INTEGRA, a legendary name, is Honda's last century outfielder to the streets of the suit thugs, once a former driving king name became a generation of street fighters.
Who would have thought that at the moment when the tram was popular, it was reinstalled back to the Chinese market. On December 16, 2021, INTEGRA will be officially launched in China. This is the latest sports car launched by Guangqi Honda.
When major car companies are keeping up with the new energy wave, why does Guangqi Honda still revive this classic fuel vehicle?
Of course, the classic model can rely on the popularity it has accumulated to harvest faith sales, but the type INTEGRA is to transform into a new life, and contribute to Hiromoto's involvement in the sports car market.
Guangqi Honda Lingpai is already a leader in the domestic compact car market, it can meet the household needs of most consumers, but it can not participate in the sports car market. The type INTEGRA is to fill this short board.
Can INTEGRA shoulder this mission?
Once a Street Fighter
In the era of the most brilliant performance in japan, Honda INTEGRALGRA stood out among the models that competed for the streets and became the front-drive king of that era. At that time, it was still a mechanical definition of the car, and the car players had the ultimate pursuit of the mechanical quality of the car, and ITTEGRA became one of the aces of Honda in this situation.
It was born to be an extraordinary, high starting point, with stunning design and performance from the start, and at one point moved to acura for an expedition to the North American market. Then the second generation came out, becoming the first model equipped with a VTEC engine, opening the glory of honda engines.
This was followed by the familiar story of the red-headed engine, as well as the classic Type R model, which then quietly ended in the highlight. For the reborn type INTEGRA, the past deeds are both a badge and a pressure, and how to continue this glory has become the primary task of the new type OFTEGRA.
After years of deep cultivation in the Chinese market, GUANGQI Honda has successfully made the Accord a classic car that is difficult to replace in the field of medium-sized cars, and in the field of small cars, Fit has become a representative of urban fashion models. As for the field of compact models, the success of Lingpai is already beyond doubt.
In the Red Sea compact car market, there are many successful models, but few can be called sports cars. They also have a large consumer base, and the arrival of the type INTEGRA has allowed Guangqi Honda to really join in.
The Chinese market is not without sports cars, but in the era of serious homogenization of fuel vehicles, there are indeed very few models with such selling points.
As long as you pay attention to Chinese cars for a long time, you know that "good cars are not easy to sell" situations often appear, and occasionally fuel models that claim to be sports cars are difficult to stand the test of time. At this critical moment, the emergence of the type INTEGRA is an operation against the current.
At the same time, in the face of the aggressive approach of electric vehicles, the type must have strong strength to block those who question the voices.
It's difficult, but INTEGRA must take on this challenge.
The master does not leave a short board
A model is difficult to cover everything.
Performance and comfort are difficult to get at the same time, space and control are almost contradictory, if all the experience is raised, then the cost has a high probability of not coming down. This is the biggest dilemma faced by the sports car. Although it is named sports, it does not allow itself to have shortcomings. Because in the past, when old drivers chose cars, they may just look at a certain trait. But for today's young people, they all want it all.
High appearance, large space, strong power, good configuration, and more importantly, it is absolutely impossible to compromise on safety. The emergence of the type INTEGRA is to play such a role, just like the situation in the previous life, this rebirth is also in the clouds.
The type OFEGRA adopts a cool and simple appearance design, and on the basis of conventional colors, it has launched two style car colors - hot yellow and emerald blue, and the bright and dazzling color sense is very compatible with the attributes of the fashionable and sporty car, which to a certain extent shows the product tone of Guangqi Honda's pursuit of young Fengshang.
More worth tasting is the shape and lines of the type INTEGRA, in this face-watching world, the sharp three-pupil LED headlights with the angular front bumper and honeycomb grille reveal a sense of untamed coolness. Coupled with the waist line from the head to the tail, extending into a low lying back, slightly upturned tail, whether it is a side face or a back shadow, it can harvest the eyes of passers-by.
This cool, minimalist feel is also present in the cockpit. On the entire dashboard, the most eye-catching is the innovative honeycomb mesh alloy air outlet design, the decorative strip on the central control side of the SPORT Phantom Night Edition can also echo the appearance color, with the sporty color block seat, even if countless people who read the car will feel a very strong visual impact.
But space is the most powerful competitiveness in this cockpit, whether it is Fit or Accord, or the same size positioning of Lingpai, all have a cross-level seating space, and the type INTEGRA naturally cannot be left behind. Although it is still not on the market, the evaluation of the integra space is comparable to that of a mid-size car, which is actually only expected.
In Uncle Zhong's view, the configuration of a Guangqi Honda model is the most noteworthy place for us. The model INTEGRA is equipped with 12 Bose high-performance speakers and a tailor-made Centerpoint surround sound system. Under this premise, THETGEGRA has also made efforts in noise reduction, optimizing the vibration and noise transmitted by the power system, and reducing road noise by configuring sound-absorbing materials and sound insulation materials.
INTEGRA has also kept pace with smart connectivity. Intelligent speech recognition, mobile phone interconnection, digital keys, remote control and other functions are not in the word, the car machine can also achieve OTA online upgrades, update maps, Honda CONNECT and so on. At the same time, the model INTEGRA is also equipped with a card-type car key, which is easy to automatically connect and start the vehicle with one button.
In the past, we generally struggled with trivial configurations such as car navigation and automatic air conditioning, but now these conventional configurations no longer require consumers to think. If you go to experience the type, you must not waste time in these details, but to feel the configuration upgrade brought by technology.
Safety is a part that every car should not ignore, and it is also the most important place for every consumer.
In addition to the most comprehensive Honda CONNECT 3.0 intelligent guide interconnection system, another important leading intelligent technology is the latest Honda SENSING safety supersensitive system, which, like Earth Dream Technology, is one of Honda's greatest scientific and technological achievements for family cars in the 21st century.
Honda SENSING safety super sense system can sense different positions and environments such as front, blind spots, roads, etc., and realize functions including collision mitigation braking, lane departure suppression, four-degree automatic follow- and so on, and in the process of continuous functional improvement, it has become the intelligent eye of automobile safety.
At the same time, the type INTEGRA, which was born from a high-rigidity platform, increases the torsional rigidity by 8% and the bending rigidity by 13% by applying aluminum materials and high-tension steel, achieving lightweight and high-rigidity body. With 10 airbags, pedestrian protection systems, early warning seat belts and other configurations and functions, it can not only escort the owner, but also considerate the safety of pedestrians.
When the appearance, space, configuration and safety are in place, we can finally consider the essence of the sports car - power performance.
First of all, the whole series of type INTEGRA is equipped with the 240 Turbo engine of the Earth Dream Technology series, with a displacement of 1.5L, using a high-efficiency turbocharger, the maximum power reaches 134kw, and the peak torque is 240N·m, which not only has a strong power output, but also has excellent responsiveness, and truly achieves the level of explosive power.
Matched with the low fuel consumption and excellent rideless CVT transmission, this gearbox has proven reliability and drive performance on many Honda models, a good balance between driving pleasure and economy. But what is surprising is that the type INTEGRA also retains a 6MT manual transmission, which can bring users a more direct driving experience, to a certain extent, in order to inherit the driving control gene of classic INTEGRA.
Coupled with a higher strength body, a higher rigid aluminum alloy subframe, etc., this car, whether it is power or cornering performance, has retained the level of classic INTEGRA that makes the car fascinated.
There are very few opponents who can fight
In the domestic compact model, the sports car that can be called a sports car is probably the Civic, Axela, Fox, and the up-and-coming star of the independent brand, Lynk & Co 03.
Among them, Civic needless to say, Unxella and Fox have retained the movement gene from beginning to end, and as for Lynk & Co 03, it was once called the light of domestic goods. However, judging from the current product strength of THETEGRA, the Civic can confront it head-on.
Putting aside the appearance, space, configuration, etc., only from the aspect of power performance, Unxella and Fox do not have the same pursuit of Honda models in terms of comprehensive driving performance. Fox high limit but poor control, Unncella pursues driving pleasure but the actual control limit is very low, Lynk & Co 03 is the leader of its own brand, but there is still a long way to go in the face of the type INTEGRA.
Sometimes, we lament that we are not born at the right time, but there may be unexpected surprises. Just like the return of the type INTEGRA, it not only maintains the performance belief of the past, but also benefits from the development of the era of science and technology, and comprehensively enhances its own product strength.
So, who says the current type OFGRA prospective owners aren't luckier?
On December 16, 2021, INTEGRA will announce its last suspense - price. If competitors want to win back a city, think about the preferential margin.