What's your idea of retirement planning? At Car and Driver, our scribblers spend their golden years counting their air miles and grousing about the web interns. If you're Shigeru Uehara, Honda R&D's Executive Chief Engineer, you spend your last year on the job building a track-ready special-edition version of the S2000.
Lots of engineers build track toys, but not many get their cars approved for production. Uehara isn't just any engineer; he's credited as the father of the Honda S2000 and the Acura NSX and Integra type R, the trio that convinced a generation of American tuners and enthusiasts that Honda is a legitimate performance car company. Uehara’s legacy is solid, so he doesn’t need to work on the NSX's successor—he said through an interpreter that he's leaving that to the next generation. Instead, his final gift to the enthusiast world is the S2000 CR.
Lots of engineers build track toys, but not many get their cars approved for production. Uehara isn't just any engineer; he's credited as the father of the Honda S2000 and the Acura NSX and Integra type R, the trio that convinced a generation of American tuners and enthusiasts that Honda is a legitimate performance car company. Uehara’s legacy is solid, so he doesn’t need to work on the NSX's successor—he said through an interpreter that he's leaving that to the next generation. Instead, his final gift to the enthusiast world is the S2000 CR.
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