Hotter Honda S660 Mugen revealed
More powerful S660 emerges in Japan as demand for Honda's new baby roadster explodesIf you order a turbocharged 660cc-powered Honda S660 roadster this week in Japan, it won’t be delivered until the beginning of next year. That’s how popular the all-new mini sports car is right now in its domestic market.
As we've reported, a sportier version thought to wear Type-R badging is also in the pipeline, as well as an 'S1000' export version that could eventually come to Australia packing a gutsier 96kW 1.0-litre turbo engine and beefier bodywork.
Latest news from Japan suggests the hotter S660 will appear by mid-2016 in the form of a specially tweaked version of Japan's newest kei-car created by Honda’s racing arm, Mugen.
In fact, as these leaked images show, the S660 Mugen will bring a more aggressive body kit including chunkier bumpers, side skirts and a fixed rear wing, and it's also likely to come with a sportier interior, tweaked suspension and more power.
We understand the Mugen-spec S660 will pump out upwards of 75kW – 60 per cent more than the 47kW turbo-triple in the standard S660 – simply via a remapped ECU, which will also be available to any S660 owner in Japan.
The S660 mini-roadster (and its unconfirmed S1000 export sibling) is the smallest in a new range of sports cars coming from Honda, including the second-generation NSX supercar (which is due here in late 2016, and could also come in Type-R form, the new Civic Type-R (which may never be sold here) and a third mid-engined two-door in the mid-size 'baby NSX' coupe.
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