Icon is Back and With a Bang

Icon is Back and With a Bang

Today guys I am going to review the car for which I was waiting for years and today I got the chance to drive it. First I'd like to talk about the look and without any doubt, the best looking car in its category and surely a head turner. Well, I have seen the pics of the car before but seeing it live is a treat. Now this car comes in three variants V, Vx and Zx in petrol version, while the diesel comes in VX and ZX only. And its on road price starts at around 20 lac and goes up to 26 lacs depending on your city. And as the price suggest you will get all the necessary as well as fancy features . Some of the features which i think is worth mentioning are. 1)Remote engine starter. (Now this is really cool because as you know our weather. So what you can do here is you can start your car with your remote key and so by the time you enter the car the temperature inside the car is taken care of.) But at this price point they should have given ventilated seats because not only it rival cars are providing it but a car segment below like Verna also has this feature. 2)All four windows auto up and down with anti-pinch. 3)Lane watch camera(1st in class and very helpful) 4)Electronic parking brake 5)Walk away auto lock 6)8way power driver seat 7)Remote opening and closing of sunroof. And many more features. Now let me tell you about my driving experience. Well, let me tell you that petrol comes only in CVT option and it generates around 141ps of power at 174n.m of torque. Well I know the power doesn't excite you much but its good for city drive, in fact, it's very smooth and power delivery is very linear and I must tell Honda has really done a great job with the ride and handling of the car it really feels planted to the road. The steering also weighs really nicely with the speed. And I must tell you the turning radius of the car is just awesome Like old civic it does not have any issue regarding ground clearance as it overcomes them without any fuss. Though I think they should provide a manual option with the petrol car, just for the fun part. Now talking about the manual the diesel comes only with the manual option and no automatic but the ARAI certified average fuel consumption of the car is whooping 26km/litre which I think is pretty nice for the size of this car. But the diesel is not the smoothest and by far not the quietest also if compare to Octavia and Elantra. And this diesel engine is the same as you get in CRV and generates around 118 ps of power at 300n.m of torque. In the end, if you will listen to your heart you will definitely go with this car but if you will listen to your brain there are more and better options in the market at this price range.