News Roundup: Acura’s 2024 Integra Type S, Tom Cruise stunt drives in latest ‘Mission: Impossible’, and more

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Welcome to our roundup of the biggest breaking stories on Driving.ca from this past week. Get caught up and ready to get on with the weekend, because it’s hard keeping pace in a digital traffic jam.

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Here’s what you missed while you were away.

Acura releases a diesel Integra Type S in lieu of something electric

The latest iteration of the Integra isn’t a BEV; it’s a diesel-only Type S. It’s a bold move by Acura as other automotive manufacturers are ditching combustion engines for battery-power. The all-new 2024 Integra Type S targets a certain consumer, particularly one who wants power and comfort without making the switch to a hybrid or pure EV. It’s a performance machine through and through and there are touches throughout that make it so, like the removal of the back middle seat for a 2+2 configuration. Under the hood, the Type S has been outfitted with a 2.0L VTEC turbocharged engine with 320 horsepower, 310 lb-ft of torque, and is FWD. 

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There are just 300 coming to the Canadian market, so if this has piqued your interest, you’ll want to read up on all the details here and take action.

The car from The Wraith randomly showed up for auction on eBay this week, no one bought it

There’s a street legal replica of the car from the 1986 cult classic The Wraith. It’s allegedly the only one on Earth, according to the seller. The sci-fi fantasy flick featured a young Charlie Sheen, but it also featured a Dodge M4S that had magical powers (in the film, not real life) and could bring itself back from the brink of total destruction. 

This past week the one-off street-legal vehicle popped up on eBay with a short, all-caps description and little else. The seller, who appears to be in East Peoria, Illinois, listed the rare vehicle for US$290,000. Maybe there wasn’t enough promotion to the listing or maybe it was priced too high, regardless, no one bid on it. So, it’s still out there — hopefully in a storage unit and not a barn — somewhere in Illinois, waiting for its future owner. 

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Columnist unimpressed with misleading Tesla headline

Woke economics may make you feel warm and fuzzy, says columnist David “Motor Mouth” Booth, but they simply don’t add up. At least not when it comes to EVs. After reading a CNET headline that called a Tesla Model 3 cheaper than a Toyota Camry in California, our resident skeptic decided to check the math. Sure enough, his sweep of the numbers showed some rather wishful thinking on the part of the author, who included government incentives going to the automaker as cash the consumer can pocket. 

The fact remains that, in 2023, cost parity between ICE vehicles and EVs is still a ways off. Take a look a the (un)woke breakdown at the link above.

Tom Cruise pulls off some wicked driving stunts in new Mission: Impossible

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Maybe if this was Tom Cruise’s first-ever starring role in Mission: Impossible he’d have asked for a stunt double for some of the complicated driving scenes. But this isn’t 1996 and this isn’t Cruise’s first rodeo. The 60-year-old (soon to be 61, on July 3) actor is back on set for the seventh instalment of the action saga, which is in theatres next month, and he’s crushing several of the action-packed driving scenes himself. There are impossibly narrow European streets and alleyways, cobblestone terrain, and, of course, a bunch of bad guys pursuing him (and who he’s in pursuit of). It’s refreshing to learn of a seasoned actor taking on some of the driving responsibility on screen and Cruise’s latest feat shouldn’t go unnoticed.

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Read more about the stunts and watch the trailer here.

Comparing the efficiency of Canadian EVs

As Driving’s Stephanie Wallcraft so eloquently put it, “Until now, we’ve compared electric to gas. Let’s start comparing apples to apples.” It’s true. Since the mass market adoption of battery vehicles we’ve been pitting the performance of EVs against their gas counterparts. Finally, we’re finding ourselves at a tipping point in the gas vs electric saga, and can make more accurate comparisons. This means drivers can make a more informed decision when purchasing their next vehicle — especially when considering a BEV. 

This week, we took a deep dive into the world of electrification vehicles and how the current market offering stacks up. Click here to read the full report and see which are the most efficient EVs on the market in Canada right now.