Just a week ago, Acura unveiled the 2023 Integra with a starting price of “around $30,000.” As standard, the 1.5-liter turbo under the hood is mated to a CVT, though the optional A-Spec performance package brings an available six-speed manual. It turns out the demand for the three-pedal configuration is very high, even higher than what Acura initially anticipated.
Andrew Quillin from Acura’s PR team recently announced on Twitter that the reservations for the new Integra are trending above 70 percent for the manual gearbox option. Honestly, this is a little surprising for us and it appears that even the automaker wasn’t expecting such a high portion of the early reservations to be for manuals, considering that historically the MT accounted for about 50 percent of model’s sales in the 1986-2001 period.
