The 7 Levels of Honda explained — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you ask a mechanic what the most
2. 0:01boring, reliable, sensible car on Earth
3. 0:04is, they'll tell you it's a Honda. But
4. 0:06if you ask a highway patrol officer what
5. 0:08car just flew past a speed trap at 2 in
6. 0:10the morning, revving to 9,000 RPM and
7. 0:13waking up the entire county, they will
8. 0:15also tell you it's a Honda. No other
9. 0:17brand on the planet suffers from a worst
10. 0:19case of split personality disorder.
11. 0:21Honda builds sensible hybrid crossovers
12. 0:23for dentists while simultaneously
13. 0:26engineering high-reving track monsters
14. 0:28for people who treat speed limits like a
15. 0:30suggestion. You don't just buy a Honda,
16. 0:32you choose a side. From the invisible
17. 0:34economy cars keeping the world moving to
18. 0:36the forbidden JDM legends that
19. 0:38enthusiasts are currently paying Porsche
20. 0:40money for on Facebook Marketplace. Like
21. 0:43genuinely, people are out here selling
22. 0:45kidneys for 1998 hatchbacks. Level one,
23. 0:48the NPC car. Civic LX HRV. Civic LX.
24. 0:54$25,000,
25. 0:56158 horsepower, 0 to 60 in around 8
26. 0:59seconds. It's a car gets you to work,
27. 1:02gets you home. It basically gets the job
28. 1:04done that every car should be able to
29. 1:06do. Gets you from point A to point B.
30. 1:08The HRV is the Civic that got slightly
31. 1:11taller for people who refuse to sit on
32. 1:12the ground. $27,000.
33. 1:15Same engine. They stretched it upward
34. 1:17like a piece of taffy and charged you
35. 1:19two grand more. The LX owner is a
36. 1:21college student, an Uber driver.
37. 1:23Somebody's parents bought it for their
38. 1:25first car. But here's the thing. A
39. 1:275-year-old Civic still sells for 75% of
40. 1:30its original MSRP. A 5-year-old Nissan
41. 1:33Sentra sells for half. Honda has been
42. 1:35quietly printing on this thing for 50
43. 1:37years, and the internet still treats it
44. 1:39like a starter pack. Meanwhile, the
45. 1:41Civic owner is sitting in his recently
46. 1:43appreciated economy car like, "Yeah,
47. 1:45that's right. Level two, the sensible
48. 1:48adult." Accord CRV. These two are
49. 1:51probably 60% of every Honda sold in
50. 1:53America. Accords around $29,000,
51. 1:57climbs to $42,000 loaded. CRV, same idea
52. 2:00in SUV form. Base, $32,000.
53. 2:04Hybrid touring around $42,000.
54. 2:06The CRV owner is your friend's mom, your
55. 2:09dentist, your dentist's wife. Every PTA
56. 2:12meeting in North America has nine CRVS
57. 2:15in the parking lot. You could play a CRV
58. 2:17version of Where's Waldo at a Whole
59. 2:18Foods and lose. The Accord is the same
60. 2:21energy, lower to the ground. 35-year-old
61. 2:23in business casual, two kids gave up the
62. 2:26Mustang Dream around year three of the
63. 2:28mortgage. He bought the Accord because
64. 2:30his dad bought an Accord and his dad's
65. 2:32Accord has 380,000 miles on it. That
66. 2:35thing has been to the moon and back
67. 2:37twice and it still starts on the first
68. 2:39try. Now, here's the strange part. The
69. 2:41CRV and Civic are two of the most stolen
70. 2:43cars in Canada. Toronto police bought
71. 2:46four new helicopters last year
72. 2:47specifically to chase down stolen
73. 2:49vehicles. And the cars they're chasing
74. 2:51are Hond's. Imagine being a Toronto cop
75. 2:53in a helicopter. $4 million worth of
76. 2:56aircraft hunting down a 2015 CRV. Your
77. 3:00car is so reliable that organized crime
78. 3:02steals it for parts. Honestly, that's
79. 3:04the highest compliment a car can get.
80. 3:07Level three, the family tax. Pilot,
81. 3:10passport, Odyssey, Ridgeline, the I have
82. 3:13kids now tier, aka the my back hurts and
83. 3:16I drink coffee out of a Yeti now stage
84. 3:18of life. Pilot, three row SUV, $285
85. 3:22horsepower, $42,000 base, $55,000 with
86. 3:26the Trail Sport for the family of five
87. 3:28who needed a Pilot. Passport two row
88. 3:31sportier just got redesigned with
89. 3:33off-road trims around $46,000
90. 3:36for the parent of two who refuses to be
91. 3:38seen in a minivan. The I still got it
92. 3:40delusion vehicle Odyssey minivan best in
93. 3:44the segment by a remar around $40,000.
94. 3:47Magic slide second row cabin watch
95. 3:50system so you can watch your kids in the
96. 3:51back when they're screaming. They
97. 3:53literally built surveillance into the
98. 3:54car so you can confirm in real time
99. 3:56which child is the problem. The Odyssey
100. 3:58owner stopped pretending three kids ago.
101. 4:00He's the happiest person on this entire
102. 4:02list. He's not lying to himself anymore.
103. 4:05He's free. The Ridgeline is Honda's only
104. 4:07truck. Unibody. Technically based on the
105. 4:10Pilot truck guys online lose their
106. 4:12minds. It's not a real truck. Meanwhile,
107. 4:15the Ridgeline owner is towing a boat,
108. 4:17hauling mulch, getting better fuel
109. 4:18economy than all of them. The truck guys
110. 4:20are mad. The truck guys are always mad.
111. 4:23It's a personality. Real quick, most of
112. 4:26you watching this aren't buying any of
113. 4:27these new. You're on Facebook
114. 4:29Marketplace at 11 p.m. messaging some
115. 4:31guy named Devon about his 2002 Civic.
116. 4:34Devon has not responded in 6 hours.
117. 4:36Devon is mowing his lawn. I built a tool
118. 4:38called the car buyer's war room.
119. 4:40Calculates the real number, not the
120. 4:42sticker. Has a negotiation calculator
121. 4:44that tells you exactly what to offer
122. 4:46Devon when he texts back. Lowest is
123. 4:4819,500 firm. Link in the description.
124. 4:52Stop the video and go check it out.
125. 4:54Level four, VTEC addicts. Now we get to
126. 4:57the part most of you actually clicked
127. 4:58for. CRX, EG, and EK Civic. The cars
128. 5:02that built Honda's entire enthusiast
129. 5:05culture. The CRX came out in 1983. Two
130. 5:08seats, tiny hatchback, around 2100 lb.
131. 5:12This car weighs less than three of me.
132. 5:14The SI had 108 horsepower from a 1.6 L.
133. 5:18Slow on paper, devastating on a back
134. 5:20road. the kind of slow where you lose
135. 5:22drag races to commuters but humiliate a
136. 5:24911 in the canyons. In Japan and Europe,
137. 5:27the CRX got the B16A, the first VTEC
138. 5:30engine ever fitted to a Honda chassis.
139. 5:33150 horsepower naturally aspirated in
140. 5:361989. America did not get this version.
141. 5:39America was watching Magnum PI. CRX got
142. 5:42killed in 1991 and replaced with the
143. 5:44Dell Soul. The Dell Soul is the cousin
144. 5:47nobody invites to Thanksgiving. Then the
145. 5:49EG and EK Civic hatchbacks. 1992 to
146. 5:522000. Double wishbone front suspension.
147. 5:55Lego level engine compatibility. The
148. 5:58platform that the entire K swap industry
149. 6:00was built on. Drop a 350 horsepower K20
150. 6:04into a 2400lb hatchback. And a Porsche
151. 6:07owner has a very bad day. He's calling
152. 6:09his therapist Monday morning. And in
153. 6:112001, three of those Civics stole a
154. 6:14semi-truck on screen in the Fast and the
155. 6:16Furious. Paul Walker's black 1993 EJ1
156. 6:20Civic became one of the most replicated
157. 6:22cars on Earth. Honda did not pay for the
158. 6:24placement. The Civic became a tuner icon
159. 6:27by accident. A clean stock EG used to be
160. 6:30a $3,000 car. Now it's $15,000 to
161. 6:33$25,000.
162. 6:35Everyone who sold theirs in 2010 for
163. 6:37$4,000 is currently staring at the
164. 6:40ceiling at 3:00 a.m. wondering where it
165. 6:42all went wrong. Level five, the modern
166. 6:44pep. Civic SI. Civic Type R. This is
167. 6:48where Honda still actively makes cars
168. 6:50for the internet. Civic SI, $31,000,
169. 6:54200 horsepower, six-speed manual. Manual
170. 6:57is the only option on purpose. Honda
171. 7:00looked at the data and said, "No, we're
172. 7:01keeping the stick. Cope." Legend
173. 7:04behavior. The SI owner is 23, lives with
174. 7:07two roommates, makes $58,000 a year, has
175. 7:10$7,000 worth of bolt-ons, a short
176. 7:13shifter he did not need, a Type R killer
177. 7:16sticker on the rear window. It is not a
178. 7:18Type R killer. It is in fact a Type R
179. 7:20losser, but we're not going to tell him
180. 7:22that. Let him have this Civic Type R.
181. 7:25The FL5, 315 horsepower, 2.0 0 L turbo,
182. 7:30six-speed manual only, $48,000,
183. 7:340 to 60 in 4.9 seconds. Set the Nurburg
184. 7:37Ring frontwheel drive production lap
185. 7:39record at 744. Beat cars with twice the
186. 7:42power and three times the price. Made
187. 7:44grown European engineers question their
188. 7:46careers. Type R started in 1997 with the
189. 7:49EK9. Japan only handbalanced pistons.
190. 7:53Somebody at Honda literally weighed each
191. 7:55piston with their hands like they were
192. 7:57panning for gold. Then the FK8 from 2017
193. 8:00to 2021 with the wing that could land a
194. 8:03small plane. That wing has its own zip
195. 8:05code. The internet hated it at launch.
196. 8:07Now they're going up in value. Funny how
197. 8:10that works. The current FL has been
198. 8:12getting $5,000 to $10,000 dealer markup
199. 8:15since launch. There's a website called
200. 8:17the FL5 markup map where Type R buyers
201. 8:20track which dealers are honest. That's
202. 8:22not a car community. That's a citizen
203. 8:24surveillance network. And the news that
204. 8:26should be a bigger deal. The Type R is
205. 8:28being killed in Europe in 2026. 40
206. 8:31Ultimate Editions total. America gets
207. 8:34one more year, then it goes hybrid. The
208. 8:36FL5 on a dealer lot right now is the
209. 8:39last manual non-hybrid Honda hot hatch
210. 8:41ever made, so no pressure or anything.
211. 8:44Side note on VTEC, Honda invented
212. 8:46variable valve timing in 1989. The cam
213. 8:49profile changes at higher RPM. Cam swap
214. 8:52engages around 5,500 RPM. Engine wakes
215. 8:55up. That's VTEC just kicked in. Yo, Tik
216. 8:58Tok turned decades of engineering
217. 9:00brilliance into a sound effect in a
218. 9:02kid's edit. Apologies to the engineers.
219. 9:04Level six, the handbuilt legends.
220. 9:07Integra Type R S2000. The two Hondas
221. 9:10whose prices broke. Okay, we have to
222. 9:12address something first. The Integra
223. 9:14Type R was sold in America with an Acura
224. 9:16badge. Acura is Honda's luxury and
225. 9:19performance division in the US, same way
226. 9:21Lexus is to Toyota. In Japan and the
227. 9:24rest of the world, it's a Honda. Same
228. 9:26factory, same engines, same engineers.
229. 9:28Globally, it's a Honda. Anyone in the
230. 9:31comments who tries to well actually me
231. 9:33on this, I'm not reading it. Moving on.
232. 9:35Integra Type R DC2 1995 to 2001.
233. 9:40Laturally aspirated, 195 horsepower at
234. 9:448,000 RPM. Handbuilt engines,
235. 9:47handbalanced pistons, 2,600 lb,
236. 9:50frontwheel drive. It's been called the
237. 9:52greatest front-wheel drive car ever
238. 9:54made. Not by one magazine, by all of
239. 9:57them. Top Gear, Evo, Car and Driver,
240. 10:00every car journalist on the planet who
241. 10:03agrees on absolutely nothing, all
242. 10:05collectively pointed at this car and
243. 10:07said, "Yeah, that one. A clean DC2 used
244. 10:10to be a $15,000 car. Today, they sell
245. 10:13for $80,000 to $150,000.
246. 10:17Pristine examples cross $200,000 at
247. 10:20auction. $200,000
248. 10:22for an Integra. That's Civic money taken
249. 10:24to the casino and bet on black. Then the
250. 10:27S2000 1999 to 2009. 2.0 L naturally
251. 10:32aspirated 4-cylinder. 240 horsepower.
252. 10:36Red line at 9,000 RPM. 9,000. Not a
253. 10:40typo. A Honda 4 cylinder that revs
254. 10:42higher than a Ferrari 458. The same
255. 10:45company that made your aunt's CRV built
256. 10:47an engine that outscreens a Ferrari.
257. 10:49Honda was casually doing minivans on a
258. 10:51Monday and breaking world records on a
259. 10:53Tuesday. Honda killed it in 2009.
260. 10:56Roadsters were dying. The Miata was
261. 10:58cheaper. Didn't even say goodbye. Then
262. 11:01car YouTube grew up. A clean AP1 used to
263. 11:03be $15,000.
264. 11:05Now it's $35,000.
265. 11:07A clean AP2 Club racer goes over
266. 11:09$100,000. The same people who passed on
267. 11:12it in 2012 are currently writing essays
268. 11:15about how they always knew. The S2000
269. 11:17owner doesn't drive it to the grocery
270. 11:19store. He drives it to Canyon Roads on
271. 11:21Sunday mornings. He wears a watch. He
272. 11:23takes photos of the TAC at 8,500.
273. 11:26He has a YouTube channel with 47
274. 11:28subscribers. Level 7. The Apex NSX both
275. 11:33generations first gen NSX 1990 to 2005
276. 11:383.0 0 L naturally aspirated V6 mid
277. 11:42engine all aluminum body 270 horsepower
278. 11:46sold as Acura in the US as Honda
279. 11:48everywhere else. The lore Honda flew and
280. 11:51Senna out to test the chassis before
281. 11:53launch. Senna told them the rear was too
282. 11:55soft. The greatest driver of all time
283. 11:57hopped in the car, frowned a little, and
284. 11:59Honda was like, "Say less." And rebuilt
285. 12:02the entire back end. When the production
286. 12:04NSX came out, Ferrari panicked. Not in a
287. 12:07meme way, literally. The 348 was
288. 12:10supposed to be Ferrari's mid-engine
289. 12:11king, and a Honda walked in with the
290. 12:14same performance, daily driver
291. 12:16reliability, air conditioning that
292. 12:18worked, and Senna's name on the chassis.
293. 12:20Ferrari quietly reworked the F355 partly
294. 12:23in response. A Honda forced Ferrari to
295. 12:26take notes. That's not a car. That's a
296. 12:28war crime. A clean one is now $130,000.
297. 12:32The patient guys who bought them used in
298. 12:342010 for $40,000 are very calmly winning
299. 12:38right now. Second gen NSX 2016 to 2022.
300. 12:43Twin turbo V6, three electric motors,
301. 12:46573 horsepower, 0 to 60 in 2.9 seconds.
302. 12:50Built in Mary'sville, Ohio, not Japan,
303. 12:53Ohio. Nobody in America could get over
304. 12:56driving a six-f figureure car with the
305. 12:57same logo as their dentist's RDX. They'd
306. 13:00rather have the prancing horse than the
307. 13:02actual better car. Honda killed it in
308. 13:042022. The Apex mid engine Senotuned
309. 13:08built by the same company that makes
310. 13:10your dad's lawn mower. That is the most
311. 13:12insane sentence in this entire video.
312. 13:14And I'm not even exaggerating what I
313. 13:16left off. The prelude is coming back
314. 13:18this year. Hybrid, 200 horsepower, no
315. 13:22manual. Honda built a sports coupe with
316. 13:24no real transmission. They put a thing
317. 13:26called S+ shift in it that simulates a
318. 13:29quick shifting automatic. A gearbox
319. 13:32cosplaying as a gearbox. The Prelude
320. 13:35forums have not recovered. The Honda Fit
321. 13:37killed in 2020. People still ask for it
322. 13:40back every week on Reddit. The Civic
323. 13:42Coupe killed in 2020. There's an actual
324. 13:44change.org petition for a Civic Coupe.
325. 13:47That is the most car enthusiast thing
326. 13:49ever. The manual Accord killed in 2019.
327. 13:53Poor one out. The Honda Prologue EV
328. 13:56co-developed with GM shares its bones
329. 13:59with the Chevrolet Blazer EV. The car
330. 14:01community will not let Honda forget
331. 14:03this. The JDM Type R generations that
332. 14:05never came to America. The Honda Jet,
333. 14:08which you can buy for $5 million. The F1
334. 14:11power unit that just took Max for
335. 14:12Stappen to four straight world
336. 14:14championships. None of it fits in seven
337. 14:16levels. That's its own video. Drop.
338. 14:19Honda does everything in the comments
339. 14:20and we'll make it. Seven levels. From a
340. 14:23$25,000 sedan you'll forget you bought
341. 14:26to a Senna tuned supercar Ferrari was
342. 14:28scared of. No other brand on Earth has
343. 14:30this range. You've got $40,000 in hand,
344. 14:33FL Type R, or a clean DC2 Integra Type R
345. 14:37that says Acura on the front. Drop it in
346. 14:40the comments. And if you say a CRV, you
347. 14:43are wrong. But I want to hear your
348. 14:44reasoning. If you're about to buy any
349. 14:46car on this list, the war room is in the
350. 14:49description. Hit like, subscribe if you
351. 14:51haven't already.