Honda’s new Jazz Hybrid, debuts at the Paris Motorshow (Mondial de l’Automobile), comes with Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid technology. It still has HUGE interior space.

Honda’s new Jazz Hybrid, debuts at the Paris Motorshow (Mondial de l’Automobile), comes with Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid technology. It still has HUGE interior space. 

Honda’s engineers, who designed the Jazz’s amazing Magic Seats, have done it again – the huge interior space has not been comprimised by the integration of the hybrid system. Jazz’s cargo floor area remains at the same level as the current model. 

The IMA battery pack and power control unit have been integrated in the area under the boot floor, keeping the normal cargo area and allowing the Magic Seats to fold in the same manner as the petrol Jazz. The Magic Seats still fold entirely flat to provide a huge boot space or vertically to accommodate tall items within the car.

The IMA hybrid motor and control system are shared with the Insight and CR-Z hybrids and with almost two decades of development and 10 years of sales behind it, the Honda IMA system has proven itself to be a flexible and dependable technology, with over half a million vehicles on the road benefitting from its combination of low emissions and excellent fuel economy.

The Jazz Hybrid features the same 1.3 litre i-VTEC engine as the Insight and has CO₂ emissions of a similar level at 104 g/km*. Like the Insight and Civic Hybrid models, the Jazz Hybrid will be capable of running on the electric motor alone under some medium and low speed conditions, contributing to a combined fuel consumption figure of just 4.4 l/100km*. 

* Combined cycle figures from internal Honda tests and not homologated at the time of writing