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  • 38,000 lb civic??/

  • @wb951 Currency, not weight....

  • What a dumbass comparison. One real sports car and then a go cart who likes to think its a race car.

  • 2:34 isnt faster in the bends, but stays in the correct lane

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  • Supercharge it, have the track kit; bye R8.

  • Vtec power. Civic is beautifull

  • Drop a turbo, see ya R8.

  • The fun part of a future video would be when both cars go in for their 100k mile services and the Civic needs $1500 (let's say it needs a clutch and major maintenance), and the R8 needs a clutch and an engine (likely? I think so) $20,000. But who cares about fixing cars? :)

  • @cautiontext ok first of all, there's no such thing as a v4. It's called an i4 if it has 4 cylinders. And second of all a type r has 6 cylinders so eat that noob

  • @sentry16v1t hey retard a civic type r has 4 cylinders...

  • @sentry16v1t Sorry broham, but there is such a thing as a v4. There are flat 4s also. 4 cylinders inline is not the only configuration, look up old school Subarus and new ones for that matter. And about there being 6 cylinders in the Type R, not so. Honda has never featured a 6 cylinder in any civic from factory let alone the Type R. Pick up a magazine shithead, or better yet just read the fucking introduction!!!

  • @fattcatt9296 You are incorrect about there being no such things as V4s. Ford used them in the 60s in some of their small cars.

  • @sentry16v1t lol, youre so full of shit...)

  • @sentry16v1t LOL way to make yourself sound completely retarded, fucking idiot

  • @sentry16v1t LOL XD WTF HAHAHAHA Type R has 4 cylinders!!! and yes there are v4, and v5 if you dont belive me, google it, i know honda's and there famous for there overpowered 4 cylinder vtec and vti engines, civic or crx hasnt gone more than 4 cylinders, so EAT THAT NOOB!

  • thums up if u think the civic looks like some future electric car

  • why the fuck would you buy that ugly civic

  • Why did they make the Civic so fucking ugly?

  • Audi is the best!

  • POS honda lmao

  • I wanted this car then I saw the 2012 GTR and well you know the rest.

  • @TheFunnyEagle my uncle got one of those and i sat in it and made my cousins jealous lol

  • So this just re illustrates what a lot of people already (should) understand; you don't need a super car to have fun or a good driver's car but if you can actually afford it, why wouldn't you?

  • @Buttnut105 Shut up idiot honda owns you bitch. 

  • @BaltimaVQ35 Psh shut the fuck up you brat. You don't know what the hell you're talking about or why.

  • I'd take the Mugen any day, very rare and one day would be worth heaps as a collectors car.

    That big silver slab on the side of the R8 looks awful.

  • @wileycoyote556 Haha what a noob, the R10 is a tdi race car and the car you see in this video is a r8 v10, pause the video at 2:27.

  • @scotta091 the way you bring on your point about putting the extra "pocket change" into the Honda & then seeing which car would win makes it seem like you think that all 103,810 is going into the engine which isn't the case. The R8 is a SUPER CAR which entails that the engine is not the only thing super about the car. SO much of that money is put into the comfort of the ride & luxury in the vehicle. To say that the R8 is 103,810 of performance & the Honda is only 38,599 in performance is naive.

  • I still like my eg. :D

  • @MrRectalRanger my bad I should have said 2.0L/237-hp157-lb-ft DOHC 16-valve in-line 4, but its still a 4banger! Its like my kid brother playing basket ball with Shaq

  • (: finetune the suspension of the FN2, get a corner road and you'll beat the supercar ;)

    the road doesn't only have straight's (:

    Type R is unique

  • lol the comments are so funny

  • anyone know why u would want to pay 30000 pounds for the mugen type r when u can buy the old type r from 2006 for 5000 and its faster and lighter because they compared the new and old models on top gear old model is faster

  • @shredmaster100

    Sigh..another dick who has no idea what they are talking about.

    This is the Mugen version not the regular Type r.. ok?

  • ahh actually fool im a mechanic ive tuned cars up for years i could get a 1.4 litre corsa and tune it to kick that things ass and as i said i know its not the regular type r but the old one was faster and a lot cheaper still though the ford sierra cosworth would own it my 1 was tuned with a larger turbo and intercooler lowered and would do 190mph top that wise guy

  • WTF are you guys wasting your time arguing for, Its a CIVIC v4 and a AUDI R8 V10. There not even in the same class!?

  • @cautiontext

    V4 hahahaha

  • @cautiontext I didn't know Honda madeV4's for their cars?

  • gayest video i have ever seen

  • to all the idiots saying front wheel drive is better. read a fucking book

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  • Yeah I can see how the civic is as quick through the corners, by using almost all of the road going into nearly all of them and out of quite a number of them, where as the R8 is staying pedantically on its side of the road except for one kink at the end of the video. So using twice the amount of road the civic can stay with the R8. Also recovering from any kind of mishap is much harder in a mid engined car (whether it's awd or rwd) than it is in a fwd like the civic.

  • Why buy an Audi r8 when you can get a civic instead?

  • How can you even campare the cars? There way different!

  • @XboxHacksandMods That's what a comparison is...?! Comparing things that are different. Tards...

  • 0:53 vtec just kicked in yo

  • You can drop all the money you want to into the Civic, as long as it's FWD it will still be massively inferior.

  • If u not drive at full speed then obvious civic will keep up

  • well i still like that civic type R will agree tho it is over priced!! i own the championship white civic Type R but not mugen....

  • Civic can't catch up. Driver says "I'm gonna need a bigger wing and more Type-R stickers"

  • I like Civic better. I'm saying this because I can't buy an Audi :). Civic does a really god job by the way.

  • ridiculous comparation

  • The Like and Dislike Bar looks like a Penis

  • take the civic and spend the change on hookers and blow

  • This video makes absolutely no sense. I always wonder why someone bothers to make such comparisons. To say hot hatch can be more fun for less many is like to say bicycle can be more fun if you're riding downhill, ..for 500 quid and neither of these cars can keep with it there. ;)

  • what an awful and pointless comparison haha

  • They fitted the spoiler onto the civic because the stock spoiler makes it hard to see at the back

  • The meaning of the this movie is that you can have lots fun with a 40000 pound as you can with an 100000 pound car! everybody knows a MUGEN Civic type R can't beat a R8 V10 but you can have as much fun in it. I drive Fn2 Type R and i have much as fun as in an Ferrari F430 or a 458 and i drove those two cars (didt not drove the R8)

  • since a month im driving a AudiTT RS with 7gear-stronic&magnetic ride. Behaving similair to a R8: that video is a fake, that honda would have no chance, especially due to the curve stability and acceleration out of the curves. notice, none of the cars are toughing the limits starting to break out.

  • This is stupid! tis like comparing my nissan patrol to an evo!!! hahhaha

  • Drive that R8 properly and the civic has no chance! There is no reason that the civic should catch you coming into the corners considering the R8 has better lateral grip, brakes, acceleration etc

  • Completely pointless test. £38k for a Civic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????­?? You can keep your overpriced Mugen tat. Buy a standard FN2, fit a supercharger and lsd with a sorted geo setup and it will waste the Mugen for a lot less than £38k!

  • In-line 4 2.0L VS V10 5.2L

  • Be good if they guy driving the civic kept on his side of the road...

  • i think the problem here is the pilot driving the R8 i he doesnt know how to push the car to the limit. those corners can be taken so much faster

    and the audi could use under braking , but this pilot stops at the limit in wich he feels safe, hes not driving the r8 at full capacities of the car, but of himself.

  • @V8block8 in the vid he says they are not driving to the full potential, so its not the driver. its them being safe on street roads.

  • @lifecon1 i didnt watch it all, i didnt hear that, still i believe yo can go faster on the R8 and be safe that car has an amazing grip unless you floor it of course it will oversteer.

  • new civic looks ugly 90's to 2000's are look better.

  • Are you seriously comparing a V10 R8 to a Honda Civic Type-R? If the R8 driver really wanted to, he could easily pull a lap or 2 around the Type R & still have power & TQ to spare. If a normal V8 R8 could run circles around a Type R, what do you think a V10 R8 would do? Be realistic.

  • @DOHCEJ22E1 then put them on a road mainly of corners and the civic wins. your trying to compare things at your sides advantage vs overall. please stop being ignorant.

  • You'd then be mistaken as the R8 in ANY form would be far too much for any Type R to keep up with in stock form. Even the Mugen models will become toilet paper. Be realistic. Overall, the R8 wins at everything you can factor.

  • @DOHCEJ22E1 i just told you the factor it would lose at. he civic has a better ability in turns and i knew that years before watching this vid. stop ignoring data.

  • Maybe in the shortest track in the world, the R8 might lose but in places like Tsukuba or Nurburgring, the R8 would destroy it. Trust, even 90's hatches with K20 swaps & tuned aftermarket suspensions can't kill an R8 V10 so this one doesn't have a ice cube's chance in hell.

  • @DOHCEJ22E1 yes on big tracks like nurburing where its more top end and straight roads. but like i said on a real road with corners such as a touge battle, it would be very hard for a R8 to win. with a tuned civic, hahaha yeeea if its properly done, you will have alot to worry about. i mean if there are civics that can beat vipers on a drag and still turn great, and for cheaper counting all the money spent on gas, you won't stand a chance.

  • You don't understand the R8's engine powers, do you?

    Unlike the Honda that needs to be revved up to the stratosphere, the V8 or V10 produces peak TQ from extremely low rpms & that combined with AWD makes sure that the R8 is quick on it's feet at all times.

    A touge battle would be nothing at all to an R8, only to the person driving it. And this V10 R8 will lay waste to an SRT10 in the corners. Don't think the being light gives the Honda an advantage, because it has none against the R8 at all.

  • @DOHCEJ22E1 so clearly don't understand. i never said it was lighter as a reason, but that definitely helps. And again, it will/can/could/should turn better. its not a battle of oppinions. that is just an old fact people ignore like you are doing. add a good driver and a properly built car, and the R8 will lose on the touge.stock vs stock, the R8 will have a hard ass time getting away. And i said that civic could beat a viper on drag(straight) so combine that with better corners=win.

  • Okay but then add good drivers to both cars & watch the R8 walk the Civic. The entire time.

    Mercilessly. Endlessly.

    You're really here comparing a Type-R to an R8! LOL! A V10 R8 at that!

    Everything you can think of has been nullified by the R8 itself.

    Just because you don't see the R8 punishing here doesn't mean that it can't do it; the driver was being far too lax!

    More bulk means nothing if the car is balanced & has an awesome brake system with great gearing & TQ delivery & AWD.

  • @DOHCEJ22E1 well i guess this just shows ignorance on your side. SMH. I clealry and logically explained. All you continue to do is say no cause i said so. next time do real research. A car that can turn better in a touge which IS at its advantage with a good driver wins. vs a car that cannot turn as well and is limited due to not being in its prime driving conditions. if you were to say a drag or a long track then yes you would win. but NEVER ignorantly dismiss a car. that's stupid.

  • Wow dude, are you for real? Do you not think that the R8 was developed for situations like extremely sharp corners & racing performance?

    There IS no logical explanation that a stock Civic Type R can keep up with an R8, let alone a V10 version of it; it cant.

    I've done research, specs & seeing the actual performance of both cars on both circuit & drag strip. The R8 demolishes the Type R.

    The R8 would most certainly be in it's prime in touge type cornering. It's BUILT for cornering & top speed!

  • Honda is better maker than audi

  • The honda sounds like a weed wacker...

  • definetly not a stock civic so wtf this is an insane stupid video take them to a track not to spaghetti looking roads

  • she needs nos!!!! for the honda

  • hot hatches are meant to be cheap, fast, and practical, 38 grand isnt cheap?

  • Top Gear wannabes

  • "in truth the answer is no"

    but wait. lets back up a second...

    Civic Type R Mugen Price: 38,599

    Audi R8 V10 Price: 103,810.

    that's 62,000 difference. lets dump that extra "pocket change" in to the civic, and see who wins then?

    and i agree...."next up Toyota Prius vs. Bugatti Veyron" lol

  • @scotta091 the R8 would still win.

  • @tkotomy Have you tested it have you?

  • @del885 what could you possibly put on a Civ to make it faster than an R8 besides a turbo the size of a house..

    When you pay that much money for Audi's you're not paying 62k extra for the engine. This is the stupid idea that people have in their head.. you're paying for a car that can demolish on a track and has awesome handling and general build quality... not just a monster in a straight line.

  • @tkotomy What you are saying is not true. Go and watch the video from topgear when the Mitsubishi Evo Versed a Lamborghini. I'm pretty sure that the Evo Kept up. Now imaghine what you could do with an extra $60K... Hmm, maybe a weight reduction, a new Twin turbo Engine, Brand new gearbox and drive terrain, better suspension, weight reduction... etc. And the list just goes on, and I'm pretty sure after That extra $60k is gone, the honda can demolish the R8. Just open your mind and see..

  • @del885 So you'd have a really fast Evo worthy of driving only on a track. It still wouldn't be a show stopping sexy raging bull Lambo.

  • @lugal1818 That depends on which country would ban the evo for being on the road. But then again, not everyone can afford a Lamborghini either, so I'd rather stick to the Evo. Same performance for a margin of the price.

  • @scotta091 yeah but the R8 looks good

  • @scotta091 but the r8 look 1000000 times better than the civic

  • @scotta091 and 38,599 is a ridiculous price for a car based off a 16K-ish model. Ya I am american and i know the pound is worth more than the dollar and when I saw $38,000 Civic i nearly passed out then I realized that wasn't even in in U.S. dollars. That is a whopping $59,326 in American! I can go get a Porsche for that much. Hell, maybe even a used R8.

  • @Skidmarkish No used r8 is worth $60k

    I've seen 2008s run from 80k-90k lowest

  • @Skidmarkish or an American Muscle!

  • That Civic needs a turbo.

  • @TheTardis157 or supercharger. im still dreaming they make a Integra DC5 with RW drive.

  • @TheTardis157 Honda civic is so amazing, well in fact, honda is so amazing, that car doesn't need a turbo... VTEC KICK IN YO!!!!... turbo on a civic, breaking the culture...

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  • Put keiichi tschyia(drift king) in the civic and he would be up the ass of that Audi

  • @nighthawkblack1 Thank you! Someone here knows how it should be done. Put them on the touge and lets see which car is better.

    Handling>Power

  • Oh PULEEEEEEZE

  • £40,000 hothatch better than the R8?! GOOD ONE

  • mugen is a stupid car,buy a 996 turbo instead or a megane r26 for half the price

  • @HENRYHOBBS1

    meganne??? nah dont think so.. mugen over a meganne and its faster aswell.. and as for 996 turbo. only if you dumb enough to pay to run a porshe, unless your rich buying a used cheap porshe is dumb, cause you wont be able to pay for the services and parts lol

  • @quickmantan theres not much in it between the civic and r26,u could bring the r26r into it then which is cheaper still and a better drive.im not a civic hater,iv got a ctr

  • @HENRYHOBBS1

    I dont think the r26 is cheaper. it says 30k for civic type R in this video but its more like 20k. hondas are the best engines ever built, and the civic in my opinion is a better car and looks better. i have had two civics, both black ep3, one was a sport, then i got a type R turbo running over 370bhp.. and it was an amazing car. i think the ep3 is better than the newer civic, and is probably one of the best hatch's ever made. the new civic is not as good but still better than r26

  • Your magazine is rubbish, your review is rubbish, your races are rubbish, Autocar, you are rubbish.

  • Look at all the hate from people who can't even afford the R8 to begin with. At a fraction of the price, and I mean a FRACTION of the R8 the CTR is a beast!. The R8 can't even shake the CTR on the straights let alone the corners.

    Stop hating you retards, just because it's a civic, doesn't mean its SHIT. I guess the R8 is an even BIGGER piece of shit since it can even shake the CTR

  • What a wanker of a commentator

  • audi r8 is not worth!!!!!!!!

  • whats next? lets see if a hyundai getz can keep up with a bugatti veyron

  • Is logik, if you, staying into the honda, and talking everytime at the camera, you won`t be more closer

  • Possibly the most stupid car comparison ever

  • ...if they did any research at all they would have found the previous model civic is faster than this one.. (see top gear for example) maybe this would have been more interesting if they had a more powerful focus or clio maybe.. if they really had to go through with this stupid idea

  • @TheHorizonhobby , Japanese cars arent shit, honda civics are shit. You cannot say nissan skyline, nissan 350z or 370z, or even a nissan GTR is shit. If you do, then your fucking blind.

  • @XDeadlyA55A5INX how are civics shit u faggot get a 1000 pound civic swap a b16c type r in it build to 300hp will smooke 500hp chargers and stangs

  • @benficasuperstar nope ur retarted

  • @benficasuperstar 1000 pound civic eh... smh

  • I don't agree that the honda is better than the R-8

  • Japanese car always shit

  • Shit, for the price on the civic, I'd rather buy an 06 evo

  • Idiotic comparison

  • What a stupid comparison the honda is all over the road trying to keep up the audi is just coasting along.

  • @rabbitphobia

    only cause its a V10 vs 2.0l non turbo lol

    mod the civic and it would kill the R8

  • @quickmantan No its because the Audi is painted blue, well done Sherlock

  • @rabbitphobia

    ohhh i thought it was the size of the engine. yer blue cars are faster

  • only japan cars.

  • 1:12 VTEC just kicked in yo! Type R all day!!!

  • @ThePachCode That was the R8 he was in.. retard..

  • @dizzle12yo Really? I didn't know that the R8 was white and suddenly behind the Honda? Why would they even mute out the sound of the Honda anyway for the Audi, when the Honda is being showcased and the R8 is a mere example and test dummy?

  • @dizzle12yo And, you obviously don't know what an R8 sounds like...

  • That's an expensive Civic O.o

  • The R8 driver is on a sunday cruise and the civic is being pushed hard crossing over the center median just to keep up. Two totally different classes of cars here. Whoever would pay 60K USD for a fwd econobox is out of their minds.

  • People are backwards thinking here. I'd buy the R8 of course it's a supercar- then if I really wanted a Type-R to speed around the city with, I'd buy one with my tax return dollars.

  • The civic is definitely a better car than the Audi R8, because the R8 is not as fuel efficient.

  • @neat4lyfe1982 lol if you can afford an R8 you dont car about fuel efficiency you idiot. Civics are trash, any FWD is garbo

  • @TheRedAvenger89 you say it's trash, but what kind of car do you own? I guarantee the answer isn't an R8.

  • @TheRedAvenger89 FWD cars are better because you can steer the front wheels as they turn, making the car faster in turns. It's common sense.

  • @neat4lyfe1982 youre a fucking moron

  • @neat4lyfe1982 you fucking idiot

  • "MU69GEN" sick ass plates

  • i love the way cars turn so smooth, it looks like there not moving.

  • FD2r better!

  • half the people that have commented didn't watch the whole video.

    fuckin trolls.

  • the bloke driving the R8 is clearly a gimp. the R8 would destroy that honda in a capable person's hands.

  • 0:52 v-tak kicked in yo!!

  • People love the civic more because it's a loves to jokes, just like a friend. The R8 hates jokes and it doesn't look mad. 

  • ahhhh mis-click....gotta get out before my brain turns to a gelatinous ooze......neanderthals at play....run away!!!

  • the r8 wasn't even braking on turns that the civic is turning. I'm a civic fan, but this test is redundant.

  • If it was the v8 R8 the mugen would be closer

  • im going to audi

  • honda needs new designers -.-

  • @jody024 i gree with u there design are getting old 

  • That civic is hella ugly compared to the style of an R8.

  • r8 luks gud in blue and type r is a gud luking hatchback

  • Costs more than an Evo and has 160 horsepower less (FQ400). I'll pass

  • Civic + Hatch... Double Fail. The R badges legacy ended with the Integra R.

  • @AltronZero

    99' civic type R hatch <3

  • That R8 only used like 50% of its power in this vid, he was never going full throttle in this video at any given point....

  • You can see from the lines taken and the body roll etc of both cars that the ricer is being pushed and the R8 is being driven way below potential.

  • what a shit video

  • @Tomlikesmusic

    What makes it shit? Just wondering/

  • @TKO52286 It's just 100% pointless

  • @Tomlikesmusic

    I can respectfully agree with this comment, especially since there is no juvenial name calling and swearing lol. I realize the clip is 100% pointless, just saying you know.

  • the driver in the video himself said it.... on minute 4:00.. "this car, the 40k is better then the R8"... and for the price. def. better. i mean, obviously the R8 is sick but for a reasonable price, the Mugen R is hella sick.

  • i still preffer my eg6. the most fun i ever have is driving my hatch with my sunroof open.

  • The civic type r would make me shit my pants. Its amazing what the civic si's can do, i couldn't imagine a type r...

  • Have moar fun in the R?

    Not sure if just stupid, or trolling...

  • fuck it... the driver on the honda type r always brake.. and u can see at one part where on the straight rd.. he purposely brake!!

  • Thirty Eight Thousand Pounds? Holy fucking shit. Mazdaspeed 3 anyone?

  • TYPE R

    MUGEN POWER///

    (H)ONDA

    (A)CURA

    VTEC

    ALL THE WAY

    THE WHOLE YARDS!!!

  • what the fuck man why the shit are shit cars sold in america. civic models in EU look so much fucking better, so on, even the focus rs500 is not even sold in america and it looks 10x fucking better than an average focus. FUCK MAN WHY AREN'T THE SEXY CARS SOLD HERE