LAST AUTO NEWS – HYBRID JAZZ ON WAY
Last Auto account – Amalgam Jazz on way Honda readies petrol-electric supermini, 70mpg archetypal will be Britain’s cheapest hybrid
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Make way for the UK’s aboriginal amalgam supermini. Honda has accepted that a petrol-electric Jazz will be the brilliant of its angle at October’s Paris Motor Show, afore traveling on auction actuality aboriginal next year.
The newcomer is accepted to use the Insight’s IMA powertrain – a 1.3-litre petrol engine akin to a 9.7kW electric motor – which will accord a absolute ability achievement of 97bhp and 121Nm of torque.
While the Insight manages accumulated abridgement of 64.2mpg and emits alone 101g/km of CO2, the smaller, lighter Jazz amalgam should accomplish abstracts nearer 70mpg and 95g/km.
That’s a huge advance over the approved Honda babyish – the accepted a lot of able model, the 1.2-litre petrol, allotment 52.3mpg and puts out 125g/km. It aswell incurs alley tax at £90 a year, while the amalgam will be exempt.
In accession to its hi-tech mechanicals, the petrol-electric Jazz will account from a amount of tweaks advised to maximise its blooming credentials. These are accepted to cover a new aerodynamic bodykit, anchor activity about-face and a stop/start system. Aswell acceptable to affection is Honda’s ‘Econ’ mode, which adjusts burke acknowledgment and engine abandoned times to maximise efficiency.
The car will alteration its ability to the foreground auto through a five-speed chiral box as standard, although buyers will be offered the advantage of an able CVT automated transmission. When it goes on auction in the aboriginal bisected of next year, prices are accepted to alpha at about £14,500 – authoritative it the cheapest amalgam in the UK. The aboriginal examples will barrage in Japan – area the Jazz is badged the Fit – by the end of this year.
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