2023 Honda City facelift seen in YouTube video ahead of official debut in India – mild styling, kit changes

Just days aft images of the caller Honda City facelift leaked online, a YouTube video precocious published by Kamal Yadav has revealed the updated B-segment sedan successful full. According to media outlets successful India, the City facelift is owed to beryllium introduced successful the state connected March 2, 2023, but with this video, we’re getting a overmuch earlier look.

As we’ve seen successful the earlier leak, the facelift brings astir immoderate humble styling changes. At the front, the grille present sports a honeycomb mesh insert and is accompanied by a overmuch slimmer chrome bar. The beforehand bumper has besides been tweaked to person achromatic trim visually linking the fog lamps to the little intake.

At the rear apron, there’s present a achromatic diffuser-like constituent and the cowls for the reflectors person been somewhat reprofiled to match. A articulator spoiler has besides been added to boot, and the India-spec City gets a caller instrumentality design.

Inside, the steering instrumentality controls present see a measurement dial but the wide plan of the instrumentality remains mostly familiar. Returning features, astatine slightest for the India-spec City, see a seven-inch integer instrumentality cluster, an eight-inch touchscreen infotainment system, keyless motor start, automatic air-conditioning and an electrical sunroof are each connected amusement here. New features mentioned are ventilated beforehand seats and a wireless telephone charger.

In India, the pre-facelift City was offered with petrol and diesel engines, but the second volition apt beryllium dropped with the instauration of the facelifted model. This is owed to the upcoming Real Driving Emissions (RDE) that goes unrecorded connected April 1, 2023 to regenerate the BS6 standard.

Expect the 1.5 litre i-VTEC petrol portion with DOHC to beryllium carried implicit with 121 PS and 145 Nm of torque, mated to a CVT. India besides gets the City with an e:HEV hybrid powertrain rated astatine 126 PS and 253 Nm, but this is lone offered with the top-spec ZX trim level – a caller entry-level enactment is said to beryllium added with the mid-cycle update.

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