Thread: Honda Jazz

Honda sets - such as Toyota , only significantly different in the art- on the hybridization of all series. After over half a million Hondavehicles with the "IMA" (Integrated Motor Assist) and morethan a decade of experience-series hybrid is finally the compactclass to train. After the debut Insight (the coupe was not), twogenerations of Civic Hybrid, the current Insight sedan and the newCR-Z hybrid is now the Jazz as a hybrid in the wings.

In Honda's B-Segmentler awell-known drive is used in the engine compartment. The same unit asthe Insight. The 88 bhp



1.3-liter i-VTEC engine as there is combinedwith a stepless CVT transmission and a 14 hp electric motor. TheE-drive provides powerful thrust, when the gasoline engine is stilltired, and the battery capacity for recovered when the driverreleases the accelerator or brakes. Then the energy flows back intothe drive system and the gas pedal is again available.

Visually, the hybrid version of themono-motorized jazz through different headlights with blue trim, anew front grille, a revised front bumper and the vehicle by the endof the clear tail lights and chrome bar on the tailgate.

The interior's new. Germanycurrently in the compact Honda will be available as a hybrid withleather trim - a first in the jazz series at the European market. Theslightly elevated seating position also facilitates here thepanoramic view, the variation of the interior pleasures the matterwith the luggage store. The level loading area (the battery is seatedwith the E-motor space saving in the engine compartment), whichresults in "charging mode" measures, along 1.72 m (which isenough for three 26 "mountain bikes without having the frontwheels are removed).