@@RyanRoadReaperno they typically handle high rpm driving without an issue. They’re meant to be able to handle at least 60-65 no problem and they often handle tons of track abuse flawlessly. Their cars just sucked. A small engine like that should especially be fine at high rpm. My 650cc motorcycle sits at 8k rpm comfortably on the highway and those kei engines typically handle lesser rpm easily too.
@@RyanRoadReaper they can, have, and will. The problem here is that the cars in question weren’t inspected or worked on to the extent that they should have been. When buying a kei car, you *need* to basically take them apart and look over everything you can before driving them on the regular. In Japan, there’s a huge scene for performance kei cars, and they handle constant abuse and track days just fine, because the owners take care of them and keep up on maintenance and inspections!
Hey remember that time you didn’t do proper maintenance on 25+ year old cars that were sold at auctions in Japan for a reason and expected them to last.
I feel like this is what life should be about. Having enough money to do things you love, have financial security to do that, and a steady job to balance it all. People say having money isn’t everything, but it’d sure be nice to atleast have enough money to not worry about what I love to do
@Chris-hall9080 money is literally everything. With enough money can get anything possible. People who say money can't buy happiness are.just tring to cope with being poor. I wish I didn't know this because I'm gonna be poor for the rest of my life. I plan on getting an okay job and doing whatever I want until life becomes too boring and then I'll kill myself.
They are disposable vehicles. These things get thrown away after 50k Kms in Japan. Not built for longevity, reliability or to be driven that far, they don't see life outside of cities in Japan. Nobodies driving them from Tokyo to Yokahama.
@@bzilla-d4i They throw out transmissions after 3 years there too. Same ones we buy used from them woth plenty of time left on them. It's because they have strict emissions standards.
@@JosephSamsor When you buy an old car, you replace all the fluids (save washer) and check the air filter. As far as you know you have water for oil and the filter is a paint bucket.
It seems like these dudes are finally realizing that the guys that overpay for pre-built up cars and don’t know how to seriously check it for problems, are not the same as the guys that know how to do a full engine rebuild, one group tries to buy their way into the car community and the other is the reason the car community exists
@@FedSmoker64 some people don’t have the time to work on a car also some of us car enthusiasts don’t want to work on our cars because we are worried about breaking or even damaging something that will be more of a headache yeah we might not be considered a car enthusiast to some but let me tell you this. A car enthusiast is someone who owns and drives a car they will also teat there car as if it where a person a car owner just drives a car and doesn’t really care about it since they will rather complain and ask for a better car. So the fact that you think that the people who love cars and don’t work on them are not car enthusiast kinda pains me and fellow car enthusiast. A dam car enthusiast is someone who likes cars and gets more in depth with them we don’t need the knowledge to go and wrench on one that is a mechanic also mechanics some don’t even consider themselves car enthusiast.
@@acrobaticapple9453yo that last part were you say some mechanics don’t consider themselves a car enthusiast is facts. That guy literally doesn’t even know what he is talking about and I bet he’s only held a wrench once 😂
Kei cars are very reliable, but things get funky when you try to drive them across states/country which is several times the size of the whole island they were designed to run on😅
I definitely remember you guys calmly discussing your options and mutually deciding it would be best to take the freeway, and before you knew it, you were finally out of Georgia!
They probably pegged the limiter trying to keep up with other cars on the road. No car can survive max rpm for an extended period of time. Should've kept it to the back roads boys.
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So should be a no question thing but let’s look at it this way. Kei car Japan Japan is a island basically with mountains and low speeds and small areas unlike the USA also in square miles of land Japan is slightly over 1/4 the size of Texas which can take for ever just to get across. But mostly the engine is not built for non stop all out and or high speeds for long periods of time. Kei car is more of a stop and go city car. But you might have had some luck with the industrial built kei trucks but not sure
How do you blow up a Subaru kei car, actually I can guess jt wasn’t maintained cause when the coolant gets contaminated and sits it eats at the head gasket, asssuming this subaru kei car had a boxer, I’m not familiar with the kei car engines, only the kei vans. But yea any boxer engine with dirty coolant thats been sitting for a long time, the head gasket will weaken
It's crazy to me that people will go through stuff like this and i can roll around for years in busted up pontiacs i dont even check over without them ever having catastrophic faliures.
hey maybe dont redline it before shifting every time like chill out your not on the race track you dont need to push it to 10k rpm to shift your shiftbox
Dont be sad my rhd land cruiser prado ac compressor locked up on the highway and also caused a electrical shortage making it so the alternator is not charging the windows dont work the hvac doesn't work the gauges dont work and the low beams dont work while in motion all while 4 hours away from home.
I own an American "K", actually two of them! Making a channel for them soon, 1994 Plymouth Acclaim and a 1992 Plymouth Acclaim! Both with the nat. asp. 3.0L V6, one with an overdriven 4 speed the other with a 3 speed, I've clocked one at 180kph and the other at 155! Stay tuned because working on retuned Mitsubishi tech is pretty difficult in 2023
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I do actually remember that time. Kei cars didn't serve you guys like they should have.
Kei cars did just fine. They were _not_ designed to sit at redline for God only knows how many miles.
@@RyanRoadReaperno they typically handle high rpm driving without an issue. They’re meant to be able to handle at least 60-65 no problem and they often handle tons of track abuse flawlessly. Their cars just sucked. A small engine like that should especially be fine at high rpm. My 650cc motorcycle sits at 8k rpm comfortably on the highway and those kei engines typically handle lesser rpm easily too.
@@RyanRoadReaper they can, have, and will. The problem here is that the cars in question weren’t inspected or worked on to the extent that they should have been. When buying a kei car, you *need* to basically take them apart and look over everything you can before driving them on the regular. In Japan, there’s a huge scene for performance kei cars, and they handle constant abuse and track days just fine, because the owners take care of them and keep up on maintenance and inspections!
@🐒 Frijj 🐒 you haven't seen how we use those kei trucks/cars here in the Philippines.
Or the owners before neglected the maintenance
Hey remember that time you didn’t do proper maintenance on 25+ year old cars that were sold at auctions in Japan for a reason and expected them to last.
Four times...
Stupid ass shit.
Guys like this are the reason why some of the older cars are becoming scarce now
man I'd love to have disposable income like that
I feel like this is what life should be about. Having enough money to do things you love, have financial security to do that, and a steady job to balance it all. People say having money isn’t everything, but it’d sure be nice to atleast have enough money to not worry about what I love to do
@Chris-hall9080 money is literally everything. With enough money can get anything possible.
People who say money can't buy happiness are.just tring to cope with being poor. I wish I didn't know this because I'm gonna be poor for the rest of my life. I plan on getting an okay job and doing whatever I want until life becomes too boring and then I'll kill myself.
even half of that would be lovely right now.
The kei cars are reliable. Just the owner wasn't responsible
They are disposable vehicles. These things get thrown away after 50k Kms in Japan. Not built for longevity, reliability or to be driven that far, they don't see life outside of cities in Japan. Nobodies driving them from Tokyo to Yokahama.
@@bzilla-d4ireally?! I’d understand Tokyo to Osaka, but Yokohama is essentially right next to Tokyo.
@@kevinthechuker1721these are made to drive a few miles at city speeds. 45mph is too fast for them to maintain for any extended amount of time
I see them on the expressway of Okinawa all the time.
@@bzilla-d4i
They throw out transmissions after 3 years there too. Same ones we buy used from them woth plenty of time left on them.
It's because they have strict emissions standards.
How tf do you buy a 90s car and not decide to change the air filter
It blowing up as you drive is half the fun!
Like, wtf?
Because it’s fine 99% of the time. In this case the issue was that type of filter just happens to suck.
@@JosephSamsor When you buy an old car, you replace all the fluids (save washer) and check the air filter. As far as you know you have water for oil and the filter is a paint bucket.
NPCs don’t anticipate problems they just get surprised by their stupid choices
Funny how if you didn't go to the dyno the cappuccino might have survived just fine
so true
Shhhh
Funny that you don’t know how to have fun
@@Beef_jerky_official not having a car anymore isnt fun
@@Beef_jerky_officialyea cause losing 38k for being reckless is fun
These people are why beats and cappus went from 4k to over 10k
It seems like these dudes are finally realizing that the guys that overpay for pre-built up cars and don’t know how to seriously check it for problems, are not the same as the guys that know how to do a full engine rebuild, one group tries to buy their way into the car community and the other is the reason the car community exists
Have you like… watched their channel? What are you even talking about.
Can't you enter the car community without knowledge of cars? Not everyone's a pro lol
@@aidancommenting You can but then why join? Just be a normal car owner if you dont want to work on them.
@@FedSmoker64 some people don’t have the time to work on a car also some of us car enthusiasts don’t want to work on our cars because we are worried about breaking or even damaging something that will be more of a headache yeah we might not be considered a car enthusiast to some but let me tell you this. A car enthusiast is someone who owns and drives a car they will also teat there car as if it where a person a car owner just drives a car and doesn’t really care about it since they will rather complain and ask for a better car. So the fact that you think that the people who love cars and don’t work on them are not car enthusiast kinda pains me and fellow car enthusiast. A dam car enthusiast is someone who likes cars and gets more in depth with them we don’t need the knowledge to go and wrench on one that is a mechanic also mechanics some don’t even consider themselves car enthusiast.
@@acrobaticapple9453yo that last part were you say some mechanics don’t consider themselves a car enthusiast is facts.
That guy literally doesn’t even know what he is talking about and I bet he’s only held a wrench once 😂
legends has it the daihatsu is runnin like a fuckin champ to this very day
Blowing up two cars in a row is premium skill issue.
Kei cars are very reliable, but things get funky when you try to drive them across states/country which is several times the size of the whole
island they were designed to run on😅
Really hope that Suzuki will be fixed
They could even fix the nice body Beat with a motor swap; which they already have!
Fix it then
those vivios are almost unbreakable, no idea how he even blew it up.
Zero maintenance on neglected vehicles. That’s how
@ailestriker9888 imagine reviving a year old thread lol
@@beamrdThis isn't Reddit lol
I really loved these videos! I think the road trip ones are my favorites.
2 cars blowing up with him is not luck it's him being stupid with cars
You'd think
Idk an air intake filter being sucked in isn't something you can really blame on him
@animalgamer7517 but dude, 2 cars? It's not secret some people are rough on cars, its not entirely a crazy idea
@@bingbong1451Did you watch the series on this road trip at all? They went over all of this
@@animalgamer7517it is though, I’m pretty sure that happened because that air filter was quite old and not replaced
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I definitely remember you guys calmly discussing your options and mutually deciding it would be best to take the freeway, and before you knew it, you were finally out of Georgia!
My favorite from the road trip series!
How could we not remember that voice over overlapping not once but thrice 😂
Curious what the dollars per mile were on that trip with all the gas included as well.
Mum, can we have top gear.
No, we have top gear at home.
Top gear at home:
Smart cars are actually pretty good.
I wish we got the smart roadster, it’s just a cooler smart
When you watch Hoonigan and say, that doesn’t look that hard to do.
Duuude, the cars looks adorable 🥰
I’d give absolutely anything to have $40k to blow on one trip
Blows up turbo… buys a whole new car instead of a new turbo
Man, those are 20 year old cars imported from overseas, literally designed for city driving. Not really road trip machines
It's almost as if kei cars were never built to drive for extended periods of time on long highways in America 😂
Oh “KEI” Cars. As a K Car driver I was getting emotionally exhausted trying to find where all the Plymouth Reliants and Dodge Aries and such were lol
Ironically the a K car would've lasted the whole trip
I made the trip in a 05 Hyundai santa fe that sat for 5 years. Also, the speakers do not work, but there is a sick drummer in there somewhere.
It’s not about the destination it’s about the journey. ❤
So...Im 7'1" with size 21 US shoes. Which hilariously small car do you think would be my best option?
😂 nice tax right off😂
They probably pegged the limiter trying to keep up with other cars on the road. No car can survive max rpm for an extended period of time. Should've kept it to the back roads boys.
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The Subaru vivio bistro sport will never be forgotten
That place is next door to the pool store I go to. Always has cool kei cars and trucks.
Last time I spent that much on a car was 6 years ago. Only thing it's needed since then was a couple tire changes and oil changes
My dad and I made it from Pennsylvania to Vegas in a $500 junker, still runs too
"His subaru blew up" To the surprise of no one 😂
So should be a no question thing but let’s look at it this way. Kei car Japan Japan is a island basically with mountains and low speeds and small areas unlike the USA also in square miles of land Japan is slightly over 1/4 the size of Texas which can take for ever just to get across. But mostly the engine is not built for non stop all out and or high speeds for long periods of time. Kei car is more of a stop and go city car. But you might have had some luck with the industrial built kei trucks but not sure
Are y'all gonna sell those shells? I wouldn't mind a kei rwd shell
How do you blow up a Subaru kei car, actually I can guess jt wasn’t maintained cause when the coolant gets contaminated and sits it eats at the head gasket, asssuming this subaru kei car had a boxer, I’m not familiar with the kei car engines, only the kei vans. But yea any boxer engine with dirty coolant thats been sitting for a long time, the head gasket will weaken
Small engines, poor maintenance, long distances and high RPMs… No sh!t you’re gonna blow them up. Total waste of perfectly good Kei cars
People like this makes owning a nice retro jdm virtually impossible nowadays.
It's crazy to me that people will go through stuff like this and i can roll around for years in busted up pontiacs i dont even check over without them ever having catastrophic faliures.
y'all could have bought a plane ticket and lived in Texas for a year for that price 😂
Intake looked like an hks mushroom intake aka “death mushroom”. Those things are notorious for getting sucked into the turbo.
Even if i had half of what you guys spent, i wouldnt be going anywhere without a reliable and comfortable roadtrip car/van/truck 😅
hey maybe dont redline it before shifting every time like chill out your not on the race track you dont need to push it to 10k rpm to shift your shiftbox
Never seen these guys before. Just reading the comments here explained a LOT of stuff.
38k really dude.
Dont be sad my rhd land cruiser prado ac compressor locked up on the highway and also caused a electrical shortage making it so the alternator is not charging the windows dont work the hvac doesn't work the gauges dont work and the low beams dont work while in motion all while 4 hours away from home.
smart cars got a lot of shit back in the day. but they’re pretty good little hatch backs
Note to self... maintenance is cheaper than buying a whole car
Just shows that you can’t take care of a car…
That Honda Teat though
Perfect candidates for the ol Busa' swap
Worth it !
The smart car isint even a kei car, unless its the Japanese smart car
I own an American "K", actually two of them! Making a channel for them soon, 1994 Plymouth Acclaim and a 1992 Plymouth Acclaim! Both with the nat. asp. 3.0L V6, one with an overdriven 4 speed the other with a 3 speed, I've clocked one at 180kph and the other at 155! Stay tuned because working on retuned Mitsubishi tech is pretty difficult in 2023
If that's not a good ROI, idk what is!
You should’ve just bought a Ford fusion😂
Out of all the cities in Texas y'all came to the most common one, Austin 😵💫
What in the Top Gear?
I thought that guy was Gerald from Kim’s convenience
I do! it was entertaining though. I bet my small Fiat would make the trip. Or would i Fix It Again Tomorrow?
Now you have lots of rolling chassis cars for projects
Sooo many cooler things to do with 38k
My God dude, an old kei car with like 40k miles is like 2k here
I like how the one looks like a mini s2000
Perfect example of Cheap is Expensive
Imagine choosing between 2 cars and thinking a fucking subaru is an option when reliability is needed
I'm buying a cappuccino and driving it 500 miles home this weekend... this doesnt make me feel great.
IIRC, the type of aftermarket air filter that was on this cap is famous for doing exactly what happened here.
A $2500 90s Mustang GT could have made that trip without issue.
I could make it there and back in my 94 dodge 2 gen 318 for under 2 grand
Don't forget about how hard of a time Dan gave you on the name 😂
Even though i knwo wheee you were. Wish i was there to see yall
😅 imagine how much cheaper would have been just to Rent-A-Car and add the extra insurance😮😂😂😂😂
… well you put it like that, how could i forget?
For the amount of money spent surprised they didn't do a complete check of all the parts
My 22 year old audi 2.7t going from Colorado to Alabama then to Michigan and back to Colorado with no issues at all. German engineering baby.
I said it once, I’ll say it again. You have two beats. I want a “beat off” series between you two… or you two verses humble mechanic + friend
It was a subi we knew it was gunna blow up, always buy the midget
Dam the budget... anyways, when's the next kei trip
Do you remember the time when g&g made the most funniest series yet I do
Almost like they're city only cars...
Cities with speed limits of 30
Kilometres an hour
its almost like these go karts werent ment for highway use 🤔
Remember that time we took machines and asked them to do what they weren't designed for, and then we got surprised when they died?
Tune in next time, where we send a tin can to the titanic
So i might be going crazy. But the dsihatsu is a Mira Gino in the clip showed right? The midgets a kei truck right? Im not going crazy am i?
The there's some of us who can't get a car for work😢
turbo kei car would be rad as fuck
most kei cars are turbo!
Woah a subaru blowing up? Unheard of.
Yah, ok I will subscribe.
That cappucino diddnt deserve that faith
Cappuccino rebuild?!?!?!
Do another Kie-Car trip but succeed this time
Is ben actually keeping that cappuchino ?
Probably.
That’s committed