Honda's New Car Just Killed the Toyota Camry

Start your engines, okay, today we have an interesting car, it's a new 2024 Honda Accord Sport hybrid and it has some really interesting technology, of course, it's a beautiful car, it's a Honda Accord and it's a 2024, so it has style , it has elegance. Wheels, but one thing in the back that's different is that it's an Accord Hybrid sport. We see it on the hood and it is a beautiful paint job. I really like the color. You see what a normal Honda looks like. It's an inline four-cylinder, but there's really nothing normal about it. about that, so like Toyota hybrids, it's an Atkinson cycle engine, so it's designed for greater efficiency.

Now they originally made Ainson cycle engines a long time ago and they failed because they have less horsepower, but they get better gas sludge, so you would think. Okay, this thing must be a dog, no it's not a dog, because it's a hybrid, but not

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any hybrid, it's Honda's new system. There are two electric motors under here, the big one on top makes like 181 horsepower and the small one is used for charging. charges the battery and starts the car, it does not lack acceleration due to the hybrid system, but since it is the Honda system that is different from all the others, it averages 46 m per gallon driving this, now it generally keeps it on economy mode because if you put it in sport mode, man, it's even faster, but of course you're going to use more gas.

It can work only with this motor. Go through the engines there. It can run on the engine itself or it can run on gasoline. motor and electric motor at the same time this is a normal hybrid it is not a plug-in hybrid you will never have to worry about plugging it in because if you decelerate or hit the brakes the regenerative braking sends electricity back to the battery through the small electric motor in the back lower and if you're driving down the highway and the battery is getting low, part of the gasoline engine can run the car while another part can recharge the battery, it has this very cool electronically controlled clutch system so that extra electricity gets to the bottom. engine which is also of course a generator to recharge the battery until it is full and then no longer energizes it, so not being a fully electric plug-in hybrid car, it is much safer and prone to fewer problems than a hybrid plug-in or a full car Because the battery is in the back inside the car like a Toyota Prius, as long as it's not a plug-in Prius, so you don't have to worry about salt water intrusion in the winter when they put it in salt. the path that destroys the battery is inside the car, realize that if you buy a plug-in hybrid or a fully electric car, the batteries are much larger than these, so they are all at the bottom of the car and the salt and They destroy them. water in the winter and

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old road sand, so they can have problems if you remember last year in Quebec, the Canadian government forced Toyota to fix all these RAV plug-in fours for free because Toyota said oh no, No, that is the wiring that is not part. of the powertrain, the Canadian said he would fix them for free and they had to fix them or reimburse the people who are already paid to fix them because a plug-in hybrid has a lot of electronics outside the car including the battery and that causes problems in this case no, it's inside the car, you don't have to think about it, so you don't have to worry about range anxiety, whether it averages 44 or 45 times per gallon of course, it's a real hybrid. so it gets a little bit better gas mileage in the city than on the highway, but it will still hit 40 on the highway if you put it in economy mode, so it gets phenomenal gas mileage now if you're thinking about Al make the transition into the future, my advice would be to do it with a hybrid like this, don't go all electric because, and even you're taking a risk because that plug and that hybrid has a big battery on the bottom that's going to destroy.

At the moment when plug-in, hybrid and fully electric cars, those batteries cost a fortune now when these things first come out, of course even normal hybrid batteries are expensive, but take it as the PRI's help. I've seen people get $900 reconditioned batteries, it worked fine so I'm not paying the five to 9,000 the original batteries were and over time I'm sure these things will come out rebuilt like before but this guy didn't have to worry so for quite a long time because he bought the extended battery. warranty now I'm not always a fan of extended warranties but you bought it through Honda and in this case it's smart, you now have 120,000k or 7 years for all the electronics right now, if you don't buy them it's like 3 years or 38,000 For many cars, batteries usually have a longer warranty, but he went for the complete package and in case you hate extended warranties, this is a case where I would say it is probably wise to buy the extended warranty , so you have 7 years 130,000 My trouble-free drive now I made it to pay $2,700 for the extended warranty, but if you put that over an 8 year period, that's not much and you realize that this is extremely high tech For that kind of money on a hybrid like this I'd say it's definitely worth it, on the other hand let's say you're going to buy a conventional Honda engine.

I would say don't waste your money on the warranty because hey, 130,000 My 7 year old, I never see a Honda. break before that anyway, but in the case of this new hybrid design in particular, I would say get the warranty, he already used the warranty now, you can't blame the car, it's because he lives in Massachusetts, he says they have the Worst roads, in my opinion. to argue that Rhode Island generally has the worst roads, well, one of their tires blew out and they almost didn't make it here because this is something I have against a lot of new cars because inside the trunk there is no room for the spare tire, yeah, the evil The pig put on the spare tires and waited 4 hours for a guy from Triple A to come.

He took it to the dealership but got a new tire for free at least because he has the warranty. I mean, they paid you 35 grand for a car, right? They've given you a spare tire and they're trying to say, "Well, it takes up space and there are ways to get better gas." and they don't give you one because it's a pleasure to make them, that's all, hey please, even if it's those Donut bears, I could have at least put it on and then I could have driven to where I wanted to go and fixed it right.

I mean they'll give you a little air pump or something, but hey, you have a big hole in your car. The air pump will help you. Breaks. Something goes wrong. Please bring back the spare tire companies. That's getting ridiculous. Now if you're looking at ACC Court, you have two options: you can actually get this hybrid or you can get a turbocharged, because I don't recommend getting a turbocharged, since turbocharged engines always wear out faster, the extra pressure and higher RPMs , but in the case. of this thing, the big electric motor hiding underneath, takes most of the torque when you're actually taking off and of course electric motors have instant torque as soon as they take off, they have full torque unlike a gas engine which , like a turbo, you have to rev it up a lot before it starts making a lot of torque and horsepower, this shuts it down right away, so they rev pretty well, but the revving doesn't wear out the engine because it doesn't have to rev too hard because it's using the electrical system. oh, as complex as this is, you get phenomenal power and gas mods at the same time without wearing out the engine.

I've seen four-cylinder turbo gasoline engines burn out at 65,000 miles in some cars. I have seen many of these Ainson cycle 4 cylinder engines run at 300,000 and they still run like clockwork without burning oil because with the hybrid system they are not being forced, now there is more and negative, all the negative is that it is extremely complex just when They break good luck. find someone to fix it right, but since it's a Honda and has a 120,000 Mi warranty, you won't have to think about it for quite a while, but from my experience with these things, I predict this will last a long time because Honda makes good engines. , the only thing that bothers most modern Honda engines is that some of them will be diluted with oil, they will get gasoline in the oil and that is because they have a turbocharged GDI engine, all that pressure causes the gasoline to pass further of the rings and that's it.

Take a look inside now, as you can see there is a lot of complexity to this, it can show you the power it's using, it can show if it's only running EV, if it's running the motor you can put the dash up so you can see where . the electricity and everything is working, it's driving modes, you see, we press the button, it's on eco, now you can do normal, you can do sport, we'll leave it on sport to see how Zippy is okay and as you see, when we get into sport, it's nice. Little Dash, there, a comfortable seat, so let's take him for a ride.

A very nice camera, very good definition and if you are wondering what that sound is, it also comes with a flock of angels. It's supposed to warn you that a car is approaching. Well, people hear that they like it. What are some angels floating around here? Backup man. That's a good backup camera. It's very clear, you can really see what's going on and a big advantage with these things is that you never have to worry about fan belts because the car doesn't have one. any fan belt Drive belts whatever you want to call it it has electronic air conditioning it has electronic power steering so it doesn't need stinky fan belts you don't have to worry about them where or not it doesn't have any now here Let's go down the worst road in Rhode Island we'll see how is it on the bumps, boy, is it smooth and that's even in a sports function, but the rail test will be at the top of the hill, let's see how it accelerates with this madness. two electric motors and an Ainson cycle gasoline engine connected together, I see they have incredible range.

He's already driven here and still has 565 miles of range left. There's no range anxiety here, you'll just have butt anxiety because your butt is going to get tartar. Sitting for 600 miles driving down the highway, now here we go, it almost burns out, but it has traction control so it doesn't let it burn out. Now you can tell by the noise that it's a CVT transmission, but you step on it instantly. Torque That electric motor better be fun to drive, although technically they call it a CVT transmission, a smart electronic, it's quick but it has a good acceleration mode and it doesn't have the lag that a normal CVT has and when you stop the cars. what you can hear is the click of the turn signal.

I have it in sport mode so the engine stays on. If you're one of those people who hates the engines turning on and off, just put it in sport mode and then it won't turn itself off. I have to say it's a typical Honda, you know it handles like a dream when you take off and even go uphill, this baby goes man it goes and you can mess with the pedal shifters if you want me, I'll just hit the gas, that's fast enough man that thing has a good speed, I see it shows you what the energy flow is like, we're going downhill so it's green, it's regenerating electricity, we step on the gas and then it CHS, the energy comes of the blue. electricity to make it run, but now we're sliding and now we're hitting the brakes and it just regenerates the electricity as you're going down the road, you can also see the way I drive, well, it says the current driving is 27 m per gallon.

I'm driving like a maniac right, he makes 44 million a gallon because he doesn't do much sport, kids in eco mode and drives conservatively which shows the real difference. It's a perfect test here, it gets 20 million per gallon better than me because I'm stepping on the metal pedal to test it, so if you don't want to pedal the metal, you can see it's in sport mode, you put an individual or normal setting or if you want the best gas mode, keep it in economy. like he does it and look, the economy shows you it's green, we'll be back, look, oh look, it's green, it's green, it's economical, everything is green, it's rare that you can buy a car like this that can basically do everything okay, you want to get 45 46 miles a day. gallon or better put it in a cone you want to drive like me like a scalded monkey put it in sports you're going to spend more on gas but you can do it whenever you want isn't it, I spent a lot of money building it My engine is on and now it's very fast but consumes a lot of gasoline.

Press a button and you go from 27 m per gallon to 47 m per gallon if you drive equivalently, of course, but I must say that it is an extremely complex technology. Two electric motors. Atkinson cycle. through this systemreally crazy transmission that goes to the drive wheels, but Honda usually does things pretty well, the only problem I've seen with these is that some of the cars they made before this one forgot to put a fuse in one of the wires and They said, oh, there could be a fire, so they had to remove and put a fuse on a particular wire, that was the only thing I haven't seen them break.

I haven't seen anyone have any problems with them, it's Honda. and let's be real now, I'm not going to say anything about when this thing has 250 300,000 miles on it, if someone decides to buy a used one with no warranty, well, you're rolling a dice, but a new one with state of the art technology. I find it infinitely superior to buying a real electric car with a battery that runs it all the time. There is no anxiety with this because of the range. They last a long time. You can go fast. You can go slow. It's a Honda Accord.

I mean, it drives very well. It looks. Great I have to say that I am impressed with this car course. I'm a cheap skate. I'm not going to spend 35 grand on a car, so it'll be a while before you see me owning one of these, but you never know what. This will happen in the future, you know, you never know, but as it stands today, if you're going to buy one of these, get the extended warranty. I know I don't normally do it, but in this case you would because that hybrid system is so complex that it will make your head spin and if it broke and you had no warranty.

Not only would you spend a fortune if someone could fix it, you could be waiting months just for the car rental. It is worth buying. Extended warranty, so if you don't want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring the bell.