Honda S2000 To Go Hybrid?

Next-gen Honda S2000 could be front-wheel drive and hybrid-powered

Front-drive, hybrid, folding hard-top. Please, no!

When the Honda S2000 dies later this year, it will leave a sports car-shaped gap in the Honda range, and an open question: How will Honda fill it?

Unfortunately, the latest answer coming out of Japan may not fill Honda fans - or indeed fans of sports cars in general - with feelings of happiness and optimism.

Hot on the heels of the news that Honda is to show a production hybrid sports car - the CR-Z - at October's Tokyo motor show come rumours that the next S2000, due in 2012, will also be a hybrid.

It gets worse. Japanese car mag Best Car is saying that the next-gen hybrid S2000, which will apparently be fitted with the same hybrid diveline due to go into some versions of the Honda Accord, will be front-wheel drive and fitted with a folding hard-top.

Seems like the days of 9000rpm VTECS and simple rear-wheel drive dynamics could be numbered. Let's just hope the rumours are wrong...

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