The Acura Integra will be reborn this week.
Acura will take the wraps off the 2023 Integra on Thursday in an event live-streamed for fans. Acura officially describes the car that will make its appearance this week as a prototype. But the brand has a history of revealing prototypes that change little, if at all, before production. So we expect the car we see Thursday to be very close to the model that will reach showrooms as a 2023 model.
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A Car with History
If you asked Americans what the most recognizable Acura product was, you’d probably start a fight.
Some would defend the NSX track-ready supercar, which will be retired after the 2022 model year. But the rest would point to the Integra, which brought inexpensive performance to millions of buyers between 1986 and 2001.
Originally a 5-door hatchback sharing many parts with the Honda Civic, it helped build the Acura brand name in the United States.
What We Know Today
In August, Acura announced that the Integra name would return. Since then, they’ve also promised that it would retain the 5-door liftback shape of the classic Integra and would be available with a 6-speed manual transmission.
Honda recently revealed a performance-oriented version of the 2022 Civic, the Civic Si, and teased another, the Civic Type-R. Historically, Integras share many parts with the Civic lineup, so all of the pieces seem to be in place for an Integra once again built on the Civic platform.
We’ll learn the rest in a few days. Stay tuned
