Honda Jazz

A revitalised Jazz range sees the addition of a derivative boasting the Sport badge, but just how athletic is it? Honda can certainly lay claim to the “Sport” moniker. A multitude of motorsport podiums, generations of exhilarating Type Rs and sweet-handling cars such as the earlier Civics, ...

Honda has joined the cross-hatch craze and thrown some black plastic cladding at its B-segment contender, resulting in something it calls the Jazz X-Road.Making its official debut at the Geneva International Motor Show, the front-wheel-drive Jazz X-Road gains black plastic cladding around the wheel arches ...

Honda Motor Southern Africa has added a fresh Jazz Sport model to its local line-up, with the newcomer effectively replacing the Dynamic derivative that previously topped the range.The Japanese automaker has extracted a little extra oomph from the Jazz Sport’s familiar 1,5-litre four-cylinder petrol ...

Honda has unveiled the facelifted Jazz ahead of its official debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, handing the versatile supermini fresh exterior styling and a sporty new trim level.Interestingly, the naturally aspirated 1,5-litre i-VTEC petrol engine now makes 96 kW (the current version in South ...

What sort of a difference in vehicle safety does 20 years make? Well, Euro NCAP has given us the answer, with a crash-test video pitting a late nineties Rover 100 against a modern Honda Jazz.The safety authority released the video to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. Euro NCAP says it has published ...

If you're in the market for a new vehicle these days, you're facing a brutal double-whammy: the price of new vehicles and the price of fuel are both through the roof, and seemingly only increasing.And that means the market for pre-owned is growing.Requirement: "Big on the inside but small on the outside" ...

Honda has released these two images of what it calls the Jazz Prototype, a vehicle that's no more than a thinly veiled European-spec version (i.e., the one we'll be getting) of the Fit that's already being sold in American and Far Eastern markets.Unveiled next month at the Paris Motor Show, the Prototype ...

I have a friend who owns a Honda Jazz automatic that exhibits a strange steering behaviour. When travelling in a straight line and the steering wheel is slightly turned to the left (or right) and let go, it does not centralise. My friend has now taken his car for an annual service and mentioned this ...

With the first-generation model already proving a firm favourite in the local market, the second-generation version of the Honda Jazz added a new 1,3-litre engine to supplement the 1,5-litre. Although the styling did change subtly, the original design concept was thankfully retained (with the fuel tank ...