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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

answer your questions, and where else can you

find a guy with 50 years experience of

fixing cars to answer your own question

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