Honda Jazz 1.4 ES i-SHIFT

The arrival of a replacement Honda Jazz means that an previous folks' favorite is back. larger within and a lot of versatile than the other rival, the outgoing Jazz was a runaway success with retired sorts. The new automobile is longer, wider and a lot of spacious than ever, and offers up all-new engines and a replacement gearbox, and a hybrid version is coming back. however will it match up to the likes of the sensible new Ford Fiesta? scan on for automobile Online’s initial verdict on the new Honda Jazz.

Ignore the drive for the instant – tell me concerning the flexibility of the new Honda Jazz

The existing Honda Jazz sells well as a result of it’s huge within, and every one those clever, practicality-boosting options are straightforward to use. With the new model it’s business as usual with the cinema rear seats – dubbed Magic Seats in Hondaspeak. Either you'll be able to fold the seat squabs up thus tall hundreds slot in the flat passenger footwell. otherwise you fold the complete seat forward by tugging one lever.

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New Honda NSX

You're looking at the long-awaited successor to Honda's NSX. After years of on-off speculation, we will finally see the new supercar in thinly veiled concept guise next month.


The company says this low-slung coupe 'provides a glimpse of the next-generation Acura exotic sports car' - but insiders openly talk of this being the new NSX. Acura is Honda's American luxury brand (think Honda's Lexus) and the Advanced Sports Car Concept will be shown at the Detroit Motor Show on 7 January. No more details are available at this stage, but we do know that Honda boss Takeo Fukui will whisk the covers off. CAR Online understands the new model will remain mid-engined - a high-revving V10 is rumoured - and will be a GT-style supercar. This teaser image reveals a squat supercar whose long rear deck confirms a mid-engined layout. Powerfully sculpted haunches and quad exhausts lend the car a purposeful poise. Honda has sold around 5000 NSX models in the UK since its launch in 1990, and the car only went off sale last year. The US was the car's biggest market.

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Honda's future: small cars, no NSX or Euro Acura

Honda chief executive Takanobu Ito today spelled out his vision for the next decade at Honda to CAR Online. No successor to the NSX is under development, but there will be a smaller city car slotting under the Jazz in Honda's range. It will be launched in Asia at first, potentially following in the rest of the world.

Ito, who is also president of Honda R&D, said that the company had no firm plans for a pure battery electric vehicle at this stage – the onus is on hybrid petrol electric cars and fuel-cell models.

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Honda HSV-10 GT (2010) first official pictures

The NSX is dead. Long live the NSX. After cancelling a proposed NSX successor, Honda has converted the abandoned road car project into a racer and created this SuperGT competitor, the HSV-10 GT.
So the Honda HSV-10 GT used to be an NSX?

Yes. Back in 2008 CAR’s spies snapped the front-engined road car testing at the Nurburgring, but in the midst of worldwide recession Honda put the project on hold. But rather than wasting all its research work, Honda'sR&D team used the basis of the car to create a racer that can compete in the GT500 class of Japan’s SuperGT endurance series.

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Honda NSX

Honda NSX information: everything you need to know if you own a Honda NSX, are thinking of buying one or just want to find out more about the NSX. Click on the links below for all of CAR Magazine’s news, reviews, videos, scoops and spy photos of the NSX car range. We list the top 10 stories for each model – and where appropriate you can click on ‘More’ to browse even more of our archive content.

The Honda NSX is no more – but what a supercar it was. Mixing Japanese engineering with family car usability (sort of), it really did move the goalposts in the supercar sector. Aluminium build, rear-drive and a chassis signed off by Ayrton Senna. Bliss! For more information on the Honda NSX, click on our further stories on the links below.

• Honda HSV-10 GT (2010) first official pictures
• Honda's future: small cars, no NSX or Euro Acura
• New Honda NSX 

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Honda Jazz (2008): first official pictures

Here are the first pictures of the all-new Honda Jazz, the follow-up to the super-clever supermini that’s been on sale since 2002. You’ll have to wait until autumn 2008 for Honda’s UK dealers to launch the Jazz, but CAR has already pored all over the new supermini to bring you a full preview of the latest mini.

So what’s the new Jazz like?

Our first impressions are that it’s an easy-to-use model – with first-rate ergonomics. You can see why so many older drivers buy the Jazz; it’s easy to  own, a cinch to get in and out of and the cabin quality is impressive.

Honda says it’s given the new Jazz a ‘big car’ feel, so although it may look similar to its predecessor, it’s longer by 55mm (to 3900mm) and wider by 20mm (to 1695mm). The wheelbase is 50mm longer, too, and a slightly wider front track is claimed to make it more agile.

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Honda Jazz Hybrid (2011) first official pictures

You're looking at the new Honda Jazz Hybrid, a new version of Honda's supermini, which takes the firm's tally of petrol-electric cars to four. Take that, Toyota.

Honda will introduce the hybrid Jazz as part of a 2011 facelift. It's the first time hybrid power has been available in the supermini segment.
What's under the skin of the 2011 Honda Jazz Hybrid?

The Jazz Hybrid features the same 1.3-litre petrol engine which does service in the Insight and Civic hybrid, assisted by an electric motor and putting its power down via a CVT automatic shifter. Honda hasn’t homologated the Jazz Hybrid yet, but claims its internal tests saw the car return 64.2mpg and 104 g/km CO2 – the Insight, depending on spec, returns 61.4-64.2mpg, and 101-105g/km.
What else is different on the Honda Jazz Hybrid?

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Honda Jazz

Honda Jazz information: everything you need to know if you own a Honda Jazz, are thinking of buying one or just want to find out more about the Jazz. Click on the links below for all of CAR Magazine’s news, reviews, videos, scoops and spy photos of the Jazz car range. We list the top 10 stories for each model – and where appropriate you can click on ‘More’ to browse even more of our archive content.

The Honda Jazz is the smallest Honda on sale – but still fizzes with clever engineering. The trademark pop-up rear seats remain, swinging up to free space for luggage or mountain bikes in the rear footwells. For more information on the Honda Jazz, click on our further stories on the links below.

• Honda Jazz Hybrid (2011) first official pictures
• Honda Jazz (2008): first official pictures

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Honda Civic Type R UK sales to cease

The Honda Civic Type R is dead. Or it is at least in Europe, as the high-revving, naturally aspirated 2.0-litre engine that powers Honda's hot hatch can't meet forthcoming emissions requirements
So Honda has been forced to kill off the Civic Type R?

That's right – the Civic Type R can’t meet the latest Euro5 emissions regulations that come into force at the end of 2010, meaning in the UK and most other European countries (a tiny handful have Euro5 exemption) the Civic Type R will cease to be. If you live outside Europe then you’re still in luck as the Swindon-built Type R will continue to be sold in markets as far afield as Australia and South Africa.

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Honda Civic (2011): spy shots of the next Civic

Is Honda readying a Civic facelift? The current Honda Civic was launched in 2005 and there's been barely any stylistic change since. Hardly surprising, since it looked like a Honda from the Planet Zog when it first arrived, all space-age wedge and modernist details in the place of traditional Civic conservatism.

Most of the revisions to the range have been sporting models – Type-Rs and Mugen nutters – with only a few engine tweaks and specification upgrades along the way.

But now our spy photographers have caught this Civic prototype testing in Germany. The top hat looks like a carryover of today's Civic glasshouse, but black cladding hides the bodywork down low – suggesting there is change afoot in the Civic's wardrobe.

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Honda peps up the Insight hybrid car (2010)

Honda is perking up the Insight hybrid petrol-electric car this autumn in response to customer feedback. In particular, the new 2010 Insight gets mods to the suspension to improve the ride and a few more luxurious cabin trimmings.

It seems that Honda's taken some flak over the way the Insight drives, and engineers have focused on improving the Insight's ride comfort and refinement. They've adjusted the recoil rate of the springs, altered the rear camber angles and fitted new mounts for the rear axle to make the petrol-electric hybrid glide rather than crash over road surfaces.

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Honda CR-Z Mugen (2010) first official pictures

Since its conception, Honda has been trying to persuade us that its CR-Z isn't merely a woolly hybrid but is in fact a proper sports car. As if to prove the point, Honda has announced that Mugen-fettled versions of the hatch are to be released for the British market.
Mu-who?

Recently making a splash in the UK with their banzai track-focused version of the Civic Type R, Mugen started in 1973 and specialise in building and tuning Hondas. Somewhat legendary in their home Japanese market, their cars and accessories are now officially imported into the UK through Torque Developments in Essex.

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Honda vs the volcano

The new July 2010 issue of CAR Magazine dispatches the ever-adventurous Mark Walton on a road trip with a difference: he has to beat the dustcloud and return from Spain using only Honda machinery in less than 30 hours. That's the time it took HMS Albion to repatriate stranded tourists from Spain to the UK in the aftermath of the volcano. Welcome to an unusual trip using boats, bikes, quads, boats and more. Click on the links for video of our adventure, a digital issue preview and wallpapers of our trip.

How do you pack for a journey like this? Inspired by the adventures of returning holiday makers under the Icelandic ash cloud, Car Magazine has decided to send me to Spain, so I can make my way home again by a variety of wheeled and watery means. I stand in my house before I leave for the airport, looking around and trying to decide what to pack: bike leathers, swim suit, hard hat, cowboy outfit, it’s like the Village People are on tour again.

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Honda's CR-Z: the first hybrid with sports appeal

Drove the new Honda CR-Z hybrid coupe this week – and it knocked my socks off. Every year I reckon two or three cars come along and surprise me. The cars that deliver the greatest shock are often those when you're least expecting it; not fancy-named Modenese missiles, but more more mundane fare.

Last year it was the Skoda Yeti and this year's jolt had until now been the bargain Dacia Duster. The margin between expectation and reality can be greater in the ranks. As anyone will tell you, designing a brilliant supermini on a budget is like scaling Everest compared with the stroll of launching a supercar with a telephone directory price.

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