Jenson Button in Honda S600

[kikusuisakura]

His watch look like Big Ben

[GTRPSI]

Today i have a S2000, remembering what these cars were about made me buy it, amazing how with modern technology the heart of the old car continued, Vtech kicks in at just over 6000 and it screams out to 9000rpm, reminds me of the old one but with a much better power to weight ratio.

Honda did a legendary job with all the S series.

[malevolenceXXXensues]

hooray for japanese cars that look like italian k cars from the 1960's

[orunitin]

エスロクスゲー

[canadianassassin79]

respect for all Honda lovers from south Italy

[RoccoAndFratelli]

From honda with love.

eheh

[rcmodder]

Anybody know the song to this clip?

Went extremelly well with the scenery

[GTRPSI]

A mate had one of these 25 years ago, i rebuilt the cylinders and borrowed it a few times.

The engine was built using motorcycle high rpm technologies, this was well before road cars started lightening pistons/rods and building twin cams engines.

The thing was tiny, it use to scream but in all honesty was very slow.

Today i am here looking at them and wondering what one would be like with a bridge ported rotary as a project.

They deserve a place in motoring history, very ahead of time back then

[gav240z]

@GTRPSI awesome with a bridge port rotary, my friends dad / mum used to have 1 of these. He used to talk about it a lot with affection (he was a mechanic). When he saw my 260z though he said I should slot a V8 in it. I didn't agree with that though :). I would love one of these cars. Even if they are slow. The hard top is very rare, seen a convertible or 2 in my time, but never a hard top in person.

[somerandomaussie]

i wouldnt care how slow it was zipping thru the mountains listening to the 600cc scream at 9-10k rpm is all i need :)

[stigasawus]

Ignorance is bliss, try 10500 on track constantly(tacho redline 9500) & overev to14500 too easily, no damage. Bench rev to destruct at 29000! Good oil, plugs, almost indestructable little turbine Very clever steel wet sleeves, needle big ends & ball mains, centrif. oil filter. Had to rev, no power under 5 & needed to go to 7.5 to change up. Factory even had comp. extras available. 5sp box even louder exh. drowned out V8's in pits. Wot me deaf, sorry cant hear you. How did that happen?Why nock!!

[IExposeMormonism]

No Honda S600 ever reved to 9000, not once. You were lucky if they ran long at all.

[shadyredline]

@IExposeMormonism well if u had a brain u would know they reved to 9500 jay leno has one

[IExposeMormonism]

@IExposeMormonism Well, they may have rev'd to 8500 but not for long. All I remember now is they were slow, like 16-17 seconds to 60, topped out at 90 maybe. and they didn't really last that long. nothing a 1500cc hyabusa transplant wont cure. Of course an 8000RPM chevy small block sounds better. And lasts longer.

[Luke1337]

@IExposeMormonism you're full of ignorance and shit.

[IExposeMormonism]

@Luke1337 No, actually I'm right, if you google the car you can get the specs, they were slow, they did rev to 9500 or so but with 60hp, so what. I think a Saab Sonnet would beat it....!

[Luke1337]

@IExposeMormonism of course they're slow with the 0.6 litre engine but they will rev 12k and higher with needle roller bearings on the crankshaft and last as long as any motorcycle engine or even longer with proper care. they were cheap for the time and they won gran turismo races within the 1000 ccm class.

and a chevy small block doing 8000 rpm will certainly not last longer, higher displacement makes higher revs more difficult to attain

[gav240z]

@IExposeMormonism look up Jay Leno's example it's very nice. Best thing to do with these I think is a rotary or a Motorcycle engine like the Mini Coopers. :)

[Japcarfan550]

i love how these engine rev and rev on the WHITE line!!

[SSSSBBBB81]

You can really tell this is a Honda engine just by the sound

brilliant !!

[kamparnet]

this video has been so great. the moment i saw this video on youtube, i was like, that's the car i need to buy and restore and finally, i did managed to buy one in malaysia.

anyways, jensen button won the grand prix. i am happy for him. even happier for him to have actually driven the honda s600.

another guy im really happy to have helped honda is aryton senna with input in the nsx project. he was also driving the merc 190e evo II back then, nice! videos on youtube

[awesomeman09]

is it really hard to drop a superbike motor in one of those things?..i mean the earlier ones had a chain driven IRS.

[alna1287]

that would be a shame, the original roller cam motor is an engineering masterpiece.

[info2k8]

i hate the S600

but i like the S630

[alna1287]

der der der!

[awesomeman09]

no point of hating it, not like your ever going to get tthe chance to drive one..

[600miles]

His watch is as big as the steering wheel center !

[Chunkychucky]

what's the background music to this? does anyone know??

[f1mrky]

brilliant!

[alna1287]

Button behind the wheel of an S600, I can't believe it! And in Monaco! A+

[marisuke214]

モナコって素敵だなぁ・・・しかもある意味、バトンとドライブ♪­って感じ。

[jgturk]

No matter which way you go, the best way to arrive is in an S600! That was glorious!