Report: Honda S2000 successor will be FWD only with hybrid system

Posted: Jul 15, 2009
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Honda S2000 Successor - 7Tune

A little while back Japan’s Best Car Magazine reported that Honda is working on an AWD (Honda’s Super Handling All-Wheel-Drive system) successor to the S2000 that will be powered by a powerful 4-cylinder engine mated to a hybrid system similar to the one found on the Honda Insight.

In its latest report, Best Car says that the S2000 successor will be offered with a front-wheel-drive option only and a hybrid driveline. The model will be a step above the upcoming Honda CR-Z hybrid due out next year and will feature a retractable hardtop.

Look out for the S2000 successor sometime in early 2012.

Until we have other solid details, we’re going to have to file this under rumors.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: 7Tune


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  • beeoh

    Sounds more like the return of the Prelude. I see alot of design ques from other makers in that car pictured.

  • robert

    Hmmm return to FWD, that will have all the gearheads excited! A sportscar with severe understeer coupled with torque steer…sounds like a winning formula

  • zermatt

    This is the format that the Greens have in mind for the Corvette.

    If this is true, this will be the death of a decent sports car.

  • Ivan Gutierrez

    So basically not an S200 successor, but a sportier Insight.

  • ty

    oh no freaking way, don't do it Honda

  • desertwindabudhabi

    Have to get one of the old ones.
    And FAST!

  • zermatt

    This is the format that the Greens have in mind for the Corvette.

    If this is true, this will be the death of a decent sports car.

  • Ivan Gutierrez

    So basically not an S200 successor, but a sportier Insight.

  • ty

    oh no freaking way, don't do it Honda

  • desertwindabudhabi

    Have to get one of the old ones.
    And FAST!