Reviewing the Honda Civic Type-R - Is It The BEST Type-R Ever? - video Dailymotion

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Join our man Tom Shorrock as he takes the wheel of the adrenaline-pumping Honda Civic Type R in this exhilarating car review.  From its sleek and aggressive exterior design to its turbocharged engine, Tom explores every aspect of what makes the Type R more than just a commuter car - but a machine built for those who crave excitement behind the wheel.  Don't miss out on Tom's in-depth review of the Honda Civic Type R, where he reveals why this hot hatchback is the BEST Type-R Ever!  ------------------ Enjoyed this video? Don't forget to LIKE and SHARE the video and get involved with our community by leaving a COMMENT below the video!   Check out what else our channel has to offer and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Men & Motors for more classic car and motorbike content! Why not? It is free after all!  --------------------------------------- Social Media ---------------------------------------  Follow us on social media by clicking the link below to elevate your social media experience by connecting with us! https://menandmotors.start.page  If you have any questions, e-mail us at talk@menandmotors.com  © Men and Motors - One Media iP 2024

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00:00 Welcome back to Men and Motors and today you join me with the all new Honda Civic Type R.

00:07 But if that's a little bit too spicy for you, you can always click up here to see Jim's

00:11 review of the hybrid model.

00:13 But first things first, let us know in the comments of your thoughts on the looks of

00:17 this vehicle because I think it's a very aggressive looking thing and it absolutely stinks of

00:23 hot hatch.

00:24 You've got a lovely low ride height with this massive split around the front, an actual

00:29 real bonnet scoop.

00:31 It does actually go through into the bonnet and serves a purpose and it just looks very

00:34 JDM.

00:35 You've got real wing vents here that actually go all the way through.

00:38 You can poke your finger through as you can see there.

00:40 You've got these lovely black gloss side skirts and as you follow the lines towards the back,

00:44 you're greeted by this absolutely massive GT style drift wing.

00:49 I think it does look like it's out of Grand Theft Auto, but it does pull it off really

00:53 well.

00:54 It's a sturdy looking thing and I'm told it's for added downforce, which I don't really

00:58 see the point in because this car is front wheel drive.

01:01 However, even though this does look aftermarket and look great, Honda have actually listened

01:06 to the owners of the previous model because although the FK8 spoiler looked 10 times better

01:11 in my opinion, it was the worst thing ever for visibility out of the back window.

01:17 The technology and the design in this spoiler is so great, it still gives it that tall feel

01:21 at the back of the car, but it does not impact the rear view in the mirror a single bit.

01:26 Whilst we're taking a look at the back of the car, we should talk about these exhausts.

01:32 Credit to Honda because they are still real exhausts.

01:35 I absolutely hate those fascia exhausts, especially now car manufacturers have started putting

01:41 the shape of an exhaust with just a black hole and you can't put your fist through them.

01:45 These are massive and they do slightly differ to the previous model where you've got one

01:50 big one in the middle and two smaller ones on the outside.

01:53 On the FK8, it was two big ones and one small one in the centre.

01:56 The exhaust, what do we think of that?

01:58 Personally, I think it's a little bit childish, but then again, Honda Civics have always been

02:03 in your face, especially when they come on cam and the revs pick up, so I do understand

02:08 why they've done that.

02:10 The diffuser, I've got to thank Honda for actually doing that in gloss black and not

02:14 doing it in that horrible, dull, plastic trim colour.

02:17 It really does pull it off well and the back of this car does look wide and aggressive

02:21 because it is slightly wider than the standard model which Jim reviewed earlier on the channel.

02:26 It comes with these 19-inch, 10-spoke, matte black alloy wheels which do appear to look

02:31 bigger than what they actually are in size and I think that's down to the design of the

02:35 spokes flicking all the way out to the tyre's edge.

02:38 You also get massive Brembo disc brakes and calipers and the red, of course, just finishes

02:44 it off and gives it that added Type R look.

02:47 You can tell Honda have gone no expense spared with the look of this car.

02:51 It just absolutely looks fantastic.

02:53 I think it looks 10 times better than the FK8 model and it does look a little more grown

02:58 up.

02:59 It does come with a very, very worrying price tag though.

03:01 This model is £300 shy of £50,000.

03:05 At a first look, I think that is absolutely ludicrous but as this video goes on, hopefully

03:11 we'll start to see why this car is £50,000.

03:15 Most Civic owners I know spend about three, four grand on a second anti-par and they'll

03:19 kick its head in, take it to the odd track day and then move on from it.

03:22 So to part with £50,000 with a car like this does seem a little crazy but I'm pretty sure

03:29 it's got its worth and we'll see more of that when we get it out on the road test.

03:33 Now let's get the boring granddad statistic out of the way.

03:36 How big is the boot?

03:38 Well it's actually quite large.

03:39 It's 410 litres which can expand to 1,212 litres if you flop the seats forward.

03:46 You also get this very, very strange and peculiar parcel shelf which comes across.

03:51 But the real test of this is does the boot take a Tom Shorek?

03:56 Well let's try it.

03:57 So if I just easily get in, then quite easily this car takes a full Tom Shorek.

04:03 So it gets the boot size of the year award like many other cars have on the reviews of

04:08 this channel.

04:10 So let's talk about the performance.

04:12 What power is it?

04:13 What size engine has it got?

04:14 And what does it actually look like underneath the engine bay?

04:17 Well if I just pop the bonnet and lift it up, you are greeted by something which I think

04:22 is rather pretty.

04:23 It does look amazing.

04:25 It looks very nice and you've got the typical red top engine as you would normally get in

04:29 a Honda Civic Type R. This particular engine is the K20C1 series engine which produces

04:36 329 horsepower, 420 newton metres of torque and it's absolutely rapid to say the least.

04:45 Now one thing Hondas have always been great at is having naturally aspirated engines producing

04:50 high revs and high power.

04:52 So it does feel a little bit different to have a Honda engine with a turbo on it.

04:56 Now I know that's not completely new, there is other models that have done it, but the

04:59 great thing about turbo in a Civic was always something that you could do aftermarket and

05:03 you could really tune them really high.

05:06 So obviously Honda have had to keep up with all other hot hatches to keep up with the

05:10 horsepower numbers and by doing that they have had to implement a turbo.

05:14 I definitely have to give Honda the nod for the turbo because they've not made it sound

05:18 ridiculous.

05:19 In fact you actually can't even hear the turbo, you just know it's there because it has a

05:23 boost gauge inside the car.

05:25 You don't get any of the chubby sounds when you change gear like the pshh or the stutututututu.

05:30 It just doesn't need it.

05:31 That's not what Hondas are about in my opinion and it is a very subtle turbo which has a

05:36 high amount of output in power.

05:39 I should add the top speed of this car is 171mph but the 0-60 time is a little bit questionable.

05:46 It's 5.4 seconds which I think is on the slow side compared to other hot hatches but you

05:51 do have to remember this car is a manual so you're never ever going to get through the

05:55 gear changes as quick as you would with the dual clutch transmission.

05:59 If you pass this car in the street you'd think the owner has modified it himself and I do

06:04 have to credit Honda again, I know I've said that a lot in this video, I'm crediting Honda

06:08 a lot but it is just a fantastic car.

06:11 You have to thank them for paying attention to their owners and customers because the

06:14 majority of people that buy cars like this will put splitters on it, they'll put black

06:19 wheels on it, they'll black all the accents out, they'll put side skirts on it and then

06:23 they might go and fit a huge wang.

06:27 Now maybe this is why the car is 50 grand because you can buy it and you literally need

06:31 to do nothing to it.

06:33 But I do think it is lacking something and that's spacers on the wheels.

06:40 Now I get the wheels are inside the car to stop mud flicking up and all that and aerodynamics,

06:45 you've got these tyre vents and that but they are rather tucked and I do think with just

06:50 a little bit of a wider stance you could completely change the look of this car.

06:54 That is coming from somebody that can't keep his hands away from modifying cars such as

06:59 myself but you do think it looks modified however it is very OEM, very standard and

07:04 it does look very Japanese.

07:06 Now as you get inside the car you're greeted with a hell of a lot of suede.

07:12 You can't miss these beautiful red bucket seats with the Type R logo embossed into the

07:18 headrest.

07:19 They really are comfortable but if you are a little bit chunky like myself and you've

07:22 got a thick coat on you do feel like you need to take it off to sit and drive relaxed.

07:28 The gear knob is brushed aluminium, it feels very nice and the throw in the gears is very

07:32 short and precise.

07:34 That was a nice little rhyme there wasn't it.

07:36 This car comes with Apple CarPlay as standard and wireless Apple CarPlay I should have.

07:41 You've got a wireless charging pad down the bottom, two USB plugs here which are actually

07:46 USB 2's and not USB C's.

07:49 You've got a centre console that's finished in silver and if I'm being absolutely honest

07:52 I do think that looks dated already.

07:55 It would have been nice to see some carbon fibre inside here because everything looks

08:00 better with carbon fibre.

08:02 You've got a lovely big wide touch screen at the top, very sleek, very modern and you've

08:06 got this very fancy joystick design on the dashboard where the vent is continuous and

08:12 the toggle moves the actual blowers behind it and it looks very sleek.

08:16 One thing I have found is there's quite a few crumbs and bits of dust stuck in there

08:19 so it can be a bit of a nightmare to clean.

08:21 You've got lane departure audio, lane departure assist, cruise control, a stop start button

08:25 to start the engine and it starts up.

08:28 You've got a digital dash ahead of you and you have some beautiful shift lights that

08:31 come on when you are ready to change gear at the top of the clock so they'll go red

08:36 all the way to yellow and then it'll flash red when you're ready to change the gear.

08:39 That's if you do get close to bouncing this car off the limiter.

08:43 You get Apple CarPlay as standard, you've got satellite navigation built in if you don't

08:46 want to use your Apple CarPlay and it comes with this really cool thing called Honda Log

08:51 R. Now I'm assuming that's meant to be pronounced Logger.

08:54 When you press on that it actually scores your driving when you take it to a track.

08:59 It'll put all points in and it'll tell you where you're up to so you can monitor your

09:02 progress when taking the car on a track.

09:05 You've also got a display that monitors all the temperatures of the car so you've got

09:08 water temperature, oil temperature, oil pressure, external air temperature, intake air temperature

09:12 which is currently at 23 degrees so cold air is always best when the car is sucking the

09:16 air in.

09:17 You have boost pressure which at idle is set at -10 and it goes up to about 30 psi when

09:22 you're on full chat.

09:23 It's also got a G-force meter and it'll keep a log of that so when you go back to review

09:28 it you can see how much you've been throwing the car and it creates like a little map around

09:32 how many G's you've been pulling.

09:35 You come out of that and go back to the main menu, Bluetooth audio, apps, phone, connectivity,

09:40 all the usual jazz that you would expect to get.

09:43 You've got lovely little knurled dials here that are plastic that do feel very quality

09:47 and everything does feel premium but plastic so it's like a premium plastic, they're not

09:51 the scratchy ones that you would expect in cheaper cars however you would expect some

09:56 form of carbon fibre in this vehicle.

09:59 At night this lights up red with a bit of ambient lighting but again it looks a bit

10:03 like an afterthought with that fascia, it maybe would have been nice to see that stretch

10:06 all the way across and around the dashboard.

10:09 It genuinely feels like Honda has spent all the money on performance with this car and

10:13 when companies do that you do have to sort of tone it back a bit on finishes.

10:18 With that said, this car by no means feels cheap, it just would have been nice aesthetically

10:22 to have some more carbon fibres and things like that.

10:25 You've got a cubby here that's nice, covered in suede, back seats have got a little bit

10:29 of suede on them but these bucket seats, the typical red Honda seats are amazing and you've

10:33 also got a red carpet that goes all the way through to the rear with red seatbelts of

10:39 course.

10:40 Honestly it's a lovely car, the sound system is fantastic, that's when you can hear it

10:43 above the engine noise, which is a bit fake by the way, but yeah it is all in all a good

10:49 quality car and it does feel a lot smaller in here than the car looks outside and you

10:54 do feel like you're positioned to really chuck it into corners, it's very nice.

10:58 So with that said, I think we'll head out onto the road.

11:01 This car is a six-speed manual gearbox and sometimes in a performance car the clutch

11:05 can be rather heavy.

11:07 In this it isn't, it's nice and light, the bite point is very direct, it pulls well through

11:12 the gears and the throw between the gears is really short and clunky.

11:16 It's absolutely lovely to change gear and it does give you that nice feedback to assert

11:22 you that you've gone into gear.

11:24 This car will do around 65mph in second gear, which is absolutely absurd, it sounds amazing

11:30 but what the gearbox has is this clever gated system where it won't allow you to change

11:35 into the gear if you're going too fast, so you don't really have to worry too much about

11:40 blowing the gearbox up.

11:42 There's not much wood, there is no wood in this car, there's just plenty of suede and

11:45 it feels and smells great.

11:47 Now in comfort mode it's very nice to drive, it's still very stiff but what I tend to do

11:54 when driving this around town, I have it in the individual mode, I have everything set

11:58 to R+ and I have the suspension set at comfort just because it is very, very harsh.

12:04 But when you do get going it just, it just sounds amazing, it picks up well.

12:12 One thing you do find with this car though is it does tramline a little bit, especially

12:16 when the camber of the road is a bit adverse.

12:19 Now you'll find that because it's a very stiff car, there's not much flex in the wheels and

12:23 there is zero wallowing.

12:24 When you turn a corner you're not sloping to the sides, it just feels like it's on rails,

12:29 like it will not go anywhere and the brakes do also squeal a bit like race brakes so it

12:36 is basically a road legal track car.

12:39 It also has rev match technology, now you'll notice when I'm selecting gears it sounds

12:44 like the revs are picking up.

12:45 I'm not actually doing that, it does it automatically so you don't need to blip the throttle and

12:50 one thing that really helps out with, especially when you're downshifting, if you was to do

12:55 it yourself and you didn't match the revs perfectly you'd get the lagging feeling where

12:58 the car feels like it's stalling forward before it goes into gear but with this it doesn't

13:03 have any of that at all.

13:05 On greasy road conditions it actually wheel spins in third gear this car and it does struggle

13:11 to put the power down which as controversial as it may sound, I think it's about time the

13:16 Civic Type R became four wheel drive and I know that is such a bad thing to say but years

13:22 ago Civic Type R owners wouldn't even dream of Honda releasing a turbo engine, it was

13:27 always the naturally aspirated fanatics but when you start to put 330 horsepower through

13:33 the front wheels, yes it's fun, it's good that it wheel spins but it's going to cost

13:38 you a fortune because it will chew tyres for fun.

13:41 The thing is with this Civic Type R, it feels lively, it feels alive, agile and it really

13:49 allows you to feel everything through the steering wheel, the pedals, the gearbox, the

13:53 sounds, you're really in touch with how the car drives.

13:57 With new hot hatches that are all dual clutch and have flappy paddle gearboxes, after half

14:02 an hour they become a bit lifeless and boring but every single corner you take in this car

14:08 and the way you put your foot down, it is just so quick, it's so quick and the noise,

14:19 it just makes me laugh, honestly I can't tell you how amazing it is to drive a car that

14:24 still has this much energy and just has the passion to be the pedigree of what it is and

14:30 it is a Civic Type R, just honestly you take it in the corners, you accelerate it through

14:35 a corner and it just sticks, out wide, in through the corner, halfway, pull and accelerate,

14:46 it even slips, it even wheel spins on the way out, it's so aggressive, talk about driver's

14:55 car, this is a driver's car.

15:04 Honda you have absolutely nailed it with this car and the more and more I see this, the

15:11 more and more I start to understand why it's £50,000.

15:18 Civic Type R's have always been fun but they've never been this fun, this is just unreal this

15:25 car, the fact that it has rev match, there is no lag in gear change, there's no stall,

15:32 no engine brake, it just pulls and pulls for fun.

15:37 Oh mate, wow, I am impressed by this.

15:44 I've not driven something this fun in ages, it's absolutely amazing, there's not really

15:52 much more to say other than the fact you need to drive one to appreciate how fun this car

15:58 is, manual gearboxes when they're engineered like this and they've got that amount of power

16:04 up front and it just pulls itself out the corners.

16:09 Why on earth would anybody buy an auto?

16:15 Honestly the adrenaline.

16:22 The reality is if you're buying a car like this, you're not buying it to sit in the back

16:27 seat, you're buying it to drive and if you've got to convince your missus that it's practical

16:33 as well as being fun, you could easily fit a child in the back, you could fit passengers

16:37 in the back, it is only four seats I should add but why on earth would you want anything

16:43 more?

16:44 This car is all about Sunday driving, getting it out on the track and do you know what?

16:51 I absolutely love it.

16:54 I think this is the best Honda Civic Type R ever produced, in fact it's the best one

17:00 that I've ever driven, it's the most fun, the most agile and it certainly is everything

17:06 that a hot hatch should be.

17:09 Let us know what you think in the comments.

17:11 If you want to see what Jim's been up to recently, click up here and if you want to watch some

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17:18 But for now guys, I'll see you all very soon.

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