The arrival of the Honda HR-V facelift in Malaysia sees a brand new variant being introduced to the market, and that is the HR-V Hybrid. At RM120,800, the Hybrid costs a mere RM4,000 less than the top RS. But just what do you get for the money?
To start, there’s a new 1.5 litre direct injection four-cylinder petrol engine, delivering 132 PS at 6,600 rpm and 156 Nm at 4,600 rpm. This is mated to a 22 kW/160 Nm electric motor (with a Blue Energy lithium-ion battery supplying power), and together they produce a total system output of 152 P and 190 Nm. On paper, this figure exceeds what the 1.8 litre SOHC engine makes, and is close to that of a 2.0 litre NA engine.
Much like the City and Jazz Sport Hybrid i-DCD, the HR-V gets a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission that channels drive to the front wheels. Unfortunately, the Hybrid skips out on Honda’s Variable Gear Ratio steering system, which is available exclusively for the HR-V RS.
Just so you know, Malaysia is the only other market outside of Japan to get the HR-V Hybrid. Find out what we think of the electrified crossover in the video above. As usual, leave your thoughts in the comments section below. Enjoy!
GALLERY: Honda HR-V 1.5L Hybrid
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HRV is a lovely crossover BUT overpriced!
Should at least give AEB for this price range.
Malaysia is still the only country out of Japan to officially get the HR-V Hybrid. Malaysians gotta be grateful most latest affordable cars, cheap petrol and roadtax here.
Malaysians peace and living in harmony. Good and caring govt, cheap public transportation. For RM100, I used My100 unlimited travel pass. Previously I spent RM300, now I savings RM200 every month. Give to my mom wang dapur.
People here are talking about HR-V hybrid and you’re talking about public transport savings. You’re not making any sense. Lately have Pakatan trolls gone bonking mad? They’re becoming hysterical!
Bro this Rakyat Malaysia guy is not on your side meh? He always criticises the current clean government about the fake RM1:50 petrol price.
Epic fail LOL
Honda Malaysia already sold 102k cars. With this new car, sales will be even higher.
Malu betul our Proton, only about 50,000 sales. Even with new X70 also, sales tak sampai 70k.
Huh? What’s there to “malu” about? X70 only started selling mid-December 2018. The only malu should be on the Pakatan government for delaying the introduction of X70 to Malaysians. 20k waiting list is quite a long wait for interested buyers.
What’s the point buying this when you can get a talking car – proton logic.
I don’t know why people waste their money buying a China made junk for RM123k when you can get a world recognised car for RM120k.
Honda HRV, though a bit smaller, is highly regarded in all first world countries. They have won awards in so many first world countries.
China junk at RM123k can only be sold in China 95%. All first world countries have rejected China junk x70
No need to go so far around the world. You go to Singapore, everywhere you can see Honda HRV/Vezel.
This is proof that the HRV is a good car
Singapore have not launch X70 yet, once X70 launch in Singapore, the HRV will enter ICU at Elizabeth Hospital.
Singapore won’t launch X70 la. Proton left our market for quite some time oredi.. and if it comes back also, the COE (Cat. B) will kill it..
I do see more and more Protons in Singapore. Does it mean Protons are a good car?
After my father scrapped his one-of-the-few-left Protons a few weeks back, I’ve never seen any more Proton cars in the eastern part of SG. And Proton left SG around 2 or 3 years ago.
Yes I am a sinkie!
Keep an open mind. Try it first before commenting. The drive better than most jappies sub suv except the mazda cx3
Kesian. Only X70 alredi caused u to tremble so much and lash out in desperation and anger. Well, wait til X50, VF11 MPV, FY11 Gen2 comes. U will definitely pop a blood vessel if u dun tone back on the desperation, fear and anger.
Its ok la john. I can hire him to work for me. Toyota still numba 1 in RV! and quality.
Oh, he is very desperate indeed. Look at all his ‘Habisla X70’ comments at all articles, no matter related to Proton or not. Ironically, the only thing going to habis is his trolling career.
Lol! I would welcome that! It is quite ironic the way he “promotes” the X70 with ever increasing sales number the more he “talks”.
a car without spare tyre is risky, it comes with repair kit but it still has limitation on punture hole size. to be safe it should be equip with, tyre pressure monitoring system which then can caution driver on leak before going into a runflat situation which will then damage sidewall making and may make tyre unrepairable.
i agree with u, TPMS would be sensible to be installed. its like Honda is not selling a proper car to ppl, just they think their popular they can just push half-cooked stuff. ioniq hybrid got spare tyre n TPMS at the same time
I do agreed the the hybrid model a bit outdated spec. For this kind of price i rather choose X70 no doubt.
“Just so you know, Malaysia is the only other market outside of Japan to get the HR-V Hybrid” This is a false statement. What a joke, Hybrid version has been available at Singapore even before the facelift.
That statement is accurate. Malaysia is still the only country out of Japan to officially get the HR-V Hybrid. The Vezel Hybrid in Sri Lanka and Singapore are brought in through parallel importers, and not through official Honda distributors.
Kah kah kah padan muka keyboard warrior.
Totally agree with you on the poor specs. Should have been based on at least the V variant. Hybrid car buyers are more upmarket.
Is that 4.4L/km (22km/l) actual FC or on brochure? Usually marketing and real driving differs rite? Even 6.4L/100km for 1.8 is overstatement.I averaged 12L/100km on mixed highway-city
12L/100km…? You plonk in a V8 on your HR-V…?
That’s about right for real world city usage. Don’t believe those low FC numbers provided as you will never achieve such results.
22km/l is quite great, for an SUV really. My CX-5 registered 12.5km/l that is already good enough given its size. As reference, my CR-Z Hybrid is currently at 16km/l, after I changed to 17 inch tyres.
Dear Honda Malaysia, please bring on the HRV RS HYBRID !!!
Can’t agree more on the equipment level, what a let down. Why? No more EEV incentive? Nevermind, I can wait till end of year to see any improvement and price reduction, can at least get the year end promotion.
“Malaysia is the only other market outside of Japan to get the HR-V Hybrid”
Check your facts. Vezel Hybrid are plenty in Sri Lanka and Singapore since 2013.
Malaysia is still the only country out of Japan to officially get the HR-V Hybrid. The Vezel Hybrid in Sri Lanka and Singapore are brought in through parallel importers, and not through official Honda distributors.
The real Game Changer with new face, habisla X70!!
rather top up a bit and buy X70 Premium.
Aren’t you the same one that told us those Malaysia-China roadtrip X70s had a lot of broken parts and engine problems but this was disproved by Matthew’s clarification? I rather believe the statement of PaulTan writers than a fake news person.
Copy paste: “You sound like a broken record. Don’t you get tired?”
Hybrid for Japan is fine but with our third world
infrastructure, is it viable?
Depends. Do you prefer to pay over the top prices for replacement batteries? You won’t save any money because the fuel cost saved goes to the replacement battery.
HR-V is CKD, based on Fit platform, still priced at RM120k.
X70 is CBU, not based on a B-segment platform, a lot of spec, but also around RM120k.
Looks like some very unfair excise tax calculations, unless the actual cost or value for the Made in China car is like RM50k ;-)
Driving this Hybrid has low excitement, compare to Toyota’s hybrid. Hope that Honda will bring in the iMMD. I am sure the iMMD will change people’s perspective towards Honda’s hybrid and EV. Looking at the reviews on YouTube about the new Honda Insight and Accord Hybrid, it sets benchmark for hybrid and EV market. The two motor system, the acceleration, the energy regeneration padel shifter, and so on.
In Malaysia there is no reason to buy a hybrid with higher maintenance and lower resale value. Our petrol is cheap enough to make hybrids redundant. Whatever savings in petrol will be clawed back with lower resale value or expensive battery replacement in future.
Get Ioniq la. Yes, different bodyshell. but equally practical with more feature. + Full size spare. they claim 29Km/L for ioniq, i only manage 22km/L. not bad i think
my honda hrv 2018 had a major problem and cannot be solved my seremban and kuantan honda center. requesting for help, where should i go after this to solve. my car, give a burning smell if i speed up more 110kmhr of load more than 3 person(cannot pick up fast, gives smell too.) only have one car, i cannot simply send for repair without replacement.
U made the wrong choice. Shud have waited for X70.
Fanbois are sooo illogical & emotional. Macam emo teenage girl.
Sapport kau² the brand, without rhyme nor reason. Blindly defend & support. Then kutuk kau² the other side.
Grow up, for God sake. Everything has pros & cons. Nothing is ever 100% black nor white. This is the fact of life. Deal with it.
still a better badge than mazda and proton. malaysians buy cars based on badge and that’s why honda sales has been good all these while.