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Past Gas

S2 Ep3: The Golden Era of JDM: Honda Hacked The Gas Crisis

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.97.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're exploring how Japanese automakers fared during the gas crisis of the early 1970's. What led to them being in the right place at the right time? How did they expand across the globe so seamlessly? And what makes Honda's CVCC engine so revolutionary for the time? All of this and more on this week's episode.

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Picture this. It's late 1973 and Japan wakes to a new economic unease. Oil price shocks

0:57.8

are rippling across the globe. At first, the crisis still feels abstract, something unfolding

1:03.8

thousands of miles away in places most Japanese people have never thought much about. But then, reality hits.

1:15.6

Gas stations in Yokohama have lines forming before sunrise.

1:18.6

Taxi drivers in Osaka are grumbling that their daily allotment has been cut.

1:23.6

On the Tomei Expressway, cars crawl past roadside signs, warning of fuel conservation

1:29.7

enforcement. Nothing explodes all at once, but the distance between routine and disruption

1:38.5

suddenly feels uncomfortably small. Across the Pacific, the same tension is playing out in real time.

1:47.6

Good evening. Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem that's

1:53.9

unprecedented in our history. The energy crisis is not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not

2:00.7

act quickly.

2:03.1

Grainy news clips frame it as a full-blown crisis. Fist fights are breaking out at gas stations.

2:09.4

Executives pace the floors of their Detroit factories. A country built on big engines and cheap fuel

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