Honda S3000
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From: Longmont, CO
100% sure. R&T used a few elements of the OSM design, but it's still just something R&T dreamed up. Did you read the article to go along with the post?
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?se...article_id=7109
See? R&T says that even the Audi R8 is a major influence on their photochop!
Again, the red car is just some thing that R&T dreamed up so they'd have something to publish. They've done that a lot over the years, so it's no surprise they'd do it again.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?se...article_id=7109
Also, the CR-Z and OSM have been engineered as front-engine/front-wheel-drive models, and the S2000 successor will no doubt be a rear-wheel-drive car. So apparently the OSM has nothing to do with the S2000 successor. Or does it...?
There's the possibility that the OSM may very well be a design study of the next S2000, wearing the veil of an open-top CR-Z to throw us off. There was also a sighting of a mysterious prototype sports car near Honda's R&D headquarters in Japan that seemed to share the OSM's proportions, yet looked completely different. Could this be another design study of the S2000? We think so, so we took pieces of that car, melded it with the OSM and came up with this image, a handsome car with an Audi R8-esque face, a long hood and a profile reminiscent of the current S2000.
There's the possibility that the OSM may very well be a design study of the next S2000, wearing the veil of an open-top CR-Z to throw us off. There was also a sighting of a mysterious prototype sports car near Honda's R&D headquarters in Japan that seemed to share the OSM's proportions, yet looked completely different. Could this be another design study of the S2000? We think so, so we took pieces of that car, melded it with the OSM and came up with this image, a handsome car with an Audi R8-esque face, a long hood and a profile reminiscent of the current S2000.
Again, the red car is just some thing that R&T dreamed up so they'd have something to publish. They've done that a lot over the years, so it's no surprise they'd do it again.
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From: Durango, Colorado
I thought this was poor journalism by R&T. The cover picture is captioned "2011 Honda S3000" but the article all but outright admitts that it is pure speculation. We don't know anything we didn't know before -- and that is virtually nothing for sure.
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Hmm looks better than what I have seen before, suspiciously the front looks very similar to the widebody Tamon Design is working on for the s2000 .. Don't know if there was some copying going on but they look very similar to me, except for obviously the definition on the side of the bumper going in the opposite direction:
