2025 Acura Cars Changes and Updates: Integra, TLX Prices Creep Up
Changes for the 2025 Integra might include factory bolt-ons, plus we learn about the Legend we almost had.
Having introduced a new compact hatchback two model years ago and a heavily updated small sedan last year, Acura is essentially working with a fresh car lineup for 2025. Changes this year are relegated to pricing and the potential of some in-house bolt-on parts for the brand’s entry-level model. We also learned about a potential reboot of another original nameplate from Acura’s early years. Read on to learn about all the changes coming to the 2025 Acura car lineup.
2025 Acura Integra: What’s New
The previous two years have been big ones for Acura’s compact four-door hatchback. After a 22-year hiatus, the Integra made its return for 2023 with a standard turbo base engine and 10.2-inch touchscreen, as well as available features like a six-speed manual transmission, adaptive suspension, and 16-speaker premium audio system. A performance Type S trim arrived for 2024, a real driver’s car boasting a bigger engine with more output and a wider track.
For 2025, every Integra trim level receives a $600 bump in price except the Type S, which increases by $800. Otherwise, the Acura car is unchanged, though we expect the automaker will reveal news about factory aftermarket parts toward the end of 2024.
2025 Acura Integra Pros and Cons
Pros
- Plenty of cargo capacity
- Solid build quality
- Good driving dynamics
- Available manual transmission
Cons
- Road noise in cabin
- Could use more luxury
- Interior looks too much like the Civic
- Base model is poky
2025 Acura TLX: What’s New
Get a TLX now if you want it, because 2025 will be its final model year on sale.
Noteworthy technology updates came to the TLX range for 2024 by way of standard 12.3-inch displays for the gauge cluster and infotainment system, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a wireless phone charger, and 13-speaker premium audio for every trim. The refreshed Acura car also features updated exterior styling, thicker carpeting, and improved driver assist sensors, while the A-Spec gained better cabin isolation, and the Type S received a standard head-up display and 360-degree camera. Given how new the refresh is, we’re not surprised the TLX is a carryover for 2025, the only change being a $400 increase in MSRP for all but the Type S, which increases by $750.
2025 Acura TLX Pros and Cons
Pros
- Striking concept-car exterior
- Well-built, premium cabin
- Plenty of standard features
Cons
- Trackpad controller for infotainment
- Fuel economy could be better
- Not athletic enough
Large Acura Sedan: A Next-Gen RLX/Legend?
This might be more what could’ve been rather than what’s to come. In 2017, Honda applied for a patent in Japan for a large Acura sedan. That filing only recently came to light and depicted a design study of a show car that seemingly was never developed. Although much of the car’s exterior looks like the current-gen Accord, its nose is distinctly Acura. Its scale is also larger than the Honda’s, leading us to think this might have been a new RLX or even a new Legend (keeping the name consistent with old-school models like the Integra). As this application is now several years old, it’s likely nothing will ever come of it, but it looks like we almost had another Acura that would have been the biggest sedan in the lineup.
2025 Acura Cars: What’s New
- 2025 Acura Integra: Unchanged
- 2025 Acura TLX: Unchanged
My dad was a do-it-yourselfer, which is where my interest in cars began. To save money, he used to service his own vehicles, and I often got sent to the garage to hold a flashlight or fetch a tool for him while he was on his back under a car. Those formative experiences activated and fostered a curiosity in Japanese automobiles because that’s all my Mexican immigrant folks owned then. For as far back as I can remember, my family always had Hondas and Toyotas. There was a Mazda and a Subaru in there, too, a Datsun as well. My dad loved their fuel efficiency and build quality, so that’s how he spent and still chooses to spend his vehicle budget. Then, like a lot of young men in Southern California, fast modified cars entered the picture in my late teens and early 20s. Back then my best bud and I occasionally got into inadvisable high-speed shenanigans in his Honda. Coincidentally, that same dear friend got me my first job in publishing, where I wrote and copy edited for action sports lifestyle magazines. It was my first “real job” post college, and it gave me the experience to move just a couple years later to Auto Sound & Security magazine, my first gig in the car enthusiast space. From there, I was extremely fortunate to land staff positions at some highly regarded tuner media brands: Honda Tuning, UrbanRacer.com, and Super Street. I see myself as a Honda guy, and that’s mostly what I’ve owned, though not that many—I’ve had one each Civic, Accord, and, currently, an Acura RSX Type S. I also had a fourth-gen Toyota pickup when I met my wife, with its bulletproof single-cam 22R inline-four, way before the brand started calling its trucks Tacoma and Tundra. I’m seriously in lust with the motorsport of drifting, partly because it reminds me of my boarding and BMX days, partly because it’s uncorked vehicle performance, and partly because it has Japanese roots. I’ve never been much of a car modifier, but my DC5 is lowered, has a few bolt-ons, and the ECU is re-flashed. I love being behind the wheel of most vehicles, whether that’s road tripping or circuit flogging, although a lifetime exposed to traffic in the greater L.A. area has dulled that passion some. And unlike my dear ol’ dad, I am not a DIYer, because frankly I break everything I touch.
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