All New Honda City 2014 Unveiled with Diesel Variant

All New Honda City Unveiled – It comes with Diesel Engine Variant

Honda has unveiled the all-new City fourth-generation City in New Delhi. It will be available in both petrol and diesel engine variants. This is the first time Honda is coming up with a Diesel variant for City. The new car follows the Honda’s H design approach, which will be passed over to other Honda model cars. The car has become much more spacious, stylish and smart than its forerunners.

Tell me, is there any major change?

At first glance, the car resembles the existing City. But if we look closer, we can notice the change by ourselves. The car has got

Honda City

• New twin barrel headlight
• Narrow rear tail lamps that wrap around the boot lid
• Sharper bumper
• Notable front grille
• New strong character lines on the sides
• More legroom and space inside
• And a host of new luxurious features

What about Specification?

Engine

•  Improved 1.5 litre iVTEC petrol engine
•  Honda’s 1.5 litre iDTEC diesel engine (Same as in  Amaze)

Transmission

• 6 Speed manual (diesel)
• 5 Speed manual petrol
• 5 speed automatic petrol

Dimensions

• Length of the car is 4440 mm - same as the present Honda City
• Wheelbase is 2600 mm - an increase of 50mm over the current City.
• Width is 1695 mm wide - same as the current City
• Height is 1495 mm.
• Ground clearance is 165 mm - same as the current City
• 15-inch wheels

Honda City Rear

Is it high on Features?
As we said before, the new Honda City is equipped with host of new luxurious features like never before. The features in top end variant include:

• Five inch multi-function touch screen music system
• Distinctive touch panel for the all the aircon controls
• 8-speaker sound system is supported with USB, aux-in inputs and CD player.
• Rear Air vents
• Key less entry
• Four power output sockets to charge smart phones.
• Start/stop button,
• Sunroof,
• Cruise control
• A rear view camera with different views.  
• All-new rich interiors with quality plastics
• Improved dashboard 
• Clear instrument panel with blue back lights
• Well-built vents on the dash.
• Better steering wheel and good driving position.
• Nice leather clad gear lever

Honda-City-Interiors

Tell us about its mileage

• Diesel Engine: 25.8 Kmpl (Expected)
• Petrol Engine 15 Kmpl (Expected)
• In actual road conditions and heavy traffic, we can expect a mileage of around 13 Kmpl for petrol and 18.5 Kmpl for diesel model.

Honda-City-Interiors

Did Honda say anything about the price?
Honda has not yet revealed the cost. However, we expect the cost to be between Rs. 8.5 lakh for the base petrol model to Rs. 11.5 lakh for the top-end diesel.

When can I see this car in Indian Roads?
The new Honda City is expected to go on sale in January 2014.

Click here to read our latest 2014 review - Best diesel hatchback in India - 2014. 

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