This City generation moved the fuel tank from the middle of the car to the back — a quiet packaging change that let Honda drop the seats and the roofline for a sportier stance.
Median 86 hp across 282 similar cars
Lead trim: City 1.5 L15Z1 · up to 130 hp
Honda City GM4–GM9 / GraceGM4/GM5/GM6/GM8/GM9 · 2013–2023
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FactThis City generation moved the fuel tank from the middle of the car to the back — a quiet packaging change that let Honda drop the seats and the roofline for a sportier stance.
The sixth-generation City (the fourth as a sedan) is Honda's second model in the "Exciting H Design" language (first seen on the third-generation Fit/Jazz of September 2013) and won the Middle East Car of the Year 2014. Still on the Fit/Jazz platform, the fuel tank moved from the middle to the rear of the car, letting the seat and roof be lowered for a sportier feel and lower centre of gravity, with the overall height up 10 mm. A new hybrid was exclusive to Japan (as the Grace, sold from December 2014 to August 2020, with an all-wheel-drive option) and Malaysia: Honda's Intelligent-Dual Clutch Drive (i-DCD) Sport Hybrid with a 7-speed dual clutch transmission and a hybridised 1.5-litre SOHC i-VTEC making a combined 132 PS (130 hp) and 178 N·m (131 lb·ft), equivalent to a conventional 1.8. The facelift launched in Thailand on 12 January 2017 with LED headlamps and daytime running lights, a Civic-like chrome-bar grille, and in Japan as the Grace in July 2017. Dongfeng Honda sold a reworked version as the Greiz (from November 2015) and its liftback as the Gienia (from October 2016), and the range also includes a 1.5-litre i-DTEC diesel for India, a CNG version and a 1.2-litre L12B for Pakistan.
Collectors Spotted in the Honda City Lineage
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Trims & Figures
3 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City / Grace Hybrid 1.5 LEB-H1 i-DCD (130 hp) | 2014–2020 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 130 hp | 131 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| City 1.5 L15Z1 | 2013–2023 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 119 hp | 107 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| City 1.5 N15A i-DTEC turbodiesel (India) | 2013–2023 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 100 hp | 148 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
An estimate, for the City / Grace Hybrid 1.5 LEB-H1 i-DCD (130 hp) trim: fuel on its EPA figure and a dated national price, upkeep on a per-mile average for the kind of car it is.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
This City grew so much that it's now roughly the same size as a ninth-generation Civic sedan, despite still being sold and priced as Honda's entry-level car.
This City generation moved the fuel tank from the middle of the car to the back — a quiet packaging change that let Honda drop the seats and the roofline for a sportier stance.
This City generation made history off the showroom floor too: when Honda opened a factory in Argentina in 2011, this was the car built there — the first Honda, and the first Japanese passenger car, ever made in the country.
In Japan this City was sold as the Fit Aria, named for an operatic melody, continuing Honda's habit of naming cars after music (Prelude, Accord, Ballade, Concerto).
This City was built for Southeast Asia from day one — made in an all-new Thai plant with over 70% local content, and its bumpers split into three pieces just to make shipping parts from Japan easier.
Before Fit became one of Honda's best-selling global nameplates, it was just a trim badge on the second-generation City — the name's whole career started as an economy option.
Hirotoshi Honda later founded the tuning company Mugen, which remains closely linked to Honda's motorsport programs.
Honda built a fold-up 50cc scooter that lived in the City's trunk — and literally invented a new word for it, "trabai," a portmanteau of "trunk" and "bike."
Rivals
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