Confirmed: The next-gen Acura Integra to be a five door liftback

We’ve seen a teaser of the front end, but now Acura has confirmed that its new Integra will feature a five-door liftback design, akin to the first-gen Integra five-door originally released in the United States back in 1986:

This could mean that the new Integra is at least partly based on the brand-new Civic Hatchback, but we’ll leave the speculation to the peanut gallery.

Comments

Colin Wood Associate Editor
9/28/21 3:30 p.m.

For reference, the Civic Hatch at a similar angle as the teaser image above:

pointofdeparture GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
9/28/21 3:55 p.m.

Even if it's just a Civic Hatch derivative my interest is piqued. If they end up offering something that's basically a more luxurious Civic Type-R, manual transmission included, I'd be a candidate to buy a new one.

David S. Wallens Editorial Director
9/28/21 3:58 p.m.

So is this new Integra basically a renamed ILX?

z31maniac MegaDork
9/28/21 4:01 p.m.

pointofdeparture said:
Even if it's just a Civic Hatch derivative my interest is piqued. If they end up offering something that's basically a more luxurious Civic Type-R, manual transmission included, I'd be a candidate to buy a new one.

Whew, that would be what........like a $45k-50k FWD car?

bmw88rider GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
9/28/21 4:55 p.m.

In reply to z31maniac :

The Type R is already a 45K car anyways out the door.

captdownshift (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
9/28/21 4:57 p.m.

I'm glad to hear that it will be a lift back. I will reserve any and all other judgment until full details and images are out.

Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
9/28/21 5:33 p.m.

5 door? My interest just went to zero.

A choice of 3 or 5 is fine, but 5 only kills it for me.

noddaz GRM+ Memberand UberDork
9/28/21 5:52 p.m.

So sad.

And I do realize that there is virtually no market for a 2 door Integra.

That does not make me feel any better.

pointofdeparture GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
9/28/21 5:53 p.m.

In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :

3-door hatchbacks are basically dead in the US. I think VW was the last holdout with the GTI and they stopped selling those 5 years ago now. People just don't buy them, and I definitely wouldn't expect anyone to introduce a new one here anytime soon.

David S. Wallens Editorial Director
9/28/21 6:46 p.m.

If people bought three-door hatchbacks as new cars, they'd be popular in today's market. But people don't, so they're not.