Honda Jazz Lease Deals

Why Lease a Honda Jazz?

The Jazz has been quietly good at one thing for twenty years, which is fitting more inside a small car than physics seems to allow. The Magic Seats are the reason: the rear seat bases flip up cinema style as well as folding flat, so you can stand a tall object upright behind the front seats rather than laying it across a boot.

Every Jazz is a full hybrid, which means it charges itself and you never plug it in. There is no petrol only version and no plug in version. That gets you up to 62.8mpg and 102g/km, and in town it runs on the electric motor far more of the time than the small 0.7kWh battery suggests, because the petrol engine spends most of its life as a generator rather than driving the wheels.

Which Honda Jazz Grade Should You Choose?

All four grades share the same engine, motor and gearbox, so you are choosing equipment and, on the Crosstar, ride height.

The pattern is worth noticing because it runs the opposite way to how most people shop. The cheapest grade is the most efficient one. Elegance returns 62.8mpg and emits 102g/km, and every step up the range costs you economy, with Advance Sport the thirstiest at 58.9mpg. If you are leasing through a business where CO2 drives the cost, Elegance is the one to look at first.

One practical note on equipment: blind spot monitoring is only fitted from Advance upwards. If you do a lot of motorway miles and want it, Elegance is not the grade for you despite its figures.

What Is the Honda Jazz Crosstar?

It is a grade of the Jazz, not a separate model, which catches people out when they go looking for it. Listed as Crosstar Advance, it raises the ride height to 146mm against 136mm, widens the body to 1,725mm, adds SUV styling and roof rails, and keeps the same hybrid powertrain as everything else in the range.

The thing to be clear about: there is no four wheel drive version. The Crosstar looks like a small crossover but it drives the front wheels only, exactly like the standard Jazz. If you want the raised look and a slightly easier step in, it does that well. If you want genuine traction on a muddy track, it will not give you any more than the ordinary car. It also costs you 4g/km of CO2 and a tenth on the 0 to 62 time. For something larger with the same hybrid system, the ZR-V is the next step up in the Honda range.

How Big Is the Honda Jazz Boot?

304 litres with the seats up and 1,205 litres with them folded to the roof, or 844 litres measured to the window line. For a car 4,089mm long that is a genuinely useful boot, and the 615mm load lip is lower than a Fabia's 667mm or a Clio's 744mm, which makes a real difference lifting something heavy in.

Space for people holds up too. A six footer fits behind a similarly sized driver without running out of knee room, with more knee room than a Clio or a Fabia and more head and shoulder room than a Clio. Two caveats on the back seat that are worth knowing if three people will use it regularly: the rear footwell slopes upward, which limits where you can put your feet, and the middle seat is narrow. Fine for occasional use, less so for three adults every day.

How Safe Is the Honda Jazz?

It holds a 5 star Euro NCAP rating, with 87 per cent for adult occupant protection, 83 per cent for child occupant, 80 per cent for vulnerable road users and 76 per cent for safety assist. Those are good scores.

We want to be honest with you about the date on it, though, because it matters right now. That rating was published on 12 November 2020, and Euro NCAP ratings are valid for up to six years before they lapse. So it is on the point of expiring. The car has not changed and the crash performance has not got worse, but the test itself has moved on, and a car tested today against current protocols would be scored harder, particularly on the driver assistance side. If an independent safety rating is central to your decision, it is worth asking us which cars in the class hold a more recent one before you commit.

What Is the Honda Jazz Like to Drive?

Easy, light and quiet at town speeds, which is what it is for. The hybrid system pulls away on the motor so there is no hesitation at a junction, and 108mph top speed and a 9.4 second 0 to 62 are perfectly adequate.

Two things reviewers consistently raise. The eCVT gearbox drones if you ask for more than about two thirds throttle, which is the nature of the design rather than a fault, and it is more noticeable at motorway speed when you push it. And the infotainment is convoluted, with more steps than you would expect to do something as basic as change a radio station, plus the side of the driver's digital display can be hard to read in direct sunlight. None of it stops the car doing its job, but they are the things you would notice on a test drive, so take one on a dual carriageway rather than just round the block.

Honda Jazz Warranty and Leasing

Honda's warranty is unusual and it is better than the headline suggests. The vehicle is covered for 3 years or 90,000 miles, but that extends a year at a time up to 8 years or 100,000 miles as long as the car is serviced at an authorised Honda retailer from the third annual service onwards. The hybrid components and electric powertrain start at 5 years or 90,000 miles and extend the same way. Corrosion cover runs to 12 years on structural parts.

That structure suits a lease well, because a three or four year contract sits comfortably inside the extended cover provided the servicing is done in the right place. On a personal lease the fixed monthly payment and the low CO2 do most of the work. On a business lease, 102g/km on the Elegance makes it one of the cheaper small hybrids to run through a company, though the rates and thresholds move with each tax year so take the current position from your accountant.

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