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The Integra was a Japanese compact/sports compact car produced by Honda from 1985 to 2006, succeeding the Honda Quint. In North America, the car is sold under the Acura brand, though later models were marketed as the Acura RSX.
It was a much more luxurious and sport-oriented derivative of the Honda Civic. Throughout its production run, the Integra is much aligned for its handling and performance, albeit in its front-engine, front-wheel drive manner. The Integra was offered in either a 3-door coupé, a 4-door sedan of a 5-door liftback.
While Integras were widely common for the masses, in 1995, Honda introduced a high-performance version of the Integra to the Japanese domestic market (JDM), as the Integra Type R, donning the signature red Honda badge. Its 1.8 L DOHC VTEC inline-4 engine was uplifted to 195-197 hp, fitted with a limited-slip differential, aero front spoiler, rear wing, lowered suspension and removed-air conditioning (possibly as means of weight reduction). For its 2001 model, the Integra received a modernized overhaul, using the basis from the seventh-generation Civic as its platform, noted for its "half-circle-on-the-bottom" shaped headlight and taillight clusters, though its 2005 facelift completely removes the half-circle clusters for a flat one.
The Integra ended production in 2006. Though the Integra moniker was resurrected in 2022 as Acura's new 5-door liftback, succeeding the ILX. Another use of the Integra name would see usage for the eleventh-genertation Civic in China.
Advertising
- As a way for Acura to promote their Type S models, Type S: Chiaki's Journey answers all your questions. Title doesn't lie as Season 2 brings out the Cool Car Chiaki uses - a 2023 Acura Integra Type S.
- A Nighthawk Black Pearl DC5 Integra Type-R belonged to Kiritani, one of the Black Organization suspects of Detective Conan.
- The Championship White Integra Type R is the signature vehicle of Todo School student Smiley Sakai of Initial D, where he's happy enough to feint brake in front of you. Though, he was bested by Keisuke due to the Integra being exploited of having underperformance at low speed when on an uphill slope.
- One of Tomoya's "R-Killer" cars he owns in Wangan Midnight is a Championship White Integra Type R (DC2), the only FWD in the manga. This was before he switches to a much more recognizable R32 Skyline.
- His car appropriately shows up in the arcade game Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6 during the first two chapters of the "Garage ACE" arc, but its an unplayable car.
- Edwin from The Fast and the Furious (2001) drove a red 1996 Acura Integra DC2, fully-decked with a Wings West RS kit, used for his race against Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Connor, and lost in both races.
- At the same film, a blue 1994 LS Integra is Mia Toretto's car, used to impress Brian of her driving skills. Perhaps her talents are what's fully-utilized of in future films.
- Mick's Rice Burner in Good Girls is a black RSX.
- The first four Forza Motorsport games had Honda Integra Type-R, including ones tuned by Mugen or VIS Sports. Later iterations would be replaced by its Acura counterparts which had been fully present in every game.
- Just like the Civic Type R, Integras are everywhere throughout the Gran Turismo games, whether if its from Acura or Honda, but mostly the latter.
- Juiced doesn't care about regional versions. So why not add the Integra from both the Acura and Honda in the game, both for DC2 and DC5.
- Maria, that Spicy Latina who resembles Catalina anyway in Midnight Club II uses an orange Torrida, a sexy sports coupe that is an Integra DC2 Expy.
- During the Dream Intro of Need for Speed: Underground, your Player Character will drive a white fully-modded Acura Integra Type R with red accents in the opening race, giving you A Taste of Power.
Bottom: The second generation NSX (NC1)
The NSX (short for New Sportscar eXperimental) is Honda's two-seater midship sports car and was branded under the Acura badge for the North American market.
The idea for a midship car traced back in 1984 with its Super Prototype dubbed the HP-X (New Pininfarina eXperimental), which utilized a 3.0L V6 engine, intended to exceed the performance of a Ferrari V8 engine, whilst offering at an affordable price. The project finally pushed with its concept evolving into a full-fledged production car, launched as the NSX in 1990. The car benefitted from aerodynamics and bodywork inspired by F-16 fighter jets and robust chassis and rigidity to which the late Formula One driver Ayrton Senna tried out the NSX around the Suzuka Circuit during its final phases of development.
While the NSX is already considered a world-class sports car that sought a balance of performance and drivability, Honda produced a superior limited track-focused version called the NSX Type R (or NSX-R), the first ever car to bear the Type R badge, notable for its black roof. The facelifted version of the NSX sees a modern overhaul to the car, allowing it to keep up with its competitors. One of the biggest changes was its original pop-up headlights replaced with fixed LED headlamps.
The NSX took a break from production, while Acura, Honda's North American brand announced the development for the NSX's successor. The project had to be called off amidst the financial crisis in 2007-2008. Despite its cancellation, in 2011, rumors tell the new NSX would be fitted with an electric motor in addition to the petrol engine. And it happened. The new second-generation Honda NSX (New Sportscar eXperience) was unveiled in late-2015, now as a 9-speed twin-turbocharged all-wheel drive hybrid sports car. Thanks to its electric motor, the NSX can go accelerate rapidly from 0-60 in just 2.9 seconds. The NSX concluded its production with its improved final year limited-edition NSX Type S.
The NSX was once a major part of motor racing; the NSX GT1 and GT2 partook in the Le Mans in 1994, where Team Kunimitsu became the class winner in 1995. Since 1996, the NSX became extremely prominent in Japan's JGTC/Super GT where it was Honda's manufacturing entry alongside its rivals Nissan and Toyota for the GT500 class. While it was replaced for by the HSV-010 GT for 2010 to 2013, 2014 saw the return of the NSX back in top flight GT racing once more before it was discontinued again and replaced by the new Civic Type R-GT for the 2024 season.
Advertising
- As a way for Acura to promote their Type S models, Type S: Chiaki's Journey answers all your questions. Title doesn't lie as Season 1 brings out the Cool Car Chiaki uses - a 2022 Acura NSX Type S.
Anime and Manga
- Sosuke Nekome in Den-noh Coil appears to be a red sports car looking very similar to the Acura/Honda NSX (it's LHD so it's implied to be an import), though he rarely drives it.
- In Initial D, The Leader of Sidewinder and The Ace of hillclimbing, Go Hojo drives a Formula Red zenki NSX for his battle against uphill ace Keisuke Takahashi. About the car... well, everything is too much Serious Business as his NSX is completely cladded with ADVANCE Flatout aero kit and some gilded BBS rims, too.
- Fed up with how the Civic Type R underperformed during the Odawara Pikes Peak, Kazuhiro Maezono in MF Ghost dumps his FWD Civic in favor for a brand new second-gen NSX. It's powerful enough to stay competitive for the second round, even with all the electric motors removed.
- In an anime revolving around Japanese motorsports, Overtake! is no slouch here. Outside of Formula 4, one of the Super GT cars are a feature here, and that one is the second-generation Honda NSX GT500, a silhouette car that is monstrously faster than F4 cars.
- Barnaby Brooks Jr. can be seen driving a Honda NSX in Episode 15 in Tiger & Bunny. ...and yes it's red.
Film — Live Action
- The unique one-off concept version of the second-generation Acura NSX appeared as Tony Stark's car, right at the near-ending of The Avengers (2012) where he drives Bruce Banner alongside him, just after the team parts ways from a hard long fight against Loki.
- This is the car Mia Toretto drives in The Fast and the Furious. In the end of the first film, she alongside Brian his crew try to break Dominic Toretto out of his prison transport. This was also flashbacked in Fast Five.
- Roman Pearce in F9 was procured a brand new Acura NSX for the Edinbugh job against Jakob Toretto.
- In the start of Gran Turismo (2023), the first thing a young Kazunori Yamauchi did before he created the franchise: test-driving a first-generation Honda/Acura NSX against a Ford GT40 to gather data for his Gran Turismo simulator.
- The "cleaner", Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction owns a '92 silver Acura NSX and watch it blaze away from your eyes as he rushes for a morning meal.
Live-Action TV
- The end of "Trapped Beneath the Sea" in Baywatch Nights has Mitch Buchannon pull up in a nice red Acura NSX targa top
, possible as an Actor Allusion to David Hasselhoff's protagonist role in Knight Rider. Nelly is surprised with his nice wheels, though the car isn't really his because...Mitch: Because you see, the car doesn't actually belong to me, it belongs to a detective agency. - The Acura NSX is Valerie Malone's personal Cool Car she bought with the money that some jerk gave her in Beverly Hills, 90210.
- One of Chase's cars in LA Heat: a targa-top Acura NSX use for his high-speed actions.
- The futuristic Tridoron, Rider Machine's personal car of Kamen Rider Drive is based on the zenki NSX of Honda's. It's not just a regular NSX though, this is one sick Rice Burner that can blast past subsonic speeds.
Music
- Ludacris's 2 Fast 2 Furious song "Act A Fool" is all Car Porn incarnate. Here, the pimped out NSX was originally a background car before it gave a spotlight when he drove it in the last minute of the video.
Video Games
- The NSX is fully present in all its Battle Gear games, serving as the only A-Class car of Honda. The first two uses the zenki Type S Zero, where as 3 and 4 offer two different kouki trims; the Type S and the Type R.
- The Modified Sports and Dominator Sports in Burnout 3: Takedown greaty resembles its Super GT counterpart. In Legends, the Sports Cop comes with a Japanese police livery, similar to how the NSX police car◊ was in Real Life.
- CSR Racing 2 has nine versions of the NSX across both generations and both brands with four NA1 models and five NC1 models. Four are simply models that have an aftermarket wide body kit note , the Acura NC1 from F9 as part of a tie-in event series, the NC1 Type S, an NA1 Type R that has to be restored from Rice Burner treatment, a second NA1 Type R with "Tuner" customization, and a stock NC1.
- Quite a common recurrence in Forza, mainly the ones of Acura which a blue modified one becomes the cover car and it shows even more on how it got its treatment in the intro.
- Honda's premiere sports car would be most prominent in every Gran Turismo game, as well as its Acura counterpart. And the game is proud to even add various JGTC/Super GT race cars, a cool looking Super Prototype (also in LM race car), and its new generation NSX serves as Sport's Gr.4/Gr.3/Gr,B car, plus the Gr.2 Super GT cars, as well.
- Unusual for the series, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas turns the Infernus, which is usually a stand-in for a period-appropriate Lamborghini, into one for the first-generation NSX. A second NSX stand-in would appear in Grand Theft Auto V as the Dinka Jester, which is based on the second-generation model.
- Juiced feature the NSX in the lineup for both Acura and Honda trims. Its sequel includes the kouki NA2, also for both makes as well. And it can be modified cooly with its Veilside Fortune body kit.
- The Acura NSX was one of the eight cars in The Need for Speed, and that car was never seen again... until ProStreet marked its return, 13 years later. It would reappear once more in Shift before it was Put on a Bus... again.
- The NSX finally returned once more in the 2015 reboot, this time it's now under the Honda badge, where you can recreate Go Hojo's car, thanks to having the ADVANCE body kit available to install. Payback adds the second-gen Acura NSX, in which it didn't take advantage of its 9-speed transmission.
- While Project Gotham Racing 2 & 4 add the NSX-R in the roster, 3 on the other hand gives you the 1995 Le Mans class-winning NSX GT2, yet since it's a game emphasizing on supercars, it's even one of the starter cars you can purchase off from the get-go!
- The Soldat Raggio in Ridge Racer series is partially based off Honda NSX. One Defictionalized custom car was even built on a Honda NSX chassis.
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer:
- The NSX is Dream Wraith's signature car, as he drives it in every single game he's appeared in with bare minimum changes between each appearance.
- The first game featured the all-NSX team called Speed Box. Two notable members from the team, Shūhei Kitagata and Takeshi Nagano, would go on to greater things as leader of Unlimited and notable Wanderer, respectively, whilst retaining the NSX as their signature car.
- In international releases of Drift, the NSX replaced the DeTomaso Pantera as Hamagaki's car due to licensing issues.
- When Honda made its official debut in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5DX+, you get not only one, but two NSXs, both of which are a zenki NA1 and a second gen NC1. note Suffice to say, none of the NSXs can be visually dressed-up.
- There is also an NA2 NSX-R, acting as a special car exclusively to Japan. Starting 6, Asia/Oceania players can get their hand in this car in via Terminal Scratch. Bonus points that it's also fully tuned.
Based on the Civic, the Honda Civic Type R was the third model to receive the Type R badge (after the NSX and Integra) and is regarded as one of the most well known Japanese hot hatches.
Type R versions of the Civic feature uprated performance parts and is usually offered in either Championship White or Sunlight Yellow as their factory colors.
It was introduced in 1997, based on the sixth-gen Civic hatchback under its chassis code "EK9". In 2007, the the third-gen Civic Type R was offered in two different models, the FD2 sedan for the Japanese market and the FN2 three-door hatch back for the European and international market. In 2015, the Civic Type R FK2 is the first ever to be turbocharged. The Civic Type R would officially make its way to North American shores for the first time in 2017 with the FK8 model.
Thw new generation FL5 was introduced in 2022, with its aero being a lot Tamer and Chaster than its predecessor. The FL5 Type R broke record for the fastest lap time in the Nürburgring Nordschleife and Suzuka Circuit for a front-wheel drive car.
Anime and Manga
- Both Todo School's Daiki Ninomiya and Tomoyuki Tachi in Initial D drive an EK Civic Type R with Spoon Sports components. The former uses his own EK9 while the latter uses the demo car. Both of them lost to Takumi Fujiwara in a battle in Enna Skyline and Happogahara respectively.
- The No. 13 car of Kazuhiro Maezono in MF Ghost is the FK8 Civic Type R. Despite having 300 hp, its FF layout suffers in understeer, resulting in heavy front tire wear, leaving him being overtaken by Nozomi's Alfa 4C and Kakeru's Lotus, as well as Kanata's 86 later on. Kazuhiro would end up lagging far far behind from the rest of the pack in the Odawara Pikes Peak round. Guess 13 Is Unlucky for him.
- The mysterious "Red Phantom" in You're Under Arrest! is a Name To Run Away From Really Fast. It is the mysteriously serious racer driving a tricked-out FD2 Type R. No wonder that dude was a headache to Miyuki, as this prompts her resignation for failure to capture him.
Video Games
- Battle Gear is one of the early known games to feature the EK9 Civic. Also included in the series is a bonus Spoon-tuned variant.
- The FK2 Type R appeared in Driveclub via No Limits Expansion Pack. ...and it's one of the few Japanese imports in a roster full of European cars.
- The Civic Type R is extremely common in all Forza and Gran Turismo installments. For the latter's case, the series has every generation available, with GT7 recently adding FL5 Type R in via post-launch update.
- The highly modified Honda Civic 5ZIGEN in GRID is based on the FD2 Civic Type R. Another thing is the Honda Civic Touring Car in Autosport, based on the TCR-spec FK2 Type R.
- The Blista Kanjo in Grand Theft Auto Online is based on the Civic Type R.
- While is EP3 Type R is quite rare to see, you'll only see this generation and tis only Type R in the roster in British-developed games such as Juiced, Project Gotham Racing 2 and TOCA Race Driver 3. It's due to the fact that the EP3 was assembled in the United Kingdom.
- While Initial D Arcade Stage already has the EK Civic Type R as mentioned in the Anime and Manga section above, the seventh game included a pre-tuned Type R Twincam Monster.
- While Need for Speed uses regular (as in, the sedan SI) Civics in Underground and ProStreet, the EK9 Civic Type R made its debut in 2015 reboot as one of the three Starter Mons in the game. In Unbound This is Ross's choice of car, that being said, it's The Alleged Car as the car is considered to be one of the weakest amongst other rivals.
- Alongside the EK9, Payback onwards included the FK2 Civic, while No Limits added the FK8 Civic in one of its updates.
The S2000 is Honda's open-top sports car introduced in 1999, in time for the company's 50th Milestone Celebration.
The name suggests that "S" stood for "sports", whereas the number 2000 refers to the engine displacement (not to be which it car would be after the year 2000), which carries the tradition to its predecessors of The '60s: The S500, S600 and S800.
The first generation dubbed the AP1 was its initial launch model, where the AP2 in 2004 saw revision to the drivetrain, suspension and the overall bodywork. The S2000 uses a naturally-aspirated inline-4 engine producing an output of 239 horsepower, while it also distinctively known for using a cool-looking digital tachometer.
While production ceased in 2009, the S2000 became one of the significant cars in the JDM community as it's popularized by tuners and collectors alike. Domestic models like the S2000 Type-V and the S2000 CR (Club Racer) are well-known sought-after collectibles.
Anime and Manga
- This Long Beach Blue Pearl roadster is the signature car of Purple Shadow veteran Dr. Toshiya Joshima from Initial D. Nicknamed the "God Hand", he's one of Tsukuba's best drivers alongside Kozo Hoshino, due to his one-handed driving.
- In Manga/MF Ghost an S2000 with the Number "270" was seen during Kanata's run in the manga, with it being passed just before the Death Zone, despite Kanata starting a full Minute behind it.
- Yuji Kishida, an arc rival in Wangan Midnight drives a silver S2000, the car was tuned up to in order to make a "Zero For the Roads", complete with a custom aero kit, a lightweight carbon fiber hood, a rollcage, and the engine being turbocharged to make 400HP. Despite all of this, he's bested by Akio and Tatsuya during his race.
- Eri Shinna, one of the main characters from Wangan Midnight C1 Runner, drives a silver S2000.
Film—Live Action
- The Fast and the Furious
- The first film has Dom's rival Johnny Tran driving a custom black Veilside Millennium S2000 used to battle and win against Jesse's Volkswagen Jetta in a race war. Because he had a Nissan SR20 engine and some Nitro Boost that helped him win.
- One of the iconic cars in the franchise has Suki's S2000 in 2 Fast 2 Furious. It also uses a Veilside Millennium body kit, and it notable for its distinctive hot pink paint job. Pink Means Feminine indeed for Suki.
- Resident Lovable Alpha Bitch Sharpay Evans by the time of High School Musical 3: Senior Year, swaps her pink Mustang for a Honda S2000, with her initials slapped atop the hood and a Vanity Licence Plate reading "FABULUS" intact.
Live Action TV
- A red S2000 plays a role in Chou Sei Shin Gransazer.
- The same S2000 of Suki as mentioned above can be spotted alongside Slap Jack's Supra in the episode "Bikini Wax" in NCIS. Seriously. What is Suki's S2000 doing in a police drama series?!
Video Games
- In Forza, the Xbox 360-era games has the AP1 S2000, where as the Xbox One-era has the almighty S2000 CR. The game also doesn't mind adding Suki's custom S2000 (minus the vinyl patterns).
- Gran Turismo has this Honda roadster in every installment since its introduction in 2, including its tuned counterparts of Mugen, Spoon (which also had a race car version), AEM, Amuse and Opera Performance, as well as an LM race car.
- The Dinka RT3000 in Grand Theft Auto Online is based on the S2000. And its roof is fully functional unlike the other convertibles other than the Windsor Drop.
- While Initial D Arcade Stage already has the Honda S2000 in the regular lineup, Arcade Stage 7 AAX added this "Complete Car", the pre-tuned Amuse S2000 GT1, while Arcade Stage Zero features a fully pimped out S2000 Demon King tuned by J's Racing.
- The car of Angel in Midnight Club II is a silver Interna, which is loosely based on the 1999 Honda S2000.
- Despite Honda's objections, Need for Speed would see this Honda roadster, whether on illegal streets or on sanctioned tracks.
- Made its only introduction in Need for Speed: Underground. Chad, a member of the Eastsiders drives this as his new custom car after having swapped his Celica. It was never seen again until...
- ...ProStreet made this car available again via downloadable Booster Pack. Shift and its sequel also added this, with the latter incorrectly marketing it as the S2000 CR where the model is clearly a regular AP1 model.
- The Euro-spec AP2 later appeared in the 2015 reboot and this car carries over in its subsequent games.
- Ridge Racer
- The Âge Prophetie in its handheld counterparts is based on the Honda S2000.
- R: Racing Evolution fully utilized the actual S2000, complete with a Mugen body kit and livery.
- The arcade intro of Tekken Tag Tournament has Lee Chaolan drive a white Honda S2000 along the expressway at night. Suffice to say, that is the only licensed Cool Car ever featured in the franchise.
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer:
- The S2000 is Lucifer Ootsuka's signature car, as he's always seen driving one in all games he appears in. In Zero, it had been modified with a bodykit that bore uncanny resemblance with the Honda SSM concept car, the ancestor of what then became the S2000.
- Hamagaki replaces his DeTomaso Pantera with a yellow S2000 clad in a Genki Racing Project livery in Chain Reaction. He retains the car in Touge Legends, where he reappears as the Big Bad and Final Boss of the game.
- The "Zero Fighter on the Ground" story arc of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6 has the introverted Yuji Kishida trying out the S2000 where he's suppose to use the R33 instead. The S2000 itself can on only be obtained via participation in tournaments only until its added normally in the base roster of 6RR+. Just like the other Honda cars, it can't be visually modified.
