/// Why this one
The high-revving Honda statement — a 9,000-rpm naturally-aspirated four-cylinder roadster that arrived for the company's 50th anniversary in 1999.
Genuinely slow if kept below 6,000 rpm. The car is designed around the engine's narrow torque band and requires active driving.
/// Provenance
F20C engine: 240 hp from 2.0 liters (then-record 120 hp/liter), VTEC switching to high-cam profile at 6,000 rpm, redline at 9,000. Front-mid-engine layout, 50/50 weight distribution, double-wishbone suspension at all four corners, six-speed close-ratio manual.
Risk note: Snap-oversteer characteristic of the AP1 is real; verify rear suspension geometry and tire age at every inspection.