Also, paddle shifting is a dumb idea. Firstly, I’d never by a sports car with paddle shifters. Real drivers want the manual gearbox, don’t touch it! You want more women to buy the car, just throw in an automatic with tiptronic as a $2,000 option.

I don’t know why when car companies do something wrong, they attempt to fix it by doing more things wrong. It didn’t sell well because it is overpriced – and didn’t have a automatic for all the ladies. Simple as that.

My 2 cents: They’re gonna offer a paddle shift and manual option…design will have cues from the CRZ and would have the same proportions as the current S2000.

Sadly it will also grow in size as they will try to get a bigger slice of the US market. That would mean offer it with a hard top to attract even more ppl and make it bigger to seat heavier americans!

It should still be an insane driving experience

There is not a lot that can be done to the S2000 engine without forced induction. It comes from the factory at a very high state of tune. Those S2000s can run.

I realize you are a know it all on top of being super cool, but how many S2000 have you driven all out?

How much do you know about THAT CAR? I heard it is just suspension, brakes and exhaust mods. The guy is a great driver and loves humbling more expensive cars.

Last time I checked how many years has Chevy campaigned in F1?

[crickets]

I could see myself getting something like this as a toy car if they put in an inline 6. It would be a blast, to me.

That’s nice, Renton. But that car isn’t even close to stock. Mugen is an aftermarket tuner that built that car into something considerably faster than a stock S2000.

I can show you YouTube videos of 1,200 + hp twin turbo Vipers and Corvettes that make the $1.5 million Bugatti Veyron look slow by comparison, all day long. But there’s no point, because they’re not stock.

Don’t keyboard race – it’s bad for your health.

I like the current S2000, but I would never buy one because the lack of low-end torque in that engine would drive me crazy.

The S2000 pulls like mutherfukkker at top revs. It is a race engine.

watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWjMvrkUqX0

S2000 can run with more expensive and more powerful machines any day

No Japanese car company has ever made an engine that produces any assemblence of TORQUE.

The front end is good. They should really keep the proportions of the S2000 in tact, even if the new car is larger.

I was thinking a small V8 could be made more cost effectively from the new NSX V10.

Either of those two would be awesome. But the front mid engine design and perfect weight distribution must remain. So whichever is lighter and more ideal.

Honda is at the top of heap in Japanese auto engineering, if not the world. I would certainly expect the same effort applied the S3000 as they gave the S2000 and NSX.

I’ve owned my ‘03 S2000 for five trouble-free years now and am more obsessed with it than ever. There’s just nothing out there (except for Lotus vehicles) that handles like these cars. The sense of right-now immediacy in handling; the purity of the sports-car experience… You just can’t get that in many places these days. I sometimes let my friends borrow the car when I’m traveling for work, and they are always blown away by what a great car it is.

With that said, the reality is that Honda is a different breed of automaker. They seem to prefer to engineer every last ounce of performance out of a minimalist approach; thus the 2.0-liter, 9,000rpm engine putting out 120 hp/liter and the 16″ tires pulling 0.92g on the original model. They wanted a pure sports car, not an oversized, overweight muscle car.

Fair enough, and an awesome sports car it is. But yes, someone please make them put a damn V-6 or Inline-6 in the thing! The new 370Z is going to eat the S2K’s lunch at the track. And make the interior roomy enough that my heavier friends will stop literally refusing to ride in my car. And sadly, an automatic would probably quadruple the sales volume.

I’m surprised and thrilled that they’re even considering making another generation of these cars. Considering that mine is now a 10-year-old design and is still one of the best-handling and best-looking cars on the road, I can only imagine how incredible a new model could be.

Manual transmission is a must., Since I do not race at a track, I can afford to make “slow” manual shifts.

There are plenty of leftover S2000 out there and you can steal them. You will not be disappointed. The engine is a like a 4 cylinder Ferrari.

For the relatively low entrance point you get a vehicle designed by one the best F1 racing companies ever. Plus they race everything else too. Bikes, boats , IndyCar, everything. Now they make jet planes.

The car is real world fun, you get to work it through the gears constantly, and they move with tremendous precision. The handling and balance for this car were prime directives. Stiffness and rigidity are as if the car is a solid milled block of alloy.

100% Honda reliability and cost of maintenance.

Buy one and you come to realize you have to spend a lot of dough to get more fun. An S2000 at high rev with VTECH it is a freak show of power and acceleration and worth the short wait.

S3000 is a no brainer

Thankfully someone at Honda Noticed. The last statement is so true. If the S2000 had a clutchless-manual or DSG or even a 5-6sp slushbox it would have sold more. I also think the same is true of the Civic Si. The price of the S2000 is fine for what it competes with but the lack of transmission options just kills it. As to the illustration its fine, but I thought I had read somewhere that Honda was looking at 2 possible convertible models. One geared to compete with the Miata/Solstice and another to take on the Z3/SLK/maybe Boxster.