Honda City price saw a hike in the range of Rs 5000 to Rs 10500

Honda City price saw a hike in the range of Rs 5000 to Rs 10500 due to an increase of up to 2 per cent in excise duty for Indian budget 2012-13. For Indian budget 2012-13, the central government has mended the excise duty of 24 per cent for every over 4 meter range cars in India having exceeding 1.2L petrol and 1.5L diesel engine. Thus, Honda has increased the City prices by Rs 5000 to Rs 10500. Here is a detailed list of the new prices of various Honda City variants:-

Model	Variant	Current price	New Price	Price Difference
Honda City	Corporate	699000	709500	10500
	E MT	770000	775000	5000
	S MT	820000	826500	6500
	V MT	870000	878250	8250
	V AT	942000	951000	9000
	V MT Sunroof	950500	960250	9750
	V AT Sunroof	1022500	1033000	10500

To bring in buzz sales last month the company launched a base Corporate MT variant of Honda City at Rs. 6.99 lakh but now it gets expensive. Along with the base Corporate MT variant all the Honda City variants now get expensive. After getting this base variant at competitive price tag, this mid-size sedan is giving tough competition to Hyundai Verna, Volkswagen Vento, Skoda Rapid, Ford Fiesta and Maruti SX4.

Honda City features a well known 1.5 l i- VTEC powerful and fuel economical petrol engine offers impressive fuel efficiency of 12 kmpl in city and 16.7 kmpl on highway. Honda City offers both Manual Transmission and Automatic Transmission system choices to buyers. Meanwhile, Air Conditioner with Heater, Power & Tilt Steering, ABS with EBD, Dual Front SRS Airbags, Leather Steering Wheel, Leather Gear Knob, Sun Roof etc its premium features which have been offered as standard.

Recent updates about Honda City are that the company will include a diesel model in City's line up. Honda's newly produced EarthDreams technology platform based 1.6 Liter i-DTEC Turbo Diesel engine will be putted in Honda City diesel. After getting this well admired diesel engine, Honda City mileage is speculated very impressive in the segment.