In a highly boosted Honda, you need to bounce it off the rev limiter until you reach a certain speed, so when you shift, it will stay on boost. Shortshifting will kill the performance.....
strange that the builder of the car didn't tell him not to short-shift the Civic that much. u hear it when he shifts as soon as he hits the limiter it falls of boost
If you don't shortshift that thing it will perform worse due to tire spin. The shortshifting is done to reduce spin. The car has too much power with not enough grip.
@@noobz5056 you don’t short shift a 800hp turbo 4cyl unless you want massive bog. What you do is setup boost by gear and tailor it to the available grip and traction you have. You’ve never driven a high powered fwd car and it shows.
If you don't shortshift that thing it will perform worse due to tire spin. The shortshifting is done to reduce spin. The car has too much power with not enough grip.
@@noobz5056 you have absolutely zero idea how high powered Hondas work… that thing needs to be absolutely ragged on the limiter. Short shifting drops it out of boost.
As soon as I saw it in the thumbnail, I knew it was Bisi's wagon. Even that small it looks mega clean.😅 EDIT: 3:14 The editor went through the trouble of keeping the continuity of the explosion on that side shot. Nice detail. It would be unfair not to recognize it and acknowledge it publicly!😏
Despite the criticism in the comments about how you need to drive this damn car, Sam was GREAT in this episode! Editor, you get a +1 from me on Sam's quote. 🤣
I agree, there are like a million videos out there of Civic´s owners doing drag races or rollings, I dont think these people watch this channel at all, just haters 😅
@@EmmanuelAU03Bisimoto knows how to build cars… Sam just isn’t used to driving a big power Honda. Which is fine.. but they should’ve had Bisi driving it.
*On a side note:* The RS5 coupe is genuinely one of the best designed cars out there. The RS5 B9/B9.5 range, are soo elegant yet very aggressive. Love it !!
Little bit of background. I am not going to thrash someone’s car!! Saying you should sit on the limiter is a not a solution for a car with a big turbo! If you could see the dash you would have seen that I wasn’t short shifting!! What you also didn’t see was the car was still spinning its wheels into the next gear!! Modulating the throttle doesn’t really work with a big turbo when you need to stay on boost. You would also not know that the owner had the car in a different map than he wanted Yes it was a type of sequential gear box but it wasn’t straight cut and the owner asked me to use the clutch and not to flat shift. The owner wasn’t there so we couldn’t change a few things to make it better The runway was very dusty so this didn’t help with grip. Yes there was lots we could do to improve the time. Tyre pressure Diff pre load Rake and ride height Change the shift light. Change the boost The list goes on… these are all things I do when I am racing When we have the time. We shoot multiple drags in multiple cars, my job as a professional is to jump in and get the best time I can, while taking care of the car and film set safety . If you can do a better job.. good I’m glad to hear it. We need good driver drivers in this industry. Get out there and put your racing history and driving Experience on a cv and send It in. Film yourself driving and put it online, show how good you are without trying to badmouth someone else!! Saying “ I COULD DO BETTER” is just embarrassing. 👍👍
I've imported a "500WHP" boosted 350Z from the USA once, it made 370hp at the crank on our european dyno with horrible torque and power curves. It was well put together using quality parts, but the tune was really poor. A proper tuner managed to squeeze 550BHP out of it. I've sold the car two months after because it had absolutely no traction 😂. From my and my friends experience tuned cars from the USA are almost always really poorly tuned, have troubles with starting when cold, are jerky on partial throttle, misfire etc. Really weird tuning culture, most of the tuners in my country do a "street tuning session" after dyno tuning to ensure that the car works well on partial throttle etc, so even on a standalone ECU they are able to make the car work pretty much like a stock one.
That crazy civic has a really small power band, it's not spending much time in the power band in the lower gears making it slower than its power figure would suggest, also probably got boost by gear to stop it spinning up.
Ufff bisimoto, I will never race against one of their cars except if imine is tuned by Top Secret and Smoky Nagata. That will be fun 10:38 looks like a man gonig to work in German autobahn with a bit of hurry
This is a perfect illustration on power band. You might high higher peak torque towards redline with a huge turbo, but the effective power band is extremely narrow due to torque being non-existent virtually anywhere else.
@@Gabe_B-1fool u don't know crap about high powered hondas ur supposed to bang on them limiter not short shift it and drop out of boost after every shift
@@Ivan-b5c3kHonda is ass. A 400hp difference and still can’t beat a rs5. Banging of the limiter like you said will probably help it a bit but not enough to beat the rs5. Stop making excuses for an unbalanced car.
No power, no power, no power ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD INSTANT SHIFT no power, no power, no power, no power, ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD INSTANT SHIFT no power, no power......er......
There’s no day I’ll stop watching matt I think ima subscriber before or little after a million subs here and I rarely miss a video here great work Matt and team
Don't ever ask a racing driver if his sure about the brake test speed, he knows what he's doing and he has a tons of ⚽⚽. Even moreso if he's Irish.🤣 Really enjoyed this one.
Like other already commented, you cant short shift this car, need to ride on the limiter until the wheels stop spinning so the speed of the car matches the gearing. Then you would get on boost quicker next gear.
@@Gabe_B-1 Nonsense? It's subjective. Undrivable? Not if you drive it as demonstrated in the video. A proper driver would know how to push the car to its full potential. Of course, not everything is done by a computer.
@@DinGroguDinDjarin nah, its just undrivable. Absolutely 0 potential to use this car on street, you need to take care of 1000 things to ride properly and still you can crash because of that stupid too big turbo power peak. If you want to have nice looking numbers on dyno then ok, if you want to drive then its shitty as hell.
Coming from a prior owner of a swapped civic hatchback, there’s a point where the power is too great for the civic…4WD or not. At 800hp, that car MUST have slicks to be able to utilize that kind of power. Like someone else said, you also have to allow the car to bounce on the rev limiter to eliminate as much boost lag as possible. Great video! Honda4Lyfe!!
@@hitmaniak1737 omg this fusion would be crazy😂😂 But sadly I think Clarkson would not be allowed to take part in car wow because of the special contracts. But lamborghini tractor would still be wild
"racing driver sam" but doesnt know how to drive the honda. i bet bisi was shaking his head. short shifting tf out of that car. REDO let bisi drive lol
Thank you MAT . I am always happy to see an RS5 . My dream car is the RS5 with the V8 4.2 liters and 450 hp . The mini HONDA dragster is a nightmare . Almost impossible to drive it.
Sam just wasn’t driving it properly. He’s shifting when it hits the limiter but the problem is he’s not actually going that speed so when he changes gear it then bogs down. You have to change gear when you’re actually going the speed it says on the Speedo and not just because it’s spun the tyres. It’s not Sam’s fault as he wouldn’t be used to these kind of cars or driving in this way.
Unfortunatly the Honda wasn't driven the right way.. Nethertheless it was an very interesting drag race! 🔥 As I am not a very good driver too, I would go for the Audi 🤣
That RS5 makes us appreciate how far we have come in technology advancement. With lower horsepower and heavier weight it still out perform the Civic almost every time, while Sam the driver in the Civic was busy managing everything just to keep up, but yeah the main issue with his Civic is that he didn't have slick tires. Anyway I like the personality of Sam, keep him in this show!
Just my 2 cents, but I think that honda needs a longer ratio gearbox. Plus the tyres are tiny. Bigger tyres would at least “gear it up” a little bit. Look at the RS5 tyres next to it. (2:14) I know people saying he should bounce the limiter more (I’m certainly no civic expert but I get what they’re getting at) but I don’t think it would make much difference. He’s shifting so much it’s like a fast and furious movie 😆. I thought he had about 15 gears. Even if he bounced the limiter more, and kept the boost on, that monster turbo is going to blip through the next gear, and revs, and those tyres will light up even more. At least with longer gears, he could stay on the higher end of the boost a bit longer, and get some more violent speed increases per gear. And just in the guys defence, I don’t think it’s his car, and I’d feel a bit weary of bouncing someone else’s car off the limiter like crazy. It’s not really a race car, just a mad silly fun car that’s got too much horse for it’s little gearbox and tyres.
Banging the limiter would make 1000 times the difference, he is really driving that car so wrong, just look up other vids of high hp Honda's and you'll see the difference it makes
Tyre slip and the viscous in the awd system seems like it’s not fully engaging causing it to be mostly fwd? Just saw a similar situation on another channel.
Sam was funny as hell this vid 😂 Also they used to do the brake test from 70 mph then switched to 100. They could’ve done that since it is a little more difficult for the civic
I thought i recognized that car built by Bisi. He had it on Jay Leno's Garage some time ago. Interestingly, his 1000?hp honda odyssey van was last place in racing lower powered cars in that Netflix series Fastest Car a few years ago. Big numbers aren't everything in actual racing. But definitely interesting and cool builds by him.
In a highly boosted Honda, you need to bounce it off the rev limiter until you reach a certain speed, so when you shift, it will stay on boost. Shortshifting will kill the performance.....
Yeah the owners probably didn't give him those direction.
Yeah he didn’t drive it properly.
It's a 2.4 though. He just can't drive.
You understand that there is no grip in that case :)
I’m impressed you know that 👍🏼
strange that the builder of the car didn't tell him not to short-shift the Civic that much. u hear it when he shifts as soon as he hits the limiter it falls of boost
He needs some taller gearing in that thing
What's crazy is he knows this for the launch but not the rest of the race. 😅
He shoulda let that limited bounce a lil longer.
If you don't shortshift that thing it will perform worse due to tire spin. The shortshifting is done to reduce spin. The car has too much power with not enough grip.
@@noobz5056 you don’t short shift a 800hp turbo 4cyl unless you want massive bog. What you do is setup boost by gear and tailor it to the available grip and traction you have.
You’ve never driven a high powered fwd car and it shows.
we need to do this race again but with someone in the civic that doesn't shortshift the whole time
Nothing is gonna change, its gonna lose drag race and its gonna win the roll race
@@CROWNZI i can see a future where this wins the drag race, but it's way more fun to see it's actual potential instead of this trashy performance
If you don't shortshift that thing it will perform worse due to tire spin. The shortshifting is done to reduce spin. The car has too much power with not enough grip.
The owner should have drove it ..
@@noobz5056 you have absolutely zero idea how high powered Hondas work… that thing needs to be absolutely ragged on the limiter. Short shifting drops it out of boost.
Sam is a really good addition to the program. Not only driverwise but personality and sens of humor wise!!
This is California👑🤡
Very good addition in fact.
I don't remember the name but the aggressive gear shift guy is nice to watch too
@@dhruv7758Jamie from officially gassed?
@@Asif-kh-n9r yes
Ayyyyy! Thank you for letting me and the RS be apart of this! 🔥 you guys are so amazing!! Can’t wait to see you guys again! ❤️🔥
The rs5 is yours?
Finally a non-opf UK RS5. EU ruined cars.
@@ricardoferreira2038yes!
@@daytonars5😬
800hp on paper , 350hp on track....
As much as that?
👌👌
A little is good, but more is better 😂
More like.. no boost, and when you have boost, no traction.
😂
11:31 Proof that Sam is indeed a racing driver, because only a racing driver is that nonchalantly crazy!
Yeah man
Sam can’t even drive that car. Short shift everything
racing driver but doesnt understand cars
he's on an airstrip with a helmet.. not exactly crazy
@@atter136 this car*
Should just let the owners drive in the modified vs stock Drag races
bisi wouldve been great to have on camera too! absolute class he is
Agreed
I think also insurance purposes I think
Been saying this. It’s not fair to throw a tuned car into the hands of someone who doesn’t have 100+ hours of seat time.
@@yungjetsquee706what about putting TommyKaira R32GTR into the drag race against this 800bhp 4WD Civic?
As soon as I saw it in the thumbnail, I knew it was Bisi's wagon. Even that small it looks mega clean.😅
EDIT: 3:14 The editor went through the trouble of keeping the continuity of the explosion on that side shot. Nice detail. It would be unfair not to recognize it and acknowledge it publicly!😏
Despite the criticism in the comments about how you need to drive this damn car, Sam was GREAT in this episode! Editor, you get a +1 from me on Sam's quote. 🤣
I agree, there are like a million videos out there of Civic´s owners doing drag races or rollings, I dont think these people watch this channel at all, just haters 😅
Not driving it right, needs some serious limiter action to combat the lag and get the wheel speed up instead of shifting as soon as it hits redline.
agreed
true, but maybe he didn't wanna risk it cause its not his car
@@EmmanuelAU03Risk what? This is a Honda we are talking about..
@@EmmanuelAU03Bisimoto knows how to build cars… Sam just isn’t used to driving a big power Honda. Which is fine.. but they should’ve had Bisi driving it.
Watched enough Boosted Bois content to know thats how it's done.
*On a side note:* The RS5 coupe is genuinely one of the best designed cars out there. The RS5 B9/B9.5 range, are soo elegant yet very aggressive. Love it !!
Couldn’t agree more, love my ‘21! It’s a beautiful rocket right out of the box!
Sadly it's underpowered compared to the M4.
It looks the same like every other car on the street..
@@66642 SpecSavers are doing winter deals, make the most of it because your eyes aren’t working.
@@66642 cuz the cars on the street are cars on the street?
Power is nothing if you cannot put it on the road.
~Sun Tzu 1339
More like J.Clarkson*
The Art of Race😆
Or if u don't know how to drive w high power Honda gay ah hater
Power is nothing without control.
~ Pirelli
@@Ivan-b5c3k Iam sure problem is with car setup not driver..
This was one of the best CarWow videos ever!! I laughed, I was shook and then I laughed again! Brilliant work from editting department💪🏽❤️
Great vid, I laughed when Matt pulled out the rolled up notes from the door card, I wonder what’s been going on there 🤔🤣
that might be the slowest 760 hp/tonne I've ever seen
i think its spinning through all the gears
@@xnomisbradley8819 Ye you can hear each time he shifts it hits redline instantly when he touches the throttle
wider tyres might help?
@@magical_coww8866 yea exactly
He didn’t drive it properly.
Whooop! Wrrraaaaouu! Pop! Bang! Wrooooum! Whaaaaa!
That's 40 mph.😂
The RS5 looks so much better without the front number plate ☺️👍🏼
This is California
@@AngelValdovinos I'm jealous that you don't require a front plate in the US 🇺🇸 😄
@@MrDarrenNiceonly in Cali if I'm not wrong
@@MrDarrenNicewhat about using a front plate in Virginia?
It’s genuinely one of the best looking cars in the world. BMW, Benz and Porsche don’t make anything that look as nice as this
Little bit of background. I am not going to thrash someone’s car!! Saying you should sit on the limiter is a not a solution for a car with a big turbo! If you could see the dash you would have seen that I wasn’t short shifting!! What you also didn’t see was the car was still spinning its wheels into the next gear!! Modulating the throttle doesn’t really work with a big turbo when you need to stay on boost.
You would also not know that the owner had the car in a different map than he wanted
Yes it was a type of sequential gear box but it wasn’t straight cut and the owner asked me to use the clutch and not to flat shift. The owner wasn’t there so we couldn’t change a few things to make it better
The runway was very dusty so this didn’t help with grip.
Yes there was lots we could do to improve the time.
Tyre pressure
Diff pre load
Rake and ride height
Change the shift light.
Change the boost
The list goes on… these are all things I do when I am racing
When we have the time. We shoot multiple drags in multiple cars, my job as a professional is to jump in and get the best time I can, while taking care of the car and film set safety .
If you can do a better job.. good I’m glad to hear it. We need good driver drivers in this industry.
Get out there and put your racing history and driving Experience on a cv and send It in. Film yourself driving and put it online, show how good you are without trying to badmouth someone else!!
Saying “ I COULD DO BETTER”
is just embarrassing.
👍👍
12:44 I heard you loud and clear Matt, thanks for the info 👍🏻
never seen slower car with over 800 hp o.O
800 only in theory, not in application.
I've imported a "500WHP" boosted 350Z from the USA once, it made 370hp at the crank on our european dyno with horrible torque and power curves. It was well put together using quality parts, but the tune was really poor. A proper tuner managed to squeeze 550BHP out of it. I've sold the car two months after because it had absolutely no traction 😂. From my and my friends experience tuned cars from the USA are almost always really poorly tuned, have troubles with starting when cold, are jerky on partial throttle, misfire etc. Really weird tuning culture, most of the tuners in my country do a "street tuning session" after dyno tuning to ensure that the car works well on partial throttle etc, so even on a standalone ECU they are able to make the car work pretty much like a stock one.
@@arekb5951 lol, that's why they sold it to you, because they didn't know what are they doing :D
I've never seen a more poor built awd civic.
That should've been ahead even with 350hp
It's not poorly built tho, it was poorly driven in the video.
@@ii_dynastywrong, just too much power
@archiebrown6407 The car has a low 9s second quarter mile time, so you're definitely wrong. It's even down on power from its original build of 1000hp.
That crazy civic has a really small power band, it's not spending much time in the power band in the lower gears making it slower than its power figure would suggest, also probably got boost by gear to stop it spinning up.
Ufff bisimoto, I will never race against one of their cars except if imine is tuned by Top Secret and Smoky Nagata. That will be fun
10:38 looks like a man gonig to work in German autobahn with a bit of hurry
The area under the curve of this civic's power is like a needletip. 800hp over 7k, 150hp under 7k
I loved the quote "A little is good, more must be better" by Racing driver Sam😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Honestly I nearly passed myself at that, excellent entertainment 😂
Same here! I will make the most of this quote!
First heard it years ago and then in the big bang theory (Leonard's mom) talking about alcohol...was strange to hear it here
Could be taken into consideration at many places 😂
That quote perfectly defines my outlook on life
We need more of these tuned cars vs super cars on the channel
Nah. Stock car vs stock car.
Go watch @officiallygassed
Since when is a regular run off the mill RS5 a supercar, LMAO
we need lap times
Would love to see a tuned M8 vs the 992 911 Turbo S
That RS5 launches faster than oil prices, bravo Audi.
Kid maybe study more and stop watching videos on you tube less
the porsche 911 turbo s launches faster than my grades going into the abyss
Audi slower than a Tesla
@@Lemingtona-x5gback to school kid
@@Lemingtona-x5gnot every audi shut up tesla fan
This is a perfect illustration on power band. You might high higher peak torque towards redline with a huge turbo, but the effective power band is extremely narrow due to torque being non-existent virtually anywhere else.
Yes, also if the driver knew the civic better he would’ve shifted differently
Aww. Boo hoo Hondaboy!@@jeffreyt02
Sam is nuts! He needs a full time role alongside Mat, somehow! In fact Mat, Sam and Yanni are the perfect trio! More videos of you crazy trio, please!
Civic needs a driver mod, when highly modified cars are on the channel the owners should be driving it, since they know how to properly
He’s a professional racing driver stop making excuses for these terrible undrivable cars there is nothing good about that car😂
I agree
@@Gabe_B-1fool u don't know crap about high powered hondas ur supposed to bang on them limiter not short shift it and drop out of boost after every shift
@@Ivan-b5c3kHonda is ass. A 400hp difference and still can’t beat a rs5. Banging of the limiter like you said will probably help it a bit but not enough to beat the rs5. Stop making excuses for an unbalanced car.
@@Ivan-b5c3kstop making excuses 😂
a civic with 800hp and 1100kg doing 12.6s lol this car doesn't have more than 400hp. Don't ruin your credibility
that turbolag has a huge civic
No power, no power, no power ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD INSTANT SHIFT no power, no power, no power, no power, ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD INSTANT SHIFT no power, no power......er......
I cracked up at 9:35
"A little is good, more must be better." - Racing driver Sam 🤣🤣🤣
11:10 It has vtec + a turbo and the man wonders why it has two stages of boost.😂💀
That Honda has no 800 hp for sure
It sure has, in the motor, on the wheels it's like 350 until 4th gear 😂
300 in reality!
Damn 2.8k views in 5 literal minutes really shows how much Carwow has grew
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@@irs4486don’t think so
ai bots
Probably bots
@@irs4486 I am a bot beep boop
There’s no day I’ll stop watching matt I think ima subscriber before or little after a million subs here and I rarely miss a video here great work Matt and team
real, i subbed at 1.2 mill or something...and i havent missed a single video since
Pre 1mil gang less goooo 💯😈
Don't ever ask a racing driver if his sure about the brake test speed, he knows what he's doing and he has a tons of ⚽⚽. Even moreso if he's Irish.🤣 Really enjoyed this one.
The Golf mk8 would have been a better match for that bad Honda 830hp vs Golf R 330hp version
It's because bisimoto makes cool cars that aren't fast, @bisimoto had an Odyssey that was the same when matched against other slower race cars
Like other already commented, you cant short shift this car, need to ride on the limiter until the wheels stop spinning so the speed of the car matches the gearing. Then you would get on boost quicker next gear.
Or just stop the undrivable nonsense and buy a nice car😂
@@Gabe_B-1 Nonsense? It's subjective. Undrivable? Not if you drive it as demonstrated in the video. A proper driver would know how to push the car to its full potential. Of course, not everything is done by a computer.
@@DinGroguDinDjarin nah, its just undrivable. Absolutely 0 potential to use this car on street, you need to take care of 1000 things to ride properly and still you can crash because of that stupid too big turbo power peak. If you want to have nice looking numbers on dyno then ok, if you want to drive then its shitty as hell.
god that RS-5 is a beautiful beast.
It sounds like sh.t
V6 turbo. Meh
Rather a Lexus RCF
That Civic Wagovan looks cooler though
It simply is. I sure prefer the 4.2 TFSI, but the RS5 is the best performance “usable coupé”
Sounds so sick! So happy to see it come pass the audi hard on the rolling race. I think we needed that one guy in the Acura RSX for this race lol
“Race car driver” didn’t shift in the power band, also needs AWD.
800 hp of undriveable nonsense. Love it ❤
and will last only 1000 miles until next Expensive rebuild?!
Probably lol
@@svinche2expensive? Maybe a couple hundred bucks lmao
@@Griffin283 in the US maybe
@@svinche2it's a Honda gay boy it'd last longer than any German car that's forsure
800hp + and it can’t put power down until 110mph utterly useless.
all the power comes in between 8900 and 8950 RPM
You're being a bit generous with a whole 50rpm powerband. I thing more like 8927
Hahahah no:)
The "a little is good more must be better" was quite funny with his "in memory of picture pop up". Entertaining races.
Coming from a prior owner of a swapped civic hatchback, there’s a point where the power is too great for the civic…4WD or not. At 800hp, that car MUST have slicks to be able to utilize that kind of power. Like someone else said, you also have to allow the car to bounce on the rev limiter to eliminate as much boost lag as possible. Great video! Honda4Lyfe!!
Please do a drag race with tractors! That would be hilarious :D
with Clarkson's Lamborghini :D
@@hitmaniak1737 omg this fusion would be crazy😂😂 But sadly I think Clarkson would not be allowed to take part in car wow because of the special contracts. But lamborghini tractor would still be wild
Top Gear did that:)
They already have. They call them lorries though. Yianni was in it.
That Quote was epic 😂😂😂😂
5:40 A rolled up dollar bill?? I see you Destiny, lol
Just what I commented, then came here to see if anyone one else picked up on it! You could see matt tired his hardest not to say it! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMFAO!!! I do not I swear 😂😭
WE NEED THE STIG IN THE CIVIC!!!! ASAP!!!!
Destiny knows how to party I seen that rolled up 5$ bill 😂❄️
😂😂 I swear I don’t lmao
One of my favorite channels and I can't par take in ANY of the Carwow benefits. 😅
Civic needs a 10 speed automatic to make some use of that power band haha.
Doesn't matter if it can't get the power down. It would just spin more if it was in power the whole time.
The engineering / handling confidence shown via the HELMET is hilarious 😂😂😂
Wicked vid as always though 👊🏻😬👊🏻
The Honda has 850hp but it doesn't have the tech to put all of that power on the track
“A little is good more must be better” and that picture of Sam is rent free in my head forever now
Absolutely love the Audi, gorgeous body. That color looks great too.
Carwow cheered me up during my exams now that it's over they still manage to entertain us
Turbo lag called: your wanted at the race track.
Ohhh the Shuttleeee! Love these Civics and amazing Bisimoto made it to CARWOW! Been following since Motortrend back in 2008
Bisimoto’s cars are instantly recognizable
Audis in USA don’t have particulate filters so breathe a bit better and sound a bit better
The rs3 8Y in USA come with completely different camshafts than the ones in Europe.
Civic has the fast and furious transmission
Ikr!
Sam literally giving up days of his life to drive the most undriveable cars. Legends never grow old
That was a pretty entertaining series of races.
Sorry to say it would have been a close on the drag if the Honda had a driver mod :(
The civic needs a driver mod you can hear the car not being happy
sam is a racing driver so the only person who could probably launch it better is the people who made it
@FexAtila agreed and knowing it had 2 boost settings I'm sure it's probably not at the vehicles full potential
I’m an Audi fan boy and before watching the race I thought the audi was gonna get smashed easily. Guess not 😂
Same here!!
why would it get smashed new cars use computers to control traction
@@Lemingtona-x5g do you live under a rock. A Honda with a laptop is one of the most feared things in the car community 💨
Also the ttv6 has way less lag and aerial resistance of the rs5 is prob better because it's not shaped like a square
@@deshaybailey6028 Honda with no traction control is more feared? what you are stupid lol
Imagine if it was the guy from the white civic changing those sequentials 😍
Integra* not civic
Jamie
"racing driver sam" but doesnt know how to drive the honda. i bet bisi was shaking his head. short shifting tf out of that car. REDO let bisi drive lol
With No Abs! Auto full emergency stop is very difficult! GAreat Job Sam 🙌
Next race should be a 9sec car vs 10sec car vs 11sec car vs 12sec car. Would be interesting to see the gaps between them.
My guess is a second between them....
He means distance you clown
We need more tug of wars and off-road races
This is California
Gotta love the RS5
2:48 is the mr bean moment
Front wheels of the Honda look so cold! What brand & model is it??
I have an RS6 and I got the same tire pressure error! gotta love an Audi
What r some bad stuff about the rs6
It measures rotation of each wheel and likely it differs from the others and thus popping up this message...
Vtech sound is so amazing actually
This has to be one of the most 'unfair' drag races ever!
Thank you MAT . I am always happy to see an RS5 . My dream car is the RS5 with the V8 4.2 liters and 450 hp . The mini HONDA dragster is a nightmare . Almost impossible to drive it.
Sam just wasn’t driving it properly. He’s shifting when it hits the limiter but the problem is he’s not actually going that speed so when he changes gear it then bogs down.
You have to change gear when you’re actually going the speed it says on the Speedo and not just because it’s spun the tyres. It’s not Sam’s fault as he wouldn’t be used to these kind of cars or driving in this way.
Unfortunatly the Honda wasn't driven the right way..
Nethertheless it was an very interesting drag race! 🔥
As I am not a very good driver too, I would go for the Audi 🤣
Unfortunately this Honda was conceived. 🫣
How the feck would someone like you know if the Honda was not driven right!? 😂😂😂
You would choose the Audi anyway regardless of how good of a driver you are
because it was shortshifted all the time my friend@@samuelbarrett9403
@@samuelbarrett9403 something called RUclips has countless videos of 800hp 4wd civics being driven correctly. Casuals 🤦
He's Mat Watson and your watching CarWoW. ❤
You had one job
That RS5 makes us appreciate how far we have come in technology advancement. With lower horsepower and heavier weight it still out perform the Civic almost every time, while Sam the driver in the Civic was busy managing everything just to keep up, but yeah the main issue with his Civic is that he didn't have slick tires. Anyway I like the personality of Sam, keep him in this show!
Just my 2 cents, but I think that honda needs a longer ratio gearbox. Plus the tyres are tiny. Bigger tyres would at least “gear it up” a little bit. Look at the RS5 tyres next to it. (2:14)
I know people saying he should bounce the limiter more (I’m certainly no civic expert but I get what they’re getting at) but I don’t think it would make much difference. He’s shifting so much it’s like a fast and furious movie 😆. I thought he had about 15 gears. Even if he bounced the limiter more, and kept the boost on, that monster turbo is going to blip through the next gear, and revs, and those tyres will light up even more.
At least with longer gears, he could stay on the higher end of the boost a bit longer, and get some more violent speed increases per gear.
And just in the guys defence, I don’t think it’s his car, and I’d feel a bit weary of bouncing someone else’s car off the limiter like crazy. It’s not really a race car, just a mad silly fun car that’s got too much horse for it’s little gearbox and tyres.
Banging the limiter would make 1000 times the difference, he is really driving that car so wrong, just look up other vids of high hp Honda's and you'll see the difference it makes
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Who will win in a cage fight with Mat vs Yianni? 🤔
Yianni for sure - but they are not the same class 😉
Only the stick of truth will determine the outcome
@@tirelessthomas4496 I wouldn't underestimate Mat. He might be too quick for Yianni.
Never expected to see a covic vs RS5
nice covic
covid ?
Look like a 800 hp with a clutch slip
Tyre slip and the viscous in the awd system seems like it’s not fully engaging causing it to be mostly fwd? Just saw a similar situation on another channel.
Only one man that can make that Honda purr. Your needing DMO in the drivers seat
Please do drag race on M5 E60 manual or M6 E63 manual USDM
Wow rs5 is my dream car, I have an m5 right now looking to sell it lol
If you wanna sell your M5, just buy an Rs6 instead.
Why would he buy an rs6 when he said an rs5 is his dream car? 🤔
Sam was funny as hell this vid 😂
Also they used to do the brake test from 70 mph then switched to 100. They could’ve done that since it is a little more difficult for the civic
god I LOVE Sam's attitude, so fun to watch him go 😂
Haha had much fun to Look :D❤
I thought i recognized that car built by Bisi. He had it on Jay Leno's Garage some time ago. Interestingly, his 1000?hp honda odyssey van was last place in racing lower powered cars in that Netflix series Fastest Car a few years ago. Big numbers aren't everything in actual racing. But definitely interesting and cool builds by him.
The viscous coupler on that civic is toast making it pretty much fwd