Honda- The car of ur dream!!

The new Honda City is probably the most successful model marketed by Honda in the ASEAN region. It is a bold new model, featuring what many Honda fans consider a ‘futuristic design’ that is based largely on the platform of the highly successful Honda Fit/Jazz. Coming out of Honda R&D Asia in Thailand, it was originally launched in only 1 variant, what has now come to be called the ‘City I-DSI’ featuring the new L15A 1.5l I-DSI engine. I have reviewed the Honda City I-DSI extensively here on TOVA; it is an excellent vehicle with plenty of ‘go’ and superb fuel economy - a fine all-rounded vehicle.

Early this year, Honda Asia launched a new variant, the Honda City 1.5l VTEC. This new VTEC variant turned the City range into a 2 variants line-up by adding the much eagerly awaited performance-oriented variant, what might be called a City ’sports sedan’. Launched first in Thailand as usual, for Malaysia it was launched back in late-July by Honda Malaysia, a much awaited event by Honda and City enthusiasts. A short while after attending the launching, around early August, I got the invitation to attend the City VTEC’s media test-drive session to be held at the hill-top resort of Bukit Tingyi. It was a very interesting session where Honda Malaysia also brought in some engineers from Honda R&D who designed the City VTEC to participate.