Advance Booking for Honda Jazz

Honda officially announced that its going to launch Jazz this June.

Looking at its features and success in Japan and other markets, I am pretty sure I want to go for it.

My question is, can one book a car in advance? If they say the car will be launched in June, does it mean one can get delivery in June itself ? How long will I have to wait to drive it home?

Jazz will be launched in June, So we expect its deliveries to be 15-20 days earlier and we can't say about the waitlist now, Because it depends how many people will book it.

I don't think they have announced anything about booking.  Check with a local dealer.  Also check the webpage.

booking generally starts after the official launch of the car in the market. i am not sure if you can book the car before that except in some cases. If you book the car the day the bookings open the wait time will be less as generally there is not much booking on the first day. With time when the car settles in the market and the reviews come out to be good, the bookings go up and so does the waiting time just like in case of Swift diesel......which had a few weeks waiting time initially and now i have heard waiting time upto 8 months. so if you are sure you want to go for it try and book it the day the booking open and as early as possible.

Eonomic times reports Honda Jazz is going to be the most expensive hatchback in petrol - 22 Aug 2009.

I don't really mind. If anyone from Pune gets to know the booking date please let me know.

Yes...Economic Times does report about Jazz being the most expensive hatchback. But should'nt come as a surprise to anyone right? Coz justified or not, Brand Honda always carries a premium.

These are exciting times for new hatchback buyers. With new models on the anvil from all major players Ritz, Jazz, Grande Punto. We customers are going to be spoilt for choice for sure.

No wonder Deepak is sounding so excited about Jazz...but tell you what Deepak I have seen Honda Fit which is Jazz in India and the interiors do look pretty clustered and dunno if i should use the word cheap. It somehow does not carry that rich interior feel. I am sure Honda would offer a higher varianty option with better all round accesories..but will it be VFM ?? That's the big question in these times of recession and in this segment particularly. WHy would someone spend say 6.5 L on a hatchback when now he caqn get a Dzire or a Linea for the same buck or slightly more.

From what the Honda head says they are aware of their target audience and looking not for volumes but specific sect of the market...since he says City will continue to be their largest selling car even post Jazz...thaty is strange coz iin the Indian context hatchbacks are supposed to be your trump card but Honda has other ideas apparently.

Let's wait and watch

cheers

M

There are mixed reports about the Honda Jazz being priced starting from 5.5 L (as per ET) and 6.5 L (as per ACI May issue cover story).  Brand Honda may not may not justify the premium, Honda Jazz definitely does. Read along..

Companies like Honda, Toyota have realized the needs of Indian buyers - image, quality and safety. Buyers are not necessarily looking for a big car or a boot space of a sedan. Hence for new or existing customers / buyers, the coming few months are going to be exiting.

The reason to be excited about Jazz is because

A) The Jazz's sporty interior design is based on Honda's "dynamic layered style" concept which features a bold, open-line motif which mixes light and dark shades. The metallic instrument panel and aluminium-colored three instrument cluster adds an extra touch to the sporty ambience of the interior. This sporty and personal interior styling prioritizes the driver.

The roomy Jazz also offers flexible seating arrangements in three different yet easy-to-use arrangements:-

i) Utility mode : Stows away the rear seats for larger cargo area.

ii) Long mode : Front passenger seat can be fully reclined to extend storage space even further, which is useful for longer items such as surf board.

iii) Tall mode : When the seating section of the rear seats are removed, the cabin height can accommodate all items such as tall potted plants.

B) The Jazz is built on Honda's new space-efficient Global Small Platform, which contributes to a safe and spacious cabin. The reason behind this is that Honda engineers have positioned the fuel tank centrally on the platform thus achieving a greater level of crash protection due to the increased rigidity of the body. In addition, the shortened front end and the compact suspension system allow the floor to be lowered, creating an extraordinary amount of cabin space for such a small vehicle.

C) Honda Jazz is a fuel efficient car - thats VFM.

You don't really compare a premium hatchback with a sedan in a place like India even if they are priced the same simply because roads are narrow and parking is a big problem here. Jazz would be compact from outside (making it easy to park, parallel parking) and offer you more room for storage inside (in Long or tall mode), more than the boot space of a sedan. A fabia or a ritz wont offer you both Long and tall mode in one car.

Recession is the best time to buy such stuff because you know companies would price it accordingly.

Jazz is car of the year in Japan, not for no reason.

Bottom line - Honda is a class apart, never to be compared with a poor man's Maruti.

Woof !! Seems Honda has got a die hard fan in Deepak out there !!

Point well taken regarding engineering/ performance/ etc... etc... BUT again 6.5 lakhs for what is after all a hatchback..with tall and wide room....In india my friend nobody goes for surfing or carries bicycles in their car. All this is fine for the US or europe. But in India nobody thinks of buying a car so that he can carry tall bodies like surf board and stuff in his car.

Well in India owning a car is itself not a poor man's cup of tea (ofcourse now with Nano Mr. TATA has made dreams possible for an average Indian) but still maruti has come a long way in catering to many of us over the years. But Honda, though quality is their hallmark...mind you I am a huge fan of Japan having been there, but still their pricing is way over the top. For that matter Ford Fusion is an equally competent hatchback..we all know their fate commercially and how many numbers they sell.

So to cut the long story short, Honda will have to price it sensitively, else in today's age people are smart and thankfully are spoilt for choice. Remember Honda launched their Hybrid for a bomb and rightly learnt a hard lesson by having to sell it at 60 % of the original pricce to sell of the stock.

Jai Ho

M

Fan talk or marketing lingo, Deepak?

Seems wording there is marketing perfect, and not a hint of your own opinion there...

A rediculously priced car cannot be VFM on the basis of FE alone, considered over the life time of the vehicle. Cut it any way you wish. A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation will show that. So that assertion is misleading, to put it mildly.

Maruti caters to the needs to all types of people - M800 (Rs.2 lac) to Grand Vitara (Rs.15 lac).