Hello everyone. Thank you for your comments and consistent suggestions to downshift to speed up. That wasn't Brian's point on the acceleration. Here are his thoughts: Hi all and thanks for your comments. I am Brian, the reviewer. Just to clarify... I have driven many VTEC's, including the 9,000 rpm AP1 S2000 and they are wonderful engines that love to rev. I've also owned and driven many turbocharged cars. So yes, I've experienced and understand turbo lag. Turbo lag, or spool-up, was awful back in the '80s and thankfully technology now enables us to reduce that lag such that it's nearly imperceptible in many applications. I should have been more clear in describing my one and only frustration with the Civic Type R which is, overall, a great car. So, to clarify, the Type R's acceleration is very good. But the driving experience is tarnished, in certain situations, by a delay in throttle response. When you drop the hammer at less than stratospheric rpm, it "feels like" turbo lag in that nothing happens for a couple of seconds. True, this VTEC car is happiest at 6000+ rpm, but with a stout 295 lb-ft on tap at 2500 rpm, I expect to feel some immediate response to throttle applications even below 4000 rpm. In retrospect, the problem might be poor drive-by-wire throttle mapping. Regardless the cause, it's a quirk I've not felt when driving the Focus RS, the Golf R, the TT RS or other recent, similarly powerful, turbocharged cars. Is it attributable to VTEC technology? I don't believe so, because it's a momentary delay in throttle response. Is it a deal breaker? Not at all. This is a great car and worth checking out!

That is my dream car its afordable and cool

I want Honda type R... Hope one day, it's my dream car ❤️

I’m 56, and I always wanted a late ‘80s Civic Si, Gen1. I was a poor college student. That was not a fast car but I wanted it so badly. I’m buying one of these. I miss having a manual and I actually like the looks, and it’s a legit serious sports car, and I can now afford it. Hopefully the limited edition. And you do know this set the record for the fastest FWD car on the Nurburgring. It’s as fast as a BMW M2 on certain tracks. The handling, on a race track, can keep up with most anything.

Own my FK8 since July 18. I still love it.

3:10 I really love this sound

Amazing vehicle, I pick mines up Saturday which is tomorrow. I cannot wait.

I've had 3 turbo cars . And all of them have that slight delay when slamming the gas down. But once you get into modifying them like intake ,exhaust . It cuts down that lag/delay alot . Nice review 👍

Ill be getting my Type R next year . I honestly cant wait . Great video

Watched the video twice! It was my ride in this beautiful car today... It was amazing ! I really like the futuristic design ! Well done Honda

I bought a 2018 CTR two weeks ago and couldn’t be happier! Traded my 2019 Ram 1500 4x4 for it. Finally own my dream Honda.

This whole video is “this should be bad but it’s great”

You are very knowledgeable sir! Great review! Keep at it and i would love to see you do more Honda reviews! :)

Currently have had my ‘17 Ralleye Red R-01179 for 2 years. It’s my daily and I enjoy it every time I get in it. It’s also kept its OEM look because it grew on me over the years and I probably won’t change it. Had an 04 S2000 AP2 before the Type R and this car is by far the best I’ve ever owned in my opinion.

Hey l had a Honda civic CVCC back in the early 70's l currently own a 2019 Type R and had to adjust to a front wheel drive car as l've been a BMW owner for years and many were M cars But l must say this car is a real track weapon l had a few Porsche 944 turbos dedicated track cars and the Type R will make quick work of them and Cayman's for that matter What suprized me the most is the interest l get from the older set as they want to know everything about the car, and yes they love the looks.

Great Review. Well put on Pros and Cons.

Beautiful car. I wanna learn to drive manual just to have a chance at possibly buying one later on

nice review...straight to the point and no bs. I test drove one and put a downpayment on it. Waited 7 months and pandemic struck so i decided to circle back and went for a camry instead. When i am done paying my mortgage in 10 years, i may see what type r has morphed into in the future.

Down to earth review thanks

Such a sweet looking car

Best review of this car period very honest

Nice review. I love my boost blue 2020 type R here in NYC

great revieww thank youuu

Honda has that hesitation or delay when your sitting at a constant speed and then you want to accelerate. I had a 16 Honda accord coupe with the v6 paired with the 6spd manual that still suffered from the same fate. It's how they are tuned from the factory. That's why most people like me will purchase the hondata flashpro or ktuner to bypass the factory limits. I purchased a 2021 TypeR and flashed it with the 93 octane tune and the car is very responsive (supposed 353 HP & 367 lb/ft). But it still has some turbo lag that results in much better acceleration without the need to downshift. I have also noticed the vtec works differently in this motor (k20 c,) than the old k20 and k24. The exhaust cam is the only vtec cam just like the k24. On my previous car a 2017 Honda civic SI coupe, I used an HKS SSBOV, INJEN intercooler+piping, prl downpipe, 27won cold air system, acuity short shifter + bushings and a flashpro and turned the car into a good all around performer. It was actually quicker on the bottom end but still lacked the top end of the TypeR. In my opinion honda limits their cars on purpose with the goal of longevity and reliability in mind. Honda produces balanced cars not high performance vehicles.

"Slow response to accelerate" How can you expect fast acceleration from a turbo engine at low RPM 🤣 LSPI anyone?!?👀

God I love this car. Hoping to upgrade from my 2011 Prius someday :D

Ive a 2018 type-R in ralleye red. Awesome car. Most fun to drive! Daily driver. Plus its holding its value remarkably. Turbo lag def an issue but does not take away from the huge enjoyment of spinning this beauty up!!

This color and blue rims 😩😩😭😭💙

Thanks for the review Billy Bob Thornton

Main reasonswhy I bought the 2020 type r 1. Trunk space to store my bicycle 2. Good on gas 3. Looks like a Gundam/ tamiya mini 4wd

This is my dream car🙏🏽❤️

It isn’t a V8, learn to drive a turbo by changing down and get the revs up before you make your move. It isn’t surprising as the USA are used to muscle car power

Love this

Front wheel drive cars have sloppy shifters? How many Honda's have you driven,?? They are know for having some of the best shifters of any car front or rear wheel drive.

Nice colour

His review was pretty good jus his complaints about acceleration is off because ANYONE whose had a VTEC knows that their power doesn't kick in till after 4000rpm that's what's makes VTEC special high reving for more power,can't lie those 4 cylinder vtecs do very well 😉

The Fiesta ST weighs 2700 lbs and has a hybrid turbo. My boost kicks in at 2500 RPM and trims off at around 5000. Good low to mid range boost but not high end. That being said in city or curvy roads I can take off like a Flea with the acceleration. Granted the stock horsepower is 197 but with some mods you can get that number much higher for not that $$$. Upgrading to a bigger hybrid turbo can get you close to 300 HP easy with stock internals and if you drop a big turbo you will see 350+ HP. That being said the cost of a Type R for base price you could buy a FiST and drop all the mods to get better performance than the Type R. Same can be said with the FiST bigger brother the Focus ST/RS. I love my little bunny rabbit. :)

its called Honda Engineering!!!

Dream car 😌 But gotta learn to drive manual, thankfully my brother offered teaching me in his WRX 😊

My 97 EK takes off like a rocket in third gear and also fifth gear

it's a turbo charged car - you have to be in 3.5k rpm above in order to eliminate turbo lag.......the thing pulls to 7k. Flooring it at 3k or lower is close to lugging the engine....so confused at the turbo lag comment

Top of the top honda car model

Great review. Just subscribed. The car still looks boy racer.

my dream car i even have a tomica honda civic type r

Seriously I've been looking around at all the performance cars between 30 and 50K. The type r is very hard to beat for that price. Very hard to beat. Hopefully Nissan will give the type r a run for its money. Or accurate new ILX type S.

Shout out from Philippines 🇵🇭

Anything boosted has to stay in the "Powerband" where the turbo is spinning at speed. Experienced manual guys can basically eliminate that. Say goodbye to "turbo lag". Practice makes perfect.

Thank you for being the first person to do an honest review of this car. The acceleration issue is key and no one is addressing it. I had a 98 Integra Type R which was normally aspirated and acceleration was also an issue. Currently my WRX STI also has a lag before the turbo spools up. The only way to get decent performance off the line with either of them is to rev the engine high and dump the clutch which is abusing the car. I think the other people who reviewed this car are just shills for Honda. Based on my two previous cars I don’t think there’s anything special about the Civic Type R.

Honda is like ford, great paint, great tranny, great engine, great suspension, great interiors, great ac and heater, etc all great

Always my dream car 🥰 i hope oneday i will own it

After seeing the new 2022 civic designs I’m wondering who let the kid sneak in the design meetings on this one! I’ve owned 2 Si’s a 99 and 2009 and loved them both,.. so looking forward to Honda getting back into a much more attractive mature style.

I need to learn how to drive manual because this my dream car

You forgot the integra type R from the last 90's

Honda Civic Type R cutie

just wish they put awd i kno would have made it heavier but to make power better this would be monster with awd . these handle amazing but to have 500hp with fwd

@ 1:08 that’s an Honda integra type r also in the USA we got the 2000 & 2001 Acura integra type r

This is my dream car I want to buy in near future

W video

Why put music over that exhaust noise when starting the engine? What's the matter with you lot?

You got your pictures wrong. That’s an Integra DC5 type R

Picking my 2020 CTR up tomorrow in boost blue lets just say i wont sleep tonight

this looks cooler than championship white

This is the car I want to buy and pay for with my own money once I am 18. I currently have a 2018 Nissan Sentra SV and it is a very poor performing car to put it lightly. It gets good gas mileage and it gets me from A to B but I really do enjoy performance type cars and this stuff is very interesting to me! This car seems affordable enough and with enough working and saved up money, I think I could actually pay this car off and own it. This car is extremely cool to me and I love how it looks and driving a more sporty car seems awesome. I just gotta learn to drive manual lmao

Can’t find this car at msrp anywhere 😕

Thank you sir...you, and many others in their comments, mentioned the WRX. My son is fascinated with them,, but I am wondering about the overall engine reliability of the WRX long term. I thought I read that some owners reported a variety of issues. I don't know first hand, but would appreciate your thoughts on the WRX. Thank you!

10:03 Disagree, My 2017 has no issues with acceleration, ( On Dry roads above 35 degrees with all season tires) Yes with wet/ very cold /snow/ there is poor traction especially with stock tires! The Traction control will kick in, unless your car is AWD then you will have that issue. The FK8 is NOT a Drag racing car so don't use it like one, getting the perfect launch is difficult to repeat. This car is not about 0-60 and tenths of seconds going straight, but it IS about lap times in tenths of seconds. I have had NO issues described in 10:40 even in comfort mode, hit the accelerator the car moves forward quickly, as with all turbo cars there is some minor lag, but I have never had to down shift to pass anyone, on the street and highway. Peak torque is low in the RPM and the sweet spot it between 3-5K the vtec engages at the exhaust portion around 6K rpm. I can be in 4th gear 35mph on a on ramp following a Prius or SUV who has no concept of merging on a highway. and once I have an opening floor it to about 7k rpm and shift into 6th at around 85+ mph and they are long gone. Now I don't condone speeding but when matching traffic is moving at 75-80 mph 55 mph can be considered dangerous also.

This is my dream car❤️inshallah❤️

If they added in their torque-vectoring SH-AWD, it would have been perfect in my book. As it stands, it is still a superb car, and is certainly on my shopping list. Since I need a hatchback, the Subaru WRX/STI are not in consideration, and thus it is between the Type-R and the Golf R.

My dream car honda type r fk8

Bought a 2020 black one in Canada 🇨🇦

my dream car

I have the regular SGP honda civic with a manual transmission. My neighbor has the type R so he mogs me all the time

Are there any civic type r owners out there who have popped the low profile tires running through potholes? Also have the spark plug ports filled up with water when you left the car out in the rain and if so how did you get the water out?

Ok, so when I first saw this video I thought... what turbo lag? Then driving today I found there is a delay but I do not believe it is actual turbo lag, it is actually the factory tune or poor drive-by-wire mapping as you said... I played with 2nd and 3rd gear today and that made no difference, the delay is there... you don't really notice it unless you try to notice it. Will a tune fix it? probably? I don't know if I will actually tune my car to find out. It even happens at 4000rpm if you put your foot to the floor... This was in sport mode though. +R mode has a slightly better throttle response but I did not actually observe the delay behavior. I know the car in +R mode is much more potent.

I have a feeling that you could minimize the acceleration lag if you have the ECU flashed. Of course you'd need to have it done by someone who knows their stuff but it seems like the lag could be attributed to something that the ECU is limiting. I had a similar issue with my old supersport bike.

Love that color what is it?

yes, if it got about 4.3 seconds 0-60, it would be an ideal everyday car...

When I think of honda my brain goes straight to civics then lawnmowers

I was worried when the history lesson missed out the ep3 and fn2. Reviewer needs to understand how turbo works!

This guy is crazy. He says it takes forever to accelerate? It’s a TURBO 4.. If took literally 1 second. This isn’t a V6 or V8 with instant power.

Why complaining about "turbo lag" when your not even driving the car properly? Go drive a stock STI, that's what turbo lag really is.

the wheel spin at 1-2gears is very frustrating tbh

Surprised at the driver's ignorance of how a high hp, low torq, manual operates to acceleration. Down shift while keeping the gas on and let off the clutch. Instant power when you have the skill to do it correctly and efficiently. This driver doesn't even understand this concept. I've learned and driven sticks all my life, so to me, I can have peak power on tap, at any time. I freaking hate automatics, cause you never can get that power on tap, unless you have lots of torq , over hp. Being able to drive a stick properly, becomes a lifestyle. A life style that I very much enjoy. My last stick was a Tiberon with 172hp, fwd hatch. It was nice, but I am now looking for more, for at the moment, I am stuck with a column shift truck. It bugs the crap out of me that I can not shift exactly when I want too, at the exact rpms that I want to accelerate from.

This and WRX STi my choice

Let's talk price... I 've got a 2016 Civic 1.5T EXT sedan which I love my car but I'm paying 33K for it! 22K plus the 12K financing fee that I didn't even know about until I got home and read it carefully... the dealer rushed us through that paperwork like he was on Cocaine... lol but anyways paying that kind of money I damn near should've went with the Type R? I'm fine with a 2018 or 19 Type R, my cars about half way paid off. I wonder if I should trade in for one?

What is the best type r ot bmw m sport..?

I've driven manuals all my life. No problem, even in the torqueless-bottom-end S2000. My complaint with the Type-R is not that it accelerates slowly from low RPM. The complaint is that when you hit the throttle, there is a lengthy delay before there is ANY response. Obviously the Type-R wants to rev, and that's great. But the issue is, it feels like a delay in the throttle-by-wire. It is a flaw that other manual, turbo cars do not have, and I've driven many of them.

I think U meant - for North America.....not just US

Downshift to accelerate. Youre welcome

This man is really complaining about the acceleration in a turbo at 2500 RPMS

What is price

Idk if i want a gli autobahn or this so hard to pick

Love the car I drive a 2014 Acura TL manual . I love this civic But for the price of these cars the Audi R3 makes more sense.

You gotta be a little more aggressive with the Japanese pony bud

How much

Surprising to hear someone who has never driven a VTEC Honda before wonder where the power is under the cam change, and in this case, the boost too. Honda 7000rpm redline = downshifts. Of course Honda would still purposely tune for low rpm economy, as it's their hallmark. But this car is making more torque (295) at 2500rpm than most any other 4cyl, and he's disappointed... OK. This phenomenon is known to Honda as a "linear power curve".

What’s the color of your car? I’m Dane from the Philippines

bruh, rsx/integra isnt a ctr.

Si baboy sa davao naay ani bay

my dream car but not available in india