The Honda City has been the leader of the Indian higher C-segment since the beginning, and it deserved to be so, as the car offered great quality, style as well as features. Then, came the stunning Hyundai Verna with all its added features, which soon overtook the City and retained its position for long. Honda took its revenge by launching the all new City sedan in January this year, along with its first time ever diesel variant and of course new style and added features. The City quickly gained back its throne, but the Indian car market soon offered tough competition to it.
2014 honda city
The country’s leading car maker, Maruti Suzuki launched its Ciaz in October this year which primarily eyes on dethroning the City again. The Ciaz, unlike Maruti’s previous premium segment attempts is an instant success and is truly a superior car with a reasonable price.
Now, the Maruti Ciaz has successfully beaten the Honda City in October sales, but the City bounced back to the top in November again.
Is the Maruti Ciaz really a match for the Honda City? Let’s find out!
Exterior Design
The new-gen Honda City is based on H-design language with meaner and leaner looks along with radical design cues for a fresh sporty appeal. The City has evolved through 4 generations to reach this smart and appealing design language.
The entirely new Maruti Ciaz gets simple lines and a sober design that makes it look more massive. It flaunts a majestic grill and smooth character lines for matured, rather conventional look. However, its overall design appeal is nowhere close its super stunning concept model.
Maruti Ciaz
Interiors
Being a patent Honda car, the City offers a superb quality and stylish cabin which is its advantage over the Ciaz. Both the City and the Ciaz offers great fabric and leather upholstery depending on the model trim.
The Ciaz however, gets a larger 7 inch infotainment screen as against City’s 5 inch display. Ciaz is also better equipped with rear A.C vents which the City doesn’t offer.
Dimensions
Here, the Maruti Ciaz is a clear winner. The Ciaz is 4490 mm long, 1730 mm wide and 1485 mm tall. It is the largest sedan in its segment and offers class leading space.
The City measures 4400 mm long, 1695 mm wide and 1495 mm tall.
Engines
The City gets the popular 1.5 liter i-VTEC petrol generating 117.3bhp, while the 1.5 i-DTEC diesel mill offers 98.5bhp.
The Ciaz is less powerful and offers 90.7bhp in its petrol and 88.5bhp in its diesel versions.
In terms of fuel efficiency though, the Ciaz’s 1.3 DDiS diesel motor offers the industry best mileage of 26.3 kmpl as against City’s 25.1 kmpl.
Price
The Maruti Ciaz is the more affordable one with a starting tag of Rs. 6.99 lakhs, while the base Honda City is priced at Rs. 7.19 lakhs.
Conclusion
Considering all the aspects it can be surely said that the Maruti Ciaz has great potentials to beat the Honda City, though the City is still ahead in terms of safety, quality and style.
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