Report: Honda S2000 revival set for 2017 launch with 350 bhp

Honda is allegedly functioning on an S2000 resuscitate programmed to come back out in 2017.

The S2000 was phased out back in 2009 and since then several rumors emerged a couple of potential comeback however nothing materialized. Now, British media is covering a new generation is slated for a 2017 market launch and can sit between the S660 and NSX. It will be an uprated version of the 4-cylinder, 2.0-liter turbocharged ICE taken from the future Civic type R which is able to develop somewhere within the region of 350 bhp (261 kW).

The same source says something about a hybrid technology developed together with the McLaren Formula one Team and can alter the model to perform a 0-62 mph (0-100 km/h) run in close to five seconds whereas keeping fuel economy at around thirty three.3 mpg U.S.A. (40 mpg UK or seven liters / one hundred km).

The 2017 Honda S2000 ought to have a beginning worth of around 35,000 GBP (59,000 USD / 42,000 EUR).