The Honda Clio dealership chain was being positioned as Honda's purveyor of luxuriously equipped vehicles like the Honda Legend, the Honda Concerto, and the Honda Accord, and this generation City enabled Clio locations to sell economically priced vehicles normally found at Honda Primo. In 31 October 1986, the second-generation City was introduced with the slogan "City of Talent." in Japan, and was available at Honda Clio dealerships. In most markets aside from Japan, the City's market position was left open until filled by the Honda Logo in 1999. There was no convertible model, with both the convertible and Turbo models of the previous generation continuing on sale for a little while. The Fit name also first appeared as a trim variant of the second-generation City.
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Honda replaced the original City series AA in November 1986 with this generation (designated GA1), and again with an update in 1989 (GA2). Between 20, Dongfeng Honda sold a remodeled version of the City called the Greiz, and its 5-door liftback counterpart Gienia. The City was reintroduced in Japan in 2014, this time called the Grace ( Japanese: ホンダ・グレース, Honda Gurēsu) up to its discontinuation in 2020. The City is also sold as the Ballade in South Africa since 2011. This generation also marks the introduction of the 5-door hatchback model starting from 2020.įrom 2002 to 2008, the City was also sold as the Fit Aria ( Japanese: ホンダ・フィット アリア, Honda Fitto Aria) in Japan. The seventh-generation model launched in 2019 features a significant size growth, offering an exterior dimension on par with the ninth-generation Civic sedan.
Since then, it has been a subcompact sedan built on Honda's Global Small Car platform, which is shared with the Fit/Jazz (a 5-door hatchback), the Airwave/Partner, and the first-generation Mobilio - all of which share the location of the fuel tank under the front seats rather than rear seats. The nameplate was revived in 1996 for use on a series of subcompact four-door sedans aimed primarily at developing markets, first mainly sold in Asia but later also in Latin America and Australia.
The 3-door City was retired in 1994 after the second-generation and replaced by the Logo. The City was originally a 3-door hatchback/2-door convertible for the Japanese, European and Australasian markets. The Honda City ( Japanese: ホンダ・シティ, Hepburn: Honda City) is a subcompact car which has been produced by the Japanese manufacturer Honda since 1981.