All Honda Jazz reviews

"Honda have still to plumb a diesel engine into the Jazz"

We're all agreed that Honda's Jazz is one of the best superminis you can buy. It's well built, smartly styled and fun to drive. The problem with the Jazz range has always been one of choice. Want a diesel engine? Tough. Want a quicker version? No dice. These would seem to be the key areas Honda needed to address but instead of offering an oil burner and a pocket rocket, they have in recent times decided to launch a junior sibling...

"You soon realise the computer's making a better fist of things than you are."

How many gearboxes does one car need? Seems a straightforward question and most make do with one very nicely, thank you. Two seems something of an indulgence and three? That's just excessive. It's also the number that Honda are claiming for their Jazz CVT7 which as its name suggests also boasts seven speeds.

Before we start pondering how many gears per gearbox, a point of clarification. The Jazz CVT7 on...

"The 1.2-litre engine makes the Jazz one of the more informed buys around"

Figure this one out for me if you can. Honda introduce an excellent 1.2-litre engine for the Jazz, price it aggressively and then ensure that all of the latest changes to the Jazz range are devoted solely to the 1.4-litre model. Despite not featuring the very latest styling tweaks, the smaller engined version still emerges as the pick of the range.

The 1.2-litre engine gives virtually nothing away in most o...

"It's not hot, or warm, heck it's barely tepid, but you won't care?"

First things first. We should take the Sport part of this particular Honda Jazz's moniker with a fistful of salt. After all, it's mechanically similar to the rest of the Jazz range with just a few bits of additional trim. Right? Well, yes and no. Honda reserve their Type-R sub-brand for their hotted up creations but don't discount the Jazz Sport as a pedestrian pedal. This is Honda remember.

There's an unmistakea...

Hands up all who remember the original Honda Jazz? Available between 1984 and 1985, its mayfly longevity hints at its less than soaraway success. A bug-eyed box on wheels, the old Jazz was a mere stopgap, designed to plug a hole in the range until the next generation Civic appeared. Fast forward sixteen years and Honda were at the same game again, importing the underwhelming Logo for just a year until new Jazz landed. Fortunately ' unless you plumped for a Logo ' the Jazz was well worth the w...

Hands up all who remember the original Honda Jazz? Available between 1984 and 1985, its mayfly longevity hints at its less than soaraway success. A bug-eyed box on wheels, the old Jazz was a mere stopgap, designed to plug a hole in the range until the next generation Civic appeared. Fast forward sixteen years and Honda were at the same game again, importing the underwhelming Logo for just a year until new Jazz landed. Fortunately ' unless you plumped for a Logo ' the Jazz was well worth the w...

Hands up all who remember the original Honda Jazz? Available between 1984 and 1985, its mayfly longevity hints at its less than soaraway success. A bug-eyed box on wheels, the old Jazz was a mere stopgap, designed to plug a hole in the range until the next generation Civic appeared. Fast forward sixteen years and Honda were at the same game again, importing the underwhelming Logo for just a year until new Jazz landed. Fortunately ' unless you plumped for a Logo ' the Jazz was well worth the w...