2023 Acura Integra First Drive Review: Just what we wanted
The new Integra puts Acura back on the map for affordable, engaging sport compacts
Getting caught up in the hype machine of retired car names pulling a Tom Brady is easy to do these days — there are so many examples to point at, and they just keep coming. The 2023 Acura Integra adds to this growing list. Expectations are high; unreasonably high if you listen to internet commenters. Autonewscars.
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An entire generation grew up, got their driver’s licenses and graduated high school in what we’ll call the Integra Drought that began when the last Acura Integra rolled off the line for the 2001 model year. And while Acura likes to think of the 2002-2006 RSX as the “fourth generation” since it was called Integra overseas, it’s meaningful that it was not called that here in the United States. You can tell how meaningful it is by observing how big of a deal Acura is treating the revival of the “Integra” name today — at this point, you’ve surely seen one of its numerous advertisements. In short, it symbolizes Acura’s serious return to a small, sporty and enthusiast-focused compact car. The outgoing ILX never captured the zeitgeist of sport compacts in the 2010s, and it faded into the background of a much larger and better small luxury car scene. It wasn’t an Integra, and Acura never pretended that it was.
2023 acura integra type r,
2023 acura integra interior,
2023 acura integra commercial,
2023 acura integra a spec,
2023 acura integra type s,
2023 acura integra test drive,
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2023 acura integra manual transmision,
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2023 acura integra base,
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2023 acura integra exhaust sound,
2023 acura integra reveal,
To sort out what the new 2023 Integra is and isn’t, Autoblog sent me (a longtime and current 2001 Acura Integra GS-R owner) to Austin, Texas, where I was able to drive it in the city, on wide-open Texas highways and through winding switchbacks. Unlike some new Acura models that were largely developed in the U.S., the Integra was developed in Japan. The design was handled at the Wako Studio outside of Tokyo, engineering work was done in Tochigi. Meanwhile, production is exclusively taking place in Marysville, Ohio, on the same line as the TLX. Many of those involved in the development of the new Integra also worked on previous generations of the car, so you can trust that Acura/Honda developed the new one with its history being top-of-mind.
Just like Integras of the past, everything starts with the Civic.
The new Integra puts Acura back on the map for affordable, engaging sport compacts
Getting caught up in the hype machine of retired car names pulling a Tom Brady is easy to do these days — there are so many examples to point at, and they just keep coming. The 2023 Acura Integra adds to this growing list. Expectations are high; unreasonably high if you listen to internet commenters. Autonewscars.
2023 acura integra type r,
2023 acura integra interior,
2023 acura integra commercial,
2023 acura integra a spec,
2023 acura integra type s,
2023 acura integra test drive,
2023 acura integra exhaust,
2023 acura integra coupe,
2023 acura integra manual transmision,
2023 acura integra drive,
2023 acura integra base,
2023 acura integra white,
2023 acura integra exhaust sound,
2023 acura integra reveal,
An entire generation grew up, got their driver’s licenses and graduated high school in what we’ll call the Integra Drought that began when the last Acura Integra rolled off the line for the 2001 model year. And while Acura likes to think of the 2002-2006 RSX as the “fourth generation” since it was called Integra overseas, it’s meaningful that it was not called that here in the United States. You can tell how meaningful it is by observing how big of a deal Acura is treating the revival of the “Integra” name today — at this point, you’ve surely seen one of its numerous advertisements. In short, it symbolizes Acura’s serious return to a small, sporty and enthusiast-focused compact car. The outgoing ILX never captured the zeitgeist of sport compacts in the 2010s, and it faded into the background of a much larger and better small luxury car scene. It wasn’t an Integra, and Acura never pretended that it was.
2023 acura integra type r,
2023 acura integra interior,
2023 acura integra commercial,
2023 acura integra a spec,
2023 acura integra type s,
2023 acura integra test drive,
2023 acura integra exhaust,
2023 acura integra coupe,
2023 acura integra manual transmision,
2023 acura integra drive,
2023 acura integra base,
2023 acura integra white,
2023 acura integra exhaust sound,
2023 acura integra reveal,
To sort out what the new 2023 Integra is and isn’t, Autoblog sent me (a longtime and current 2001 Acura Integra GS-R owner) to Austin, Texas, where I was able to drive it in the city, on wide-open Texas highways and through winding switchbacks. Unlike some new Acura models that were largely developed in the U.S., the Integra was developed in Japan. The design was handled at the Wako Studio outside of Tokyo, engineering work was done in Tochigi. Meanwhile, production is exclusively taking place in Marysville, Ohio, on the same line as the TLX. Many of those involved in the development of the new Integra also worked on previous generations of the car, so you can trust that Acura/Honda developed the new one with its history being top-of-mind.
Just like Integras of the past, everything starts with the Civic.
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