Would you consider that the Acura Integra model is now 40 years earlier? We did not every, nonetheless we appeared it up and it is true. Technically, 2026 marks 40 years since Acura’s compact sports activities actions actions sedan (and usually coupe) debuted, and in that point it has given us some truly implausible autos. To mark this enormous day, Acura is giving the automotive a makeover for the 2026 mannequin 12 months.
It’s not a grand makeover. Very like the usual particular particular person turning 40, there are some seen tweaks, physique upgrades, and a few new tech to assist make you are feeling modern. In fact, everybody is aware of the Integra took a siesta for just a few a really very long time before the current-generation automotive arrived, nonetheless hey, 40 is 40, appropriate?
New Physique Bundle, New Colours. The Good Method To Flip 40
The 2026 Acura Integra A-Spec will get the full-on midlife disaster treatment. Its new physique gear, with gloss black flics on every nook of the doorway bumper and new side skirts are a cry for consideration. The A-Spec has a makeover inside, too. It provides new blue microsuede inserts contained in the off-white Orchid leather-based cabin choice, whereas the usual black inside will get yellow stitching. The nice crimson that’s Acura’s signature sticks spherical, too.
Each Integra will get new sprint trim this 12 months. The automotive furthermore will get a mannequin new 9-inch middle present show, two inches better than before. Wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and a wi-fi cellphone charger at the moment are common, too. Closing 12 months you wished so as in order so as to add the Expertise Bundle deal to the A-Spec to get all of these decisions, so the mannequin new automotive is a better deal. Acura has furthermore plugged a sooner processor into the present show this 12 months, one issue we might all use as rapidly as we flip 40.
There are three new paint colours: Image voltaic Silver, Metropolis Gray, and Double Apex Blue. Double Apex Blue debuted on the ZDX EV final 12 months, and before that it was on the Selection S Idea. It is brighter than the sooner coloration on account of nano-pigments and a selected clear coat. Anticipate single Apex Blue and a few of final 12 months’s fully totally different shades to fade.
Nonetheless in case you get the mannequin new blue or Effectivity Pink Pearl, you now get a color-matched grille as a replacement of gloss black. It is a large seen improve. You presumably can ask to get gloss black as soon as extra as an adjunct, and furthermore, you can get color-matched on Metropolis Grey and Platinum White.
Six Tempo Stays In The Lineup
Acura will nonetheless present the six-speed data on the Integra. We’ll assume that it’s going to nonetheless solely be in the marketplace on the A-Spec with Expertise Bundle deal, making the driving stress’s automotive the most costly one. And the (costlier) Selection S, the reality is, nonetheless this launch would not embrace that automotive. That is truly the Integra’s largest flaw – not giving us a stick contained in the less-expensive trim. The second-biggest? The aforementioned lack of a body-color grille, which we’re cosy to say is now rectified.
The entire objects else stays the same. The 1.5-liter turbo-four makes 200 horsepower and 192 pound-feet of torque, and although Acura calls it VTEC, all people is conscious of it actually won’t be. Vehicles with out the stick will get a CVT very like final 12 months. Gasoline monetary system moreover should protect the same, with the underside mannequin at 30 mpg metropolis and 37 freeway. The A-Spec CVTs are rated at 29/36, and the six-speed at 26/36.
Anticipate the Ohio-built 2026 Acura Integra at sellers in August. The automaker did not reveal the value, nonetheless it’s a protected wager that 2026 will see a beginning MSRP elevated than 2025’s $34,195, together with a $1,195 journey spot value.