CITY CHAMPION - 2020 HONDA CITY FIRST DRIVE

For generations, the Honda City has been keeping families all over the world happy with what it had to offer in terms of styling, comfort, performance and reliability. Now it’s the turn of the all-new 5th Generation Honda City to take on the baton for Honda Cars India. It will be competing directly with the likes of the popular Maruti Suzuki Ciaz and the Hyundai Verna.

- P. Tharyan & Farhan Khan

And to do that it’s changed into the longest and widest sedan in its segment. Yes, the 2020 Honda City is bigger in dimensions. Not only that it has an ASEAN N-CAP 5 Star rating equivalent when it comes to safety.

SPECIFICATIONS

ENGINE 1.5L i-VTEC DOHC with VTC (Variable Valve Timing Control) petrol

TRANSMISSION CVT

POWER 120hp @ 6600rpm

TORQUE 145Nm@ 4300 rpm

FUEL TANK CAPACITY 40 litres

TYRES Tubeless radial 185/55 R16

PRICE ₹14.44 lakh (ex showroom India)

EXTERIORS

Let’s start with its external features. The car is now 4549mm in length, 1748 mm in width and 1489mm in height. It has a wheel base of 2600mm. The car overall has very sharp design lines. The front grill area reminds you of the Amaze and Civic from the Honda family.

The headlamp cluster has DRLs integrated with the solid wing face, full LED headlamps with 9 LED array inline shell, integrated LED DRL and L shaped LED turn signal. These headlamps are follow-me-home / lead-me-to-car headlamps with auto off timer. The fog lamps are projector ones and LED. The side profile of the vehicle is elegant and it does give a longish look to the car. Body coloured door handles come with tiny buttons for the front doors that lock and unlock the car, with the keys in your pocket. These are basically touch sensor based smart keyless access entry.

Each time you lock and unlock, the ORVMs mounted on door skin, fold and unfold respectively. The car sits on 16-inch diamond cut alloy wheels which have a Shark Gray paint two-tone appearance. Must say it is quite sporty to look at.