Honda S660 (2016) – Into the Wild

As many of you will know, Japan’s Kei regulations don’t just restrict a car’s exterior dimensions. The engine size and power must also not exceed certain values ​​in order to qualify for the Japanese tax credit for kei cars. Anyone who understands the traditional sports car naming from Honda knows that the spotted copy certainly meets it. The 660 in the name S660 stands for the cumulative number of cc’s of the cylinders and corresponds to the maximum for the Kei class. The ‘S-plus-cylinder displacement naming’ has been used by Honda for years for its sports cars, as witnessed by the earlier S500, S600, S800, but also the much later S2000, which – you guessed it – has a 2-liter on board. had.

Honda also thinks that cheating a bit with such a name is allowed. Take the S2000: it was still called S2000 after its facelift, but has since had a 2.2-liter under the hood in the Japanese and American markets. And this S660 does not have a 660 cc, but a 657 cc behind the front seats. Anyway. Slightly less or not at all; the mini power source stamps out a nice 64 hp. That power reaches the rear wheels via a six-speed manual gearbox and is good for a 0 to 100 of about 12 seconds.

The Honda S660 was produced from 2015 to 2022. The copy in the photos dates from 2016 and was shipped from Japan to the Netherlands in 2021. Here, according to the registration history, the car already had three owners, the last of which has only owned it for two weeks. With a bit of luck, he will have a lot of fun with the little one, because you won’t find a recipe like the one offered by the S660 anywhere else – and certainly not in the Netherlands. A touring mid-engine, rear-wheel drive, manual gearbox, open roof and compact exterior dimensions: can’t miss.

There was one previous Honda of the same cut, and that is the Honda Beat, which also featured in this section. The S660 is in fact the successor to the Beat and therefore only recently went out of production. That happened later than originally intended, in order to be able to provide some extra loving customers with a copy. It is not yet known whether the S660 will also receive a successor.