Honda City

The City is one of the most popular Honda cars. The timely updates with the City has helped it in retaining its position in the market. In order to cope-up with the competition with the Ciaz and the Verna, Honda has given a mid-life update to the City.
The City gets a facelift and some styling/design tweaks, some new features and a new top-end variant has also been introduced.

EXTERIOR
The front fascia looks bolder after the facelift. It now features a new honeycomb grille, thicker headlamps with LED projector and DRLs and a re-designed bumper.
Not much have been changed in the side profile, except the new 16inch diamond cut alloys (only for top-end; rest have to do with 15inch alloys).
The rear end looks different with a new and edgier honeycomb-design bumper, LED tail-lamps and boot lid spoiler with LED stop lamp.

INTERIOR
Honda has loaded the new City with numerous features, some of them being - sunroof, feather-touch climate control, keyless entry & go, rear AC vents, reversing camera, extremely spacious cabin and lots of touch-sensitive controls. It is a solid and sensible sedan offering the top of class premium features. It also features a 7inch touchscreen multi-function infotainment display which is surrounded by piano-black panel.
The instrument cluster is chrome-finished, giving the premium feel, the City is always known for. The large super-cushioned front seats provide full comfort and there is adequate leg/head/shoulder room in both rows. The floor is quite relaxing for the feet due to its slant angle. Even the is adequate with 510L of space.

ENGINE, PERFORMANCE, FUEL ECONOMY, RIDE, HANDLING & SAFETY
The City comes in all three variants petrol, diesel and CVT.
The petrol engine is powered by a 1.5L i-VTEC motor producing 120ps of power and 145Nmm of peak torque and comes mated to either a 5-speed manual transmission gearbox or a CVT gearbox; while the diesel version is powered by a 1.5L i-DTEC motor producing a power of 99ps and a peak torque of 200Nm.
As per ARAI, both diesel and petrol have the best in-segment efficiency. The petrol MT offers 17.4kmpl, the CVT (petrol) gives 18kmpl and the diesel engine gives 25.6 kmpl of mileage.
The ride and handling of the new city remains the same, as in the front are Mac Pherson Struts and in the rear there are H-shaped torsion beam. The suspension setup absorbs all the bumps with ease and the NVH levels have also been improved. The overall dynamics remain the same as its predecessor.

CONCLUSION
Already Honda is a desired name in the country. The new City is feature loaded and the additional features like all LED headlamps and fog lamps, the 7inch advance infotainment system, and the design changes make it stand tall in the competition.
But when everything looks nice, there is still room for improvement.