[benzaccord]

First Post - they called me the on March 10 about an hour after I made my reservation. I guess just to introduce themselves and confirm that I ordered the color and trim that I wanted. Nothing more than that. I would've wanted Liquid Carbon with the Orchid interior, but that's not going to be available. Interior color is more important to me than exterior, so reserved a 6MT Apex Blue.

I wonder if this whole reservation thing is to avoid the debacle with the TLX that nearly lost Acura a lot of money. I bought a TLX for my wife last May. It was one of the last cars to have incentives because they made too many of them. Our dealer had 70 of them listed in their inventory, and I had no trouble getting the color combo/trim/drivetrain we wanted, because they had just about every combo in stock. The car shortage dried up that inventory fast and Acura took a lot of customers away from competitors that had limited available stock and huge markups. If it wasn't for the the shortage, I wonder what the TLX incentives would've grown to?

 

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Welcome to the forum @benzaccord. Add your Integra to The 2023 Acura Integra Reservation Tracking List
What other vehicles were you considering before reserving the new Integra?

I'm sure Acura is using the reservation process to help direct their teams on how to best launch the new Integra.

I was interested in the new Civic SI but was disappointed with the standard equipment (no fog lights, no seat heat, no side mirror signal lights, no wireless phone charger, etc)
The other unexpected car that I never would have dreamed to have wanted is a BMW 330e. Seems my rental reservation during my winter vacation got lost, and instead of the Mazda 3 I reserved, I ended up in a 2018 BMW 330e. My kids have newer 3 series cars, and somehow, I was never that impressed the few times I've driven them. Having the 330e for a few days, and having such good performance while getting 35 MPG, definitely was a real nice balance. The ~ $6300 (my state gives $500 in addition to the federal) in tax incentives almost brings the price down to that of an Integra.

 

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Did you check out any other premium sedans in the same class as the 3-series?

No, liking the BMW 330e was by accident. But I could see myself liking an Audi A4, but not the Mercedes C class, I probably would take a Lexus IS 300 AWD though (but they're all way over sticker, unlike the BMW, which is actually @MSRP or below locally). The appeal of the 330e is the tax rebate and fuel savings - which is unique to BMW. I know Volvo has something in this space as well, but that's also not my taste. The ironic part of all of this, is when I bought my Acura Legend LS Sedan 5 speed 28 years ago, I was also shopping BMW 3 series cars. I test drove the Legend out of frustration because I couldn't find a lightly used 325i at the time.

 

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.... the dealership has been allotted one additional integra with a crt ....

I think you're implying that the Demo is going to be a 6MT? I wonder if all dealers will get the demo as a 6MT- the one dealer I found on YouTube also said that their demo is going to be a 6MT. I would definitely want to test drive the 6MT before I finalize my purchase. I had anticipated that the demo's would be CVT's and that would ruin it for me.

 

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I got a call today to come in and put another $500 down and sign a purchase order to get my place in line at the dealership. They said I was #3 line, whatever that means.

so a total of $1000 down for a car that you don't even know the final price on? When/if my dealer does that, it will be them giving me $500 (back).