rev up your engines, welcome to my
Thursday video where I answer a viewers
question with an entire video, today's
question comes from Anderson Rodriguez
and he asks, Scotty when are you gonna make
the video who makes better engines Honda
or Toyota, well my answer might surprise
you a lot of people have accused me of
being paid by Toyota to tell everybody
how great their cars are well in terms
of engines I would say Honda actually
makes the best engines, now as you can
see by the three cars in the driveway
that's the three cars we have they're
all either Toyota or Lexus that are just
fancy Toyotas, but I own them because I'm
a mechanic
I hate working on my own cars and I'm
cheap, so I want to get cars that will last the
absolute longest with the least amount
of maintenance so I buy Toyotas
I buy them for the overall car but when
it comes to engines themselves
I believe that Honda actually makes the
better engines and here's a little
history to back me up, now when I was a
young mechanic in the early 1970s one of
my father's customers at the corner gas
station had a Honda an600 which was
the first car that Honda's sold in the
United States, it had a two cylinder
air-cooled basically motorcycle engine
of 598 cc's it only put out 36
horsepower and strangely enough my
father's customer, the guy was like six
foot six and he came crawling out of
this car and I said, well what's under that
hood and he opened it up and I
saw this tiny little air-cooled engine
with a fan that cooled it running that a
little bitty Honda, but Honda originally
being a motorcycle company their into
motors think about it, motorcycles are
basically motors and wheels, the most
important thing is the motor and they
were very good at making Motors, Honda
makes and designs all their own engines
as an example the 2000 Honda s2000 was a
really radical production design it was
the first car that put out over a
hundred and twenty horsepower per liter
of size of any naturally aspirated
engine of a car that cost less than a
hundred thousand dollars, it was very
interesting two liter design so it
put out two hundred and forty something
horsepower but it only costs thirty six
thousand dollars, when any car that had
more power than that per size you're
talking about a hundred grand up, so it
was a pretty radical change there, so
Honda over their history has designed and
manufactured some excellent engines they
keep perfecting them as time goes on
now Toyota makes great engines too but
when it comes to really interesting
engine designs and power, hey a lot of
the stuff that they tried out wasn't
even a Toyota design, for example the
first Toyota real sports car was a 1967
2000 GT which had the basis of a Toyota
3M six-cylinder engine but another
Japanese company also known for making
motorcycles Yamaha was the one that actually
built those engine up with fancy heads
and stuff it was not really a Toyota
design, it was more a Yamaha design now
they only had a few hundred of them as
you can see over here, they're really
cool-looking cars, they kind of look like
mini Corvettes, but it's not really a
Toyota designed engine it was more of a
Yamaha designed engine and then later in
the 2000s Toyota put in some of their
Celicas the 2zz ge engine which had all
kinds of problems, it was also a Yamaha
design but it was almost a complete
Yamaha design and every single one of my
customers that had one of those Celicas
with the 2zz ge engine in it the engines
went out and they had to put another
engine in because they just weren't
built correctly and if you go to the
present time 2018, the Toyota 86 sports
car is in reality a Subaru with a Subaru
engine in it, it's pretty much the same car as a
Subaru BRZ now the Toyota generally you
can get them with fancier stuff on them
but they're actually made by Subaru not
just the engine the whole car, so when it
comes with trying new things
Honda makes their own engine designs
where Toyota hey they're using other
companies designs, now granted Toyota
they've made so much money they own
percentages of those other companies
that are making the cars and engines but
still as an engine
builder I would have to say that Honda
actually makes better engines than
Toyota does, that's one of the reasons you
see a lot of kids souping up these
civics, they're good engines to begin
with but man they can really be beefed
up they have very interesting strong
designs that not only put out a lot of
power, but still last an awful long
time with a little bit of maintenance so
now you can all breathe a little easier
knowing that Scotty isn't being paid
off by Toyota to say how great their
products are, Scotty just tells it as it
is and since this is the Thursday
segment where I answer a viewers
question, place your own question on the
YouTube comments below, and I'll pick the
best ones to make a single video to
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