KleinBoontjie
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Ja, I'll do, why not.
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Orange Honda Jazz
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WanderingMind
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I will it looks nice.
KleinBoontjie
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Are you advertising to sell here, or just general wonderment?
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superskully
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Wonderment
SauRoNZA
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Looks pretty funky to me, I don't know why it's even a question? It's a OEM colour by the looks of it.
If it was an aftermarket spray job like the orange SLK I looked at a few years ago then I would have said hell no.
Even then if the price was right could just vinyl it I guess.
If it was an aftermarket spray job like the orange SLK I looked at a few years ago then I would have said hell no.
Even then if the price was right could just vinyl it I guess.
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Just make sure that you tint the windows so that no one can see you.
Dan C
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Looks good, go for it !
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I like the colour but I like my car to blend in with the other cars on the road.
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You definitely won't lose it in a parking lot. Try being my colleague with a grey Polo. I won't lie but he has a hard time some days
123Eish
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I think it's a nice colour as well!
dj_jyno
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I'd take it. Will just require regular waxing to keep the paint from discolouring.
Honda's approved used cars, like Mastercars is for Volkswagen.
FiestaST
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Honda Jazz long-term test review: which generation is the best?
There are three generations of Jazz in this family, so we consider which is top
More by accident than design, we Pearsons seem to have a thing for the Honda Jazz.
My father started it, years ago, when he bought a 2003 model. He liked it, kept it and eventually replaced it with the second-generation version, passing the older car on to my wife. So if you see a note of bias creeping into these reports, you now know why.
In the inevitable three-way comparison, Autocar’s yellow third-gen car is best in most departments: ride, steering, handling, economy and safety. However, while our first-gen car is outclassed in all departments, the second-gen model actually feels more refined and more solidly built than our latest iteration.
The better refinement might stem from my father’s car being a CVT version, which matches a quick stepoff with reasonably good motorway refinement, even if the transmission’s noisy revving of the engine can make the job of getting up to speed quickly a bit uncivilised. Honda says the third-generation car is 12% lighter than the second-gen, and I wonder if it has shed some sound deadening to achieve this weight loss. On motorways, it’s very disappointing, with an overly vocal engine note and an annoying dollop of road noise.
The perceived quality of our car also disappoints a little. Where the second-gen car feels like a solid, oldschool Honda inside and out, our car feels a bit lightweight. Gone is that satisfying thunk when you close a door or shut the bootlid, for example.
I can’t honestly say our newer car feels any bigger inside, either, despite Honda’s claims that it is. Add in the fact that, to my eyes, the second-gen model looks better inside and out, and what emerges is that, if you do have a thing for the Jazz, the ideal one might be a second-generation example with the steering, dampers and safety kit of the latest model.
Window issues
The electric windows on my Jazz are achingly slow. The passenger-side window, which can be opened from the driver’s side, takes an absolute age to lower itself; I’ve timed it at 5.5sec from top to bottom, by which time I’ve usually given up or fallen asleep. It’s even worse to close, taking more than six seconds. It’s not a one-touch button, either, which compounds the felony.
HONDA JAZZ 1.3 I-VTEC SE NAVI
Price £15,605 Price as tested £16,105 Economy 44.6mpg Faults None Expenses None Last seen 12.10.16
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/our-cars/honda-jazz-long-term-test-review-which-generation-best
There are three generations of Jazz in this family, so we consider which is top
More by accident than design, we Pearsons seem to have a thing for the Honda Jazz.
My father started it, years ago, when he bought a 2003 model. He liked it, kept it and eventually replaced it with the second-generation version, passing the older car on to my wife. So if you see a note of bias creeping into these reports, you now know why.
In the inevitable three-way comparison, Autocar’s yellow third-gen car is best in most departments: ride, steering, handling, economy and safety. However, while our first-gen car is outclassed in all departments, the second-gen model actually feels more refined and more solidly built than our latest iteration.
The better refinement might stem from my father’s car being a CVT version, which matches a quick stepoff with reasonably good motorway refinement, even if the transmission’s noisy revving of the engine can make the job of getting up to speed quickly a bit uncivilised. Honda says the third-generation car is 12% lighter than the second-gen, and I wonder if it has shed some sound deadening to achieve this weight loss. On motorways, it’s very disappointing, with an overly vocal engine note and an annoying dollop of road noise.
The perceived quality of our car also disappoints a little. Where the second-gen car feels like a solid, oldschool Honda inside and out, our car feels a bit lightweight. Gone is that satisfying thunk when you close a door or shut the bootlid, for example.
I can’t honestly say our newer car feels any bigger inside, either, despite Honda’s claims that it is. Add in the fact that, to my eyes, the second-gen model looks better inside and out, and what emerges is that, if you do have a thing for the Jazz, the ideal one might be a second-generation example with the steering, dampers and safety kit of the latest model.
Window issues
The electric windows on my Jazz are achingly slow. The passenger-side window, which can be opened from the driver’s side, takes an absolute age to lower itself; I’ve timed it at 5.5sec from top to bottom, by which time I’ve usually given up or fallen asleep. It’s even worse to close, taking more than six seconds. It’s not a one-touch button, either, which compounds the felony.
HONDA JAZZ 1.3 I-VTEC SE NAVI
Price £15,605 Price as tested £16,105 Economy 44.6mpg Faults None Expenses None Last seen 12.10.16
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/our-cars/honda-jazz-long-term-test-review-which-generation-best
FiestaST
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Honda Jazz long-term test review: is the CVT version any good?
The Jazz is available with a continuously variable transmission, but is it any good?
If youngsters dismiss the Honda Jazz as an old person’s car, I dread to think what they’d make of the CVT version, the transmission of which is about as highly regarded by the motoring press as a fart in a lift.
And yet a large proportion of Jazz sales are of the automatic version. With that in mind, and in the interests of providing good consumer advice, I decided to borrow one from Honda to compare it with our six-speed manual long-termer.
I must confess that I have never shared the view that there is something masculine or sporty or even vaguely mechanically efficient about the old-fashioned manual gearbox and its accompanying clutch pedal. It being 2017, I would no more expect to find a manual gearbox in any civilised car than I would to find a horse in my living room.
To a degree, I’m proved right by these two cars. The Jazz CVT is good in town, easy to drive and smart away from the lights, whereas the manual can be rather hiccupy if you fumble the clutch and touchy throttle (easily done). On the motorway, where the manual Jazz is a little too loud, the CVT is quieter thanks to its theoretically higher gearing when cruising, even if refinement still leaves something to be desired.
So the CVT wins, then? Well no, not quite. You see, if you floor the accelerator, the engine roars like a rutting stag, and it’s about as responsive, even in its Sport mode, as a dead turbot. Like many steplessly variable transmissions, it also offers the option of using seven stepped ratios, but I find this rather irritating, although I realise I might be alone in that.
Also, the gearchange in my manual Jazz is a particularly good one, short of throw and precise in action. So my learned consumer advice is this: pay your money and make your own choice, or buy one of each.
HONDA JAZZ 1.3 I-VTEC SE NAVI
Price £15,605 Price as tested £16,105 Economy 44.6mpg Faults None Expenses None Last seen 23.11.16
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/our-cars/honda-jazz-long-term-test-review-cvt-version-any-good
The Jazz is available with a continuously variable transmission, but is it any good?
If youngsters dismiss the Honda Jazz as an old person’s car, I dread to think what they’d make of the CVT version, the transmission of which is about as highly regarded by the motoring press as a fart in a lift.
And yet a large proportion of Jazz sales are of the automatic version. With that in mind, and in the interests of providing good consumer advice, I decided to borrow one from Honda to compare it with our six-speed manual long-termer.
I must confess that I have never shared the view that there is something masculine or sporty or even vaguely mechanically efficient about the old-fashioned manual gearbox and its accompanying clutch pedal. It being 2017, I would no more expect to find a manual gearbox in any civilised car than I would to find a horse in my living room.
To a degree, I’m proved right by these two cars. The Jazz CVT is good in town, easy to drive and smart away from the lights, whereas the manual can be rather hiccupy if you fumble the clutch and touchy throttle (easily done). On the motorway, where the manual Jazz is a little too loud, the CVT is quieter thanks to its theoretically higher gearing when cruising, even if refinement still leaves something to be desired.
So the CVT wins, then? Well no, not quite. You see, if you floor the accelerator, the engine roars like a rutting stag, and it’s about as responsive, even in its Sport mode, as a dead turbot. Like many steplessly variable transmissions, it also offers the option of using seven stepped ratios, but I find this rather irritating, although I realise I might be alone in that.
Also, the gearchange in my manual Jazz is a particularly good one, short of throw and precise in action. So my learned consumer advice is this: pay your money and make your own choice, or buy one of each.
HONDA JAZZ 1.3 I-VTEC SE NAVI
Price £15,605 Price as tested £16,105 Economy 44.6mpg Faults None Expenses None Last seen 23.11.16
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/our-cars/honda-jazz-long-term-test-review-cvt-version-any-good
SauRoNZA
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Although I must agree the manual gearbox in the Jazz is excellent as with most Hondas I also have to agree that it's 2017 and those should all bugger off.
I wonder why we don't get the DCT like other territories?
CVT is an odd thing the very first time but you get used to it quickly. Especially if you sit in traffic often it's a no brainier on this type of car.
I wonder why we don't get the DCT like other territories?
CVT is an odd thing the very first time but you get used to it quickly. Especially if you sit in traffic often it's a no brainier on this type of car.
