Basically Honda's version of Toyota's MR-S / 4 cylinder version of the NSX...
If it can match the performance #s of the S2000, I will buy one in a heart beat!
Would you? Has Honda ever considering making such cars? Will it ever you think?

 

No, because the car companies now are big on platform sharing. If they can't make a half dozen different cars off the same platform they don't make it.

 

I think the closest Honda has come to that is a riding lawn mower.

 

I think history has generally shown the mid-engine based on FWD car to be a sales flop. I suspect the best selling such model was the Fiero. The MR2 at least made it through three generations but there was that dead period between Gen 2 and Gen 3.

I love the idea of such a car but I think the reality is they always seem to be short on practicality. They aren't refined or luxurious enough to become luxury sports cars. They typically aren't as powerful as big front engined sports cars so they don't win numbers games. The engines are almost always economy car, not premium car parts.

In the end they seem to appeal mostly to younger (read can't pay as much) buyers with fickle taste. In the end the business case is week... but I sure would like one.

 

i don't know if i would go for the four cylinder version... but if they made a 600hp v12 that reved to 12k rpm handled like a f1 car, and cost 25k, i'd be all over that...

 

Buy a 1997 Boxster for like 8000$ and you'll get 4 cylinder performance in a lightweight mid-engined chassis.

 

mid what? that's what honda said.

 

I recall that when the del sol was first rumored in the auto mags, it was being developed as a mid engine car to compete against the gen1 MR2 and Fiero. Looking at the body shape...it certainly makes sense.

 

I peed myself

 

Almost...
just missing 1 cylinder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Beat


And just for the technical geeks... the S2000 technically is a mid-engine sports car, since the engine is between the axles... it's just in front of the cabin, so it's a "front-mid" engine configuration.