New Honda City ready for the road; starting price Rs 8.5 lakhs

Honda on Tuesday launched the new upgraded version of its best selling sedan City in India priced at between Rs 8.5 lakh and Rs 13.58 lakh. The new City will be available in both petrol and diesel options. The petrol variant is powered by a 1.5 litre engine and is priced between Rs 8.5 lakh and Rs 13.52 lakh. The diesel option also has a 1.5 litre engine and is priced between Rs 10.76 lakh and Rs 13.57

The new City has a wide stance, with a sporty, wide-opening bumper design and a new front chrome grille with intricate design connecting the two headlights. The LED package, including the integrated LED DRL, the inline LED headlamps, LED fog lamps, LED RR Combi, LED license plate lamps, trunk lid spoiler with LED would lend the new Honda City 2017 an exclusive design signature. It will also have new diamond-cut and two-tone alloy wheel design for both 15 and 16 inch wheels.

The Interior design concept of the new Honda city includes several new features such as an advanced 17.7 cm touchscreen infotainment system, called the Digipad, in the V, VX and ZX grades. The infotainment system has features like satellite-linked navigation, voice recognition, Bluetooth telephony, audio streaming, 1.5 GB internal memory, 2 USB-in slots, 2 microSD card slots and 1 HDMI-in slot. It also features Wi-Fi support for Internet and Mirror Link support for smart phone connectivity.  

The City adopts the best of Honda's engines to achieve balance of both performance and fuel economy. The Diesel City is powered by the 1.5L i-DTEC diesel engine of Earth Dream Technology series and will deliver fuel economy of 25.6 kmpl and a maximum power of 100ps@3600 rpm with a max torque of 200 Nm@1750 rpm. It has been mated to a 6-speed manual transmission.  Further, in the Diesel model, a number of new sound and vibration absorption technologies have been applied to further reduce the NVH level. The Petrol variant of the City is powered by 1.5L i-VTEC engine that delivers a maximum power of 119 ps@6600 rpm and a torque of 145 N-m@4600 rpm.

The New City 2017 is equipped with a range of Honda's active and passive safety technologies, which are offered as standard equipment across all variants. Honda's own ACE body structure, Dual SRS front airbags, Standard Anti-lock brake system (ABS) with Electronic Brake Distribution (EBD), 3- Point ELR seat belts with pretensioners & load limiters, impact mitigating front head rest system, pedestrian injury mitigation technology, ISOFIX compatible rear seats  and rear windshield defogger - all are offered as standard in the New City.

The new Honda City 2017 will be offered in 5 grades. Petrol Manual Transmission will be available in S, SV, V & VX grades. Petrol CVT will be available in V, VX and the ZX grades. The diesel manual City will be available in SV, V, VX & ZX grades.

The New Honda City 2017 will be available in 5 colours - Modern Steel Metallic (New), White Orchid Pearl, Carnelian Red Pearl, Alabaster Silver Metallic and Golden Brown Metallic. All the colours will be available in all the variants of the new City 2017.

The New Honda City 2017 offers 3 years of warranty. Additionally, for the first time in the industry, customers can opt for Extended Warranty for additional two years.