Surely you know John Cena from his fights in the NFL and WWE, although we have to tell you that he has partially retired from show business, as he will continue as an ambassador. Perhaps his face is more familiar to you because it is that of Jakob Toretto in “Fast and Furious”, Tom’s ‘lost’ brother who over time has become a key figure in the development of the saga. Well then, John Cena, like his alter ego Jakob, likes good cars and drives a spectacular 2024 Honda Civic Type R after falling in love with it on a visit to the dealership that the Japanese brand has in Wesley Chapel, Florida, curiously after leaving another 2021 Type R for review.
Almost 2 years after that crush, John’s heart is ‘beating’ strongly again. Cena has gone to these same facilities to undergo the relevant inspection of his Civic Type R with more than 300 HP… when he has fallen in love with another Honda. Let us remember that the Civic Type R is no longer sold in Spain, but it is in the US, where it is available starting at $45,895 with 315 HP and a six-speed manual gearbox. The crush, on this occasion, was with a completely opposite vehicle as can be seen in this official photo on his Instagram account, in which he has almost 52,000 likes and more than 600 people have left a comment.
This is John Cena’s Honda Prelude
The actor-fighter himself clarifies it on social networks. In his official X account he comments precisely what we explained a few lines above, that he fell in love with the new Prelude. And he already has one. The American Prelude starts at $42,000 for the one-color body and $42,500 for the two-tone. In both cases, the hybrid system approves 200 HP compared to the European’s 184 HP due to environmental limitations. Cena’s Prelude is in Racing Blue Pearl and he’s looking forward to putting in a lot of miles to see “what it can do.”
John Cena’s relationship with Honda goes beyond that of a fan as Cena voices the Japanese brand’s television advertisements in North America. One of Honda’s best spots bears its stamp because in the voiceover and in the video references are made to Ayrton Senna and Max Verstappen.
Carlos is an expert journalist in cars and automotives with a career in the media for more than 16 years. He landed at Car and Driver in 2007, where his main occupation is product testing, which he shows to the audience through videos on YouTube and extensive web and paper analysis of the latest news presented. As a motor enthusiast that he is, you can also read him interviewing different leaders in the sector, giving you the latest news related to driving and telling you the most surprising curiosities about the leading brands.
His extensive career also includes work in other media such as El Mundo, Coche Actual and AutoScout24, and he made his first appearance on television in the interview program “El Círculo Neox”, broadcast on the Atresmedia channel of the same name. Long before that, practically as a child, he was a reader of Car and Driver, when the masthead was directed by the Formula 1 driver Emilio de Villota, with whom he was lucky enough to work.
Within the Hearst Spain publishing group, Carlos has written the motor sections of magazines such as Qué Me Dices, Emprendedores and deViajes and now he does it every day in Car and Driver and occasionally in Esquire. If he is not in the office, you will find him on a plane heading to any part of the world with one purpose: to drive the latest novelty on the market, whether it has batteries or not. Ah! And he is a fervent defender of the classics, although he no longer has his Volkswagen Golf GTI mk3.
Thanks to his work, he has been lucky enough to race a Mercedes-AMG GT in Laguna Seca and has made his debut as a driver on the legendary Nordschleife driving a BMW M2. He has also visited such exotic places as the Dhofar mountains in Oman, which he visited aboard an Audi RS 3 Sedan; the spectacular Vancouver Island, which he traveled through in a Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo; and the beaches of Essaouira thanks to the wild Ford Ranger Raptor.
