Honda Jazz (Fit) test drive since 2008 hatchback

A spacious boat

A household car with a musical name is suitable for practical motorists who need a spacious interior in a compact body and a roomy trunk.
Honda Jazz came to Russia late: the model debuted back in 2002, and we only appeared in 2005. Despite such a decent time in the market, the car is quite actively sold out by our fellow citizens.
Honda Jazz is difficult to immediately attribute to any class. Doubts are not accidental: the Japanese themselves call Jazz a small bus or microvian. On the face is a typical female round -sided chubby car with touching cute headlights. But in profile and especially behind, a high jazz body resembles a minivan reduced on a scale. It is partly similar to Mitsubishi Colt, but even more strict. The solidity of the back often does not like frivolous customers, but it just provides Honda with the sympathy of household ladies, and even men, with children and/or the need to periodically use all the possibilities of both the salon and the trunk. And the image of Honda as a manufacturer of sports-oriented vehicles is an additional alibi for men.
There are plenty of possibilities at first glance at first glance. Having overcome not too wide the doorway, one cannot but be surprised: the windshield is taken far ahead and really gives the impression of the bus so spacious the salon! Yes, and the rear passengers were lucky in the cabin, there is no central tunnel. Freedom is also above your head, and the elbows do not knock on the door panels. By the way, the seat of the rear passengers is made in the form of a bench a la theatrical seats. What for? With this question of Welcome to the trunk
The trunk of Mikroven is a real master of reincarnations and the main chord of Jazz. In principle, without disturbing the rear sofa, a lot of its volume is 380 liters in the trunk. But in the event that it is necessary to transport something more serious than a few violins for the orchestra, you can make a good blessing with the rear sofa, there are three whole transformation options. For example, you can throw up the rear seat pillow and get a second trunk, and there calmly place a couple of guitars. And if you fold the seat completely, turning it into an even floor right up to the backs of the front, then with extremely, the smuggling can be shoved behind the driver as many as 1325 liters of cargo space. If you want to win the space again (although this is unlikely to be needed): the front seat we move to the stop forward for this there is a convenient handle on the back of the chair and 2.4 meters for transporting long -termers at your disposal. In the passenger version, under the rear sofa, as in an airplane, there is a place for a bag with notes.
But the trunk is not limited to the car offers niches on every corner: cup holders, pockets, there is even a shelf under the entire front panel! Only a glove box disappointed: although it was two -tier, but not particularly roomy and, characteristic of the Japanese, is deprived of the backlight.
Also, purely in Japanese, the steering wheel is deprived of departure adjustment. We have to sacrifice something: either the legs are cramped for maneuvers, or the hands with difficulty reach the steering wheel and quickly get tired. The impression is trying to fix the high-quality decoration of the salon with aluminum inserts and stylish wells of devices with bright numbers and successful backlight, a spectacular front panel with a radio joystick and an original round climate control display, pretty triangular windows in the front racks.
We got a car in the so -called sports configuration. True, for jazz there is one single modest 1.4-liter engine with a capacity of 83 hp, aggregated by a stranded variator. However, in addition to the traditional D, there are S and L towers, and there is even a 7 -speed mode button on the steering wheel. 7 fixed gears are controlled by petals on the steering wheel almost like serious sports cars! Honda is trying to please lovers of all types of transmission. Well, let's see how many hares can be killed with one jazz?
As expected, in Drive Honda does not differ in particular dynamics. Jazz lags behind at starting from a traffic light and deals with rebuilding. Theoretically, the advantage of the variator in the absence of switching, which resembles a monotonous sound of a motor, which is perfectly audible in the cabin. When accelerating into the floor, the motor spins to the limit and does not change in the voice, alas, it does not look at jazz at all. If the monotony is annoying, you can go to the 7 Speed \u200b\u200bMode mode, and the transmission will work as a seven -speed automatic with manual switching, but even by clicking the transmissions at the speed of Schumacher, the motor is clearly not capable of exploits, even if there is one driver in the cabin. I wonder what will happen if the trunk is loaded? On this score, Honda warns in advance: a carrying capacity of not more than 400 kg! In Sport mode, the variator works a little more quickly, but the dynamics is still expressed exclusively in the engine of the motor.
For those who chose jazz, but still do not want to be late for meetings, a hard suspension is offered. In many turns, you can burst at full speed, without reducing the speed gained with such difficulty, jazz writes perfectly arcs and is not tag with. But be afraid of your own passengers: despite the feet of the legs, they will certainly puzzle in front of each lying policeman - a short -flowing, tuned on the ring, the suspension is not designed to storm large bumps with the passage. With an increase in speed, unpleasant sensations are only aggravated by all the waves of asphalt, as if you are sailing on a boat. For distant travel, Jazz is not suitable for any article.
With regard to maneuverability, the brisk Jazz is magnificent to the turning radius is 5 meters, which often saves in close parking. That's just the low bumers of the sport version do not let jazz into the curb.
So, a household car with a musical name is suitable for practical motorists who need a spacious salon in compact body and roomy trunk. The prices of JAZZ are no longer so practical, but for a car belonging to the Honda family, they are not high: the basic equipment with a 1.4-liter engine and mechanics, which already has climate control, 4 pillows, music, electric heating and electric mirrors, It will cost 454,000 rubles. The most expensive Sport with a variator costs 497,000 rubles. At the level of golf class models? Competitors of JAZZ in terms of trunk and spaciousness of the salon are the same Mitsubishi Colt or Nissan Note will not cost much cheaper: from 423 172 rubles for COLT and 429,200 rubles per NOTE. But the advantage of rivals in the choice of engines: Mitsubishi offers 1.3 -liter engines with a capacity of 95 hp. or 1.5 liters, Note 1.4 and 1.6 liters, as well as in a greater variety of configurations.
It is a pity that Honda sports is mainly in the design of the devices. And jazz would not have prevented the softer adjustment of the suspension, after all, the weak-wing motor does not pull on Sportation, then what is the sacrifice of the passengers to sacrifice? If only to satisfy the driver’s driver’s ambitions with all these shortcomings is still Honda, combined with a spacious trunk.
Svetlana Aleeva
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A spacious trunk with three transformation options
Good equipment in the database
Stylish salon
 
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Hard suspension
Lack of choice of power units
 
 
   
Specifications

Body
Honda Jazz car
Type of body of the UPV
The number of places 5
Trunk volume, l 380/1325
Equipped mass, kg 1030
Full mass, kg 1510
Length, mm 3845
Width, mm 1675
Height, mm 1525
Wheel base, mm 2450
Road clearance, mm 140
Engine
Type gasoline
Front location, longitudinally
Location and number of cylinders R4
Working volume, cm 1339
Cylinder diameter/piston stroke, mm 73/80
The degree of compression is 10.8
The number of valves per cylinder 8
Maximum power, L.S./rpm 83/5700
Maximum torque, Nm/rpm 119/2800
Transmission
Gear box
Front drive
McPherson front suspension with a reptile stability stabilizer
The rear suspension is a torsion, with a reptile stabilizer
Front brakes Disco ventilated
The rear brakes are drum
Tires 185/55 R15
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h 160
Acceleration time 0-100 km/h, from 14.1
Fuel consumption, l/100 km
city cycle 7.2
country cycle 5.0
mixed cycle 5.8
Fuel tank capacity, l 42
AI-95 fuel
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A source: Carclub.ru