Beaten By Design

In 1972 Honda put a 1.5-litre engine through America's emissions test with no
catalytic converter, at a time when Detroit was insisting it could not be done.
Detroit bought one, took it apart, and could not explain it.

This channel is about engines that beat better-funded engines, and the engineers
who had to sit in a room afterwards and work out how. The small-block. The 2JZ.
The Beetle. The rotary. The ones that shouldn't have won.

I'm not a mechanic. I read service manuals, SAE papers, engineering histories and
company archives — and every source is listed under the video.

No brand loyalty here. Only what the metal actually did.