Honda, Acura Planning New ‘Sport Car’: S2000 Or Integra?

Reports in recent months have hinted at a successor to Honda’s fan-favourite S2000, this time with a coupe body and a turbocharged heart.

This week, a new report out of the US has added more fuel to that fire, suggesting that we could (instead?) see the return of the Integra.

Speaking with American magazine Car & Driver, the design boss of Honda’s luxury arm Acura, Dave Marek, hinted at a new ‘sport car’ that would sit opposite the coming NSX supercar.

“A performance brand needs a flagship and it needs an accessible sport car. Not a sports car, but a sport car," Marek said. 

It’s that vague clarification, teasingly tacked on the end of Marek’s comment without detail, that begs the question: what does “accessible” mean in this context?

The report highlights the Integra, that object of obsession for thousands of ‘JDM’ enthusiasts in the 90s and 2000s, as the definition of affordable performance in the Honda world.

A new Integra, even if again offered only with a front-wheel-drive configuration, would be seen as a rival-of-sorts to the 86 coupe, Toyota’s own budget-focused sports car.

So, of course, it lines up. A new Integra could be on the way.

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