New Honda City comes in Malaysians as CKD unit

The next generation version of the unbeatable petrol sedan in mid-size segment, Honda City has also been offered to the Malaysian customers last week. The all new Honda City is available in that market as CKD (Completely Knocked-Down) unit. As per Honda City reviews this amazing and powerful sedan will beat the big on in terms of power and performance in that market just like India.

Few months ago the Indian mid-size market was dominated by Honda City but due to lack of diesel model it was driven past the by Nissan Sunny and Hyundai Verna Car. Meanwhile, Malaysia is the petrol dominated market and the beast is speculated to make its wide reign. Honda City features for Malaysian model have been increased at good level. The country gets the new City in two variants such as Grade S and Grade E.

Honda City Grade S is the basic model which is available at RM 85,980 which is near to Rs. 15.37 lakhs while the Honda City price for top-end Grade E variant is RM 90,980 which is similar to Rs. 16.26 lakhs. The new Honda City features which have been offered as standard for the top-end Grade E variant are Redesigned chrome grille, Revised tail lights, Modified front and rear bumpers, new fabric seat design and new ‘ECO’ indicator.

Honda City images for the Malaysia launched model look very similar to the Indian version and there are no more difference appear. It also is packed with same 1.5-litre i-VTEC engine which belts out maximum power of 120 HP at 6,600 rpm and top torque of 145 Nm at 4,800 rpm. The engine is mated to a manual gearbox while a five-speed automatic gearbox is available as optional for both variants. Honda City mileage has been made awesome for this model.

It comes in in 4 colors i.e. Polished Metal Metallic, Crystal Black Pearl, Sparkling Brown Metallic joining Alabaster Silver Metallic and Taffeta White. The company is offering a five-year unlimited mileage warranty along with six times of free labor service up till 100,000 km for the new Honda City which really interesting.

Meanwhile, Indian customers will the new car launch very soon because Renault is going to make foray onto the Indian compact SUV car market on 4th July this year with launch of Renault Duster against the Ford Ecosport, Mahindra Scorpio and Tata Safari Storme. The company already opened the bookings for the vehicle while features and specifications of the compact SUV are now official. You may know all about the SUV via one click on the given above.

Honda City to dominate the segment again: HSCIL

Honda City, which has been an illustration of style statement and awesome performance along with the synonym of ‘true sedan’ due to distinctive blend of avant-garde technology, advanced styling and premium features for Honda car lovers since launch in 1998, to be dominating the segment again. Right now, due to the lack of diesel model City is facing tough competition to Hyundai Verna and Nissan Sunny. But, Honda hopes that after getting diesel engine model Honda City will again dominate the segment.

Honda has developed its 1.6 Liter i-DTEC 'EarthDreams’ diesel engine which was displayed at Geneva Auto show that is expected put in overseas market running Honda cars. But for the Indian auto market running Honda cars the company will start producing the new 1.4L and 1.5L engines which are expected to be offered in whole range of available Honda cars in India including the City sedan.

On the internet every Honda City review is noticing that the HSCIL Honda is targeting volumes sales of 100,000 diesel cars. The new small capacity diesel engine for the City will come in production by the end of this year and will be fitted by the mid of next year. Whereas, Honda City price for diesel version of will become more than available petrol model but, due to high fuel economy and good power buyers will first for it.

Honda City's 2012 version is decent and offers all variants between Rs. 7.20 lakh to Rs. 10.43 lakh at ex-showroom Delhi. Thus, diesel version of the vehicle would start from Rs. 8 lakh for basic model and may go for Rs. 11 lakh at ex-showroom Delhi. The expected Honda City features for diesel version as standard are Air Conditioner with Heater, Power & Tilt Steering and ABS with EBD. The company not unveiled the Honda City pictures for diesel model yet, but it would carry the same body design as petrol model. Beside this, Honda City mileage would also impressive in the segment. So, HSCIL hopes that the City will dominate the segment again.

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.