The Acura Integra has long been, essentially, a dressy Honda Civic. It’s beloved as the entry point to the world of luxury and performance cars – a car that can easily do daily driver duty but has a little sport sedan street cred.
But some of us put hot sauce on our eggs. For drivers intent on pushing their car’s athleticism a little more, there’s the Type S.
For 2024, the Integra Type S will start at $50,800, plus a $1,195 destination fee.
And yes, it still has Civic bones. Honda builds a high-performance Civic, the Type R. That car shares most of its parts with one of America’s foremost affordable commuting cars. But Honda engineers have used every trick in every one of their books to juice it to the point that it recently took the front-wheel-drive car record at Germany’s famed Nürburgring track (albeit with a lightweight model not destined for the U.S.)
The Civic Type R starts at $43,795.
The premium for the Acura badge and tuning, then, is about $7,000.
For the extra money, you get 5 more horsepower – the 2.0-liter turbocharged powerplant makes a total of 320. Luxuries like a 16-speaker ELS Studio 3D audio system that beats the 12-speaker Bose unit in the Type R come along.
The Integra Type S rides on sticky Michelin Pilot Sport 4S high-performance summer tires, and gets a performance-tuned Adaptive Damper System to enhance handling. A limited-slip differential keeps the steering precise. Buyers get just one transmission option, but it’s the right one – a 6-speed manual.
The Type S arrives at dealerships next month. If you can’t wait, Acura plans to take reservations for 200 of them before they reach sales lots. Shoppers can go to acura.com/integra to grab one starting May 11 at 7:00 a.m. Eastern/10:00 a.m. Pacific.
