2022 Honda Integra returns – but you can’t have one

The 2022 Honda Integra lives again, but buyers in Australia won’t be able to get their hands on the new model.

Honda will only be offering this particular Integra in China, where the model is a revised version of the Civic sedan – born from the need for the Japanese firm's two manufacturing partners to offer unique vehicles within their respective line-ups.

China requires foreign carmakers to partner with local manufacturers, leading to the Integra being created for GAC Honda – while its other partner Dongfeng Honda gets the standard Civic.

Honda’s premium US sub-brand Acura recently teased its own version of the Integra – and while it’s said to also share its underpinnings with the Civic, the US-market Integra will enjoy a more modern design.

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The Chinese-market version is powered by a 1.5-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine making either 95kW/180Nm or 136kW/240Nm. Unusually, the powertrain is supplied by Dongfeng Honda.

The company says a six-speed manual transmission will be made available in the future, but for the time being an automatic CVT sends power to the front wheels.

In a video posted to YouTube last month, Acura showed its Integra will also be offered with a six-speed manual when it eventually arrives. But like the Chinese-market Integra, the Acura isn’t expected to be offered in Australia.