The Honda HR-V facelift has been revealed in Thailand, where it will be in showrooms from July 8. The refreshed B-segment SUV made its home market debut in February this year. Already spotted testing here, it should be on Honda Malaysia’s cards.
No big changes to a popular product, and the facelifted car is immediately familiar. The biggest changes are in front, where the Honda logo now sits on a thick bar. Top spec cars get new LED headlamps in the same “scaled” style as the Civic, while the U-shaped “mouth” is now wider. The bumper has been reprofiled and the foglamps are now LED strips.
Elsewhere, there’s a slim chrome bar linking the tail lamps, which have two horizontal LED tubes in Thailand’s case. Our neighbouring market gets a new RS trim level, and the top sporty spec adds on unique two-tone five-spoke 17-inch wheels. The rims on E and EL grades are the 17-inch rims we’re familiar with.
Compared with the mid EL with full body coloured trim, the RS gets contrasting gloss black on the entire lower portion and mirror caps. The Passion Red Pearl colour you see here is new and exclusive to the RS, and so are new-to-model items such as a panoramic sunroof and City Brake Active System (CTBA), which is autonomous emergency braking that works between 5 and 30 km/h.
Honda LaneWatch, a camera that comes on when the passenger side signal is flicked on, is available on the EL and RS, along with side curtain airbags to make it six in total (four airbags for E). The two top trims also get a seven-inch touchscreen head unit and the Walk Away Auto Lock function first seen on the Civic. No full Honda Sensing suite or a hybrid variant as available in Japan, leaving the Toyota C-HR as the sole hybrid option in the class.
No change to the powertrain, which combines a 1.8 litre SOHC i-VTEC unit with 141 hp/172 Nm to a CVT automatic gearbox with paddle shifters as standard. Thai prices start from 949,000 baht (RM116,052) for the E, rising to 1.059 million baht (RM129,504) for the EL. The top RS spec HR-V goes for 1.119 million baht (RM136,859).
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Please bring in before SST is implemented
No chance, HRV as well as other Honda models all sold out until September.
Singalingam douuu
The volvo based proton suv is gooder USP.
Mana PEARL RED honda msia, we dunwan silly dark red color…
seriously uh ? So fast habis all stock or what ?
What!! HRV facelift launched in Thailand already!? I wonder is it UMW or Toyota fault that they are so slow to CKD the CHR?? No wonder Honda is selling thousands of HRV & taking away sales from Toyota.
C-HR will be oni built in Thai.. So no CKD version
please oh please someone from transport ministry and/or vehicle type approval dept make honda remove the LED lights from HRV, BRV, civic and city. they are so blinding when coming from behind at your side mirrors. very annoying and painful to the eyes.
Loki shud oso bring us back in time to the era of rubber absorber bumpers thats stronger and scratch proof compared to current plastik bumpers.
Yep yet ppl are so amazed with it… The current HRV is okay as it comes with projectors… top spec City, Civic, CRV, Accord, amd this new CRV cokes with the rubbish reflector based led lights.. same case with new Myvi… Glare inducing…
dont forget about wira.. gen2 .. myvi. kancil…viva with retrofit led bulb.
ps: led light on brv & city?
Wowwwww the rim look so….not nice… -_-
Looks like camry rim
Its called starfish rims.
No HS for something thats more exp than in MY? Thats heresy! Lanewatch is useless becoz most MY pipu dun use signal when switching lanes. Shud have come with Lanekeep Assist that wud compel drivers to use signal when switching lane instead.
And when is a AEB not a proper AEB? When its a CTBA working up to 30kmph instead of the CMBS that works up to 100kmph. Unknowing customers got ripped off again, when they cant tell the diff.
Headlight downgraded from projector led unit from the pre FL
The RS variant is the one to buy.
Bring in the RED…enough with the boring maroon already
Lousy and Hideous Overrated Small SUV from you guessed it Hooondaaa.
Horrible and ugly interior design and built quality.
Worst of all is the extremely outdated engine. Should be Dead by now in 2018. Cmon Honda, dont be so cheapskate.
Better get its rivals like the beautiful CX-3 or the more expensive CH-R. Haters are gonna hate but its true la.LOL
One dugong dun call another dugong ugly when both r just as fugly, capische?
RM116+K to RM136+K is a wee bit expensive for a B Segment SUV, no?
As long as not proton chevrolet fiat ford kia huundai.. its worth
So Toyota CHR is worth it, huh?
1.5L turbo or 1.5L hybrid pls…
buta buta also this HRV sells better than CHR.
Looks ugly like hell and quality like garbage also Malaysians buy until no stock. Damn foolish wei. Blinded by the Big H logo. Lol.
Please be below 100k for entry level.. U can take away the sunroof. If I got thick pocket, i ll definitely sure wont go for Hrv… So pls be under 100k.
HrV price considering all the cheapos… Should not be overpriced it should cater to the needs of youngsters like me.. Who really eager to hv an SUV but with thin pocket. HONDA PLEASEEEEE.I M BEGGING.