Honda's first diesel car, Amaze, gets a big thumbs up in India

Automobile major Honda on Thursday launched its much-awaited sedan, Amaze, at a price range of Rs4.99 lakh to Rs7.60 lakh.

The company's first diesel-run car, Amaze has been touted to be India's most fuel-efficient car with a mileage of 25.6 kilometres/ litre.

The car has four diesel options (priced between Rs5.99-7.60 lakh) and six petrol options (priced between Rs4.99-7.50 lakh).

While the diesel option of Amaze is powered by a 1.5-litre engine, the biggest in its segment, the petrol option has a 1.2-litre engine. The company claims that the 1.5-litre all aluminium diesel engine  will give a mileage of 25.8 km per litre.

Besides, the manual transmission has a fuel economy of 18 km per litre and the automatic one is claimed to run 15.5 km per litre.
 
The 1.5-litre i-DTEC diesel engine will allow greater-comfort driving. The diesel engine will have Solenoid fuel injector, high-efficiency cooling system. The pistons will be narrower and shorter with environment friendly fuel system.

The interiors of the car have also been designed keeping in mind the comfort and space aspects. Honda has provided the Indian buyers with a bigger trunk space in the car.

Meanwhile, the car received a thumbs up on micro-blogging site Twitter. Some of the tweets are:

Know that Amaze is amazing to drive but now price is amazing too. Honda has a true winner to silence critics once and for all.

— Hormazd Sorabjee (@hormazdsorabjee) April 11, 2013

Just test drove the new Honda Amaze - impressive !

— Shashi Shekhar (@offstumped) April 11, 2013

Good design, excellent styling, Color option, multiple variants to meet your need. Honda AMAZE has defi AMAZED all.

— Dipesh Parmar (@dipeshparmar46) April 11, 2013

Interesting, #Honda Amaze is first car in #India to hv same prices for petrol & diesel models, great strategy RE bit.ly/10NCp42

— Suryanarayan Ganesh (@gsurya) April 11, 2013

Honda Launches AMAZE. 10 Variants in all. 6 Petrol price range 4.99-7.5 L and 4 Diesel 5.99 - 7.6 L all ex-Delhi

— Dipesh Parmar (@dipeshparmar46) April 11, 2013

The car would be available to the Indian masses across 150 retail outlets of Honda spread over 97 cities.