The Acura Integra has lengthy been, basically, a dressy Honda Civic. It’s beloved because the entry level to the world of luxurious and efficiency vehicles – a automobile that may simply do day by day driver responsibility however has a little bit sport sedan avenue cred.

However a few of us put sizzling sauce on our eggs. For drivers intent on pushing their automobile’s athleticism a little bit extra, there’s the Type S.

For 2024, the Integra Kind S will begin at $50,800, plus a $1,195 vacation spot charge.

And sure, it nonetheless has Civic bones. Honda builds a high-performance Civic, the Type R. That automobile shares most of its components with one in every of America’s foremost reasonably priced commuting vehicles. However Honda engineers have used each trick in each one in every of their books to juice it to the purpose that it not too long ago took the front-wheel-drive automobile document at Germany’s famed Nürburgring monitor (albeit with a light-weight mannequin not destined for the U.S.)

The Civic Kind R begins at $43,795.

The premium for the Acura badge and tuning, then, is about $7,000.

For the additional cash, you get 5 extra horsepower – the two.0-liter turbocharged powerplant makes a complete of 320. Luxuries like a 16-speaker ELS Studio 3D audio system that beats the 12-speaker Bose unit within the Kind R come alongside.

The Integra Kind S rides on sticky Michelin Pilot Sport 4S high-performance summer time tires, and will get a performance-tuned Adaptive Damper System to reinforce dealing with. A limited-slip differential retains the steering exact. Patrons get only one transmission possibility, but it surely’s the correct one – a 6-speed handbook.

The Kind S arrives at dealerships subsequent month. In case you can’t wait, Acura plans to take reservations for 200 of them earlier than they attain gross sales heaps. Consumers can go to acura.com/integra to seize one beginning Might 11 at 7:00 a.m. Jap/10:00 a.m. Pacific.