I am thinking this qualifies as some sort of hearsay or rumor:

So i ran into a guy I have not seen in 30 years, nice...he was working for audi, then acura, and now honda. He is some sort of marketing manager and has been an auto rep for years. I think he has a good position...so i ask the S2000 question....

he says: every year at the regional sales meeting where all the dealers congregate they have a product introductory planning meeting....ALL the dealers ask the same questions: S2000 or something like it???

So this is rumor, unofficial: my friend says : honda has two hallowed cars now, the civic type R and the NSX, period. Honda lost money on every S2000 they made and there is no thoughts of doing it again...and they have smaller sports oriented cars that do not come to our country. No plans.....and they are very very aware of the following this car has ,especially here.

Lets see what happens in the years to come....?

 

I can't imagine a single dealer asking for an S2000 or something like it.

 

I think Honda is only interested in not losing market share, which means more CUVs and SUVs for the masses. It's probably in enough of a panic over the poor sales of the Accord, and sports cars just aren't Honda's thing.

 

Though their HRC (motorcycle racing) and Indy Car is still pretty strong. Seems they are even getting back into F1 engine builds (with Red Bull).

I guess we can only hope....

 

The few times I pull into Dealer land to snag some part (Have 4 Hondas) the salesmen come out to look and drool. They all comment that they wish Honda made something like the S today.

 

^^^^Same here.
Levi

 

It's never going to be made again. Hold on tight as long as you can.
Auto manufactures are talking about not even providing cars to the US market any longer and only providing SUV's.

 

It's hard to blame them. Spend any time here in this country and it's easy to see that our roads are littered primarily with today's equivalent of the station wagon, the SUV as we like to call them now — I tend to think of them as Shopping Utility Vehicles. I've got to hand it to the auto makers, years ago almost no one would touch a station wagon (the original utility vehicle I suppose), but the industry figured out that people simply did not care for the way they were packaged and marketed. It's ironic that they're now called "Sport" utility vehicles as really all they've done is become larger to accommodate people that are generally more overweight and less healthy than decades past. I love the irony of people driving their Sport UV's , battling one another for the parking spot closest to the door of the store/restaurant trying to avoid having to walk any more than minimum amount possible. Sigh.

 

Just read an article last week about manual transmissions. Some BMW executive weighed in. The bottom line is that about 5% of vehicles sold in the USA are sticks and it is steady. BMW knows that and is keeping the manual transmission around despite the advances in automatics that make more sense from a fuel economy and ride perspective.

There just seems to be a segment of die hard folks, significant enough to affect the auto company's manufacturing decisions, insisting on manual transmissions just because of the enjoyment it brings to the table of driving fun.

 

100% SUVs in the future. I mean, just imagine that scene from "Repo Man." But, with a 2017 Kia Sportage, instead of a 1964 Chevy Malibu?