The original ’80s Integra feels like…a normal car from today, and that's hugely significant.
first drove the 1986 Acura Integra, the first of two cars from Honda's new Acura brand, on a day-long cruise through Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. We still didn't have a clear idea of what the Acura division would be, let alone the impact the Japanese overall would have on the American luxury car market; that wouldn't become apparent until
diagonal-pattern upholstery, the thickly bolstered front seats could have come out of a brand-new car. They are certainly nothing like the flat bench seats found in American cars of the era. In the muscle-car '60s—not too distant in 1985's rearview mirror—1-horsepower per cubic inch was the Holy Grail. The Integra drew a righteous 113 horsepower from a mere 97 cubic inches, this at a time when GM's 231-cid V-6 only delivered 110. We clocked the then-new 1986 Acura Integra to 60 in 8.9 seconds, just 1.8 seconds behind a 1985 Ford Mustang GT.Today we're driving this classic Integra amid fast-moving Los Angeles traffic, and it's a struggle.
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