Here is a video of a Honda Civic EK with a K20a conversion. As you can see the car is stripped and very light, i bet this gives the advantage against the Toyota Supra running 400bhp, it looks like the supra has alot of lag but starts to gain ground at higher speeds. Its also worth watching till the end as its quite funny.

Here is a video of InlinePro's Honda S2000 Turbo doing a Wheel Stand or Wheelie of the line in North Carolina. Wheelies and Honda dont normally go together on 4 wheels, but this proved the doubters wrong and best of all its still running a F20C engine.

The world economy’s taking a real toll on car makers and customers alike. And autoshows are caught right in the middle of the crunch.

With sales declining and calls to cut costs increasing, Honda has decided to cancel its appearance at september’s Frankfurt auto show. “Due to the unprecedented market downturn, Honda has come to a conclusion that the company will have to skip its participation to the Frankfurt motor show this year,” the company said in a statement.

Honda has also resorted to dropping out of the F1 circuit as it tries to handle the tough economic conditions of today. I hope the cost cutting’s going to be temporary.

A major point of owning a hybrid vehicle is, of course, sheer righteousness. They're very helpful in projecting your car’s green credentials with their wind tunnel-inspired jellybean styling.

Even closer to the ideal of a cutie bunny slipper of a vehicle than the second generation Prius was the first Insight: a lithe 2-seater made of aluminum and powered by a one-liter three-cylinder engine with 70 HP. Oh, and an extra 10 HP from an electric motor. Don’t forget that. In fact, if you take a Hamilton Beach Model 1G912 professional bar blender along for the ride, you can up the horsepower figure to 82.

But what if, in the quest for even more power, you swapped all that stuff out and replaced it with something more substantial?

Say, a rev-happy 2-liter K20 Honda engine with VTEC trumpets and 200 HP. This is exactly what the mischievous gremlins of LHT Performance did to produce the Honda K-Sight.

With the Insight’s fantastic drag coefficient of 0.25 guiding all that power through the atmosphere, the K-Sight does 46 miles to the gallon—and you get to look greener than green. Well, red, but you get the idea.

MrLHT of the team had this to say:

 

We stiffened the whole car by welding extra braces, as well as building a complete sub frame, which ties the whole front together, and course the whole thing is aluminum. The mounts are Honda OEM mounts from various Honda Vehicles so the car is very smooth with no teeth chattering. In fact you can’t feel it idle in the driver seat. Now for numbers, with very little tuning the car is making over 200whp with a very quiet exhaust and tied with a JDM 6 speed transmission accelerates like a rocket. The car feels very tight and has great feel due the extra bracing and a custom alignment.

 

The Mugen NSX RR was featured at the Tokyo Auto Salon but NihonCar.com was recently invited by Mugen for a private photo shoot. The car might look impressive but you should be reminded it’s just a show car. And it’ll probably always be just a show car. Unlike other Mugen modifications, this one’s too over the top to be seen on a road anytime soon.

If you haven’t yet visited NihonCar.com, do yourself a favor and check it out. It’s an amazing resource for Japanese car fans.

The long-lived Honda S2000 will be no more from next year, according to reports. The car was introduced in 1999 and although not to everyone's tastes it has won over the hearts of many road testers.

Sadly a replacement for the high-revving two-seater sports car is in doubt as carmakers are scaling back on their niche products.

The S2000 is a sports car designed by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, said John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. It raised the bar for all future roadsters, and it's already considered a classic by many Honda fans.

The S2000 was only supposed to be a limited edition to mark Honda's birthday but survived for ten years. An estimated 110,000 S2000s have been sold worldwide and production is due to end in June 2009. Fingers crossed for a special run-out model