Ny in Swedish means new. I guess here in Sweden we would pronounce it in Swedish lol. I can't even explain how to pronounce Y. A bit like u in French, just more yyyyy. Sorry, language teacher here. Lol
A great review from Imogen. Full of charm, enthusiasm and expertise. No disrespect to Jack or Elliot meant, but it’s nice to see a new voice with an alternate perspective in EV reviews on the channel.
'Real shame that they couldn't round up' - cheeky, unexpected. Imogen's packing jokes too?? Love the: boot measurements, aero instead of styling focus for exterior, getting in the car with stuff and sloooowly moving the seat I'd definitely like to see more 'living with the car' moments like these. Charmer of a video while informing, nice work FCS.
Terrible name. Why the Japanese have decided electric cars are best named a series of letters and numbers I don't know. It really takes away from the relatability of a car. Even 'anyone' is a terrible car name, and 'Ian-y-one' just makes it sound like it's a bit Ian-y (no offence to any Ians, but it doesn't fill me with excitement). When people talk about their Kona's or Niro's with affection it's missing a trick..
@@skyhigheagleer6 it's a car. Cars are boring. That's why they invest so much money in advertising and marketing. They have to. It's a box you drive around in. Nothing more, honestly. Everything else is brainwashing and memories (doorhandles, steering wheel).
Great review! Dry humor is fantastic. Appreciate having all the numbers laid out on one screen... Would be great to have that for all your vids. Easy way to compare
Loved this preview and the insight on the aero was a great approach compared with the typical "walk around and talk about the looks" that most channels do. Well done Imogen, please present more!! and include Teddy.
Either an MG4 or an entry level Tesla is a much better buy than this. Hell with the MG4 you could have a solar panel installation on your house with the money saved.
If this has a froot and is fairly close in price to the competition, and doesn't take six months to get hold of, then it's a great car and will do well. Love how you present; fun and comprehensive - thanks!
6 months to get a hold of ….. I wish.. we waited over 2 years for an Id.4 in Vancouver and gave up. Bought a new model 3 in 2 days and haven’t looked back.
A nieche point I will accept, but I particularly liked using Bristol to Blackpool as a benchmark for range. Admittedly, this is because I grew up near Bristol and now live near Blackpool and use that journey, which I make fairly often without needing to stop as my "range test" when considering EVs so I enjoyed that. More universally, I really enjoyed that video. I liked getting the different perspectives you provided. Maybe you and Jack can double-team on some reviews in the future!
Please can you add the boot measurements to your future reviews, it’s much more useful than capacity in litres and not all manufacturers provide the information.
It looks like every other SUV out there, so they'd better get the price right or have it labelled another Compliance car. Well done Imogen for trying to inject some hyperbole, and well done Jack for injecting a "close" to remember.
Great review! Looks like a nice little wagon. Not going to be cheap. That screen looks really good, the practicality of having it in multiple zones make it so much more functional than one giant screen taht does one thing at a time.
Shame they couldn’t make an electric with the versatility and size of their Jazz and at sub £30k pricepoint - even with sub 200mile range Afraid the Chinese newcomers are going to wipe the floor with them ( and many others )
Great review Imogen. I liked the idea of getting into the driver’s seat with all the stuff we usually have in our hands, and also the quirky ending made me chuckle. I just prefer reviews with more logically sequenced chapters. Then again, maybe I’m missing something and it’ll grow on me. Either way, I hope Imogen will share more on screen time with Jack.
All EVs? If we want to live in more sustainable cities we need to focus on public transport & alternative mobility (as per the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development - SDG 11, awa the New Urban Agenda). This will require a complete restructuring of transport infrastructure to accomodate pedestrians, e-scooters, bikes (cargo bikes, city bikes etc) microcars, public transport in all forms, and lastly EVs. The show has showcased alternative forms of mobility - it would be great to see more of these episodes. Also, some cities have bike buses (enabling kids to ride to school safely) and car free Sundays etc so residents can access street infrastructure minus cars - please highlight such activities too. Some cities & towns even paint their streets to make them more fun (especially developing countries where budgets are tight). Cities need to be child friendly, gender sensitive & accomodate vulnerable communities (mature persons, dosabled etc), not just wealthy men strutting their status in fancy cars going to & from work etc. Cities include rich & poor, young & old, genders of all kinds - our transport system needs to accomodate everyone, not just the privileged few.
@@toby9999 i never said we don't need cars, but not as the priority. Cars will always be a part of city life, but city life should not be dominated by them.
@@wschnitzler Actually many cities are doing just that - giving other mobility options access to road networks so that ALL residents (young, old, rich, poor, people, bikes, vehicles of all kinds from small to large). Not having a car shouldn't mean not being able to get around your city (to get to employment, healthcare, education, recreation, visit family or friends, run errands etc). Cities are for people. People should have access to forms of mobility that suits their budget & needs. City planners need to think beyond just cars when planning (or upgrading) mobility infrastructure. It's better for our physical & mental well-being, as well as the planet.
Oh my gosh who is this amazing human being. Love the change of pace, it's like having your best friend just chatting you through a car, only knowing so much more... I know so much more now than I did about lecy cars and I chuckled. Great add to a great crew. ❤🎉
LOOOOOOVE the measuring of the boot. Dimensions of boot and vehicle matter greatly to family buyers. That should be a standard review feature but no channel/site I've found does this as standard. Also would be even better to also check under the (often) fake boot floor and measure the loading height in the boot since manufacturers tend to measure only about seat height for stating their volume in L; and does the car have a frunk? Thanks for adding these more often in future!
I seem to recall Carwow used to (and might still) do boot size checks by how many medium suitcases you could load in. For my measure, if it can take our massive double buggy flat, then it's plenty big.
Good points. I also hate the false floor as “cable storage.” Impossible to get to when you have stuff in the boot. A frunk big enough to put the cable would be very welcome in cars.
Ive always found volume to be a complete nonsense metric. The only reason they use it is because it gives them one number to "compare" others to and decide who "wins". Its silliness compounded on top of useless information.
Don’t think so. The car is ugly, boring and the name a catastrophe. Dear Honda, your heritage of the better days were called ‚Accord‘ or ‚Civic‘ and people loved reliability. You definitely do not understand electric. No model is really what the market expects from a good EV. Prefer an MG or BYD for a young family 😂
I'm a Honda fan but this is frankly a half-assed job from Honda. They just made an EV out of the existing HRV. BTW the review from Immie is sharp and concise, doesn't need to be dragged on and on, yeah I'm talking about you Jack.
Love all the FCS presenters but Imogen and Jack are my favourites. They make the presentation fun as well as informative. Like the real world examples as well, as form doesn’t always = function. I know this was in a studio but with outdoor tests how about seeing what it’s like in a multi story. Especially the bigger cars. I watched loads of Buzz reviews and only saw one newish channel take see how easy it was to park in cramped multi-storey.
Lovely and competent presenter! ^^ I'm looking forwad for more details about this car, I hope it will be as practical inside as a Jazz. Nonetheless, it was a pleasure
Imogen is prettier than Jack. (And Robert) I think the editors tried to impress her. There were lots of fun graphics and effects. But, she is a wonderful presenter. Humorous and informative.
Since a couple of posts have been fairly unnecessary, here.. have some positivity... Smashing video, well presented, informative enough for a first view video, fun direction, nicely filmed and edited. 👍 Also nicely "not that person from top gear who's name would be much better forgotten and who's manner belongs in the 1950s". Jack.. take note.. Only mention this since it cropped up in other comments. Thank you 🙂
Man, Europe has so many awesome EVs available! The options in the US are so limited, especially since I don't want a massive, absurdly heavy luxury car.
Echoing other comments. Car: not competitive enough. Presenter: top class. Nice change in style and format. Liked the measurements, liked all the figures on one screen, and liked the overall approach.
Good job, Imogen. My Model 3 is 3 years old and I still get a little frustrated at the screen. If your finger found a real button, you'd know when it was pressed but its easy (for whatever reason) not to make things work when you really need to keep your eyes on the road. Not sure if the Honda might end up the same. The Model 3 comes with a lot of piano black surfaces which are easy to get finger prints and scratches on. Makes it look very "second hand" easily. The solution was to buy a custom stick on wood effect (other effects were available) cover for the big areas of piano black. Surfaces are protected. Maybe they will come up with the same for the Honda. Not sure about the front charge port. I can see there could be issues with that depending on where you are charging. (its less safe to reverse out of parking bays for example). Overall I'd say this was a better effort from Honda.
Great review Imogen. It's a Honda, it's going to be beautifully built and will last forever. But it's a bit bland looking, and while I appreciate a non-grey colour scheme, I'm not keen on the insipid pale blue/green. Depending on the cost, could be a real winner for Honda. Hope it does well :-)
Nice review of Honda's new EV. Looks similar to a lot of other SUV EV's on the market, but Honda do make reliable & well put together cars! Just one observation on the interior - what is it with manufactures using BLACK headlining these days, with alot more black on the dash/doors, it makes the interior very dark & a sombre place to be! Why the change after many, many years of them using "light" headlinnings?
It would be amazing to have Imogen test cars for shorter people. Battery Life sometimes gets his wife to test cars and Cindy offers a nice perspective on if it suits someone who would normally have to sit on a cushion. Speaking as someone with a 5’ tall wife.
Looks ok to me. Good mix of traditional design and modern EV aspects. But beeing so late with this car i was hoping for some unique or new features... Not sure why I should buy this car. Mind the name by the way...
The car Honda should have made all along would be small and sub 20k not a 45k one! Not many young families or others could afford this. It seems legacy car makers are failing the majority of people when it comes to ev’s, whether it’s a deliberate policy to force entire segments of the population out of car ownership altogether in future or a blinkered attitude that will lead to their demise as Chinese companies replace them.
I'm 6'6 ... having Jack review cars is the closest I've ever been to being able to trust a review to see if I'd fit in the car, which is my biggest limiting factor.
lol, absolutely ... I'm 6'6 and 280lbs ... it's a genuine problem in lots of ways, being able to physically fit behind the wheel of a car in something even vaguely resembling comfort is just one of them.
This effort is better than nothing - which is what Honda offers in North America. Rumour has it that sales for Honda Canada are down 50% from 2002 - which was a rotten year for Honda sales too.
The side reminds me of my old yellow Honda CVCC. I like 😍 this too. I like her take on it too. Production is really great too on this video. Props to the set design ...like using the floor as a contrast
Shock horror it has a rear wiper!!! Good looking car & a good review but once again, like all EV's, it's going to be too expensive. BYD Atto3 is under £40k & that's too much for a car that sells for £10k less in Australia. Can't help feeling us Brits are getting ripped off big time. Missing the fish tank though 🐟
It's why they refer to the UK as the "Treasure Island". 🙂 Does seem we're being ripped off (even the Chinese cars seem very expensive) sadly only way to get the prices cheaper is for everyone to not buy them. Guess it's pretty complicated
@@mrpugster Agreed. Problem is that the vast majority of EV drivers in the UK don't own their cars. They drive company lease cars or they are private PCP / HP. Anyone looking to actually spend their own cash & trade in an existing car is priced out of the market, at least for a new car. Which is why our first EV will be a used model later this year.
I own a Used 2015 Nissan Leaf Tekna that it’s just a couple of hundred miles off 60k miles. I live on the Isle Of Man and won’t take it off the island so even in the smallest battery it has enough range even in winter for my daily drive. It’s fully owned by myself with no finance etc on it .
Great video! I would say the "hybrid versions" have been for sale for a few years now, it's the HR-V. Basically the same car but with a hybrid/ICE drivetrain, always thought it looks pretty cool so it's good to see an EV version and one with a decent range too after the somewhat limited E.
Excellent review! The car's pretty inoffensive, dare I say a little bland? That infotainment system is an interesting way of doing things though - quite impressed with it.
Great review and fresh approach of Imogen!! 😊. Jack scale really helpful and love that still cheeky “one take” approach. And Jack coming at the end to close the boot was funny. Hope it doesn’t mean though that Jack is leaving the channel. About the car…. Nah 🤷♂️. Shame a converted ICE platform but good that good quality and improved inside from ice one. But again, more options is a good thing.
At last an effort from Honda that has usable range. Not convinced that £45,000 is a good starting price. Skoda Enyaq is better value and the VRS version is only just over £50k. Also the Tesla Model Y will out perform this in every single aspect. Still..... Well done Honda as it is miles better than Toyota's inefficient expensive disaster!
OEMs will put themselves out of business trying to compete with Tesla. Hyundai/Kia and VW look look more like the competitors they are gunning for to me.
I drive a 2003 Honda CR-V and I prefer to reverse into my drive because I have high hedges so it’s easier to drive out than reverse out onto the road. With the charging point at the front,I’d have to have a pretty long cable 🤣
I don’t think it would be a problem but worth checking the measurements. I think our cable is 8 metres, we have to park our cars nose to tail on our drive and the cable reaches the car parked furthest from the charger.
Interesting efficiency - if I didn't miscalculate that's about 15 kwh per 100 km using the usable battery and the official range. That's pretty good. Kinda irked that efficiency is missing in the data sheet tbh, to me that's one of the most important selling points for an electric vehicle. Otherwise Meh, another SUV. I'll get interested if they bring out an electric Civic or Jazz. Or they electrify the Rebel Bike but maybe that's just me :p
Honda E gets it's range estimates the same way, 200kms range = 1 - > 30kwh battery at 15kwh per 100kms... Real figures go to 18kwh per 100kms and winter to 21- 22kwh.
Absolutely. Efficiency is key, for running costs reasons but also from an environmental point of view. With the 257 miles range presented, its efficiency is 14.96 kWh/100km or 4.15 miles/kWh. But as I mentioned in another message here, you can see at 07:58 that the actual range is 247 miles (extrapolation to 100% of battery). So the efficiency is probably closer to 4 miles/kWh or 15.6kWh/100km, which is still very good for an EV with such a big battery and particularly if you consider the efficiency of similar EV models.
@@Nikoo033 now remove from that range 20% for the bottom and 15 for the top end of the battery charging and you'll get you real average usable range. Or you can lower the bottom to 10% for those difficult journeys.
This car was introduced in China in 2021. It is a battery electric version of the third-generation Honda HR-V. It sells there as the Honda e:NS1 and e:NP1, which are manufactured by Dongfeng Honda and Guangqi Honda respectively. I guess it will just get a different badge for Y-urope. Rest of world only get ICE or Hybrids HR-V atm. The top spec model in China sells for 218,000 yuan which is 25,000 Pounds. There are 3 other cheaper versions. (Cheapest 20K GBP). So if you want to wait to 2024 you can get a 3 year old car for twice the price it sells for in its country of manufacture.
I still wonder why manufacturers feel the need to put the button so high on electric boot lids. The point of them is surely to make it easier to close the boot, especially for those shorter or disabled drivers. Why not put the button at a more convenient location?
Why do families require immeasurably boring SUVs, that are inefficient, drive poorly, fill parking spaces to the edge, block views on motorways, and can't cope with narrow lanes?
I recently had the pleasure of driving an electric car, and I must say it exceeded all my expectations. The smooth acceleration, whisper-quiet engine, and zero emissions made for a truly delightful ride. Not to mention the convenience of never having to visit a gas station again. Highly recommended!
Imogen says she grew up with a Honda Jazz. Great. Kids now grow up with a big SUV taking them to school, when a small hatchback would do the job much better. (Or maybe a bike or walking would do even better).
what, the early 2000's Jazzs were tiny, only 150 inches long. And children only a few years earlier were transported in massive station wagons 230in long making 15mpg highway.
@@jordan177606 Well, growing up in the 90s, there were lots of families in the UK and Europe going on vacation (I assume you’re American) in small cars. They did the job. Now, we’ve convinced ourselves that we need big SUVs to do the same job, which we don’t. It makes way more sense to have a small car that can be easy to park in daily driving, and then have the ability to go on long trips, than having a bigger car that is impractical in daily life in tight urban streets.
@@christill growing up in the 70s/80s, my parents would have laughed if I'd asked them to taxi me to school. Half the traffic on the road in the morning is comprised of parents ferrying their kids to school.
@@kesgreen4639 Yep. And it’s far more stupid in the UK than bigger countries. Almost everyone lives easy walking or cycling distance from school. And we still jam up the roads with cars.
Good first-look run-down - also nice to have a bit of variation on presenter; mixing things up a bit between Jack and Imogen could make these things a bit more interesting (good opporunity for some cheesy running jokes :) ). As to the car itself; can't see that it offers anything particular that sets it ahead of the rest of the compact SUV pack where the market is already well served, though. Opposite, in fact; no V2L?, 60kW-ish charging (10-80% of 62kW in 45 minutes), efficiency nothing to write home about. Also; for all the talk of it being a family car - rear seat looks optimised for two at the expense of the third middle position.
I live in the US and I've had a Honda all my life (M31). I've always wanted an electric car and am looking to pull the trigger soon; however, it will pull me from the Honda brand that I loved since I was a kid. This looks amazing and just what I need. Please bring this to the US soon!!!!
Presenter is awesome and I'd love to see her more often. Now to the car😂... I love it how car companies make a "young family" car but don't take into account the budget of a young family. I'm sure this car is not gonna come anywhere near the price at which a young family could afford it. Pathethic that I'll probably have to give my money to china to get a decent car in the next years.
Big love to Imogen for stepping in for this one while I was away. Love her unique approach to a car vid and giggled way to much at "EEEE NWY".
Ny in Swedish means new. I guess here in Sweden we would pronounce it in Swedish lol.
I can't even explain how to pronounce Y. A bit like u in French, just more yyyyy.
Sorry, language teacher here. Lol
Turned out OK because Jack was never gonna fit in that boot.
Missed you big fella.
But Jack ... she just missed the joke right. E:NY1 is the car for "Anyone" ... ok a Dad Joke but there you are.
Maybe it was intentional (sneaky Honda... :D ): you Jack, make so many cars look small, while Imogen makes them look decently big. :D
Appreciate the _Jack for scale._ Helps to give a sense of how big the car actually is!
... how small the vehicle is. 😜
I have accepted that I am now just a unit of measurement
@@JackScarlett1😅
@Jack Scarlett how many Jacks can fit in the boot? You may need to have yourself measured in liters
@@JackScarlett1 Not a representative one unfortunately. You are off the charts my friend
A great review from Imogen. Full of charm, enthusiasm and expertise. No disrespect to Jack or Elliot meant, but it’s nice to see a new voice with an alternate perspective in EV reviews on the channel.
None taken, 1000% agree. She smashed it!
@3:36
Very patronizing comment...🤦🏿♀🤦🏿♀
I agree this was a great review. Let's be direct and focus on what matters - lads not sods and all that.
Great to see Imogen present a new car. She did a really good job. More please.
'Real shame that they couldn't round up' - cheeky, unexpected. Imogen's packing jokes too?? Love the: boot measurements, aero instead of styling focus for exterior, getting in the car with stuff and sloooowly moving the seat I'd definitely like to see more 'living with the car' moments like these. Charmer of a video while informing, nice work FCS.
i think theyre looking for "anyone" as a pronounciation.
Eny-1
Spelt “pronunciation “😂
@@jamiepolson cool... Now do it in Danish, German, swedish and Norwegian as well. What's that? English only? Oh sorry.
See, I can be obnoxious too.
WELL SPOTTED! 👍👍👍
Terrible name. Why the Japanese have decided electric cars are best named a series of letters and numbers I don't know. It really takes away from the relatability of a car. Even 'anyone' is a terrible car name, and 'Ian-y-one' just makes it sound like it's a bit Ian-y (no offence to any Ians, but it doesn't fill me with excitement). When people talk about their Kona's or Niro's with affection it's missing a trick..
6:39 i love that she got in the car with her things as I do the same thing and find good storage so key
“68.8 kilowatt hour battery… real shame that they couldn’t round up” 🤣
You did a really great job presenting here 😮🎉 the recording and editing is nice and suits your presenting as well. Great job alltogether! 😊
@@skyhigheagleer6 it's a car. Cars are boring. That's why they invest so much money in advertising and marketing. They have to. It's a box you drive around in. Nothing more, honestly. Everything else is brainwashing and memories (doorhandles, steering wheel).
@@AmvC that's why I'm keeping my cheap ICE car. 😁😁
@@johnsmith-cw3wo great solution. not.
Great review from Imogen - and thanks for measuring the boot! Boot size and dimensions are really important for families, so this was great.
I was hoping she’d get in at the end. 😆
Your healthy BMI forces me to notice that very few Americans are avoiding blimping-out , such a sad state of affairs .
And the preview is great! Great work for a first preview video of a new car. Thanks, Imogen and team. 👌
Great review! Dry humor is fantastic.
Appreciate having all the numbers laid out on one screen... Would be great to have that for all your vids. Easy way to compare
Loved this preview and the insight on the aero was a great approach compared with the typical "walk around and talk about the looks" that most channels do. Well done Imogen, please present more!! and include Teddy.
Either an MG4 or an entry level Tesla is a much better buy than this. Hell with the MG4 you could have a solar panel installation on your house with the money saved.
Lovely refreshing review. It's great to see such varied personal styles of your presenters.
The best presenter on fully charged ever .
Jack’s great, but so nice to see Imogen in front of the camera again.
Finally Fully charged show got a good reviewer who can compete with carwow's Matt..
A young family affording a 45k car, next joke.
The debt crisis over the next decade is going to be fascinating.
Tbf most people only consider the monthly payment amount.
How much is it to buy and run an ice that size? Most people don't buy, they lease and the cost per month is cheeper overall.
Got a young family. Not earning a fortune. My Ioniq 5 cost £42k.
Leasing. It's how we do it.
Financing at 7-9% as well
Wonderful presenting and review. Hope to see her again
nobody:
Fully Charged: here's another expensive crossover suv
More Imogen! Shame they couldn't round it up! Cracking humour.
If this has a froot and is fairly close in price to the competition, and doesn't take six months to get hold of, then it's a great car and will do well. Love how you present; fun and comprehensive - thanks!
6 months to get a hold of ….. I wish.. we waited over 2 years for an Id.4 in Vancouver and gave up. Bought a new model 3 in 2 days and haven’t looked back.
"froot?" Nowt! FRUNK! No one wants a Frootenstein in a Froot. Everyone needs a FRUNKENSTEIN in every Frunk!
Great video Imogen - I think "e:NY1" is meant to be pronounced as "Anyone!"
Does "Anyone" want this half-baked EV? nOh1
Great review. Imogen is refreshing to these kinds of reviews.
A nieche point I will accept, but I particularly liked using Bristol to Blackpool as a benchmark for range. Admittedly, this is because I grew up near Bristol and now live near Blackpool and use that journey, which I make fairly often without needing to stop as my "range test" when considering EVs so I enjoyed that.
More universally, I really enjoyed that video. I liked getting the different perspectives you provided. Maybe you and Jack can double-team on some reviews in the future!
Really like Imogens presentations
Please can you add the boot measurements to your future reviews, it’s much more useful than capacity in litres and not all manufacturers provide the information.
I've love the height inside and the height from the ground too! But maybe I'm an odd one.
Another SUV. Smacks head.
It's like the things are popular or something 🤷🏿♂️
You don't have to buy one.
And a crappy looking one at that.
It looks like every other SUV out there, so they'd better get the price right or have it labelled another Compliance car.
Well done Imogen for trying to inject some hyperbole, and well done Jack for injecting a "close" to remember.
Shhhh! This was meant to be when Jack was "away"! 😉
Nice review. Love her vibe. So much talent among F.C. presenters.
Bought this few months back in Jordan! Worth around 32k$.
Beautiful vehicle and I'm loving it!
Great review! Looks like a nice little wagon. Not going to be cheap. That screen looks really good, the practicality of having it in multiple zones make it so much more functional than one giant screen taht does one thing at a time.
Shame they couldn’t make an electric with the versatility and size of their Jazz and at sub £30k pricepoint - even with sub 200mile range
Afraid the Chinese newcomers are going to wipe the floor with them ( and many others )
Great review. Measurements useful!
It's really refreshing to see a review where the chair is ALL the way forward. Never seen that
Yeah you don't see much of that in my vids admittedly 😂
@@JackScarlett1 The tall man himself - Hello (great work until now, can wait for whats next, thanks)
Great review Imogen. I liked the idea of getting into the driver’s seat with all the stuff we usually have in our hands, and also the quirky ending made me chuckle. I just prefer reviews with more logically sequenced chapters. Then again, maybe I’m missing something and it’ll grow on me. Either way, I hope Imogen will share more on screen time with Jack.
I enjoyed that. Well presented.
All EVs? If we want to live in more sustainable cities we need to focus on public transport & alternative mobility (as per the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development - SDG 11, awa the New Urban Agenda). This will require a complete restructuring of transport infrastructure to accomodate pedestrians, e-scooters, bikes (cargo bikes, city bikes etc) microcars, public transport in all forms, and lastly EVs. The show has showcased alternative forms of mobility - it would be great to see more of these episodes.
Also, some cities have bike buses (enabling kids to ride to school safely) and car free Sundays etc so residents can access street infrastructure minus cars - please highlight such activities too. Some cities & towns even paint their streets to make them more fun (especially developing countries where budgets are tight).
Cities need to be child friendly, gender sensitive & accomodate vulnerable communities (mature persons, dosabled etc), not just wealthy men strutting their status in fancy cars going to & from work etc. Cities include rich & poor, young & old, genders of all kinds - our transport system needs to accomodate everyone, not just the privileged few.
Yes, you do that
Creating an efficient and convenient public transport is an impossibility in many cities. We'll always need cars.
The gender thing is superfluous unless you plan to interact sexually with infrastructure
@@toby9999 i never said we don't need cars, but not as the priority. Cars will always be a part of city life, but city life should not be dominated by them.
@@wschnitzler Actually many cities are doing just that - giving other mobility options access to road networks so that ALL residents (young, old, rich, poor, people, bikes, vehicles of all kinds from small to large). Not having a car shouldn't mean not being able to get around your city (to get to employment, healthcare, education, recreation, visit family or friends, run errands etc).
Cities are for people. People should have access to forms of mobility that suits their budget & needs. City planners need to think beyond just cars when planning (or upgrading) mobility infrastructure. It's better for our physical & mental well-being, as well as the planet.
Oh my gosh who is this amazing human being. Love the change of pace, it's like having your best friend just chatting you through a car, only knowing so much more... I know so much more now than I did about lecy cars and I chuckled. Great add to a great crew. ❤🎉
LOOOOOOVE the measuring of the boot. Dimensions of boot and vehicle matter greatly to family buyers. That should be a standard review feature but no channel/site I've found does this as standard. Also would be even better to also check under the (often) fake boot floor and measure the loading height in the boot since manufacturers tend to measure only about seat height for stating their volume in L; and does the car have a frunk? Thanks for adding these more often in future!
I seem to recall Carwow used to (and might still) do boot size checks by how many medium suitcases you could load in. For my measure, if it can take our massive double buggy flat, then it's plenty big.
@autogefuehl always have their handy meter ruler too. Very helpful indeed.
Auto EV do a suitcase test in their videos. Bjorn Nyland has his banana box test
Good points. I also hate the false floor as “cable storage.” Impossible to get to when you have stuff in the boot. A frunk big enough to put the cable would be very welcome in cars.
Ive always found volume to be a complete nonsense metric. The only reason they use it is because it gives them one number to "compare" others to and decide who "wins". Its silliness compounded on top of useless information.
Awesome content again, loving the changes recently to the overall video editing
Nicely done review to cover the good and the bad
The production and fun attitude of this episode was great! Also, very happy to see Honda are potentially back in the game 😁
Don’t think so. The car is ugly, boring and the name a catastrophe. Dear Honda, your heritage of the better days were called ‚Accord‘ or ‚Civic‘ and people loved reliability. You definitely do not understand electric. No model is really what the market expects from a good EV. Prefer an MG or BYD for a young family 😂
I'm a Honda fan but this is frankly a half-assed job from Honda. They just made an EV out of the existing HRV.
BTW the review from Immie is sharp and concise, doesn't need to be dragged on and on, yeah I'm talking about you Jack.
Love all the FCS presenters but Imogen and Jack are my favourites. They make the presentation fun as well as informative. Like the real world examples as well, as form doesn’t always = function.
I know this was in a studio but with outdoor tests how about seeing what it’s like in a multi story. Especially the bigger cars. I watched loads of Buzz reviews and only saw one newish channel take see how easy it was to park in cramped multi-storey.
Must say it's about time another legacy brand came on board.
Well done Honda!
Lovely and competent presenter! ^^ I'm looking forwad for more details about this car, I hope it will be as practical inside as a Jazz. Nonetheless, it was a pleasure
Jack and Imogen should review cars meant for young families together to showcase the range of what, who fits best where.
Holy crap these are so good. Love to Imogen. What a crew you have here.
Imogen is prettier than Jack. (And Robert) I think the editors tried to impress her. There were lots of fun graphics and effects. But, she is a wonderful presenter. Humorous and informative.
There's something about Honda I just love. I'm not a crossover SUV person, but I don't actually mind this. It looks solid and sensible, but charming.
Since a couple of posts have been fairly unnecessary, here.. have some positivity...
Smashing video, well presented, informative enough for a first view video, fun direction, nicely filmed and edited. 👍
Also nicely "not that person from top gear who's name would be much better forgotten and who's manner belongs in the 1950s". Jack.. take note.. Only mention this since it cropped up in other comments.
Thank you 🙂
let me guess - no or not much storage under the rear boot and no front storage.... Really great to have Imogen do a review.
Nice. I love it! Normal doors, steering wheel, gauge cluster, and the presence of BUTTONS! Now it needs to come to the USA!
2024 Honda Pologue
Man, Europe has so many awesome EVs available! The options in the US are so limited, especially since I don't want a massive, absurdly heavy luxury car.
Echoing other comments. Car: not competitive enough. Presenter: top class. Nice change in style and format. Liked the measurements, liked all the figures on one screen, and liked the overall approach.
Great review Imogen. Amused by the commentators who think you are new to the channel; annoyed by the comments that feel misogynistic...
Your bland knight comment is way more irritating
Like Imogen’s presentation style. Hope this car comes to the US, unlike the Honda-e.
2024 Honda Pologue
Good job, Imogen.
My Model 3 is 3 years old and I still get a little frustrated at the screen. If your finger found a real button, you'd know when it was pressed but its easy (for whatever reason) not to make things work when you really need to keep your eyes on the road. Not sure if the Honda might end up the same.
The Model 3 comes with a lot of piano black surfaces which are easy to get finger prints and scratches on. Makes it look very "second hand" easily. The solution was to buy a custom stick on wood effect (other effects were available) cover for the big areas of piano black. Surfaces are protected. Maybe they will come up with the same for the Honda.
Not sure about the front charge port. I can see there could be issues with that depending on where you are charging. (its less safe to reverse out of parking bays for example).
Overall I'd say this was a better effort from Honda.
the god of Elon giveth and taketh.... That's why the more competition, the better....
A1 for presentation, to the point and much less filler and useless words and gimmicks 👍
Great review Imogen. It's a Honda, it's going to be beautifully built and will last forever. But it's a bit bland looking, and while I appreciate a non-grey colour scheme, I'm not keen on the insipid pale blue/green. Depending on the cost, could be a real winner for Honda. Hope it does well :-)
TBH, I'm more bored by the black interior. Black with black ... yawn ...
That boot cover system is pure genius. I wonder why this is the first time i see something like this.
Imogen rocks! Love your work 👍
Nice review of Honda's new EV. Looks similar to a lot of other SUV EV's on the market, but Honda do make reliable & well put together cars! Just one observation on the interior - what is it with manufactures using BLACK headlining these days, with alot more black on the dash/doors, it makes the interior very dark & a sombre place to be! Why the change after many, many years of them using "light" headlinnings?
Excellent review, fam. Great to see Honda knowing it’s market and making a sleek, sensible car that’s suitable for just about ANYONE! 🎉
It would be amazing to have Imogen test cars for shorter people. Battery Life sometimes gets his wife to test cars and Cindy offers a nice perspective on if it suits someone who would normally have to sit on a cushion. Speaking as someone with a 5’ tall wife.
I agree, my Partner is just under 5ft
She is good at her job. Good vid!
Looks ok to me. Good mix of traditional design and modern EV aspects.
But beeing so late with this car i was hoping for some unique or new features...
Not sure why I should buy this car. Mind the name by the way...
Looks good, really good. If only the price is competitive.
The car Honda should have made all along would be small and sub 20k not a 45k one! Not many young families or others could afford this. It seems legacy car makers are failing the majority of people when it comes to ev’s, whether it’s a deliberate policy to force entire segments of the population out of car ownership altogether in future or a blinkered attitude that will lead to their demise as Chinese companies replace them.
I'm 6'6 ... having Jack review cars is the closest I've ever been to being able to trust a review to see if I'd fit in the car, which is my biggest limiting factor.
Exactly!
So that is why they call you Big Logan.
lol, absolutely ... I'm 6'6 and 280lbs ... it's a genuine problem in lots of ways, being able to physically fit behind the wheel of a car in something even vaguely resembling comfort is just one of them.
00:57
That colour shift was fantastic!!!
Good review. The car has no better range and charging speed than a 2018 th eNiro.
Honda must try harder on efficency.
This effort is better than nothing - which is what Honda offers in North America. Rumour has it that sales for Honda Canada are down 50% from 2002 - which was a rotten year for Honda sales too.
The electric Jazz is one I'd love. With the space under the back seats!
Exactly! We need an electric Jazz!
The side reminds me of my old yellow Honda CVCC. I like 😍 this too. I like her take on it too. Production is really great too on this video. Props to the set design ...like using the floor as a contrast
My revivifiers loved their CVCC, in (The Good Ole) days when Honda was still innovating.
I wanted to see the space in the rear after the driverseat was put in Imogen mode 😂
Model Y price for this little thing 😂 it’s going to sell well 😂
Thanks for the great review! Please do more👍
Shock horror it has a rear wiper!!! Good looking car & a good review but once again, like all EV's, it's going to be too expensive. BYD Atto3 is under £40k & that's too much for a car that sells for £10k less in Australia. Can't help feeling us Brits are getting ripped off big time. Missing the fish tank though 🐟
True.. MG 4 seems better value electric car overall
EVs are also a rip-off in Australia. The cheapest EV I've seen here is around $45000.
It's why they refer to the UK as the "Treasure Island". 🙂 Does seem we're being ripped off (even the Chinese cars seem very expensive) sadly only way to get the prices cheaper is for everyone to not buy them. Guess it's pretty complicated
@@mrpugster Agreed. Problem is that the vast majority of EV drivers in the UK don't own their cars. They drive company lease cars or they are private PCP / HP. Anyone looking to actually spend their own cash & trade in an existing car is priced out of the market, at least for a new car. Which is why our first EV will be a used model later this year.
I own a Used 2015 Nissan Leaf Tekna that it’s just a couple of hundred miles off 60k miles.
I live on the Isle Of Man and won’t take it off the island so even in the smallest battery it has enough range even in winter for my daily drive.
It’s fully owned by myself with no finance etc on it .
Great video! I would say the "hybrid versions" have been for sale for a few years now, it's the HR-V. Basically the same car but with a hybrid/ICE drivetrain, always thought it looks pretty cool so it's good to see an EV version and one with a decent range too after the somewhat limited E.
Excellent review! The car's pretty inoffensive, dare I say a little bland? That infotainment system is an interesting way of doing things though - quite impressed with it.
Great review and fresh approach of Imogen!! 😊. Jack scale really helpful and love that still cheeky “one take” approach. And Jack coming at the end to close the boot was funny.
Hope it doesn’t mean though that Jack is leaving the channel.
About the car…. Nah 🤷♂️. Shame a converted ICE platform but good that good quality and improved inside from ice one. But again, more options is a good thing.
At last an effort from Honda that has usable range. Not convinced that £45,000 is a good starting price. Skoda Enyaq is better value and the VRS version is only just over £50k. Also the Tesla Model Y will out perform this in every single aspect. Still..... Well done Honda as it is miles better than Toyota's inefficient expensive disaster!
OEMs will put themselves out of business trying to compete with Tesla. Hyundai/Kia and VW look look more like the competitors they are gunning for to me.
45 THOUSAND pounds? Ho-Lee Frunk!
I love honda and i hope they do well.
I drive a 2003 Honda CR-V and I prefer to reverse into my drive because I have high hedges so it’s easier to drive out than reverse out onto the road. With the charging point at the front,I’d have to have a pretty long cable 🤣
I don’t think it would be a problem but worth checking the measurements. I think our cable is 8 metres, we have to park our cars nose to tail on our drive and the cable reaches the car parked furthest from the charger.
Interesting efficiency - if I didn't miscalculate that's about 15 kwh per 100 km using the usable battery and the official range. That's pretty good. Kinda irked that efficiency is missing in the data sheet tbh, to me that's one of the most important selling points for an electric vehicle. Otherwise Meh, another SUV. I'll get interested if they bring out an electric Civic or Jazz. Or they electrify the Rebel Bike but maybe that's just me :p
Honda E gets it's range estimates the same way, 200kms range = 1 - > 30kwh battery at 15kwh per 100kms... Real figures go to 18kwh per 100kms and winter to 21- 22kwh.
Same. An electric civic or jazz or any other smallish model would be perfect. I don't like SUVs anyway.
Absolutely. Efficiency is key, for running costs reasons but also from an environmental point of view. With the 257 miles range presented, its efficiency is 14.96 kWh/100km or 4.15 miles/kWh. But as I mentioned in another message here, you can see at 07:58 that the actual range is 247 miles (extrapolation to 100% of battery). So the efficiency is probably closer to 4 miles/kWh or 15.6kWh/100km, which is still very good for an EV with such a big battery and particularly if you consider the efficiency of similar EV models.
@@Nikoo033 now remove from that range 20% for the bottom and 15 for the top end of the battery charging and you'll get you real average usable range. Or you can lower the bottom to 10% for those difficult journeys.
No ev has ever hit the claimed rage. it's usually 20 to 40% less. Go get a self charging hybrid
This car was introduced in China in 2021. It is a battery electric version of the third-generation Honda HR-V. It sells there as the Honda e:NS1 and e:NP1, which are manufactured by Dongfeng Honda and Guangqi Honda respectively. I guess it will just get a different badge for Y-urope. Rest of world only get ICE or Hybrids HR-V atm. The top spec model in China sells for 218,000 yuan which is 25,000 Pounds. There are 3 other cheaper versions. (Cheapest 20K GBP). So if you want to wait to 2024 you can get a 3 year old car for twice the price it sells for in its country of manufacture.
Nice to see another presenter for a change. Let's face it: Jack is just too large a human to be realistic 🤣
Seems "Average" to me..... I'm of "realistic" height as well (like Jack)
I still wonder why manufacturers feel the need to put the button so high on electric boot lids. The point of them is surely to make it easier to close the boot, especially for those shorter or disabled drivers. Why not put the button at a more convenient location?
Why do families require immeasurably boring SUVs, that are inefficient, drive poorly, fill parking spaces to the edge, block views on motorways, and can't cope with narrow lanes?
Probably because they believe them to be safer and don't care about other road users or pedestrians. That, plus the market is flooded with them.
More car review vids from Imogen, please. Teddy should join the presenter cohort too.
I recently had the pleasure of driving an electric car, and I must say it exceeded all my expectations. The smooth acceleration, whisper-quiet engine, and zero emissions made for a truly delightful ride. Not to mention the convenience of never having to visit a gas station again. Highly recommended!
Honda's new EV-model called "2 little 2 late"
Honda bankrupt before year 2028
Look how small Jack looks relative to that car... it must be huge!
Imogen says she grew up with a Honda Jazz. Great. Kids now grow up with a big SUV taking them to school, when a small hatchback would do the job much better. (Or maybe a bike or walking would do even better).
what, the early 2000's Jazzs were tiny, only 150 inches long. And children only a few years earlier were transported in massive station wagons 230in long making 15mpg highway.
@@jordan177606 Well, growing up in the 90s, there were lots of families in the UK and Europe going on vacation (I assume you’re American) in small cars. They did the job. Now, we’ve convinced ourselves that we need big SUVs to do the same job, which we don’t.
It makes way more sense to have a small car that can be easy to park in daily driving, and then have the ability to go on long trips, than having a bigger car that is impractical in daily life in tight urban streets.
(......Shuffles off to find old monty python sketch)
@@christill growing up in the 70s/80s, my parents would have laughed if I'd asked them to taxi me to school. Half the traffic on the road in the morning is comprised of parents ferrying their kids to school.
@@kesgreen4639 Yep. And it’s far more stupid in the UK than bigger countries. Almost everyone lives easy walking or cycling distance from school. And we still jam up the roads with cars.
Good first-look run-down - also nice to have a bit of variation on presenter; mixing things up a bit between Jack and Imogen could make these things a bit more interesting (good opporunity for some cheesy running jokes :) ). As to the car itself; can't see that it offers anything particular that sets it ahead of the rest of the compact SUV pack where the market is already well served, though. Opposite, in fact; no V2L?, 60kW-ish charging (10-80% of 62kW in 45 minutes), efficiency nothing to write home about. Also; for all the talk of it being a family car - rear seat looks optimised for two at the expense of the third middle position.
Eghhh... another mid sized suburban SUV...
Your point being?
Yeah I know right? 🥱
Eeee 'n' why?
I live in the US and I've had a Honda all my life (M31). I've always wanted an electric car and am looking to pull the trigger soon; however, it will pull me from the Honda brand that I loved since I was a kid. This looks amazing and just what I need. Please bring this to the US soon!!!!
Presenter is awesome and I'd love to see her more often.
Now to the car😂...
I love it how car companies make a "young family" car but don't take into account the budget of a young family. I'm sure this car is not gonna come anywhere near the price at which a young family could afford it. Pathethic that I'll probably have to give my money to china to get a decent car in the next years.
"The car they should have made all along" - Click - Car is giant SUV. Sighs.