Re: Next Gen Honda Amaze To Debut in 2018
The petrol Manual variants are priced quite close to the Dzire, however, Dzire takes the cake in terms of Automatic variants, where there is a significant difference in Dzire AMT variants vs the Amaze CVT variant. Though, the price difference is justified taking into consideration that CVT is a more expensive technology, however, a layman may see both of them as a petrol automatic that is fuel efficient and compare them based on that.
When the price difference between the AMT and MT variant in Dzire is 46k for both petrol and diesel, its 90k for petrol and 80k for diesel when you compare the same variant in Amaze CVT and MT.
The Amaze Diesel MT variants are also priced a littler higher than the Dzire, which can be justified taking into consideration the better output figures from the Honda Diesel engine. Overall, with this pricing, I do think that Amaze will regain the lost market, and would help Honda regain its market position which it lost this month. After torque converter automatics, CVT has been one of the most reliable technologies for automatics in India, and it has performed better than the AMT, which has seen quite a few cases of quick clutch wear. The Amaze Diesel AMT, does seem worth the money. The pricing is much better as compared to the VW Ameo DSG, however, I do not think the Amaze Diesel CVT would attract many enthusiasts with the lowered power and torque figures.
One thing Honda should have worked on was to add the Cruise Control on the diesel CVT variant. As the CVT is not available on the top variant, it is missing out on Cruise control, which is a better fit on automatics.