BMW M240i v VW Golf R v Civic Type R - DRAG RACE
**Volkswagen Golf R vs BMW M240i Coupe vs Honda Civic Type R: A Drag Race Showdown**
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### Introduction
Hi, it's Mount Wilton here from Car Wow! Today, we’re bringing you an exciting drag race showdown featuring three high-performance cars: the **Volkswagen Golf R**, the **BMW M240i Coupe**, and the **Honda Civic Type R**. Before we dive into the action-packed race, make sure to subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon for notifications. By doing so, you won’t miss out on any future drag races—because the more subscribers we have, the more cool cars we can bring to you!
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### Meet the Cars
#### **Volkswagen Golf R**
Next to me is the Volkswagen Golf R. Let’s talk about this beast! It comes with a **2-liter turbocharged petrol engine**, delivering **320 horsepower** and **420 Nm of torque**. Power is sent to all four wheels via a **7-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox** with launch control. Weighing in at **1,550 kilos**, the Golf R has a starting price of **£42,000**.
#### **BMW M240i Coupe**
Next up is the **BMW M240i Coupe**. This car packs a **3-liter straight-six single-turbocharged engine**, producing **374 horsepower** and **500 Nm of torque**. It also features all-wheel drive and an 8-speed torque converter automatic gearbox with launch control. However, it’s quite heavy at **1,690 kilos** and priced at **£46,000**, making it a premium contender.
#### **Honda Civic Type R**
Finally, we have the **Honda Civic Type R**. This car might be the most anticipated one here with its **2-liter turbocharged petrol engine**, which also puts out **320 horsepower** and **400 Nm of torque**. However, it’s front-wheel drive and has a manual 6-speed gearbox—not ideal for launching. Despite this, it’s the lightest car in the race at **1,395 kilos** and was the cheapest option when new, starting from **£34,000**.
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### The Drag Race
Before we start, let’s pause the video to compare the stats side by side. A big shoutout goes out to the driver of the Golf R—check him out on Instagram at **golf8r**, and make sure to follow his journey with this car!
Now, onto the race! We begin with a standing quarter-mile drag race. Here’s how it went:
- The **BMW M240i Coupe** claimed victory, finishing in **12.4 seconds**.
- The **Volkswagen Golf R** came in second, completing the quarter mile in **12.7 seconds**.
- The **Honda Civic Type R**, despite its impressive performance, finished last with a time of **14.2 seconds**.
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### Rolling Race
Next up is a rolling race starting from **50 mph**. Both the Golf and BMW are set to **Comfort Mode**, while the Civic is in **fifth gear** and will need to manually change down. The Civic’s manual gearbox proved tricky, but it managed to impress with its quick shifts. In the end, the **Golf R** took the win in this rolling race.
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### Brake Test
Finally, we put all three cars through an emergency brake test from **100 mph**. The lighter Honda Civic Type R came out on top, stopping in a shorter distance than both the Golf and BMW. This was a thrilling moment in the video, showcasing the Civic’s impressive braking capabilities.
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### Conclusion
Thank you for tuning into this drag race showdown! If you enjoyed the video, don’t forget to give it a like and subscribe for more exciting car battles. Click on the pop-up banner or follow the link in the description to explore similar matchups. And if you’re thinking of upgrading your ride, check out **Car Wow**—your one-stop shop for buying, selling, or trading cars.
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### Closing Call-to-Action
Remember, Car Wow makes it easy to sell your old car by uploading photos and a brief description. You can even get a great price without leaving the comfort of your home! So why wait? Click on the link in the description now, or simply google **“wow me carwow”** later.
And as we wrap up this video, one thing is certain: drag racing never fails to wow us—and hopefully, it wowed you too!
Thank you for watching, and see you in the next race!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi how are you mount wilton here from car wow so i'm saturn a volkswagen golf r next to me is the new bmw m240i coupe and next to that is a honda civic type r and we're gonna have a drag race but before we do please make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss any other drag races because the more subscribers this channel has the more cool cars i can get to drag race for you to watch anyway let me tell you about this golf it has a two liter turbocharged petrol engine with 320 horsepower and 420 newton meters of torque it dries all four wheels via a seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control this car weighs in at 1550 kilos and it costs from 42 000 pounds that new bmw m240i has a three liter straight six single turbocharged engine which puts out 374 horsepower and 500 newton meters of torque and it drives all four wheels for an eight-speed torque converter automatic gearbox with launch control but that's a heavy car weighs in at one 1 690 kilos also quite expensive 46 000 pounds finally we come to the honda civic it has a two liter four-cylinder turbocharged petrol with 320 horsepower and 400 newton meters of torque it's got a manual six-speed automatic gearbox which isn't so good for launching and it's front-wheel drive which isn't so good for launching and it doesn't have launch control which makes it not so good for launching still it's light 1 395 kilos also the cheapest car well it was when it was on sale you get them from thirty four thousand pounds anyhow it's in this race because everyone loves a type r now if you wanna compare the stats to these cars side by side just pause the video because we'll give you a graphic now i wanna say a big thanks to the guy who's launched his car if you want to follow him on instagram it's golf8r link's in the description as well and make sure you do follow him and see what he's done with this car finally if you're thinking about changing your car you should change it through car wow not only can you actually check the latest offers on new cars and buy through car wow you can even sell your old car through car wow just upload some photos brief description and add a little bit on your car to make sure you get a good price for it in fact you don't even have to buy cartridges you can just silica through us whatever you want to do if you want to do it now click on the pop-up button up there i'll follow the link in the description if you want it at a later date just google wow me carwel and we will wow you and i wonder if this drag race will wow you well finally we're going to find out buy sell car wow before we race let's do the obligatory car wow sound check so i'm going to rev up this golf when i fear that it'll have a soft limiter my fears were unfounded volkswagen have removed the soft limiter for the r model i am more than happy about this situation maybe i should shut up so you can hear the car i love that we lift off go on rev at the bmw okay that's enough of that and finally let's hear the type r with its three exhaust pipes did you hear anything i didn't hear anything not from here this race that biddle you just flew off the line the civic is dropped that's so quick i'll be able to be where's that civic welcome bmw great launch lovely work brilliant thanks for coming honda what happened to you well i tried traction off that didn't work very well i just sat spinning i tried to feather it that didn't work can i try again with traction on see how that goes please yeah traction sport i think the electronics might be cleverer than your right foot most things are cleverer than my right foot apart from your left foot i mean that's bloody stupid that is i need to do the clutch let's go again oh neck and neck launch it's closer this time oh no he's just increasing his lead though no matter how hard i try i cannot beat the bmw hey civic are you looking forward to the rolling race you know i was really happy with that start i don't think i could have done it much better so yeah the rolling rates will do a lot more this does launch well but if there's no handbrake i can't really control anything but to be fair it did well it's just out class hashtag racing driver excuses so then what exactly happened well the bmw won completing the standing quarter mile in 12.4 seconds the vw was second finishing in 12.7 seconds and the honda was last crossing the line in 14.2 seconds now we have a rolling race from 50 miles an hour the golf and the bmw are in comfort mode so is the honda we've got automatic weight for the gearboxes he's going to be in fifth so he'll have to change down our car's kicked down here we go three two one go kick down oh my god the civic kicked out quick of the meaning you had to change manually enough respect for the driver win for the bmw honda great change down not so good at launching but changing down gear really impressed well done did he use red matching or did you do it yourself i had to do a little bit of rev matching but yeah went in really nice the car actually has its own rev matching but i think it's only available in our mode and you're in comfort weren't you certainly well then you're the best okay we're gonna do the same thing again but this time full sports mode and locked in third gear for the automatics okay here we go we're gonna count it in three two one go oh the pull on this is good it auto changes as well for you civics ahead now can i catch it to the half mile i think i might come on golf bmw's gonna win the sprint to the half mile but can the golf beat the civic i think it did uh no point talking to you bmw was a clear victory really nice pick up by the way civic though you're ahead at first but i think i might just beat you to the half mile i don't know it was pretty close it was almost a flat shift in this i could feel the time loss in the gear change but i think i might have beaten you actually we'll have to get a photo finish on that it was a victory for the golf okay now we have a brake test from 100 miles an hour whichever car stops and the short assistance wins if you'd rather watch another drag race amongst cars in this kind of category click on the pop-up banner up there for the link in the description below to watch that instead if you don't want to stick here we're going to see which car stops first here's the line full emergency stop coming up now come on come on all right well the lighter car won nice victory for you there honda are you pleased with that yeah that's bang on i'll take that now i'm not sure which car stopped in the short distance the bmw or this vw what do you reckon bmw well i'm sitting i think you might have stopped slightly shorter than me oh god i think i'm gonna have to get out to judge you got a long bonnet haven't you it's gonna go against you now it's been great up until now with all the like the acceleration test but breaking the spino oh it's so exciting really if you follow that script here it's the same i think the golf wins i think it's the same what do you reckon i think it's exactly the same where i stand well i can't tell okay i might say it's the same okay it was actually exciting because i don't think ever before in the history of car wow have we had it pretty much exactly the same i don't think there's probably millimeters in it and i don't know which way it is i can't call it my eyes anyway the civic winds these two draw the break test now if you want to see a great offer on one of these cars through car work click on the pop-up banner they'll follow the link in the description below right and don't forget that you can also silly car through car wow dead easy i'd do this with bid on your car make sure you get a good price for it anyhow i hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like click on those windows there for some more videos and on that box there to hmm it's a surprise you have to click it to find out what it ishi how are you mount wilton here from car wow so i'm saturn a volkswagen golf r next to me is the new bmw m240i coupe and next to that is a honda civic type r and we're gonna have a drag race but before we do please make sure you subscribe to this channel and hit the bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss any other drag races because the more subscribers this channel has the more cool cars i can get to drag race for you to watch anyway let me tell you about this golf it has a two liter turbocharged petrol engine with 320 horsepower and 420 newton meters of torque it dries all four wheels via a seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control this car weighs in at 1550 kilos and it costs from 42 000 pounds that new bmw m240i has a three liter straight six single turbocharged engine which puts out 374 horsepower and 500 newton meters of torque and it drives all four wheels for an eight-speed torque converter automatic gearbox with launch control but that's a heavy car weighs in at one 1 690 kilos also quite expensive 46 000 pounds finally we come to the honda civic it has a two liter four-cylinder turbocharged petrol with 320 horsepower and 400 newton meters of torque it's got a manual six-speed automatic gearbox which isn't so good for launching and it's front-wheel drive which isn't so good for launching and it doesn't have launch control which makes it not so good for launching still it's light 1 395 kilos also the cheapest car well it was when it was on sale you get them from thirty four thousand pounds anyhow it's in this race because everyone loves a type r now if you wanna compare the stats to these cars side by side just pause the video because we'll give you a graphic now i wanna say a big thanks to the guy who's launched his car if you want to follow him on instagram it's golf8r link's in the description as well and make sure you do follow him and see what he's done with this car finally if you're thinking about changing your car you should change it through car wow not only can you actually check the latest offers on new cars and buy through car wow you can even sell your old car through car wow just upload some photos brief description and add a little bit on your car to make sure you get a good price for it in fact you don't even have to buy cartridges you can just silica through us whatever you want to do if you want to do it now click on the pop-up button up there i'll follow the link in the description if you want it at a later date just google wow me carwel and we will wow you and i wonder if this drag race will wow you well finally we're going to find out buy sell car wow before we race let's do the obligatory car wow sound check so i'm going to rev up this golf when i fear that it'll have a soft limiter my fears were unfounded volkswagen have removed the soft limiter for the r model i am more than happy about this situation maybe i should shut up so you can hear the car i love that we lift off go on rev at the bmw okay that's enough of that and finally let's hear the type r with its three exhaust pipes did you hear anything i didn't hear anything not from here this race that biddle you just flew off the line the civic is dropped that's so quick i'll be able to be where's that civic welcome bmw great launch lovely work brilliant thanks for coming honda what happened to you well i tried traction off that didn't work very well i just sat spinning i tried to feather it that didn't work can i try again with traction on see how that goes please yeah traction sport i think the electronics might be cleverer than your right foot most things are cleverer than my right foot apart from your left foot i mean that's bloody stupid that is i need to do the clutch let's go again oh neck and neck launch it's closer this time oh no he's just increasing his lead though no matter how hard i try i cannot beat the bmw hey civic are you looking forward to the rolling race you know i was really happy with that start i don't think i could have done it much better so yeah the rolling rates will do a lot more this does launch well but if there's no handbrake i can't really control anything but to be fair it did well it's just out class hashtag racing driver excuses so then what exactly happened well the bmw won completing the standing quarter mile in 12.4 seconds the vw was second finishing in 12.7 seconds and the honda was last crossing the line in 14.2 seconds now we have a rolling race from 50 miles an hour the golf and the bmw are in comfort mode so is the honda we've got automatic weight for the gearboxes he's going to be in fifth so he'll have to change down our car's kicked down here we go three two one go kick down oh my god the civic kicked out quick of the meaning you had to change manually enough respect for the driver win for the bmw honda great change down not so good at launching but changing down gear really impressed well done did he use red matching or did you do it yourself i had to do a little bit of rev matching but yeah went in really nice the car actually has its own rev matching but i think it's only available in our mode and you're in comfort weren't you certainly well then you're the best okay we're gonna do the same thing again but this time full sports mode and locked in third gear for the automatics okay here we go we're gonna count it in three two one go oh the pull on this is good it auto changes as well for you civics ahead now can i catch it to the half mile i think i might come on golf bmw's gonna win the sprint to the half mile but can the golf beat the civic i think it did uh no point talking to you bmw was a clear victory really nice pick up by the way civic though you're ahead at first but i think i might just beat you to the half mile i don't know it was pretty close it was almost a flat shift in this i could feel the time loss in the gear change but i think i might have beaten you actually we'll have to get a photo finish on that it was a victory for the golf okay now we have a brake test from 100 miles an hour whichever car stops and the short assistance wins if you'd rather watch another drag race amongst cars in this kind of category click on the pop-up banner up there for the link in the description below to watch that instead if you don't want to stick here we're going to see which car stops first here's the line full emergency stop coming up now come on come on all right well the lighter car won nice victory for you there honda are you pleased with that yeah that's bang on i'll take that now i'm not sure which car stopped in the short distance the bmw or this vw what do you reckon bmw well i'm sitting i think you might have stopped slightly shorter than me oh god i think i'm gonna have to get out to judge you got a long bonnet haven't you it's gonna go against you now it's been great up until now with all the like the acceleration test but breaking the spino oh it's so exciting really if you follow that script here it's the same i think the golf wins i think it's the same what do you reckon i think it's exactly the same where i stand well i can't tell okay i might say it's the same okay it was actually exciting because i don't think ever before in the history of car wow have we had it pretty much exactly the same i don't think there's probably millimeters in it and i don't know which way it is i can't call it my eyes anyway the civic winds these two draw the break test now if you want to see a great offer on one of these cars through car work click on the pop-up banner they'll follow the link in the description below right and don't forget that you can also silly car through car wow dead easy i'd do this with bid on your car make sure you get a good price for it anyhow i hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like click on those windows there for some more videos and on that box there to hmm it's a surprise you have to click it to find out what it is\n"