<p>The reliability that Honda brings to its cars is something that can not be matched easily by any other car manufacturer. With brilliant Japanese engineering, the amaze performs very well especially on the challenging Indian roads. Offered in two options, a petrol and a diesel unit, Amaze caters to all types of audiences. Making use of its traditional i-VTEC unit, its petrol avatar is powered by a 1.2 litre four cylinder engine that manages to produce 88 PS of peak power at 6000 rpm along with a maximum torque of 109 Nm at 4500 rpm. The i-VTEC motor is very smooth in its operation and offers a linear power delivery. Apart from a standard 5 speed manual gearbox, the latest petrol avatar also gets a 5 speed automatic gearbox from Honda which performs well especially in the city area offering frugal shifts. But when pushing the automatic variant to its limits, you don’t really get sportier shifts as the transmission cannot hold revs for a long duration. However, the real winner and a mass market seller is its powerful 1.5 litre i-DTEC diesel heart which packs an impressive 100 PS of peak power under the hood ready to run at 3600 rpm. Thanks to 200 Nm of maximum torque on offer beginning as low as 1750 rpm, the diesel variant breathes quite easily without frequent gearshifts. You don’t get the automatic transmission here but without any complaints the standard 5 speed manual unit does its job. The biggest flaw that somehow still haunts its Diesel avatar is the knocking sound that enters the cabin quite often, but we have to say with some levels of refinement reached, Honda has managed to work on it and we see a remarkable difference in the current lot of Amaze. Riding on Mc Pherson struts at the front and Torsion beam suspensions at the rear, Amaze offers a softer ride which is great when traversing over bad sections of our roads and is also quite apt for long highway drives.

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