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HONDA JAZZ 1.5 SPORT

By Alan Rosenmeyer

don't think Honda can thank Jeremy available but somehow I felt that this was a touch and create a slightly harder ride -
Clarkson and the original TopGear team not important in this car. The standard or sportier ride if you look at it that way.
I for creating the legend that the Honda CVT automatic transmission remains, now Inside, you get sports seats, aluminium-
Jazz is only suited to ‘Little Old Ladies with with ‘flappy’ paddles - the Honda version is look pedals and red trim on the fascia and
Purple Hair Rinse’. Ever since then, it seems excellent and gives a very smooth driving doors.
to have put a lot of younger buyers off this experience overall.
excellent small/medium car. What does not change is the excellent
Looking at what the Sport version adds space provided by the Jazz body and the
The test car that was delivered to me was to the standard Elegance version besides Honda ‘Magic Seats’ in the rear that fold
the recently added Sport version which a bit more power, there are red stripes on differently to create a much deeper load
I find a bit of an anomaly. It adds 9kW the exterior and a LARGE roof spoiler over space behind the front seats for carrying
and 10Nm to the recipe of the standard the rear tailgate. Then you get attractive bulky loads like a bicycle, but obviously
1.5 so you now have 97kW and 155Nm 16 inch black mags that do lower the car at the expense of rear passengers. Even
when folding the rear seats in the normal
manner, this creates a much flatter and
even area compared to many competitors.
A week's driving in mainly urban conditions
returned fuel consumption of 6.7L/100km
which I deem perfectly acceptable overall.

Interestingly, this was my first test of
any Jazz model and I was left with the
impression that this is a quality little car
with many positive features (such as the 6
airbags that come as standard) and a very
solid feeling on the road.

Honda Jazz 1.5 Sport is priced at
R359 600. A 4 year /60 000km service plan
is included.

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