and SUVs seem to have gone through the corner-rounding machine more than a few times, you can see the stylists' overall mindset -- make it flow, make it look smooth, make it the king of the wind tunnel. So along comes the 2009 Honda Pilot, the big truck of an SUV that rides more like a car than a truck (well, sort of like a car), and it throws all that smooth, nice-airflow theory of Honda design into a cocked hat.

The new Pilot looks a bit chunky. Everything about it seems to come from the Haute Massive School of Design -- from the big "H"-dominated grille to the flat, muscular-looking tailgate, with its upscale-version, power lifting mechanism. The Pilot fairly screams out that it is a big, no-nonsense... // San Francisco Chronicle