From one of the owner in Singapore
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Originally Posted by One of the Singapore Jazz Owners Review
4th Apr 2005, 02:04Hi, Jazz does has great fuel efficiency, especially under 10-15 mode, it can achieve 24km/l. However, in real life, I drive only in city (very little expressway), Jazz is only marginally more fuel efficient than other cars. If you are like me driving mostly in city, you shouldn't take fuel effieciency into consideration.
If you drive more on highway, Jazz is much more fuel efficient than other car.
I bought from Kah Motor. Everything is good so far. Ask for more freebies like window film, door visors, reverse sensors, etc. If the SE doesn't give you this, change to another SE, or visit another KM showroom.
You should test drive (even a few times) before making decision. The driver leg room is bad, if you are tall, it is not good for you.
Get your friend or family to sit at the back when you test drive, see if the firm ride is acceptable to you. Do drive over some humps to test it also. To me, I call it POOR ride. POOR compared to other cars like Sunny, Corolla and Lancer (I drive these cars also). KM give free 15 inch sport rim and tyre, I suspect it make the ride worse, maybe 14 inch tyre is better, I guess, but I haven't tried it out.
Another annoyance to me is that the stock audio doesn't come with cassette and MP3. I used to connect a cassette adapter to my MP3 player, now I can't do that.
Other than this, Jazz is a great car. I am 65% happy owner.
If you really want to buy, I would say now is a good time, it is at all time low S$67,000. However, it is still more expensive than Altis, Vios, Colt, Sunny.
Do note that insurance for Honda is more expensive than Nissan and Toyota.
Take your time and try more cars. Remember to test drive Altis also. Overall it is a better valued car. Some people may say Altis has problem lah, electric window fail lah, we can ignore this. Jazz/Fit had worst problems before also, like: (hope mine won't have this)
- EGR valve fail
- Recall for brake switch
- Air-con smell bad
- CVT startup clutch fail
- etc.
Enjoy your car hunting!