The 38 Horsepower Kei Car You Need To Drive! - 1992 Honda Acty Street Van POV (Binaural Audio)
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- The Honda Acty Street Van is the perfect Kei car for your daily duties around town. Not only is it practical, but it is a joy to drive due to its silky smooth gearbox and strong brakes. 38 horsepower may not sound like a lot, and it isn't. This NA 3 cylinder engine is the least powerful Kei I have driven but it still packs plenty of character. Thanks to Ransom Garage for letting me have a go.
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Couldn’t have agreed more with you more at 13:00! Absolutely love your content man. If your ever down in Florida you can definitely review my SS.
Cheese
Kancil/Mira, might be a bit biased because I used to own one, only make about 28bhp but the redline is like 7000rpm :p
@@indenturedLemon I also love it! it's so hard to find a clean Daihatsu Ceria (as im from indonesian) with average miles. Most of them are driven hard.
Tedward my two favourite kei cars are a Daihatsu 360 Fellow Max it has a 360 cc motor with about 30 BHP out of a 4 speed manual and the next one is a 2018/2020 Daihatsu hijet 4wd with diff lock they have a 660cc motor pushing out about 50 BHP.
"What type of car do you have?"
Mid engine, RWD, manual transmission.
"Daaaaaamn dude."
That's all you need to say.
😂
"Wow, what kind of power do you make?"
"Oh you know, its a 660."
"660 hp? Must be fast!"
yeah and it has 12 valves
damn a 660hp 12v cummings?
It's basically a Boxster!
And it's a jdm car...
That metal bar in the back is to ensure a quick death in the event of a crash.
I wheeze laughed to this. Excellent.
Imagine just slamming those nice breaks super hard and knocking your passengers out lol
Lol
So let's not forget Honda made a lawnmower with more power. A lawnmower.
@@IzajResGS the fast one
engine swap is real
What, the civic?
@@danielkoskiluoto4499 HAHAHAHAHAHAH 😑
@@filipcerny2550 HAHAHAHAHAHAH INDEED
"We don't need Hellcats, we need Actys." Lmao I agree for sure.
Hell cat swap.
That would be a really cool sleeper
I think the engine only would be heavyer than the actys
I’ll trade in my hell cat for a actys
@@freyasatsuki561 It has 5 more cylinder that's for sure
When your knees are the car's entire crumple zone.
That sounds like something you'd say if your name was Brian and you were into bucket hats.
@@lsswappedcessna This comment's got a 2004 Forester and a forehead cam
EJ20 Whisperer god damn
If your fat your gut is the built in air bag.
When strut towers are your fetish
Mid-engine, rwd, manual transmission, it's basically a Lotus Elise
Well, it's japanese, so it's more of a Acura NSX. :D
@@TheAtb85 Thats AWD tho^^
@@nik7bkh965 first gen not
@@nik7bkh965 NA1 NA2 gens aren't
'Because Americans were putting gas in there...' OMFG.
They even need an instruction on a coffee cup that it's hot. It's redicilous.
@@Kydenius That one's for lawsuits. But putting gas in there is just being plain ol' stupid.
what else is there to say, americans
I'm an American, everyone around me is stupid. And I'd like to think I'm not as dumb
that sounds like something we would do
so mankind built this in the 1970s / 1980s yet in 2020 everybody is driving around big cities in 3 tons SUV ? :D how clever and efficient
Merica
Ikr who needs a damn ford f350
Wetimus Prime the f350 dually looks amazing and i was able to afford it so of course i had to buy it. (platinum trim level)
@@seanjackson2137 looks amazing but damn are u towing trailers and boats and hauling shit?
Austin Dick occasionally
The fact that honda made cars, bikes, lawnmowers, generators, etc is just amazing tbh
There are ASIMO and jet planes. I used to have a Honda stainless steel thermos.
Kawasaki; am i a joke to you
@@Eray2007 Yamaha, am I a joke to you...
@@Natie-vw8vt the only Yamaha products I've had was a saxophone, home theater, and the 3S Toyota motor.
@@williamparker7823 nice didn't know the beams was made by Yamaha.
Cars like these impress me way more than the fastest, latest, flashiest, and greatest sport luxury flying supercar. I just enjoy old normal cars, especially cars that are older than myself. More specifically, the boxier the design, the better. I enjoy more the car itself and not so much the top speed it can go.
In relation to speed, I heard the adage once and it holds true: Driving a slow car faster than it should be is way more fun than driving a fast car slower than it can.
Well, that's cool but these aren't normal
To be fair, alot of people don't care about top speed. we care about acceleration 👍
We would be great friends
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ʞɔǝuS ʞɔǝH ǝɥꓕ,, said it all for me!
This guy has a fantastic attitude, he really appreciates kei cars. A true car enthusiast!
*TST reviewing a 2021 Cadillac*
Nah
*Tedward reviewing a 1991 box*
HELL YES
hahaha yesssss
You can drive this on the highway. Who are you fooling? You just said it does 78 miles an hour? Top speed. You can do 65 miles an hour on the right lane, the whole time across the country. Or even seventy, no problem, so it is a highway vehicle
I'm 2 minutes in and i immediately want one.
I’m not even close to joking when I say this in my top 5 favorite cars
@@TedwardDrives honestly, i thing the geo metro is better, especially 1994 Geo Metro
if it were just a little bit more powerful it would be perfect.
@@Gmoney6422 slap a turbo 😂
Since Acty has an MR layout, it is loved by Japanese car enthusiasts as "Farmer Ferrari (or NSX because it is made by Honda)". By the way, the rival Subaru Sambar is called "Farmer's Porsche" because it has an RR layout.
(Google translate)
Excellent Translation! Great Comment
if i get one i’m gonna make my license plate to be “sorry38hp”
Gabriel Solomon lmfao
My mirage only makes 78! Hahaha
SRY38HP
I got my 1990 Honda Acty van last year. It's the most economical around town car I've ever heard of. I get 40-50mpg and use it as my daily since most of my driving is super urban.
It’s so enjoyable to drive. I’m still thinking about it 😂
@@TedwardDrives I love how you mentioned "the kegs"... I just happen to have 3 corny kegs in the back of mine right now. Haha Also, not super safe, but for rolling around the neighborhood it's actually not a bad six seater for rolling down to the brewery etc.
Sounds like you'd be a target customer for the Honda E. Too bad we can't have one in the States...
What was the price?
@@damiankassim6865 Thinking about getting one next summer down in Miami Florida. They have a JDM car lot here with tons of these. They go anywhere from 3000$-7500$ as far as I know.
The rear windows actually roll all the way down. You just need to pull a lever in the door and it will release the lock to let the window continue all the way open/down.
It's probably a child safety thing, so small children won't fall out of a fully rolled down window. If it's halfway, the chance of the kid falling out then is waayyy lower..
Me: "I drive a compact, rwd, mid-engine car."
Girl: "Oh! You drive a sports car?!"
Me:
New death metal song: "Anally Impaled by a Honda Acty Strut Tower"
😂
My butt just clenched real hard
9:45 that note sounds exactly like Porsche's flat sixes make, man
Considering they are basically two 3 cyl engines with a shared crankshaft I don't see how they cant make them sound like this kei van
Yh it's basically half a Porsche engine
I'm used to fitting in small Asian places that sounded different in my head lol
hahahah
@@TedwardDrives he got speeding tickets had to go lol
he's only 5'9 doe
I live in Japan and my car is a Nissan Otti. It's a simple kei car, and as you said, in the mountains of Japan (which I like to go to) it's certainly an experience.
I remember when we went 3 weeks ago with my wife at a lake in the mountain, we decided to try to go with the "old" roads, not the one every body takes. It was a scary as hell drive! Thankfully we crossed only 2 or 3 cars that went downhill, but me, in my kei car, I was mainly climbing in second gear. Yeah!
On left corner has a huge slop increase and I had to climb in first to not stall Hahaha!
And during the climb, I stalled 2 or 3 times.
It was very misty and I couldn't see 20m in front. The sides of the road (over the cliff in the distance) were looking white, like we were driving in a dream or something.
My wife was quite scared actually, but I liked the drive up to the top.
Great experience.
I wish there was a video online of some Actys offroading.
some people just won't get why these cars were so special.
@Gray Au you don’t get it...
Why don’t you explain
@@HunterSkowronPDX the cars are special because they aren’t. I know that sounds weird but cars nowadays have lots of horsepower and torque but driving these cars is an experience because they set the standard for what a car should be. They just work, and they’re hard to appreciate because they aren’t special.
That interior looks very 80s Civic.
A teacher of mine had one of these. On vacation he drove it all around the world with his wife. Apperently they are surprisingly off road capable. The guy was just as quirky as the car.
The ones suzuki made with 4WD and the high/low transfer cases are literal mountain goats. Would love to own one in the future since they're sold as surplus vehicles where I live lol
Fun, Simple, Affordable. That's a golden era's moto. We need the 90s ideology about cars back.
Yeah. The Netherlands taxes cars by weight and the "safety arms race" is just horrible in that regard.
With you 100% the only thing that I can’t get around is the safety is horrible if someone drifted over the line on a 2 lane highway..... man..... you’d be dead or severely injured no matter what
No
I went for a ride in that van I'm 6'3" 350+ the van was not happy and we were also 4 deep lol
HH that’s a lot for 38hp!!!
@@TedwardDrives Ransom is good people I hope he let you drive the little red turbo hatch.
You’re hitting the nail on the head. Kei cars are fun to drive and well made. They have to be. The Japanese know their home market.
That wasn't just any Hellcat, that was a Demon!!
Haha it looked wild! Demons are rare around these parts so I hedged my bets because I wasn’t 100% certain
Nerd
That’s a flawed car. The steering wheel is totally on the wrong side!
I've got a 38 hp, rwd car too, the nano
I also have a 39hp mid engine rwd car: 1997 reliant robin. Well it's not technically mid engined but the engine is behind the front wheel so..
@@madjoemak you got a deathtrap?
@@officiallilsideshow yeah. Doesn't run yet but I'm working on it
@@madjoemak cool. I just got some JDM cars I'm making into race cars. My favorite of my projects is my Autozam AZ-1. Which I might engine swap and turn into a beast
@@officiallilsideshow what engine do you want to put in?
Us third world citizens: our time has come
Who would have thought that the Actys mighty 3 cylinder growl sounds exactly the same like the brave heartbeat of our Toyota iQ. I can only imagine how much fun you had. What a brilliant thing. And I thought that our iQ is the most capable dirty little city racer you can wish for. Nope, I'm clearly proven wrong.
Who else thinks this would be an epic sleeper or a tuner car
Thought exactly the same!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍
Ikr
I'd put an R6 engine in ngl
That'll be dope
%100 defo S2000 engine would be perfect
"Hello, officer!" When you said that, my immediate response was "well, that's one thing you don't have to worry about in that car."
Your feet and knee caps are providing the crumble zone 😃
Cool car though!
But fewer blind spots.
What a seemingly terrifying machine.
I know its not theatrical, but I don't think my love for this car can be expressed enough lol. I reallllllly want it
We used to have these kind of vans in india , made by suzuki and the model name is omni. Anyways many people had had owned it ,and they seemed to never have any problems with it. I think the model is still available not sure
Bro that bar is for a harness when you wanna get crazy in the Kei.
I won't lie, this is a car that I HAVE TO buy in the future. Where I live in the states these are pretty cheap (about 3k for one) and they're super common. There's like 5 or 6 of them within walking distance of my house, and the more I see them the more I think "I need this in my life"
Just one crash and you will be crashing for your entire life
@@codehawkofficial treat it like a motorcycle
The kei trucks used to be pretty popular where I live but unfortunately they've been pretty much replaced by flashier and noisier side by sides.
After watching this, I've discovered that this Honda is basically the same thing as my 82' Vanagon.
I relly wanna drive a place like tht its so peaceful
Naturally aspirated, mid engined, RWD manual? Sounds great!
i came here after watching the 1984 volkwagon, i just subbed
I have a 97 Acty SDX truck and I love it! Heat, AC, starts everyday. It's perfect. I drive it more than my 2020 Hyundai haha.
can we just acknowledge the Mugen wheels on that thing. Freakin sick.
haha I wanted to leave that gem for the commenters
Your comment on car collection is spot on. That's how I judge real car guys.
Very cool....is a real Honda ❤
Greatings from Germany
i absolutely love that dashboard space up front, ive always wondered why car manufacturers don't utilize that space like the scion xb did
Gotta see if you can get ahold of a Honda City Turbo lol
This is actually so fun to drive we drive a similar car every day at work. ( Suzuki Super Carry 1989) Here in Europe, it is very handy to fit into tight spots and roads
This video make me love my 2004 Perodua Kancil (based on daihatsu mira) even more.
Oh! I also drove the Mira Avanzato recently so you'll probably like that video
@@TedwardDrives i did watch the Mira Avanzato before this video. Love that also. Sometime small underpowered car is fun to drive
13:00 totally agree !!!
You're churning out some great content! This takes me back to Gran Turismo with all the classic Kei cars. Looks like a blast! Super jealous.
PS. Not sure if you saw my follow up comment a couple weeks back, but I really appreciate your recommendation of EuroTech, Farley did such a great job!!
Thank you! And I'm glad that worked out. Farley is such an easy recommendation because he does great work and is very easy to deal with on an interpersonal level.
fun: 10
safety: 0
I had an Acty. It was more fun to drive than my 32 GTR.
"We don't need hellcats we need kei cars" I do agree but I gotta point out that wasn't a hellcat that was a demon😂
GavGo69 Someone’s going to put a 700+ HP Hemi in a kei car.
@@user-tb7rn1il3q I think even if you reinforced the frame that it would twist and break if you put your foot more then 15% to the floor
I just bought a Honda Acty Street directly from Japan and anxiously awaiting its arrival at the port. I can't wait to drive it around and get all the weird looks. I'm hoping for looks too because I' using it to advertise for my side business. Thanks for the video!
That engine sounds like NSX, OMG
This has the same amount of cylinders as my Mitsubishi Mirage. Except that my Mitsubishi has 78 Horsepowers!
Those engines sound so ferocious lol, little engine that couldn't
3 cylinders always sounds good (in gasoline, ofc)
Don't knock the little engines. The Tecumseh 10HP in my off road go kart makes that thing REALLY move
@@MilesPrower1992 nah, I like them, was just saying haha. 38 HP isn't much for a car lol.
I wish they had a very slow lane, then their could be a bunch of people driving kei cars.
The kei lane
Also I like the Suzuki Swift
ウチの仕事車だーありがとうございます！
This thing looks like a joy to drive, just for the fact of the seating position and the visibility
This looks like so much fun to drive!
The funny part is, the 3 cylinder engine sound makes it sound like a sports car, even though it's just a 38hp micro van
Americans: "Lemme put a V12 there"
because why not🤷🏿♂️?
*V8
Doug demuro should definitely do a review on this jdm van I’d click on his video faster than I can say kei car😅
1:55 rear end sticker 鈴木 mean SUZUKI
軽自動車は、見ての通り普通車よりあらゆる点で貧弱で日本の狭い道を走るのに適しています。
アメリカでこのような車が人気なのがよく理解できません🤔
This is, IMHO, probably one of the most Japanese cars ever made. I mean, the whole Kei-Car-Concept in and on itself is as Japanese as it gets. But the Acty in my mind is one of the pinacles of that.
I drive an Acty Van for work. I’ve muscled that thing across some unbelievable terrain. 2WD, open diff doesn’t matter when it has great ground clearance and the weight of a lunchbox. Trade your sports car in for one of these, it’s stupid fun.
💯
I love underpowered cars.. its really rare that you can just push the throttle to the maximum with out breaking the speed limit
You'd think a head cam would be good for a test drive... but I'm feeling seasick after like a minute of checking for traffic... and it goes 71 MPH, where the heck are you driving that 71 is TOO SLOW? The Autobahn? IIRC 65 MPH is an average speed limit in N. American highways. Does it take like a half hour to get up to 65? That would've been nice to mention, it certainly didn't seem that bad in the test drive.
I fell into an Acty Kei-Hole(sorry) after your last Kei car video. I want one of these so bad. They're hilarious. I saw a picture of the flat bed version with offroad tires and a lightbar and I just fell in love. And they're relatively cheap too.
hahah Kei-Hole is very funny
The 70mph top speed was for safety reasons I suspect. Probably best not to go much more than about 30.
The more I watch Tedward, the more I like him. He's more of a euro guy than me but so well spoken and clear headed about his space in car culture. Much respect for you.
Your channel is one of the few TH-cam suggestions i actually enjoyed. Congrats and keep uploading great videos.
Thank you!
I like how these vans are sort of an oddity where you live. I must've rode in these at least 1500 times. It's a daily recurrent segment of anyone's life who doesn't own his own automobile. Just wave one, get in, and try not to get too attached to the faces already in there. who needs taxis?!
Patched-up surplus suzuki carrys are the de facto mode of public transport where I'm at lol. I honestly like the idea of owning one but with how old most of them really are, you're more often than not, paying for a possible money pit.
I can see myself driving this around the hallway at school
Que hermoso es ese carro felicitaciones 👏👍
this car should be legal for kids to drive to at least school or teenadgers
I cannot imagine how one drives a manual when the car is LHD...
You mean RHD? Or are you used to shifting with your left?
@@MilesPrower1992 I was raised in Trinidad, and now in the UK. Both are RHD so I have grown up using RHD. However, doesn't it just make more sense? Your right hand is mainly dominant, so use that for steering, and use the left for less advanced motions. That's how I see it anyways
I’m from a RHD country and have driven manual in a few LHD places. You think it’s going to be super confusing but it’s amazing how quickly it becomes normal.
@@ProfessorPesca Oh, in that case when I can, I'll give it a shot.
I'm from a left hand drive country. I have occasionally seen imported Japanese cars though, including some kei cars. I have seen at least one Subaru Sambar (which is also a kei van similar to this) and I think I've seen a Honda Beat before. Where I live I don't think manuals are as popular though for new cars.
They need to remake this car. They should add seatbelts and airbags but keep the same retro look to it! And maybe a bit more horsepower.
Notifications squad fam ☝️
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To be honest I totally get the 911 comparison lmao it’s kinda like u said in the E36 review, you can never use ALL of the power and really enjoy it with a lot of cars today but surprisingly with cars like these, you actually can????
You’ll get stopped for going to slow 😂 most speed limits are 50
I love it it's adorable, I'll race you in my rear engine, measly 98 HP Pontiac Fiero!
Technically it's more dangerous than a V10 Viper
I love this car definitely want one. Imagine picking up your teenager kids from school then giving them the keys for their first car. Awesome video and review.
Says it does 71mph then says it’s not for highway driving.
Mid engine, rwd, manual transmission. A racecar as god intended 🙏
U picked the right freaking road .... I am in love wit this road and the vehicle.
I got rid of my last vehicle more than a decade ago. (And yes I get around just fine using my own two feet, public transport, and ride apps.) These kei cars are making me reconsider my car-free decision. Thank you for the useful content.
Im pretty sure if this car hit a squirrel, the car would turn into a pancake
The reason this works in Japan is that most speed limits are 25-30 mph at the highest, with fast arterials at 35 mph and motorways at 62 mph but lots of slower people, meaning that this had a chime that would ding continuously if you drive more than 50 mph.
Went to school in the early 90s in something like this the Maruti Suzuki Omni Van
I have one like this for sale..Buffalo NY Craigslist.
04:11 - When he actually switches the van on. Just in case you don't want the entire explanation ^^
the Grom of vans!