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 [...]

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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 [...]

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JUST AS KIA Australia Public Relations Manager Jonathan Fletcher predicted at the Australian launch of the 2009 Kia Soul, the Korean manufacturer’s funky new small car has achieved top honours in its Euro NCAP safety testing.

According to Euro NCAP, the Soul achieved maximum points in the program’s new testing scheme for child and adult protection [...]

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I LIKE the Honda Jazz. I like its style and I like the way it drives. And I also like its value. While not perfect, it is a good buy in a segment full of good buys.

The question for buyers though is which of the sharp-handling, sprightly and easy-to-own cars from a quality small car [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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In today’s climate of high petrol costs, small cars are rapidly increasing in popularity as Aussie motorists move away from large cars and SUVs to something a little more frugal.

The timing then for Honda’s Australian release of the second-generation Honda Jazz could not be more perfect, as its spacious interior, light weight and thrifty [...]

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Honda has just released details of its completely redesigned Jazz small car for the American market, known over there as the Fit. While there’s no official word from Honda Australia just yet, this release gives us an excellent insight into what we can expect when the new Jazz hits our shores in the near future.

Two [...]

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Honda have launched the Freed compact minivan in Japan, which delivers seating for up to eight people in a package that uses just 6.1 litres of fuel per 100km.

Based on the same platform as the Honda Jazz, the Freed lays claim to being the first true 8-seater in the small car class. Of course, it’s [...]

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Mazda has managed to score an impressive first and second place in a recent German reliability survey that analysed over 9 million inspections of 194 different models across 160 criteria. If you think that sounds like a reasonably comprehensive type of survey then you would be right.

Called the TUV report, it is run by [...]

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Honda’s all-new Fit, known as the Jazz in Australia, has won the 2007-2008 Japan Car of the Year Award.

“We are honoured that the new Fit has been chosen as Car of the Year Japan for 2007-2008 from a range of models from Japan and overseas. We are happy that so many people see the Fit [...]

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