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Acura RSX S-Type
The Acura RSX is a car
marketed by Acura in the United States and
Canada as the replacement for the Acura Integra.
It is available in two trims: base and Type-S.
It is sold as the Honda Integra in Japan,
Australia, and New Zealand. The
Acura RSX coincided with Acura's efforts to
move its products upscale. Designing an entirely
new platform shared with the Honda Civic,
rather than an incremental re-engineering
of the previous mechanical lineage of the
previous Integra/Civic platform, Honda engineers
built a more luxurious car than the Integra,
Acura's previous offering in the compact near-luxury
coupe segment.
The RSX suspension employs
MacPherson struts in the front and wishbones
in the rear, an engineering decision which
disappointed some Honda fans who had come
to appreciate Honda's previous philosophy
of employing double-wishbones for both front
and rear suspensions. However, the K-series
engine proved to have significant potential
for tuning, a trait shared with the B-series
engines previously employed in Integra and
certain performance-oriented Civic models.
The K-series engine features intelligent VTEC
or (i-VTEC), which electronically adjusts
valve lift, valve timing and cam timing, giving
the 2.0 liter engine a flatter torque curve
and smooth power transition relative to previous
VTEC implementations which only adjusted valve
lift and valve timing.
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