The Car Test: A Hands-On Review with Peter's Arrows MXG

As I stepped into the car, I was immediately struck by its aggressive stance and demeanor. The decat downpipe with valves closed seemed to be doing its job well, providing a subtle but present sound that hinted at the potential beneath. Peter mentioned that he hadn't actually tried the valves closed, having only experimented with them in open mode, so this was an interesting opportunity to see how the car performed under more controlled conditions.

With the valves closed, I was pleased to find that the car's sound was still quite satisfying, even if it wasn't as loud or aggressive as one might expect. The resonation in the back box was present but not overly distracting, and overall, I found the sound to be pleasant and well-balanced. It was a reminder that sometimes, less is more when it comes to exhaust systems.

As we switched to "red crazy" mode with plus R engaged, the car's sound transformed into something truly ear-shattering. The auto blip function added an extra layer of excitement to the proceedings, and I couldn't help but grin from ear to ear as we tore through the tunnel at breakneck speeds. This was a car that truly lived up to its name, delivering a driving experience that was both exhilarating and intimidating in equal measure.

Peter mentioned that if the valves were left open at all times, it would be "pretty much undrivable," which struck me as a fair point. With the system engaged, the car felt like a grown-up hot hatch – mature, refined, and ready for action. The dual-axis system installed by Honda meant that there was less aggressive torque steer, making the steering feel more subtle and nuanced.

As we took to the autobahn, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. With 386 horsepower on tap, it was clear that this car was built for speed – but it also had its limitations. At higher speeds, the arrow system began to slow us down, making progress feel like a battle against a reluctant opponent. It was a reminder that there's always more to explore beneath the surface of these performance-oriented cars.

One area where the Arrow MXG truly shines is in its handling and steering feel. The suspension worked beautifully, even at high speeds, and the car felt both responsive and planted. I found myself pushing the limits harder than I might have otherwise, simply because the car felt so capable and engaging to drive.

Of course, there's always a price to pay for such performance – in this case, it was the slight heaviness of the steering at times. However, this was a minor complaint compared to the overall driving experience, which was nothing short of addictive. The sound of the engine revving, the feel of the gears engaging, and the sheer thrill of accelerating through the gears all combined to create an experience that's impossible to forget.

As we finally brought the car back to Peter, I couldn't help but express my gratitude for the opportunity to drive this incredible machine. It was clear that Peter had put a lot of love and care into his Arrow MXG, and it showed in every aspect of its performance. For those who are lucky enough to get their hands on one of these limited-edition cars, be prepared for an experience that's both exhilarating and addictive – but also be aware that there may be some trade-offs along the way.

In terms of performance, I found that the car's zero-to-100 acceleration time was around 5.6 seconds, which is impressive for a car with its size and weight profile. However, it's worth noting that this wasn't significantly faster than Peter's stock setup, due in part to the inevitable wheel spin and torque steer that comes with launching a very powerful car off the line.

The Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires were a nice touch, providing a level of grip and handling that made the car feel both quick and secure. And while I didn't have the chance to push the car too hard, I was impressed by its ability to deliver a sense of speed and urgency without getting overly aggressive or overexcited.

As we stood there, waiting for the car to cool down, I couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for Peter's vehicle. It was clear that he had put his heart and soul into this project, and it showed in every aspect of its performance. If you're lucky enough to get your hands on an Arrow MXG, be prepared for an experience that will leave you breathless – but also be aware that there may be some trade-offs along the way.

In any case, I'd like to extend my thanks to Peter for taking the car out for a spin and sharing it with us. It's been an absolute pleasure to drive this incredible machine, and I have no doubt that it will continue to provide thrills and excitement for years to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this pov review by auto top nl i have to be very careful with those last two letters because apparently youtube's automated subtitles has a very dirty mind so weird stuff has been happening today i'm going to show you around this honda civic type r fk8 and if my voice is sounding a bit weird that is because i have a cold and yeah the voice is suffering a little bit makes me sound like i have a side hustle at doing like voice overs of trailers in a world where no one reviews cars anymore one man one man risks everything and test drives a honda civic type r okay so enough with that um that's weird okay so today we've got this honda civic type r and it has been tuned this is peter's car and he is a viewer which is always very cool to drive you guys cars if you have a cool car you want to submit please send an email to the address somewhere on screen right now with a couple of photos and info this is a really cool car so today i'm going to show you around it we're going to talk a bit about all the stuff on the outside we're going to talk about the modifications peter has made and then we'll take it for a drive towards the autobahn for an autobahn blast so we've driven this honda civic type r fk8 before it was around three years ago i think and it was a championship white car now as i said back then the white car is really nice because you can see all the black stuff and all the carbon fiber stuff because the contrast is so big but i like this red car better i just think it suits it a little bit better so we've got at the front a splitter for the type r with this is that real carbon i don't think so but we do have a little splitter and then we have this hood scoop at the front as well to give the engine a little bit more air uh four glides very aggressive front on the type r it looks really cool i think it looks so extreme and hardcore the wheels well this is a funny story because peter actually won these wheels with a competition in the netherlands he is from belgium but he entered the competition in the netherlands with a company called full car tuning and he won these gr wheels and i really like them they have this like bronze color and they are 19-inch now as standard this car comes on 20 inch and peter actually said that he prefers this because you have a little bit more tire this is a 35 height tire and a stock it comes with a 30 tire so that is really nice i guess it also makes it a little bit more comfortable and you just have a bit more tire to work with he also installed these tire stickers but i'm afraid i did lose a few i don't think that was gone before so i'm sorry about that peter and now we've got these brembo brakes for piston i believe and i remember that i said back then that hulknut says that it has the same stopping power as a honda nsx so yeah really good brakes then we've got some air vents here to let air out of the wheel well to reduce lift we've got a side skirt there some type r stickers and we've got peter's youtube channel and instagram go follow him on instagram and he also makes videos with his car loudly car drivers so go check him out and at the rear peter also installed these different rear lights which do give it a very nice look and i think it also has like an animation but i'm not sure how to turn that on yeah there they go oh i yes i did it okay so you go to off and then off and then on okay so that is cool and um yeah they are nice and dark and have a cool look really like that of course we've got the massive rear wing here this car doesn't have the carbon fiber exterior package which would give you this carbon fiber part here as well very aggressive diffuser and then we see another modification that peter has made so this is a remus exhaust and the car also has a h and the car also has an h gear catless downpipe so it's completely straight basically peter did this himself which is pretty cool he installed all the modifications himself and it sounds really cool it's very loud vortex generators here at the rear which is also pretty cool the car i mean you have to kind of dig the look it is very extreme and very dramatic but as i said back then as long as it's functional i'm okay with it as long as it serves a purpose i think it has a right to be there which this car took the nurburgring lap record back in the day for front wheel drive cars it has been beaten since by the renault mega trophy r i think where the hell is that thing ah there it is so in here we've got the k20 c1 engine two liter four cylinder turbocharged engine with a prl intake which you can see here and it also has a prl intercooler upgrade so that is nice it also has a remap so stock this car has 320 horsepower if you're in europe or japan in other markets it had 310 same as the fk2 that came before 320 horsepower for this one and 400 newton meters of torque stock this car with a remap and the changes here you can see the the intake and the intercooler and the exhaust 386 horsepower and 530 newton meters of torque so that is pretty healthy i would say the car weighs around 1390 kilos all right so let's check the interior and immediately i'll show you guys one of my favorite bits of the car which is the seat now we do have a co-driver today his name is martin and uh he's with me at all times even when he's not with me so the seats these seats are really really good they are so freaking supportive and uh i mean you know literally supportive not like in an emotionally supportive way but uh yeah that might be a conversation for a different day they are super supportive high bolsters on the legs and the back as well really really nice high shoulders you can sit nice and low yeah this is pretty much spot on for your driving position it is really nice and then we've got the gearbox right here manual six speed nice nice and high actually so the the gear lever is high and you have a just a driving position that is absolutely perfect then let's start it up we've got a uh oh ah there it is i thought i lost it all right so this is the remus exhaust control unit there we go okay so we have four settings blue this is blue right something like that this is closed which is nice you have a little bit of a metallic sound and you do hear the intake at the front click once go to green is i believe 20 open a little bit louder and then if we go to orange or yellow whatever that is 70 and then red is completely open which is very loud and then we've got the r button right here or switch so you can go from comfort to sport and r plus or plus r which is the most aggressive setting of course we have adaptive dampers we have a limited slip diff we have a single mouse flywheel so it has some serious stuff to cope with this amount of power and the only thing i remember from my last review is that i wished it had a separate button for the suspension so that you could drive in plus r and then click a button for comfort suspension but hey maybe they will do that in the next civic type r which is called the fl2 oh my god i hope you guys can see that there are two hairs over there and they are freaking boxing oh my god i think that's a bit too far away for you guys to see but that was awesome they were like jumping and hitting each other oh man we should start a nature channel that would be so awesome okay enough with the nonsense are they still there no i don't see them okay so as you can hear exhaust is very loud now let's try with the valves closed because i don't actually know what that's like i haven't tried that okay so go let's go for comfort valves closed ah that's very nice okay so even though it has a decat downpipe with the valves closed that's not bad you can hear a little bit of resonation in the back box but that's not bad at all for a decade good job okay so let's go to red crazy mode and plus r yeah that's super loud as you can hear we have auto blip downshift uh okay let's take the tunnel no horses around oh yeah that's a very healthy sound i mean i'm really happy that peter installed this valve thing because otherwise this would be pretty much undrivable if you would have this open at all times that would be very just tiring basically this is nice okay so the driving experience in this car is very very good it it feels like a grown-up hold hatch like a very serious like a very serious hot hatch we have a little bit of torque steer honda installed something like a dual axis system on this car which means that it's basically similar to the revo knuckle system on the ford focus rs it basically means that parts of the steering and the suspension have been separated giving you less aggressive torques there which i have to say for 386 horsepower on the front wheels full throttle third gear that was not third gear max third gear not bad and it is really nice and torquey and this gearbox oh so nice brake battlefield is great oh there goes mr martin but that is very loud and you do get those bangs which i really like especially when you get close to the rev limiter or when you hit the rev limiter when you let off the throttle at high rpm yeah it sounds quite old school sometimes and i really like that okie dokie here we go at the ultraman now let's find out what this car is like it feels really punchy especially in second third and fourth gear i really like how it feels that is an aggressive car now i do have to say that at higher speeds i feel like the arrow starts acting up basically and that is a good thing because it means it works but it's a bad thing at the autobahn because at some point you just feel like it won't go any faster because it's being slowed down by the arrows so much and the car is actually supposed to do uh 272 kilometers an hour stuck oh that's a good sound 272 stock but when i was doing the ultimate pov earlier the hell when i was doing the ultimate pov earlier it kind of got stuck at 263 gps 275 speedo um it it really didn't go any faster than that and i really tried so that's kind of strange there we go so i can't actually see the speedo right now the digital one so you can see that up until there it's actually still pretty quick but the further you get obviously the harder it struggles and at some point it just won't go any faster oh that rev limiter is freaking addictive okay let's find out if we can get close okay you can actually see the bonnet start shaking a little bit suspension is really good even at this speed that was 270 speedo man i do have to say i i really like the way this car feels the handling is so nice the just the steering feel although it does get quite heavy in plus r mode could have done with a little bit less but the car handles really well oh that is quick it is from zero to 100 and i now 100 to 200 not so much especially from zero to 100 it is hurt by the fact that you need third gear to hit 100 kilometers an hour so i did like 5.6 i think i'm not sure what the stock number was i forgot but uh i don't think it's that much quicker than stock because you just have quite a bit of wheel spin we do have lovely michelin pilot sport 4s tires though oh third gear is very very strong oh a little bit of tire squeal there the car really it sort of challenges you to drive faster it's it's really cool there we go fourth gear little bang on the up shift sixth gear so now 260. this is when you start feeling that arrow and that is 275 i could have kept going but honestly i already know that it won't go faster so i'm just going to head out to the gas station and bring the car back to peter man what an awesome car you've got peter thank you so much for taking it to us really really enjoyed driving it it is freaking awesome to you guys hope you enjoyed it you can subscribe by clicking the big button in the middle you can also check out this video on the right or go check out this playlist on the left see the next one byewhat's up ladies and gentlemen and welcome to this pov review by auto top nl i have to be very careful with those last two letters because apparently youtube's automated subtitles has a very dirty mind so weird stuff has been happening today i'm going to show you around this honda civic type r fk8 and if my voice is sounding a bit weird that is because i have a cold and yeah the voice is suffering a little bit makes me sound like i have a side hustle at doing like voice overs of trailers in a world where no one reviews cars anymore one man one man risks everything and test drives a honda civic type r okay so enough with that um that's weird okay so today we've got this honda civic type r and it has been tuned this is peter's car and he is a viewer which is always very cool to drive you guys cars if you have a cool car you want to submit please send an email to the address somewhere on screen right now with a couple of photos and info this is a really cool car so today i'm going to show you around it we're going to talk a bit about all the stuff on the outside we're going to talk about the modifications peter has made and then we'll take it for a drive towards the autobahn for an autobahn blast so we've driven this honda civic type r fk8 before it was around three years ago i think and it was a championship white car now as i said back then the white car is really nice because you can see all the black stuff and all the carbon fiber stuff because the contrast is so big but i like this red car better i just think it suits it a little bit better so we've got at the front a splitter for the type r with this is that real carbon i don't think so but we do have a little splitter and then we have this hood scoop at the front as well to give the engine a little bit more air uh four glides very aggressive front on the type r it looks really cool i think it looks so extreme and hardcore the wheels well this is a funny story because peter actually won these wheels with a competition in the netherlands he is from belgium but he entered the competition in the netherlands with a company called full car tuning and he won these gr wheels and i really like them they have this like bronze color and they are 19-inch now as standard this car comes on 20 inch and peter actually said that he prefers this because you have a little bit more tire this is a 35 height tire and a stock it comes with a 30 tire so that is really nice i guess it also makes it a little bit more comfortable and you just have a bit more tire to work with he also installed these tire stickers but i'm afraid i did lose a few i don't think that was gone before so i'm sorry about that peter and now we've got these brembo brakes for piston i believe and i remember that i said back then that hulknut says that it has the same stopping power as a honda nsx so yeah really good brakes then we've got some air vents here to let air out of the wheel well to reduce lift we've got a side skirt there some type r stickers and we've got peter's youtube channel and instagram go follow him on instagram and he also makes videos with his car loudly car drivers so go check him out and at the rear peter also installed these different rear lights which do give it a very nice look and i think it also has like an animation but i'm not sure how to turn that on yeah there they go oh i yes i did it okay so you go to off and then off and then on okay so that is cool and um yeah they are nice and dark and have a cool look really like that of course we've got the massive rear wing here this car doesn't have the carbon fiber exterior package which would give you this carbon fiber part here as well very aggressive diffuser and then we see another modification that peter has made so this is a remus exhaust and the car also has a h and the car also has an h gear catless downpipe so it's completely straight basically peter did this himself which is pretty cool he installed all the modifications himself and it sounds really cool it's very loud vortex generators here at the rear which is also pretty cool the car i mean you have to kind of dig the look it is very extreme and very dramatic but as i said back then as long as it's functional i'm okay with it as long as it serves a purpose i think it has a right to be there which this car took the nurburgring lap record back in the day for front wheel drive cars it has been beaten since by the renault mega trophy r i think where the hell is that thing ah there it is so in here we've got the k20 c1 engine two liter four cylinder turbocharged engine with a prl intake which you can see here and it also has a prl intercooler upgrade so that is nice it also has a remap so stock this car has 320 horsepower if you're in europe or japan in other markets it had 310 same as the fk2 that came before 320 horsepower for this one and 400 newton meters of torque stock this car with a remap and the changes here you can see the the intake and the intercooler and the exhaust 386 horsepower and 530 newton meters of torque so that is pretty healthy i would say the car weighs around 1390 kilos all right so let's check the interior and immediately i'll show you guys one of my favorite bits of the car which is the seat now we do have a co-driver today his name is martin and uh he's with me at all times even when he's not with me so the seats these seats are really really good they are so freaking supportive and uh i mean you know literally supportive not like in an emotionally supportive way but uh yeah that might be a conversation for a different day they are super supportive high bolsters on the legs and the back as well really really nice high shoulders you can sit nice and low yeah this is pretty much spot on for your driving position it is really nice and then we've got the gearbox right here manual six speed nice nice and high actually so the the gear lever is high and you have a just a driving position that is absolutely perfect then let's start it up we've got a uh oh ah there it is i thought i lost it all right so this is the remus exhaust control unit there we go okay so we have four settings blue this is blue right something like that this is closed which is nice you have a little bit of a metallic sound and you do hear the intake at the front click once go to green is i believe 20 open a little bit louder and then if we go to orange or yellow whatever that is 70 and then red is completely open which is very loud and then we've got the r button right here or switch so you can go from comfort to sport and r plus or plus r which is the most aggressive setting of course we have adaptive dampers we have a limited slip diff we have a single mouse flywheel so it has some serious stuff to cope with this amount of power and the only thing i remember from my last review is that i wished it had a separate button for the suspension so that you could drive in plus r and then click a button for comfort suspension but hey maybe they will do that in the next civic type r which is called the fl2 oh my god i hope you guys can see that there are two hairs over there and they are freaking boxing oh my god i think that's a bit too far away for you guys to see but that was awesome they were like jumping and hitting each other oh man we should start a nature channel that would be so awesome okay enough with the nonsense are they still there no i don't see them okay so as you can hear exhaust is very loud now let's try with the valves closed because i don't actually know what that's like i haven't tried that okay so go let's go for comfort valves closed ah that's very nice okay so even though it has a decat downpipe with the valves closed that's not bad you can hear a little bit of resonation in the back box but that's not bad at all for a decade good job okay so let's go to red crazy mode and plus r yeah that's super loud as you can hear we have auto blip downshift uh okay let's take the tunnel no horses around oh yeah that's a very healthy sound i mean i'm really happy that peter installed this valve thing because otherwise this would be pretty much undrivable if you would have this open at all times that would be very just tiring basically this is nice okay so the driving experience in this car is very very good it it feels like a grown-up hold hatch like a very serious like a very serious hot hatch we have a little bit of torque steer honda installed something like a dual axis system on this car which means that it's basically similar to the revo knuckle system on the ford focus rs it basically means that parts of the steering and the suspension have been separated giving you less aggressive torques there which i have to say for 386 horsepower on the front wheels full throttle third gear that was not third gear max third gear not bad and it is really nice and torquey and this gearbox oh so nice brake battlefield is great oh there goes mr martin but that is very loud and you do get those bangs which i really like especially when you get close to the rev limiter or when you hit the rev limiter when you let off the throttle at high rpm yeah it sounds quite old school sometimes and i really like that okie dokie here we go at the ultraman now let's find out what this car is like it feels really punchy especially in second third and fourth gear i really like how it feels that is an aggressive car now i do have to say that at higher speeds i feel like the arrow starts acting up basically and that is a good thing because it means it works but it's a bad thing at the autobahn because at some point you just feel like it won't go any faster because it's being slowed down by the arrows so much and the car is actually supposed to do uh 272 kilometers an hour stuck oh that's a good sound 272 stock but when i was doing the ultimate pov earlier the hell when i was doing the ultimate pov earlier it kind of got stuck at 263 gps 275 speedo um it it really didn't go any faster than that and i really tried so that's kind of strange there we go so i can't actually see the speedo right now the digital one so you can see that up until there it's actually still pretty quick but the further you get obviously the harder it struggles and at some point it just won't go any faster oh that rev limiter is freaking addictive okay let's find out if we can get close okay you can actually see the bonnet start shaking a little bit suspension is really good even at this speed that was 270 speedo man i do have to say i i really like the way this car feels the handling is so nice the just the steering feel although it does get quite heavy in plus r mode could have done with a little bit less but the car handles really well oh that is quick it is from zero to 100 and i now 100 to 200 not so much especially from zero to 100 it is hurt by the fact that you need third gear to hit 100 kilometers an hour so i did like 5.6 i think i'm not sure what the stock number was i forgot but uh i don't think it's that much quicker than stock because you just have quite a bit of wheel spin we do have lovely michelin pilot sport 4s tires though oh third gear is very very strong oh a little bit of tire squeal there the car really it sort of challenges you to drive faster it's it's really cool there we go fourth gear little bang on the up shift sixth gear so now 260. this is when you start feeling that arrow and that is 275 i could have kept going but honestly i already know that it won't go faster so i'm just going to head out to the gas station and bring the car back to peter man what an awesome car you've got peter thank you so much for taking it to us really really enjoyed driving it it is freaking awesome to you guys hope you enjoyed it you can subscribe by clicking the big button in the middle you can also check out this video on the right or go check out this playlist on the left see the next one bye\n"