Jay Leno's Honda S600, NSU Spider, and Fiat Millecento

[@UncleTravelingMatt2]

This engine even SOUNDS like a signature Honda engine. Those who know the signature sound of a more modern B series, H series or K series VTEC engine, they all sound like this. It’s incredible. I love how you saw the Integra in front of it too. Honda motors are incredible.

[@miker.1804]

Made me smile..Jay and Dennis make a good team

[@klaushaunstrupchristensen7252]

The Fiat 1100 bringes back sneet memories from my early childhood. My father bought one in 1961 but my parents version was a Neckar Europa an 1100 produced under license in Germany. The reason he picked this was because it came with a folding rear seats (if memory serves me correctly). It was a lovely car with only one problem that it was somewhat overcooled during winters in Denmark. The cooling system probably works perfectly in Italy and California, the same in Denmark during summers. What my father ultimately ended up doing was to partly block off the air supply to the radiator with a piece of plywood during winter’s. Come April and the device came off, come November and it came back on 😃. It worked perfectly. If I am not mistaken the 1100 had an adjustable air filter where you could change the pickup point of the incoming air. During summer it drafted cold air from the front. During winter it could be rotated or changed somehow so the incoming air came from preheated area (this last feature might be from another of his car’s but I think it was the 1100). Oh what a time, to cruise down the streets at the age of 4 with my father in the driving seat. That when one really reaches the pinnacle of one’s life!

[@reho7387]

The S600 reminds me of the sound of the motorcycles, late at night, racing up and down the local freeways near my home.

[@timhancock6626]

They could chew up piston rings if you over used the revs. The Honda S800 was not quite so interesting, but made more sense as it had a simpler rear axle. Another little gem from Jay. Love it !

[@albertseabra9226]

Wonderful little Convertible. Drove one several times truly funny and pleasant. Thank you for another fantastic Video.

[@justinjoseph6966]

Nobody makes better engines than Honda! They’re absolutely bulletproof and you can modify them six ways from Sunday to get more power out of them!

[@SelectCircle]

No point winning the lottery - because Jay already has all the sweet rides. : (

[@captianfish6957]

5:40 "There is more room than ina ina a sprite🤣🤣🤣"

[@milanrotar8176]

Dennis gage! Love your show started watching it on rev'n till i couldn't. Thank god for KZbin

[@theturtle2121]

Great episode. Love the flip phone Jay!👍.

[@Troy_nov1965]

Episode aired 3 May 2009 thats why he is using a flip phone.

[@MrWolfSnack]

@@Troy_nov1965 I still use a flip phone.

[@Troy_nov1965]

@@MrWolfSnack actually I do too

[@4looming]

That sound is fantastic!

[@dbo6568]

I love how excited they are . Kinda like kids. I love Honda. Just bought my second Honda. I have nothing but good things to say about the company. Plus it suits me because I am thrifty. Happy 42O from Canada

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

Literally laughed out loud several times... you two are always hilarious together!

[@christophermay4998]

All 3 of these car's fit my personality......easy to drive and extremely efficient......👍👍 only thing missing is easy to get parts for......

[@arturasstatkus8613]

Thank You,Sir,For Great Video😉👍

[@thomas9079]

Awesome!

[@benjaminmatte5225]

I love that Honda

[@MrHurricaneFloyd]

Although the rotary engine fires 3 times per rotation of the rotor it only fires once per rotation of the crankshaft.

[@catlady8324]

Very interesting. Thank you. 👍

[@christophermay4998]

That integra looked like a giant Cadillac next to the 600 Honda......lol

[@the1realanalogman]

Cool!

[@600miles]

1:25 actually it's 606cc and if it's a '64 where's your glass headlight covers? 3:27 Slant 6...I had the license plate SLANT 4 on my '66 s600. Fun fact - the sun visor is the radio antenna.

[@denbofrancisco6958]

The S600 sounds like the vehicles used by Marvin Martian's minions to chase Bugs Bunny in that one episode...

[@danmeeker3203]

What's the white car in the background at 11:33?

[@SelectCircle]

Yeah - what is that? o_O Looks like a Jaguar and a Thunderbird had a baby. ... O_o

[@peterdelage6759]

It is a Mazda Cosmos Sport the First twin rotary wankel engine

[@townsey5612]

Mazda Cosmo. Its on jays channel

[@oneoldcarnut8342]

I am not sure if this is the Honda engine that cast the cooling fins and their cover all in one piece with the head! That was in of itself one of the coolest manufacturing tricks ever seen That NSU also cool in Germany those were in all of the kids hands when I was there. One last brag... not my first accident but a one of the first accidents I had was a RO 80 blasted me in the back. Before I could say Wankel I was hit by one on the autobahn.

[@jimmyfizzy]

I know I'm off subject Jay, I would like to see any of the big 3 go back to a straight 6 with the 3 or 4 on the tree.

[@playwme3]

I wanna see someone do a resto Mod and put a 6 on the tree. Or to give it a better ring , a 2x3 on the tree.

[@michaelhilber8284]

Fiat Topolino, right behind the Fiat Millecento is nice too. The Millecento looks a lot like the Giullietta sedan.

[@cybair9341]

1100 cc is powerful enough to flow with the traffic. I know because I drove my Pontiac Firefly 1000 cc for 14 years in Canada.

[@sergeymatpoc]

this sound is a heritage. B and K engine series sound the same ).

[@efrenreyes7751]

Mr jl nice hair cut!!

[@Redmenace96]

WE carnuts like the sound. In 1964 it would have been a hard sell to American public. (S600 Honda) If they didn't say it in this vid, the S600 was 1500 lbs? It still seems high. I would look at it and think, 1250 lbs. Roller crank and rear chain drive may have been heavier than I know?

[@mebeasensei]

Interesting..Jay says 57Hp not good enough for US in 1964, but the Beetle? 35HP? Sold plenty of them.

[@happygorilla8518]

I want one of each baddddddddd!

[@alexander1485]

what will happen to jay lenos collection when he dies? im just super curious.

[@jamesjetty625]

ganymedeIV4 Jay will end up being buried in them cause he never learned to share!! Ask Letterman and O’Brien about there Leno back scars

[@mikelewis762]

Listen to NSU by Cream.....great song!!

[@paradigmshifter0146]

Sell me that car J, it would look nice cruising on the Jamaican streets turning heads.

[@bodarville7860]

Does Jay own a Trabant?

[@AlainHubert]

This is definitely not from 2018. More like 2008.

[@sandwichman100]

now he needs the S800 Sports version

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

NSU was known as Not So Useful as they wasnt reliable and parts were not readily available.

[@elijahhankins1762]

🌴😀🌴

[@k.b.2750]

What year was this interview? Jay is 68 now - this footage must be almost 7 - 8 years old? Was this featured for Season 22 in 2018? Wasn't this footage taken from your Season 14 (or earlier) shoot? Looks like Jay is wearing the same clothes / watch and some of the backgrounds are the same from that season of shows.. It looks as though Dennis is wearing the same pleated pants / shirt / hat as in the Season 14 episode 2 (Jay Leno's projects). 2008 on the registration sticker for the NSU.

[@rayrodrigo3999]

Wearing the same clothes???? 😂😂😂😂

[@hypnotised-clover]

Why did jay do a romanian accent in his Italian car?

[@fernandoromero3724]

PRECIOSOS EUROCLÁSICOS!!!

[@bennyhannover9361]

Fiat produced that Millecento for a full decade! 1953 to 1962. Afterwards was a 1100 R between 1962 and 1966. So it was actually even longer. But the tradition of this car class at F.i.A.T. was even longer as they started with the Balilla Mille in 1932 and evolved it to 508 Millecento in 1935 and to Nuova Millecento in 1938, which was produced to 1942 and then again from 1946 to 1953. Until the model series shown here started.

[@batoutdahell3084]

No on the rotary engine theres 3 power explosion on one rotation

[@Arayig1982]

Actually the germans meaning nsu did later perfect the wankel engine, but gave up on it, and vw helped turn nsu into a revived audi nameplate taking fwd tech and all with it.

[@BlueFlyer21]

oh man that what i was thinking this month about gas

[@JesusGarcia123456789]

Damn he uses a flip phone still

[@efrenreyes7751]

susei aicrag yup and he catch the signal from his mustache

[@Troy_nov1965]

Episode aired 3 May 2009

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

You ain't getting rich paying for a bunch of data!

[@dorcom]

I just watched a JLG clip produced a few months ago, how much more "alive" jay is in this six year old clip by comparison.... 😥

[@MyClassicCarTV]

This was shot roughly 20 years ago.

[@specialized29er86]

Any engine with the word WANK in it must be a good engine.

[@jaredmehrlich6683]

Baba Booey Baba Booey Baba Booey.

[@BlueFlyer21]

my 73 mustang owns the freeway ,

[@alexander1485]

when can I get a ride?

[@BlueFlyer21]

7am tomrrow . santee to pb , lets go , if your in the #1 lane at that time you will get auhmm milk

[@alexander1485]

No spaces before commas/periods.... FYI.

[@martinda7446]

You can keep your ugly Lamborghinis and the like, my garage would have an S800 coupe and a Mini Mk1 for town and a Gilbern GT and an Ogle 1000 and a Ginetta and MG TC and Lancia (a few) and Alfa (a few) and GT6 and and...I woke up. It's like trying to tell someone your favourite song, book or movie...Impossible

[@richcar3434]

Gee...what a gyp, you coulda fired up the rotory car to at least hear it idling.

[@sashaseecharan3964]

Knife car