2016 Honda S660 Preview Drive – Cutely Cool, Unabashed Fun
The fact that we, as Australians, are such a big, handsome and powerfully proportioned people doesn’t normally seem like a disadvantage, until you drive a car like the Honda S660, a vehicle so cutely cool and unabashedly fun that it makes you want to turn Japanese, or at least move there.
The S660, which brings to mind the driving joy of the much-missed Honda S2000, albeit without any of the power, is what the Japanese call a “kei" car”, meaning extremely light and tiny, basically.
They are built to meet special government regulations and are considered too niche, and too small, for export, because people overseas are, to be blunt, a lot taller (and heavier).
It could be argued that a car powered by a teeny 660cc, 47kW, 104Nm three-cylinder engine only makes sense if it’s going to be driven by someone who weighs about as much as a large poodle, but it’s not the case.