Our Yearlong Review 2025 Acura Integra Type S Has Been Mostly Bulletproof, With Two Small Exceptions

If you have an Integra Type S and encounter an emissions system and rev-match fault, you aren’t alone.

You must go decades and decades back to some of car magazines’ earliest days to reach the origin point of long-term tests like those Motor Trend has long featured as a staple of its evaluation portfolio. The gist of the concept is elementary yet important: Owning a car for a year, driving it in the real world, and performing any scheduled and other needed maintenance just like any owner would, is inherently a far more thorough and informative method of telling readers—particularly people who are interested in purchasing their own example of the vehicle in question—whether a car is any “good.”

That’s especially so in comparison to the first drive media launch events virtually every carmaker on the planet has organized basically forever. At these events, automakers do their utmost to control the quality of the cars on hand to be driven by journalists, with their event planners carefully plotting drive routes and experiences aimed at highlighting their products’ strengths and, at times, blatantly hiding their weaknesses. For example, if a car’s suspension rides like dog crap over small heaves and bumps, you can be sure the company won’t put journalists behind its wheel on anything but the smoothest roads it can find. This is one reason first drive reports might only tell the beginning of a new model’s story.