Each automotive journalist has an automotive that they are going to do something to get behind the wheel of, even when it is only for another hour, another story. Chief amongst these, for me, is the legendary Acura Integra Kind R, extensively thought about to be the best front-wheel-drive automotive ever constructed. I acquired to drive one for 2 laps across the Lengthy Seashore Grand Prix road circuit earlier in my profession, and the expertise has by no means left my thoughts. Since then, I’ve longed to seek out myself in an Integra Kind R as soon as possible.

The one new automotive that I’ve ever felt this compelled by—that I might do something for another drive-in, the one new automotive I might purchase tomorrow if I hit the lottery—Honda’s follow-up venture to the Integra Kind R: the Integra Kind S.

Naturally, when the decision got here for pitches for Japan Month, this pair of Integras instantly got here to thoughts. These two machines are a few of my favourite automobiles to ever exist; Honda is my favourite producer to ever construct an automotive. What higher probability than our very personal in-house ardour venture to clarify to the world why these two Hondas are so necessary to me? And higher but I may clarify simply why Honda has at all times been my favourite producer and why their automobiles exemplify a motoring joie de vivre that’s so uncommon, particularly within the fashionable period.

I even acquired my nails performed to match the Kind R. That is how excited I used to be.

Most significantly, after all, pitching this story meant I may get my grubby fingers on these automobiles another time, and I might be mendacity if I mentioned that wasn’t an enormous reason why this video exists. I desperately needed to drive these two only for a few extra hours. Video-making and all it entails is exhausting work, and this was an exceptionally lengthy shoot day. It was, I guarantee you, 100% price it.

That is my love letter to 2 of the best automobiles, not simply from Japan, but in my guide, to ever exist.