New S2000 Rumours Gather Pace With Plans For Twin-Charged Engine
We know the supposed ‘new S2000’ saga has been going on for a long time, now, but we can’t help getting a bit excited about the latest development.
Car and Driver has sourced content from Japan’s Holiday Auto magazine, suggesting a two-stage boosting system that combines a turbo and an electrically driven supercharger, similar to a system we’ve already seen from Mitsubishi.
In theory, that would eliminate turbo lag while producing as much as 320bhp in the rumoured rear-wheel drive roadster. The engine, says Car and Driver, would be longitudinally mounted and coupled to an eight-speed dual-clutch transmission (damn).
We really hope this turns out to be true, to recreate the S2000’s glorious driving experience for the modern era. We also hope it has a manual option, but hey, you can’t have everything.
It won’t be launched before 2018, and it could be pushed even further back, so don’t hold your breath, but we want it.
Comments
The most important question is would v tec,kick in yo?
Hey Matt there’s no manual option?
Twincharged VTEC yo
Vtec will kick very hard yo.
It’ll kick in REALLY hard, I’m sure.
Best that you’ve first bought Life Insurance, then.
It would kick in.
Its going to be renamed to
“Ultimate VTEC+”
Make the handling as good as/better than the AP2 and all is well.
Theres 2 aspects to this in my opinion
When driving-
VTEC kicks in “yo”
When somebodys trying to steal it-
Disklok kicks in “yo”
Jesus, I haven’t even heard the word Disklok since my neighbour owned her mk3 Fiesta, and that went in 2001
DisklokUK
The real question is, can I LS swap it?
The real question is, what can’t you LS swap?
If the S2000 was called S2000 because of the new Milennia,surely this one would be called the S2020 or something along those lines (Yes I know it actually refers to Displacement of the engine but there is no harm in theorising)
Wait i always thought the 2000 meant the engine displacement in cc’s
Theyll use the type r motor. Lol.
That wouldn’t be too bad I guess
ok but could people still say nice miata in the next s2000 ?
ugh
I had reported about this a year ago:
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/n4xp6yg/
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes