http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/225318/wraps_off_next_s2000.html By Stephen Dobie22nd July 2008Honda has lifted the lid on its replacement for the S2000! The small two-seater makes its world debut as a concept at the British Motor Show, and features the latest hybrid technology.It joins the CR-Z hybrid and FC-X Clarity hydrogen fuel cell vehicle on the stand at ExCeL.The car has a flowing design that doesn’t only look good, but is highly aerodynamic – in turn boosting performance and cutting CO2 emissions. It also fits the ‘clean and dynamic’ brief that Honda applied to the project. The headlights are integrated into the front end and sweep up to look like part of the body. This theme continues inside, with long curves from door to door that frame the dashboard instruments. The dash layout resembles that of the Civic hatchback, with important instruments in the driver’s line of sight, while the seats and doors are trimmed in blue and white leather.To highlight the new car’s sporting intentions, the lever for the semi-sequential transmission is placed close to the driver on the dashboard, and there are paddleshifters mounted on the steering wheel, too. A starter button sits on top of the shifter.The model would slot into the range beside the CR-Z small sports hybrid, which is confirmed for dealers. What’s more, the show car fuels speculation regarding a production version of the long-awaited replacement for the S2000. The roadster is the last remaining rear-wheel-drive model in the Honda line-up, but a roadgoing version of the concept would drop that layout in favour of front-wheel drive.
FWD != S2000That looks like a Del Sol Civic IMO.
F2000 might be a more appropriate name then.
Quote from: initial_D on July 22, 2008, 02:04:57 pmF2000 might be a more appropriate name then. F2000 is this:
Rumours about the "next" S2000 and rumours about the "last" S2000 have been circulating for years and so far, each and every one of those have turned out to be a gross exaggeration or entirely FALSE! Wing, you know as well as I do about such things and both of us have seen these on the S2000 forums since the first year it came out. We shouldn't so quickly forget that auto journal article that came out a couple years ago that was floating around the European circuit about this big HP S2000 with a V6 in it, accompanied by some very good photoshopping. Remember how that got started? It was a hoax perpetrated by an S2000 owner on S2Ki. The "perp" even made a full confession months after the magazines got a hold of it. Those European mags picked up on this information and ran with it like it was gospel. Man, did they feel stupid when the confession came out. Auto journalists are always jumping on that next big "scoop" even if they have to exaggerate on irrelevent info or fabricate stuff to spice things up.I think you and I have both taken this sort of thing as pure speculation by some over zealous car mag reporter. I would have great doubts about this being the next S2000. How about we wait till it actually hits the showroom? I believe we'll find that "Auto Express" will feel just as stupid once the real "next" S2000 arrives. If the car depicted in those pictures does come out, I highly doubt that "S2000" will appear anywhere on it.
