Test Drive Honda Jazz (Fit) since 2008 Hatchback

Magic button

For us, Honda Jazz is not news. We caught this car three years ago (wheels, May 2002), when one of Hondov's importers was visiting her certification to Moscow. However, something then was not charged, did not come around, and the official sales of the car started with a huge delay.
 

Thus, only now Honda received the bottom in Russia, a formally democratic Civic model with this role did not cope in any way.

 

Was Jazz changed over the past years? Not much. Judging by all the signs, he survived the gentle restyling: he has new bumpers, headlights and rear lights, and turn signals appeared in the exterior mirrors. But this is a purely formal innovation, I have no effect on the machine. But inside it became really better, more interesting. Most of all pleased that Jazz now fully complies with the general concepts about the quality of design and quality of decoration. This is an interior of an adult car, but without a tendency to reference. A serious mood, which began to be thickened on the multifunctional steering wheel and optimile devices, diluted with the central console of nontrivial appearance.

 

Merry and very convenient thanks to the largest music keys and climate control. Also there is a pretty pseudo-oxtic, which is just a group of buttons responsible for doping inclination of the audio system. You can't call the car, but none of the cars built around the cabin, the grace is not different. But it turned out practical: similar to Mikrovin Jazz Tolkovo uses every span of urban space. First, he is ready to take on board of four adults: the rear seats are not at all formality. Secondly, this small machine turned out to be a spacious, full trunk, which seems complete even at that stage, when you have not yet started studying the algorithm for folding the back chairs.

  

In the jazz movement, some rapid emotions are simply a pleasant car. The eight-smelled motor with two candles on the cylinder honestly work out modest 1.3 liters of its volume, due to opportunities in the city at urban speeds and expected skis on high. Moderately rigid, the energy-intensive suspension provides an acceptable smoothness of the stroke in all conditions and increases the stability of the machine on direct.

  

And to describe manageability, the beaten epithet is best suited. The efficiency and accuracy of the responses, the feedback characteristic is just enough just enough to feel the car well, but not to be seduced by the race. In other words, everything indicates a calm, weighted temperament of the car. In addition to the brakes of powerful, sharp, almost nervous, with a short pedal. Getting used to them, it will not be easy to transfer to another car.
 
And we found the magic button! This button is mounted into the right hand knob and the inscription 7 Speed. It translates the stepless by nature of the variator into a sequental mode, simulating the seven-step transmission with the control of the steering keys. It sounds intriguing, it looks great and the most important thing works fantastically! The transmissions switched quickly quickly, and, honestly, I do not remember a single machine, which in manual mode would be as shumb. The engine is not lagging behind, which begins to react to actions accelerator. But that it struck out, this is the intensity of braking by the motor for a gas discharge. You can verify, and in most situations do not use brakes at all!

 

Honda Jazz Good, thoughtful urban car, even advanced places. However, in this market segment, technical innovations do not always become an absolute blessing, since inevitably lead to an increase in the ultimate price of the goods. So Jazz was not cheaper than the Golf class sedan, which carries him to the fate of the niche product, the owners of which are seen by the wife and girlfriend of passionate fans of the Honda brand.
 

The car is provided by Ralph Art Divizn.
During the dough, the car is insured by Rosno.
 
Autography
Honda Jazz.
Winner of the Competition Japanese car season 2001/02
Still known as Honda Fit
Honda Logo Predecessor (1996)
Premiere September 2001.
Modernization Summer 2004.
Body Hatchback
Engines 1.2-1.3 l (78-83 l. P.)
Production of Japan
Expected replacement 2006.
 
Text: Leonid Klyuev
Photo: Roman Stunnin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

A source: Magazine "Wheels" [№95 / 2005]