Honda City facelift coming next year

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Honda is readying a mid-cycle refresh for its popular City sedan. The current-gen Honda City was launched in 2013. The updated City is likely to come to India sometime next year. A facelift is likely to share a similar look as the Honda Greiz sedan sold in China. The Greiz is based on the City sedan but gets slightly tweaked styling. 
 
The refreshed City will use the same set of engines that run in India -- a 1.5-litre petrol and a 1.5-litre diesel.
 
As far as styling goes, the 2017 City will get a more prominent Accord-like nose and a chin with a thick chrome band running across the grille. The headlight inserts will be reprofiled and will come with projector units. Higher variants will get LED headlamps. The front bumper gets a more prominent air dam and fog-lamp enclosures. Moving on to the back, the bumper will see slight changes and the tail lamps will get an all-new look with prominent LED inserts that mimic Honda’s latest design language seen on the Civic and the all-new CR-V. The side profile of the updated City is likely to remain the same, with new-look alloy wheels on the higher variants.
 
The updated Honda City will get an all-new infotainment system with Android auto and a mobile mirroring app. This system is being co-developed with Blaupunkt and will also feature Indian-accent based voice guidance for navigation system. Top-spec cars will get six airbags as standard along with leather seats and a soft touch dashboard. 
 
Overall, this mid-cycle update will make the City more competitive to the likes of the heavily updated Skoda Rapid, Maruti Ciaz, Hyundai Verna and the Volkswagen Vento sedans.

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