I Just Found the Best Car Ever Made (and I’m Buying One)

today I'm gonna talk about a special Honda Civic not a little cheap runabout economy car a Civic type-r I'm just gone a long way from the original Civic they'd had a little Betty 2 cylinder air-cooled motorcycle engine - this 306 horsepower monster this is one special Honda Civic now certainly not a cheap ikata box car the customer recently bought this one brand-new to 2019 for about $38,000 they're not giving them away now unlike other civics this thing gets 22 in the city and 28 on a highway which is horrible gas mods for a car this small but on the other hand when you check under the hood that's really not bad gas mileage for an engine that puts out 306 horsepower I mean just a while back people thought it was really something that they could get a hundred horsepower out of every liter engine size this thing is 2 liters it's got 306 so it's got more than 150 horsepower per liter it's a lot of power for a small car after all Honda is really known as an engine company they make more four-stroke internal combustion engines every year than any other company in the world and in this case the R isn't just some fake name stuck up this thing is really made for racing you might think all this stuff it looks like a toy it's not a toy everything serves a purpose from the air dam on the back when you're going really fast helps downforce and even when you go up here you'll notice these well those hard to create vortexes so that it works even better this was designed by engineers this wasn't some kid making a cool-looking toy there's reason behind all of this as we go down the side this isn't style these flares are to help cool the engine and the brakes this thing was designed with racing in mind check out these giant calipers they're Brembo top-of-the-line racing brakes drilled rotors so you don't get fade when you're racing slamming on the brakes stopping on the gas this is a serious driver's car as you go to the back of the car this is a just show this is an engineered tuned exhaust system makes a nice sound - and a rather unique expression having a triple not a double but a triple now if you go inside you can see it's an operation not fancy leather stuff but serious racing seats when your corner hand that's fitting man does that corner start it up of course being a Honda it starts round up first thing got all kinds of fancy stuff in the dash and if you mess around with the computer setup it can even be run for track racing keep lapsing it this is a serious car Honda legs applix settings navigation this is a seriously designed car for a driver and as with any serious driver's car what's nick in the middle not a speedometer the tachometer so you can match revs while you're driving and you want to race the road you can put it on race suspension or you can put it on normal or you can put it on comfort you're not racing around you want a little more comfortable you can make the suspension system softer so it rides better six beat standard transmission honda makes great standard transmissions they're killer for shifting we get up look at this it's a four-door hey now he's got it down for his dogs and stuff shows the seats go down you got quite a bit of room when you put the seats up it's still a reasonable amount of space for sitting it's not that tiny yes it does have a trunk regular sized trunk you can put stuff like I say if you flopped the seats back you got a lot of space to carry stuff it's a handy utilitarian car too but of course that's not why you buy a Civic type-r you buy a Civic type-r to drive fast why would you pay $38,000 up if you just want a little utilitarian car go get a plain cific don't spend all this money now this thing just doesn't look fast and have a big engine it's got a special front suspension for racing this thing is made for coronary I drove an actual race cars this thing is pretty close get real tight steering its next corner in like med you can see it's low to the ground this thing was designed for going fast both in a straight line more importantly on curves this thing eats up the twisties not really surprising no but Honda started as a motorcycle company this is kind of like a 4-wheel motorcycle for people again old like me that the two-wheel ones are getting a little bit too dangerous this thing this load is a grown it's made to corner Lori ago the better they corner it is a little bit rough riding on bumpy roads this thing wasn't made for that it's made for going fast it'll go down the road even a normal Civic isn't the greatest ride in the world but they made it as good as they can with their active suspension system you can put it on the comfort setting so it's gonna ride as good as it can in town but then as soon as you either get on a track or you're out on a highway put it in a racing mode it's gonna be a lot stiffer and it's really gonna handle well now if we had extra vision we could see this as a very lightweight chassis the hoods all aluminum it's a very strong yet light car it's made for going fast that is its main purpose in life now just to compare my Celica there has a 110 horsepower in a 2600 pound vehicle this has 306 horsepower and a vehicle that only weighs 400 pounds more than that so you got an extra almost 200 horsepower for 400 pounds extra weight it's a lot of power now Pierce might say hey the Celica weighs less than this well the reason this weighs more it's got solid heavy duty Racing components it can't make things light and cheap if you're gonna drive it as hard as this thing thing is made for speed and you got to have some kind of weight with speed strong parts you're not gonna be using lightweight cheap plastic suspension parts a car without much power they'd snap this thing is solidly built so in this case some weight is actually a good thing you don't want a superlight fast car be too light take off so this is a happy medium between a lot of speed strikes so it'll last bowls in terms of how long it'll last mileage and how much it can take on the road when you're really racing around you don't want some cheap part breaking off when you're doing 100 miles an hour now I know some people are gonna see this earth dreams technology and they're gonna say oh I don't want to buy this it has oil dilution problems but yeah that's not correct it's the 1.5 liter on engines they have the oil dilution problems not the 2-liter ones that they put in this screaming monster arguing back and forth about the oil dilution problems anyway and when it comes down to basically they seem to be diluting before the engines warmed up this little thing man it warms up fast it's set for speed doesn't take long to warm these up so even if you only drive in a few miles just things warmed up fast it's not like the little 1.5 liter but enough talk let's take this thing for a spin rub yeah well roll up the windows maybe a little race car but it still has all the conveniences of air conditioning a nice backup camera let's see how it accelerates thanks on fast especially at high rpms that's what this engine was made for now it's not a particularly quiet car inside to make for zipping around the man the suspension this thing is so tight you turn that wheel and the brakes man your killer with those big Brembos okay so you're gonna feel bumps in this car it's more of a race car not something that you tool around and rides like a Lexus it handles and rides like a race car if you're buying one of these that's what you're looking for Leona's fast look at it smooth as can be center island you can't feel this poor cylinder engine no vibration the stick shift isn't shaking at all these are perfectly designed engines and you check it on on a highway right that's right it's ting shines crisp steering you don't get any under steering or over steering this thing tracks great you want to blow the doors off one of these Mercedes hey no problem at all it hadn't been made on the outs like all this racing stuff it'll be a great sleeper car no I do have to say one thing that surprises me in this car is it is just a front wheel drive car but it doesn't have any of that classic oversteer it handles great Honda just figure it out it'd make a little race car that's front-wheel drive now they're talking they might make an all-wheel drive one or ever but as it stands this is front-wheel drive and you would never know it by driving it around it handles great I realize that if you're gonna drive one of these things seriously the way it was designed you're playing any upper rpms it doesn't really have a bunch of kick until it gets over 5,000 rpms when the turbo and the variable valve timing kicks in then it just screams so this has to be driven like a racecar if you're driving it seriously you shift it at slow speeds it'll run fine like any Honda Civic you gotta get the revs up there if you really want to take full advantage of what this thing was designed for so if you're looking for a small racy little car and you got 40 grand burning a hole in your pocket and you don't care about piddling gas mileage hey you might check out one of these Civic type-r x' so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell [Music]

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Rating: 4.875 out of 5

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Length: 10min 7sec (607 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 24 2020