Afternoon, Evening. 3

Whatever time it is, wherever you are. 4

Welcome to the smoking tire. 5

My name is Zak Clapton. 6

And today we're driving. 7

I've never driven with these before. 8

This is an 08 accurate TSX that Clint brought up to Dr. 9

Thank you very much. 10

Clinton appreciate it a lot. 11

Um, this is an interesting car. 12

It had an interesting place in, like, the sport sedan segment when it came out, and it was built for a long time. 13

And I did a really good job. 14

Um, the way Clint contact me about this is he sent me his wheel. 15

Well, Paige and some of you know what it is. 16

Some of you don't Basically, he built the page. 17

It's ah, well, well, garage. 18

And it's part social media platform, part, uh, parts warehouse, like amazon dot com for cars, parked car form. 19

So instead of slamming your facebook page full of car pictures and mods and updates, um, which your family and friends mostly don't care about, You could do that over wheel. 20

Well, so you can put pictures up in mods and select specific part numbers. 21

And then when you want to go buy something new. 22

You can go on their search engine and they have, like, every part under the sun. 23

They've got good customer service. 24

And if you punch in code T S t, you get 15% off now. 25

2008 Accurate TSX 2.4 liter inline four right, 200 horsepower stock. 26

What's awaiting? 27

33 £3200 probably with the wheels and the bucket seats by about 3200 right now. 28

Okay, it's a heavy car. 29

It's it's It's a heavy car for its time, I think. 30

But nowadays it's like like stay out is like, that's not a bad way. 31

Just a weird place. 32

We are, Um why Why did you buy this car? 33

Um, I'm on the guy, honey. 34

G before this, Um, look at this car where you don't wanna rsx Cooper in this house to leader. 35

But I really wanted four doors, and this is one of the only Honda's of that era that had double wishbone suspension. 36

All the other MacPherson our sex. 37

I like steering problems. 38

Um, stars work out there, and they all come fully loaded like don't our seats. 39

So wait. 40

Heated seats. 41

Theodore, climate is just the gauges, I think still look pretty nice. 42

You know, there's not a day looking car at all. 43

No, it's not. 44

It's really not. 45

The interior is not that day. 46

Look, the exterior. 47

I have always liked the profile them honestly. 48

And then I'll go around the front, go a little little simple. 49

Yeah, a little. 50

But these cars, they made them for but 04 to 2014. 51

Yeah, it was this This this generation will be, oh, Ford away. 52

And then, yeah, there was the Gentoo. 53

That's right. 54

Gents, this is the last of Gen one. 55

Yes, they're on Motor Trend's like Car of the Year No. 56

Nine. 57

They were on best drivers list for, like, three years running, and they won. 58

And I know I'm reading off my notes, but I don't remember the specific names of erasing Siri's. 59

They want the manufacturer's championship for the touring class in 05 That's correct. 60

And then they also want a driver's championship, and then they want another manufactured manufacturer's championship. 61

The next year, also with TSX and a bunch of our sex is like it got racing credit that people don't really know about. 62

It's super WellPoint inside it, I was gonna be more reliable than a cutting board. 63

Uh, yeah, like how they're there. 64

A specific plus, right? 65

Exactly. 66

And we'll get to that in a second. 67

It kind of is. 68

But for now, let's see how she d'oh try to keep this video a little more concise because there's a lot of traffic on the road trying to avoid that. 69

Put the window up for noise. 70

All right, so this came out. 71

Competition was basically like BMW 3 23 and I asked to 50 eyes to 50 Israel, Dr. 72

But I think it only came in automatic and the BMW Israel drive and manual, but more expensive. 73

I feel like the eyes to 50 was like a compromise. 74

It was Japanese engineering and reliability rear wheel drive. 75

But the compromise is like, Well, it's only an automatic it. 76

Unless you want. 77

You could get bigger engines in them, but for a price for price, this is what we're looking at. 78

This I think in Europe it was a Honda Accord. 79

Like every other market Honda Korea, Tightness s Japan was in your war, came with different engines in Japan, had a zero was a two litre, uh, every market having different versions. 80

Carly. 81

Even the interiors were completely different. 82

Wait, you're in this. 83

It's the same with Andrew Collins of Philip has a t L. 84

Both of them. 85

The interiors do not look dated. 86

These look, I think they look pretty nice. 87

Just as nice as some pretty basic like mid level sedans are today. 88

It's not like it's fancy, but there's nothing in here that screams at me. 89

Uh, the air. 90

It was built, which is really good. 91

These are also really affordable. 92

I mean, I know you like when I was seven grand when I bought, I probably overpaid. 93

It is hard to find a white black interior in a six speed manual transmission, but nowadays these cars are so cheap $4000 for your great this'd is. 94

This is a really cool car for $4000 because there's no squeaks and rattles in here, so, you know, things built a really high quality. 95

As with much any accurate product, my steering feel, I would say, is pretty good. 96

You know, it could be a little heavier. 97

It's like a little on the light side, and actually, my mind feels a lot braver than most. 98

I drive a guilty as exciting It is to wait. 99

What? 100

I can feel like this road has a lot of weird undulations, and I could feel them through the steering wheel. 101

Yeah, spherical controller bushings. 102

And that helps a lot of help. 103

Menacing steering feel. 104

Theo feels good. 105

Seed is holding me really well. 106

Obviously after Mark it, uh, really nice grip through the corners. 107

And so if you watch the video of the central S E R. 108

That maybe up now, I drove it about half an hour ago. 109

It was kind of bounding over this road a lot more. 110

Suspension was good. 111

It was just a little bit too stiff. 112

This I'm not feeling any of that. 113

But I also don't feel like we're leaning over time, the corners and we're too soft. 114

This is a really nice compromise. 115

Yeah, it was pretty much my goal with a lot of other TSX owners. 116

I tracked the car. 117

They were a little bit stiffer suspension. 118

We don't take much of the track and this is way too soon for the track. 119

The card is pushes through every turn for a canyon seven. 120

I got a really good. 121

Primarily. 122

I drive this car every weekend. 123

Canyons. 124

It's really good. 125

This is a really nice kind of daily driver. 126

Fun car set up razor on it. 127

Hawk age. 128

Plus, Yeah, they were pretty well for this car. 129

I haven't had defended them just because because it only has 200 horsepower. 130

Like I feel like we're moving at a good clip and I can feel a decent amount of torque, but going uphill it out suit if we if I lift, it slows down pretty easily. 131

Yeah, well, I mean, the brakes have goodbye. 132

They have better pedal field in that. 133

Centra actually not talk crap about central sector is amazing. 134

Really fun. 135

My only two notes on it was like the brake pedal feels a little soft. 136

Don't do that. 137

May bring upgrade on this car just like bring it on the track. 138

But whatever you big big bring upgrade I've ever like my civic pill was still sponging after he did the upgrade. 139

Had more buying. 140

We could take the heat, but always felt little bit more sponge because you had to move more fluid through the caliber. 141

Right? 142

At least my experience I mean, this is a really there's the There's the new Accord I drove like the Accord sport on a video, and I have high respect for the Honda Accord. 143

It is a phenomenal car at pretty much everything. 144

It's just a really it's really good at being a car. 145

But there is something about, especially if you're a younger person, you're like a really gonna buy the car that a lot of you know, my parents or my parents friends might have. 146

Or I see around like there's just something about them, their identity that is a little bit too like responsible and the accurate. 147

It's also a very responsible car, and it's really like, basically, do you want in a corner? 148

We have a little bit more money, but if you're a younger person and the prices aren't you different, you can feel like it's a little more special. 149

You feel like the car you have is a little more unique, more luxurious, different looking like I don't see these very often around, especially when I first got I don't really see between modified ones, but now it is way have ah whole Instagram like group with a tonic particulars to track which couple years ago I was almost unheard of. 150

I bet because, you know, it seems like if you're gonna drive on the product at the track, it should be a civic. 151

Yeah, it's gonna be lighter, and there's more aftermarket available, but it's not fun to do the same thing as everybody else. 152

It's not fun to have the same solution. 153

Is everybody else speedster? 154

That's very nice. 155

Um, but that guy doesn't get pulled over for no front plate. 156

That's not fair. 157

That's not fair. 158

All right. 159

Do you have any plans in this car right now? 160

It's like you got your handling Freddy figured out. 161

Um, I said, she's the front spring break to something a bit stiffer, and the car needs an LSD for me. 162

It needs I'll see someone get a Japanese secular or Trans. 163

That's just cosmetics. 164

I want Thio spoon sports from lumber, simple things, cars. 165

But like you said, it's probably waited. 166

For the most part. 167

It drives good. 168

It looks decent. 169

Um, I really ask much more from it, So yeah, I think again, like the competition at the time. 170

Like if you're if you're in your shoes and your shopping for a car like in this class if you go on by, Ah, 10 year old BMW 3 23 like stuff gonna break. 171

This car has 100 success models, and it feels like it's got 6000 miles compared like that's That's the compromise. 172

So this is, I don't know. 173

It's nice, man. 174

These air like leather leather and let the red on the dorsal is nice design of It's pretty nice. 175

Yeah, I've always been a fan of these. 176

I always see them on the highway and there's a blue They made a minute. 177

He's like, Oh, yeah, second favorite, so good. 178

And, um, I was taught that a good looking profile. 179

You know, the front isn't really my style, but the rest of it, that's why did the euro are false? 180

I have the euro are front lip on the grill. 181

So just because the stock Ackerman looks after that, they got really Beaky. 182

So it's not. 183

It's not to that point, but like you're getting a you know, a room. 184

Your civic. 185

It's got more room than the Iast 300 eyes to 50 days, and more importantly, it came with six feet. 186

Like get with six feet. 187

That's the best part. 188

So it was It was hard for you. 189

Finds color after. 190

Actually throw Texas pick this car up. 191

So happy drive back. 192

Yeah, something broke on the carpet. 193

You told me it wasn't his fault. 194

It wasn't his fault. 195

I know what I love about this job is like drive a really wide variety of things. 196

And the more I do it, the more I kind of respect cars that may not have looked at before or right now. 197

Way profess the love of the fast Esty. 198

And and I think this kind of reinforces, like front wheel drive cars when I grew up, had a bit of a stigma to them. 199

And and now, like, yes, drifting a Superfund and we will drive has its own kind of. 200

It feels different in the corner. 201

But unless you're sliding the car all the time, which no one really is, you can get so much out of a formal drift car. 202

You can learn so much about driving and and you can get them in a package that is incredibly reliable, which is a really nice thing to have her and really comfortable. 203

Like this is this is a good mix of, like, a grand touring car. 204

Exactly. 205

You can still track it like that. 206

This is really cool, man. 207

Thank you for bringing it up to appreciate it on a warm day. 208

Um, yeah. 209

Good luck with it. 210

Have fun with it. 211