Honda News: Rumorpile: Return of the Honda S2000

[William Maley]

From the 'We Can Dream' file, Auto Express is reporting that Honda is planning to bring back the S2000 nameplate for a new mid-engine coupe. Quite the departure from the front-engine roadster that was the S2000. The model is expected to be the middle of a trio of sports cars from Honda; the top being the NSX and bottom being a small roadster named S660.

The reborn S2000 is expected to be powered by a turbocharged 2.0L four-cylinder producing somewhere in the range of 350 horsepower. There is talk of using a simplified version of the NSX's hybrid powertrain as another option.

The model is expected to arrive sometime in 2017, two years after the arrival of the NSX.

Source: Auto Express

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[A Horse With No Name]

Sweet! For a guy like me who loves sports cars, seeing the renewal and rebirth of the sorts car is awesome!

[G. David Felt]

Funny that they want the smallest to be an S660, poaching the stupid name from MB.

All in All, I think they should use the NSX hybrid power train in all 3 cars making it a family of performance sedans that covers a wicked range from say 200HP/250LBS of torque to 600HP and 600+ lbs of torque. It would be awesome and would lower the cost since most of it is programming / detuning.

[A Horse With No Name]

Funny that they want the smallest to be an S660, poaching the stupid name from MB.

All in All, I think they should use the NSX hybrid power train in all 3 cars making it a family of performance sedans that covers a wicked range from say 200HP/250LBS of torque to 600HP and 600+ lbs of torque. It would be awesome and would lower the cost since most of it is programming / detuning.

This actually is a pretty good idea.