I recently went with my girlfriend to a family function of hers. One of her sisters had a new boyfriend over, he apparently manages a mechanic shop. Dude was a walking red flag. Looking down on the food because he would rather have a t-bone steak (the food was fine, but wasn’t fancy). Interupting and talking over…

Not my buddy, but according to the internet, everyone else has a buddy that saw 50hp+ gains by only adding a “chip” or a “tune” to a naturally aspirated car.  Usually the car is a Civic or an Altima, with the aforementioned G37 often in the mix as well.

I had a black ‘95 3-door. Best gearbox ever. Used to eat G60s for breakfast.

They barely sell any of them, if you hadn’t noticed. The only coupes sold by other makes are carryover platform sharing from other models that they’ve already paid for the development on. The new Integra is a rebadged ILX that was not sold as a coupe. Acura has not sold a coupe of any sort since the last Integra (RSX)…

If it’s the same price as the CTR, I’ll shut up. At $45k this car actually makes a lot of sense.

How to surprise and annoy your NSX friends as a former delSol owner: when they’re explaining how the targa on their NSX works, lift your side up and say “same latch as on my delSol”.

On Japanese 98 Octane

Yeah they could sell it as the Del Sol in Honda Livery or the MR2 in Toyota. Although I suspect Toyota is probably content with 2 sport coupes that don’t make them any significant money, I doubt they want a third.

The manual take rate was pretty high on the Integra.  In fact it was surprisingly higher than they anticipated.  Most articles stated approx. 3:1 manual to CVT.

He’s only correct because some big, dumb idiot will actually buy it with $15k ADM.

So it’s basically like an Audi S3 to VW’s Golf R. Slightly nicer interior but other than that it’s a sedan and a loss in practicality, only reason to buy is the brand, which isn’t much with Acura being Acura these days...

No, a pointless money grab would’ve been building a small HR-V based crossover and badging it as an Integra. 

I wanted to buy the Integra when it was first announced that it was coming back.

“If that’s the market, why is this sitting here and not on someone’s garage?”

It’s following the same logic as the EP3/DC5 of the early 00s. The base integra is a civic SI, the integra-S is a civic R, and there was eventually an integra R a slot above that.

This is not a type R, this is a type S and is following the same model logic as the EP3/DC5 Civic and Integra. Base integra = civic SI, integra-S = Civic R, integra R = a step above that. That was the structure they went to when the market for sport compacts started to fall off and they needed to condense the lineup…

I think it will give dealers the idea that they can tack on a huge premium as there are limited options for manual vehicles these days.

Historically, the Integra was a different model from the Civic, and featured its own interior designs, drivetrain options, suspension tuning, and most critically, different bodystyles. The two models shared a platform, sure, but that was about it, and it definitely doesn’t warrant the “always the same” argument people…

Pfsh you 90s JDM kids are always saying “Integra this” and “Prelude that,” I want to know when they’re bringing the Del Sol back?

The Integra had a bunch more power than the civic, and way more aggressive suspension. In 1993 the slowest Integra you could get had 140 hp, the slowest Civic had 71 hp (!). The absolute fastest Civic you could get in ‘93 had 125 hp.