Category: Superminis 
Price Range: £10,365 to £13,535
Roomy and versatile; nippy yet economical engines; simple and user-friendly; well-built and reliable.
Ride still a bit bouncy; only two engines to choose from; not the cheapest in class; rather dowdy image.
Not as much fun to drive as the new Fiesta, nor as youthful in character, but a lot more practical and versatile.
You can't argue with its consistently excellent results in reliability surveys. The Honda Jazz scores well time and time again in research collated all over the world (more than two million have been sold across the globe, including almost 161,000 in the UK since 2002).
Of the very few problems that have been reported, most have been with the former model's seven-speed CVT gearbox, now replaced by the new i-Shift transmission option.
The Jazz's cabin may not be the most expensively-finished - some of the hard black plastics look a bit dated - but it is certainly well screwed-together, with good attention to detail and no obvious short-cuts and cost-savings.
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