HONDA AUSTRALIA has announced that the Honda Jazz and City will be fitted with stability control as standard from late next year onwards.

When we tested a Honda City VTi-L last month, we thought it an unusual oversight that electronic stability control (or Vehicle Stability Assist, as Honda calls it) was not available anywhere in the [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

VICTORIA WILL BECOME the first state in Australia to make stability control a compulsory standard feature on all new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles sold from January 2011 onwards, a move that the state government says will drastically lower the road toll.

The Victorian Government is proposing an amendment to Victoria’s road safety legislation to [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

It’s based on the Jazz but priced like a Civic. Is the Honda City a car that makes no sense in Honda’s lineup, or does it have the goods to attain success in an already crowded small-car market?
I’ve got to say it. I’m more than a little bit puzzled by Honda’s all new City. Here [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

After unveiling a futuristic-looking modified example at the Sydney Motor Show in October last year, Honda released its all-new Honda City small car into the Australian market this week.

The City badge first saw service in a number of Asian countries back in 1996, and over one million units have been sold since. Now, with the [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

It’s all smiles at Honda Australia lately, with the Japanese brand celebrating its third-best January – amidst troubling times generally – in its forty years in the Australian market.

With a tally of 5013 vehicles sold for the month of January 2009, Honda’s market share increased to 7.5 percent, up from 7.3 percent for the same [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

The TMR crew will be packing its bags (well, those of us who don’t live in Sydney) and heading to the Australian International Motor Show this week, and one car this writer’s looking forward to seeing is the stunning new Honda City.

The City name was first introduced in 1982 in the form of a three-door [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More