As the comments should clearly indicate by now, people don’t remember the sedan (and hatch) and for good reason. If you’re gonna revive a storied nameplate, then make sure you are using the things that made it memorable in the first place.
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The A90 Supra is NOTHING in the vein of the A80.
People don’t remember the Integra for its normal variants. They remember it for its special variants. That means coupe, that means revs, that means exquisite attention to driving dynamics. You don’t use a historic nameplate because of the mundane things associated to it, you use it because it has cred with enthusiasts.
The “Integra” graphic is just so you know it isn’t an ILX.
Who cares if the “normal consumer” wants crossovers? This website does not serve most of those people.
The graphic on the side exists to shout “I really am an Integra!” because the styling otherwise doesn’t say that at all. Also to hide how fat the car truly is.
Boom, you got it.
The GTI had a nice interior. Now at Mk. 8 it’s a plastic, capacitive-ridden apocalypse with a barely functioning software suite and a distinct lack of the humanity in the cabin that was present through the Mk. 7.
The Integra name should stay retired rather than used on a cross-over.
The “Zupra” deserves the criticism. It’s a fine car that shouldn’t be wearing the “Supra” badge because it shares neither ethos (GT car, not sports car) nor engineering pedigree (Japanese, not German) with historical Supras.
They didn’t bring back an old concept, though, just an old nameplate. Like it not, the dominating memory of the Integra is of the Type R coupe; rebadging what is visually an ILX with the “Integra” nameplate is not how you successfully tap the nostalgia.
Most brands either have a persistent model name with a traceable lineage to evolve into the sameness, or they are using new names altogether for a market segment option.
Problem is they are trying to cash in on nostalgia by using the Integra name, but doing literally nothing else to earn it.
Except the one time it wasn’t, not that your statement does anything at all to assuage my lamentation that it’s only a hatch.
Please read what I said again, more slowly, because you are putting words in my mouth that aren’t there. I absolutely recognize history from before, I’m just pointing out that the times we’re in today are comparably historic to the turn of last century with an eye toward low-key chastising the general public letting…
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Standford, Mellon, and Ford.
Indestructible Kims aside, yellow-shirts in VOY (and DS9) were still an endangered species. I do think VOY spread some of the predation to blue-shirts, IIRC.
What an uninspired Civic body kit this is. Save the dosh and just buy the Si, which is more honest about what it is and looks nicer to boot.
Those uniforms concern me; yellow-shirts in TNG are like red-shirts in TOS.
Parts obsolescence...*cries in MY1990 ZR-1*.