- Doors and Seats
4 doors, 5 seats
- Engine
1.5i, 4 cyl.
- Engine Power
88kW, 145Nm
- Fuel
Petrol (91) 6.3L/100KM
- Manufacturer
FWD
- Transmission
Manual
- Warranty
3 Yr, 100000 KMs
- Ancap Safety
NA
Honda City
Honda calls it the City but, technically, you could also call this car a Jazz-with-a-boot. The Japanese car maker’s new light sedan shares 60 per cent of its parts with the baby hatch that hit showrooms in second-generation form last year. Those parts are significant, too: engine, gearbox, steering, brakes, floorpan and suspension.
The City’s dimensions, however, are noticeably bigger. The sedan is more than half a metre longer (though it’s 55mm lower and its width is identical).
Styling, too, is bespoke with not a single body panel shared with the Jazz. The City’s design is effective. While the light-car segment has a history of visual disasters when car makers have tried to turn a light hatch into a sedan – think Toyota Echo and Mazda 121 Metro – the City succeeds in looking like a smaller clone of Honda’s own, mid-size Accord Euro.
The City was previously sold here as a tiny hatch in the 1980s, but other iterations didn’t make it.
Honda Australia believes the City – built in Thailand like the Jazz – will not only help boost its sales in the light-car segment but also works as a response to the trend of buyers downsizing from large cars into small and light cars.