The new 2009 Honda City looks urban chic. Asian automotive form & function.

Stylish from any angle. Nota Bene! The tilted BMW-ish brake lights and the over all tight and compact design.

The 2005 ugly ducling – became the sligshot. The 1,500 cc engine is

enough for Bangkok everyday urban driving and the occasional week end escape to Chonburi ( Pattaya).

Is this the best looking city car for the time being?

John Koistinen-Lindgren

Carsanook!

Bangkok

Goodbye Waja

The current Civic makes most other Asian, or even some euro Sedans look bland and unexciting.

but given the CRV double-grill front… you have no choice! UGLY!

hope Honda are not so silly to use the same front onto their next Jazz/Fit/Fit-Aria/City….. Do come out with something as futuristic as 8th Civic! Cool!

Keep our finger crossed!

juz go and have a look at both cars.. u would notice that the boot of the city is way bigger than the vios..

1 more thing is that both the city and vios come in 2 variants…

idsi and vtec for city and 1.5E and 1.5G for the vios..

if ur observant enough, u would notice that BOTH the variants of city comes with dual airbags whereas, the only the higher spec version of the vios -1.5G gets dual a/bags.. (1.5E comes with single a/bag for the driver ONLY)

what does that show?? TOYOTA willing to compromise on passenger safety just fot the sake of selling its cars at a cheaper price??

FYI, if cvt is problematic, how come the Jazz Vtec with CVT won the best family car or sumthin in the US?? (i've forgotten its under wat category)

alot of ppl say that the cvt gearbox is problematic and bla bla,

but if u ask me how many ppl that i know have experienced gearbox failure on a new car(STOCK), the answer is NO..and it performs like charm when u use the CVT fluid which is recommended by HONDA itself.. those problems experienced by certain drivers are coz they use the conventional ATF fluid… and ppl also say if it costs 20k++ if u wanna replace the gearbox…but which idiot replaces the entire gearbox to a new set? infact, my fren with a jazz turbo juz had his gearbox changed..a 2nd hand cvt gearbox from d half cut shops ony cost him 2.3k….. > and you shud also know that his gearbox got damaged coz he was running turbo set up

Are all future Hondas going to have that new 'corporate grille' (if it's a corporate grille at all) … ? It first appeared on the CRV and I thought it looked like Datuk K's moustache.

what a chop, theo, frankly looks real

I MUST SAY:

Following the worldwide failure of Honda City. Failure not in the sense that it did not sell in good figures, but failure because inspite adding so many additional features such as CVT, steptronic, flexible interior etc. It completely loose out to Vios in terms of sales figures.

This is a lesson to learn for Honda, a creator of exciting, sporty, daily use cars (which IMO it's direct above segment is BMW). They have created a 'sensible' car that not only looks, but performs totally contradicting their corporate image of being sportiness.

If we were to compare Vios, it's everyway a Toyota, sensible, looks fine, not overtly sporty but in everyway suits the typical Toyota buyers who're a tad un-exciting and un-adventurous. That's why it sells, it's everything buyers expected from Toyota, despite it falling short on equipment levels compared to City. In Malaysia, Vios sold 26,0000 units in 2006, in Singapore, Vios sold 5500+ units whereby City only sold 800+ units.

I believe if Honda were to fight in this segment again, they will somehow have to launch another shared platform model, using a more sporty, sleek appeal to snatch buyers from Vios, position it a tad higher than Vios with engine variations of 1.5 and 1.6. Cut all the flexible loading crap; give us a true HONDA.

That way, they'll sell; IMO.

anyways, i love the car except for the short and stunted lookin front..

For a moment there I wanted to do my City chop based on the Fiat Linea, itself a sedan based on the Punto ( http://www.desktopmachine.com/pics/Fiat_linea_40_… ). But that car is so huge that it is actually marketed to compete with Mondeo/Passat/C5/407. Although I must say the Linea is one lovely car, especially considering the fact that it was a mini hatchback.