# Testing The Same Car 25 Years Apart ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Donut - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiFeL0-HmwQ - **Дата:** 26.05.2026 - **Длительность:** 13:42 - **Просмотры:** 284,985 - **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/52762 ## Описание We put two legends head to head to see why older cars are still considered better. Watch the NEW HiLow on tubi: https://tubitv.com/series/300021010/hilow All 6 Episodes Available! Big thank you to Acura and Danny for letting us borrow your sick machines https://www.instagram.com/killerbeetyper/ Get your new Donut merch here ► http://donutmedia.com ►Check out Donut Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@DonutPodcasts Subscribe for +50hp Turn on Notifications for +100hp Click here ► http://linktr.ee/donutmedia to follow our tiktok, and join Donut's reddit community! Like working on cars? Check out our second channel Real Mechanic Stuff for more awesome videos ► https://www.youtube.com/@realmechanicstuff ## Транскрипт ### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) [] Behind me are the same model car with 25 years between them. On paper, the new one is objectively better in every way. So, why is it that people usually prefer old cars? — Have cars truly lost their swag? Today, we're comparing a legend to its younger sibling to see if older really is better. OH! — WE'RE GOING TO COMPARE THESE CARS ACROSS four different categories and learn what makes today's cars so different. — This 2001 Type R belongs to our buddy Danny, and this Type S over here we borrowed from Acura. Now, in the 25 years since this has been built, the new one packed on 600 lb and 14 in. Wouldn't that be nice? — Everybody knows the bigger cars get, the harder it is for them to be sleek and swaggy. But, why is that? The first one you probably already know, and that's safety. I think we can all agree it's probably a good thing that cars have gotten safer over the years, but why is it that safer cars tend to have less steez? The answer is crumple zones. The big cars of the '50s and '60s were designed purely around aesthetics, and as a result, their primitive engineering transferred all the energy in a crash directly to the passengers, which is why you saw so many deaths back then. These days though, chassis are designed with crumple zones all over the place. Problem is, you need a lot of physical space to make those crumple zones possible, thus making cars bigger. Which we shall now demonstrate with this crash test footage of cars I'm about to drive, which I'm sure will make me feel very good. Here we have two Integras similar to ours experiencing head-on collisions at 35 mph. The crash energy is dissipated almost completely by the front crumple zones. You can barely notice any sort of bending sheet metal near the rear of the car. Now, let's look at the '90s Acura. While the front end does absorb some energy, it's not to the same level as the new car. You can see lots of warping at the rear, meaning energy is being transferred throughout the chassis. Also, look at how much airbag technology has changed. In the new Acura, the airbags deploy almost instantly, whereas it takes a few precious milliseconds for the bags to deploy in the old car, causing the driver to experience serious whiplash. No, thank you. — Oh. Oh, no. Yeah, and you see the roof just buckle. And it becomes like a two-door. All right. Absolutely no doubt in my mind, new cars way safer. So, safety somewhat justifies the reason cars are bigger, but why do they look the way they do? Let's start with fuel standards. Cars today need to be good on gas, and one of the ways OEMs achieve that is designing cars to be aerodynamic. And sometimes the most aerodynamic designs are not the most stylish. Designers do what they can, but what do you do when your suggested designs cut fuel mileage by 5%? You compromise. That's why concepts usually look pretty different from the final product. What works in the design studio doesn't always work in the wind tunnel. The second factor is design by committee. Cars have to be many things to many customers. Manufacturers are making fewer models than they did 30 years ago, but expect to make a greater profit. Less cars in the product line means each design has to appeal to more people. But what it really comes down to is less expendable income. People can't afford both a fun car and a more practical car, they're going to buy one car they can afford to do it all. And honestly, the fact that cars like the Integra Type S, which are sporty and practical, can do it all is really impressive from an engineering standpoint. And then there's this Integra. It's a product of a different time. The brand new season of HiLow is now live on To Be for free. No account required and you can watch all six episodes right now. — Two identical Honda Civics. — Oh, no! — One of them gets cheap parts and the other gets EXPENSIVE PARTS. — NO! — [screaming] — DOES MORE EXPENSIVE mean more better? — Let's find out. — Go, go, go, go! — The drain plug fell out. — So, this one's $45. This one's like $500. That's absolutely bonkers. — Releasing toxic gas. That scared the out of me. Oh, my god! Doc, Jason, Jason! — This is our 3D printed wing uh that we GOT OFF BLENDER. — OH, [screaming] WE'RE PLAYING DOOM. — This is low team. — Oh, we're in, dude. — I want Jimmy to regret his decisions. — No, no, no. — We need a new motor. — But also a product of a different economy. They were designing this during the Japanese economic boom. It is practical. It has a ### Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) [5:00] liftback and stuff. You could put stuff in here if you wanted to, but it's not a family car like the Type S. It's more focused. This was meant to be the biggest showcase of Honda's front-wheel drive racing development and it shows. — It's not objective, but we did a little office survey to see which car my co-workers liked the look of more. — Type S or Type R? — Type R. R, come on. — That dude, are you kidding me? — What's a Type S? — I think I'm going with the Type R. — Me too, me too. — What is so cool about cars from the '90s is that they have like that jelly bean look to them, but you can see like the elements that do make it more muscular. Like this crease right here that goes up down the entire car. And then over here, I mean this guy looks like it's on its third cycle of test. Styling today lacks any sort of subtext. They mimic like what a bolt-on fender — is just without like the rivets on the I mean can contrast that with it. This is Mwah. Obviously impressive. Still a great car. I do love driving these things, but it's just a lot, dude. All right, so aesthetics-wise, you got to give it to the old car, right? The old Integra, especially this one, looks amazing. Duh. But, you know, there's a deeper reason why people might prefer an older car to a new one, and that's how easy it is to work on these things and modify them. So, let's pop both these hoods and see which one is more fun to work on. Oh my god. It's so clean. Honda nerds out there will notice this is not a B-series. There's a K-series motor under here. This is not totally stock, but it's still really — Cool. Before they come at me at the comments, I bought this car as a shell, and honestly I built it for power. I wanted that that spirit that guys had back in those days, and I wanted to build something like that. This is Danny. He built this awesome machine. How much power you making? How much is going to the wheels? — On pump 91, it's making 300, and on E85, it's making 335. — Woah. 335 at a car that weighs this that is this light — Light. Yeah. — this small — Mhm. — This thing's going to be a rocket [snorts] ship. Oh my god. — Just wait till you get to drive it. — I I'm — I hope you do, cuz — very much looking forward to it. Yeah. For the most part, bolt-on-wise, you can do all this yourself, and the car isn't going to punish you for it. What do I mean by that? Well, let's talk about working on new cars. New cars have a ton going on technology-wise under the hood. — Okay, I'll tell right now one problem I got with new cars. how do you open the freaking hood? Is it in here? No. Riddle me that. I feel the OBD-II Oh, there it is. I'm just an idiot. I mean, for a new car, I'm going to be honest, this thing's pretty restrained. At least you can actually see the motor here. Normally, a lot of new cars, you know, like you got the big plastic BS covering the entire thing. Can't even see the engine cuz apparently, people are scared of motors. — [screaming and groaning] — It's not impossible to mod new cars. Very far from it. I've seen some really cool builds based on new platforms like this one. It just usually takes more special knowledge, and that usually means it's more expensive. But, to give a point to the new cars here, most new cars are turbocharged. And it's real easy to make more power from your turbocharged car without having to touch any wrenches. You load a new tune in there, and you got 100 horsepower easily, 200 horsepower, no problem. That's really cool and not something that older cars can say. All right, so what point am I even trying to make here? Well, speaking from experience, these older Hondas, especially, they come apart, go together like Legos, super easy. Now, — it's not impossible to modify new cars, but they're not exactly Legos. They're more like a Technic set, you know, one that's 16 plus, 3,000 pieces, and takes you a week to put together cuz you got to do it in shifts, okay? When it comes to ease of modification, old cars win. All right, I can keep talking about laws and styling and stats and all that kind of stuff, but I think something that really needs to be brought in the conversation is how these cars drive. So, let's go rip them. — This thing's great. It's uh you know, it's a more comfortable Type R is what they're going for, you know. They didn't call it a Type R, they called it Type S for uh you know, reasons. I think to signal to people that hey, like we're not full race car. It's a grown-up's car, but it can still boogie. Oh, we've got a red light, dude. Oh, there we go. You know, modern cars are so advanced, they're so comfortable, all that good stuff that comes with engineering, but the things that make it more ### Segment 3 (10:00 - 13:00) [10:00] comfortable also make it less fun, you know, like the sound deadening in here. I don't hear the engine quite as much, you know, I don't feel — as connected to the road. On a scale of 1 to 10 on how the performance of this car makes me feel, honestly, I'd give it like a six. That being said, I would really love to rip this thing on a racetrack, and I'm sure that probably go up to like an eight or nine. But on the street here, it's pretty tame. On the comfort scale of 1 to 10, this is like an eight, and that's for a car that has bolstered seats and can do a nice zero to 60 and sound good. All right. Type S, new car, very nice, but I've been waiting all day to drive this one. — OH! — DUDE. DEFINITELY FEELS LIKE A MUCH lighter car. That's cuz it is. What do you think, Pablo? — Scared. — Scared? — But in a good way. — I feel way more stuff throughout this entire It's so much louder in every respect. Don't mind me. — You feel the front wheels spinning. — This is with the valves closed? exhaust valves closed. Yeah, let me open it up. Oh, god. — That's crazy. — Power delivery 10 out of 10 for the Type R. Comfort I'm not going to lie. We'll put this at like a three out of 10. Very bouncy, very loud. It's so stupid. And I mean that in a very uh positive way. It's interesting. After driving this, it's like, yeah, I think I would rather have this in my garage to look at every day, but to drive every day, I'm taking the Type S nine times out of 10. Okay. What have we learned today? — [gasps] — I don't know. — The cars are different because they came from different times, different circumstances, different economies. They have different philosophies that reflect that. In short, new car better at being a car, but undoubtedly, old hobby, better at being a toy, you know? There's just not as many constraints to make an older car the way you want it to be. Now, that's not exactly a mind-blowing or groundbreaking observation, but it's the only one I got. Thank you guys so much for watching. Thank you, Danny. Go follow him @killerb_typer on Instagram. You can see more of this car, see more behind the build here. Thank you to Acura for letting us borrow the Type S. Hopefully, we weren't too harsh on it. I think it's a great car. And uh we'll see you next time. How about that? Bye.