2024 Integra Type S vs Civic Type R, Acura NSX, Honda S2K, ITR — Cammisa Ultimate Drag Race Replay

Foreigner Once upon a time Honda was at the absolute top of the enthusiast pecking order. They made everything for us, from front-wheel drive sport compacts to three-wheel drive sports cars. Two mid-engine supercars. They had the highest speed motors in the business. The best. stick shifts in the world and VTEC and then there was a bit of a lull while Honda was busy concentrating on selling tens of millions of boring cars to normal people, but now Honda is pulling out with two cars for us, so naturally we're here To answer the dumbest question in the world what is the fastest brother you can help support these videos by joining the Hagerty Drivers Club.

Includes a subscription to our award-winning magazine. Unlimited access to our assessment tool. 24/7 platform roadside assistance. Free Classified Listings. Exclusive coupons and offers. Early access and VIP benefits to select Hagerty events. More information in the link below. Welcome to the Glory Days of Honda and when it comes to VTEC, at least in the United States, it all started here. The NSX contains Honda's only naturally aspirated, dual overhead camshaft VTEC V6. never made and probably ever will, the c30a revved at 8 grand and made 270 horsepower. Thanks to its lightweight aluminum construction, it dusted off all of its Ferrari competition and the s-2000 dusted off everything in the rev department.

The 2 liter engine of the ap1 at 8,900 RPM faster. than any Ferrari ever made and made more power per liter than any other car. This ap2 trades some revs for torque, but the 2.2-liter F-22 C1 still hits eight and this CR is the s2k lighter than the all-aluminum NSX. It weighs 240 pounds more than this S2000, which weighs just 2,790 pounds on the scale, and the Integra Type R weighed 230 pounds less, meaning this four-seater weighs 470 pounds less than that all-aluminum supercar. It has the smallest engine here, except for the The 1.8-liter C5 v18 was another Honda monster marked in red at 8400, but with a limiter that allows nine of the big ones, all of its 195 horses to have to reach the ground through the front wheels, so at launch this will be at a disadvantage, which will happen later, oh no, brother.

Let's find out, okay the NSX wins, it's the heaviest car here but it has enough power to give it the best power to weight ratio and since it's mid-engined it puts all that power to the ground and just passes by of the other two. cars and that's exactly where it stays, its famous overly long gear ratios don't hurt it here because it's on the VTEC high lift cam lobes all the way leading to an easy win okay the engine design foreign front means it has a good Offers less grip off the line than the NSX, however it has much less torque and therefore mostly just bogs down, however if you knock the snot out of it it can get at 60 just three-tenths of a second behind the NSX, but here at the end of the quarter mile, there are six and a half car lengths behind, which has a little less to do with power than aerodynamics, that huge CR wing actually slows down the S2000 and therefore its trap speed is significantly six miles per hour slower. that the NSX oh the Integra Type R was a monster in its day, but it's just muscular here, makes some of the most psychotic four-cylinder noises you've ever heard and hits 60 miles per hour in just 6.6 seconds, but after it simply slows down, it manages just 93 miles per hour in the quarter mile, which by the way puts it ahead of almost every compact sports and enthusiast car of its era if you wanted to go faster than you needed to.

Super Karma sounds like VTEC activated anyway. Next up are Honda's new sport compacts taking on the NSX to pit old-school Honda against today's turbo twins. I'm in the new Acura Integra Type S and I'm in the Honda Civic Type R that they have. same engine, transmission, driveline suspension because they're the same car, this thing is 36 pounds heavier, yeah, and you've got five extra horsepower to make up for it. Mine has a better exhaust mm-hmm, mine has real sport seats, well mine has a spoiler. You call that a spoiler, yeah that's nothing compared to my Big Wang and I guess you'll tell me how stiff your suspension is too.

How is that relevant? We're in

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racing, are we sitting here wasting our audience's attention? time listening to you brag about what your supposedly Great Wang is like, don't make me show you thanks, hey Randy, spoiler alert, I never got to see your Wang, well you're good offline bro, I have to give you that halfway . The rear-drive NSX takes off like it's been rear-ended, while the two new cars limit revs in neutral to protect their transmissions, making launches sharp, a careful balance between clutch slip and frustration, the Integra won't let you completely disable the traction control, the Honda will. and yet they're dead, even if they're dead, it even turns out that from start to finish, with just two-hundredths of a second between them at the finish line, the turbotwins use super-short gearing and tremendous torque to make up ground in first gear. and second.

However, the supercar's high-speed Aero advantage means that its relative disadvantage begins with Wing near the end, so the NSX manages to hold off the two youngsters until, just after the finish line, we made a

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of rolling to see what would happen if you remove them. the launch advantage of the nsx we got the same result the instant throttle response of the nsx gives it a slow quarter hop while the turbos of the two new cars are running and then they spend the rest of the stroke slightly pulling the

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old legend , which is the foreign sex theme two effectively identical cars from the same manufacturer with the same engine, the same horsepower and the same weight have exactly the same speed, but the good thing is that they have the same speed as a car icon 30 years ago from the same manufacturer that has We lost in the transition from VTEC transmission to turbos, certainly not in speed, although we lost a good amount of induction noise and here's another thing that just hasn't changed.

Honda is still on top of the enthusiast world. Take mine as a Civic Type R. because let's be honest, who doesn't love a big wing?