Our good friends at Team - BHP have uncovered the name of
the Brio sedan along with revealing the mileage details of the diesel engine.
The Brio sedan will be called Honda Amaze and is expected to literally amaze prospective buyers with its high fuel efficiency, space and aggressive pricing.
The reason for developing the Honda
Brio sedan under 4 - metres in length is to benefit from lower excise duties received by small cars in India.
Honda's biggest product launch in India is undoubtedly going to be
the Brio Sedan, aka Amaze, on the 11th of April.
Not exact matches
Honda Jazz will be a new product in the Indian market and will be introduced at the 2014 Auto Expo where along with it, the
Brio based MPV, Honda Mobilio and the City
sedan will also be unveiled.
The compact
sedan has been a pretty decent seller for Honda (than the
Brio) and this could have been one of the factors for the automaker's decision to reveal only the second generation Amaze and not the second generation
Brio at the 2018 Auto Expo.
However, the compact
sedan gets a beige lower - half while the
Brio gets all - black dashboard, which looks youthful.
The Perodua Bezza was designed to be export - ready, and counts compact
sedans like the Honda
Brio Amaze and Mitsubishi Attrage as benchmarks.
Honda Mobilio is based on the
Brio platform and it is by far one of the best iteration of the platform which is also shared by the Amaze compact
sedan.
The compact
sedan derivative of the
Brio will arrive in India before hatchback (codename: Honda 2UA).
Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) launched the
Brio hatchback and
Brio Amaze
sedan at the CAMPI 2014 (Philippines International Motor Show 2014)
Honda took an unconventional path unveiling the second generation
sedan (Amaze) before the hatchback (
Brio).
The BR - V, as it will be called, is based on the same platform as the
Brio hatchback, Amaze
sedan and the Mobilio MPV which are sold in India.
Based on the peppy and perky
Brio hatchback, the eagerly - awaited entry level
sedan from the celebrated Japanese automaker, Honda Amaze, is finally going to be launched in the month of April.
The first diesel engine debuted with the made - for - India Amaze compact
sedan based on the
Brio hatchback.
Honda launched the Amaze in India on 11th April 2013 and since then the carmaker has managed to sell an impressive 30,000 units of the
Brio based
sedan.
Honda Cars India has silently made updates to the Amaze compact
sedan and
Brio hatchback adding and deleting features across different variants on both the models.
While Maruti Suzuki has sold more than 5.3 lakh units of the DZire till date, Honda has received 6500 bookings already and waiting period has shot up to two months for the
Brio based
sedan.
Priced bang against the Maruti Suzuki Swift DZire, the Honda Amaze is the
sedan version of the
Brio but cleaver packaging makes the Amaze the best compact
sedan in the market today.
We missed out on the automatic of the
Brio, but the luxury frills that this
sedan offered us, made us forget about it.
Given the first gen Amaze was based on the
Brio platform, the all - new
Brio shares its underpinnings with the soon - to - be-launched second generation Honda Amaze subcompact
sedan.
In India too, the new
Brio may be offered with a CVT as an option, considering its compact
sedan sibling, Amaze, has already received one.
While the new Amaze will surely make a place for itself in the compact sub-4 metre
sedan segment, the hatchback version of it or what we know as the
Brio, may just make it to the Indian market too.
We have seen before, the launch of
Brio, Honda Amaze and the new City
sedan which have been successful running in the market.
As we can see, Honda is just betting big on two platforms, the
Brio platform which spawns the
Brio hatchback, Amaze compact
sedan and Mobilio MPV and the Jazz platform which underpins the Jazz hatchback, City
sedan and Vezel compact SUV.
Honda, the Japanese car manufacturer recently revealed that it is recalling about 2,338 units of its compact
sedan Amaze, hatchback
Brio, and the sports utility vehicle CR - V, which were manufactured during September 2011 - July 2014, in India to substitute a faulty part allied to airbags.