Honda Jazz 1.5 i-VTEC Sport 2018 UK review

Honda Jazz 1.5 i-VTEC Sport
This is the new Honda Jazz 1.5 i-VTEC Sport
Honda's spacious supermini gets a Sport badge – but don't expect much in the way of added dynamism Here’s an oxymoron if ever there was one: a Sport badge on a Honda Jazz. Yet, that moment has arrived as part of a series of revisions to your nan’s favourite supermini with the space of a mini-MPV.The Sport badge refers more to exterior tweaks than dynamic ones (think the usual sporty bodykit and alloy treatment), but there’s a mild whiff of sport about the new 1.5-litre engine and its 128bhp and 114lb ft.Those figures are no hot hatch – and not even warm hatch – but the experience of our first drive on UK roads shows they at least provide something other than pure visual trickery to justify that Sport badge. 

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