30 grand puts it at the same price as a GR86. Unless you REALLY use the backseats often, I don't know why you would get this over the Toyota. Probably ride comfort and interior might be other reasons I guess.
So much promise, only to result in so much fail...... If they wanted to play dress up and re-badge a Honda Civic hatchback, they should have kept calling it a ILX. Everything about the original Integra was more than a re-badged Civic. It drove way different, felt and looked like a sports enthusiast car, and had an aura about it unlike an econo car. Looking at this turd, I'd rather buy a high end Honda Civic This is extreme laziness
Looks like a 5-door mini-TLX with a deformed butt. Not for me, but it's got appeal, I guess. At that price, it needs to be packing a bit more power. Most performance types are going to probably wait for a Type-S or something, but then I don't know how many people are going to fork over probably $35-40k for one. This is definitely aimed at the 25-35'ish year olds, I think.
I don't think it looks like a rebadged Civic at all. The problem is it looks like a smaller TLX. I am not a fan of Acura's current design language. For the Integra they should have leaned in on the nostalgic look. This looks like some car that they decided to name the Integra. Agree it should have just been called the ILX.
The body actually reminds me of the accord Turning a 2 door beloved sports coup into a family sedan doesn't make any sense, why bring back the name for a totally different car Random mans photoshop re-design
The original Integra was both a 2-door and 4-door (well, actually a 3 and 5 door, I guess) and was the Honda Integra (in Japan) before it was the Acura Integra (in the US). The whole "Acura" thing was for the US market (maybe the North American market). It was also somewhat based on a Civic with upgraded suspension and other stuff from what I recall. I don't think anybody's going to know what this thing is capable of until they find out if there's an S-Type or R-Type. I'm actually surprised Acura decided to bring it out since cars don't sell very well to begin with and then a $30k+ car without much oomph from the looks of it? Hmm... They threw in a 6-speed as a bone to people that are still into those, I guess, because they never sold well in other trims in recent memory.
I think the opposite. The Civic has gone sort of insane in styling especially the Type R and this give an option of a Civic Si but with less crazy styling. Ford did the same thing with the Escape (understated soft styling) in contrast to the Bronco Sports hard edge styling on basically the same platform. It's a good car, has nice interior and materials and no one gives a crap about what platform is. Brand recognition is important (Acura) and bringing back well known name plates has been insanely successful.
