Like the idea of having a Honda Jazz, however you're believing the load within the little hatch's boot won't be large enough? This is really an issue easily solved. Honda provides the newest Honda City in sedan guise. It's all of the Honda Jazz hallmarks of relaxation, fuel economy and refinement and provides additional back leg room along with a boot. With 506 litres of boot space, the Smart-looking 2010 Honda City can take pretty much whatever you'll have to hurl in. Back seats which are 60:40 split makes loading larger items a wind.

Containers, useful pockets and trays give loads to the roomy Honda City interior of practicality. Equipped with the newest technologies, iPods. MP3 players. CDs and uSB drives are catered for.

Four-cylinders that released 88 kW at 6600 rpm along with a torque figure of 145 Nm at 4800 rpm provide loads of getup-andgo, whilst the i-VTEC engine layout has brilliant fuel economy.

A little auto must be designed with the finest safety features, and also the Honda city shines within this place. Threepoint seat belts for all occupants and pretensioned seat belts within the front offer outstanding security.

In the '80s, a nippy little hatch burst on the scene - the "hot kid" Honda City, because the TV advertisement set it. After a small lull during the past ten years or so, the small car for large cities is back - the all-new Honda City.

Forget it, but if you're still harbouring mental images of all boxy lines, the old Honda City along with a chopped - short looking butt. The new Honda City might have exactly the same name, but it's glossy, smooth and fashionable - and the brand new avatar's a sedan instead of a hatch. The inside has been enhanced for the better, also, with more space for everybody, starting with the driver and concluding with the boot compartment. Back seat passengers not got to wrap their knees around their ears - you can certainly fit the entire family (should you've got the typical family of mum, dad and 2 children) into the new Honda City but still have space for a little dog and also the buying. Even the glovebox is larger!

Enough about the appearances. New appearances are nothing if what's under-bonnet remains what it was in the '80s. Can the new Honda City's functionality match the sleek new looks? Certainly, it can. Controls for both (sound and cruise-control) are mounted handily in the tyre. As Honda is promoting road and other noise to be minimized by the City from outside using the sounddamping body casing, and it'll be the songs you hear.

How can 6.6 litres per 100 kilometers audio for the automated model? And you will place these amounts for the test together with the fuel consumption gage which sits underneath the speedo to the easily navigable dash. The emissions levels are kept fairly low - 148g/km of CO2 within the guide model (156 g/km within the automobile), which easily meets Euro 4 requirements.

The new Honda City might become a sedan, but it's nevertheless as convenient and nippy in tight places while the old model. Make that nippier and handier. The turning circle of the little beauty is a just 5 metres, and the management is firstclass: balanced, reactive and grippy.

As you'd expect, the new Honda City has all of the cuttingedge security features, both active and passive, that you'd anticipate a modern vehicle to get, notably a compact sedan. Six airbags (driver, front-passenger and drape), pretensioner seatbelts and Honda's G-Force Control Technologies are there to reduce the harm (to you) of an accident, whilst the outstanding visibility and ABS brakes with EBD and brake assistance will allow you to keep from trouble in the very first place.

The Honda City was revealed at the Istanbul Motor Show in 2008 and it is great to go here Down-under. Book a try and see what it's all around today.

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