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The Honda Integra coupe has been resurrected, full with a guide transmission and a roof harking back to the third-generation CR-X.
Nevertheless, this new coupe – revealed on the Guangzhou motor present by the GAC Honda three way partnership – is probably going only a one-off, so don’t anticipate it to observe the brand new Prelude into showrooms any time quickly.
The Integra title had already been revived on two totally different autos – a five-door liftback for Honda’s premium Acura division in North America in 2022, and a Chinese language-built model of the Civic sedan (in 2021) and hatchback (in 2023).
This present automobile relies on the Chinese language Integra hatch, although GAC Honda hasn’t revealed any info on it.
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What we are able to inform from these photographs, snapped by Tycho de Feijter, is the Civic/Integra hatchback physique has been closely modified. There are simply two aspect doorways, whereas the centre part of the roof has been eliminated for a targa look.
Naturally, the B-pillar has been eliminated, and the rear part of the roof options ‘Integra’ badging however aspect home windows virtually similar to these of the Civic/Integra hatch.
The front- and rear-end styling is essentially unchanged from the usual Integra hatch.
The present Eleventh-generation Civic was the primary to not supply both a two-door coupe or three-door hatchback physique type, so if nothing else this present automobile demonstrates what Honda’s small automobile seems to be like sans two doorways.
GAC Honda presents the Integra with a alternative of a turbocharged 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engine or a 2.0-litre four-cylinder hybrid. It’s probably the previous that options on this idea, given the presence of a guide transmission shifter.
It’s a very uncommon idea given the final apathy in direction of coupes within the Chinese language market. Even hatchbacks aren’t widespread there, although wagons have loved a current resurgence.
The Integra title was revived in China for the model of the Civic produced by the GAC Honda three way partnership. Honda’s different three way partnership there, Dongfeng Honda, additionally produces the Civic however underneath its current nameplate.
Different joint-venture twins embody the Accord, Breeze, ZR-V, and Vezel produced by GAC Honda, and their Encourage, CR-V, HR-V and XR-V counterparts at Dongfeng Honda.
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