2024 Honda City Hatchback 1.5L V-Sensing VS RS e:HEV in Malaysia, Worth The “Upgrade”? | WapCar

The 2024 Honda City Hatchback 1.5L V-Sensing is a supremely brilliant choice for an everyday car with its practicality, fuel efficiency and even driving dynamics. However, what if there’s an even more efficient choice?

Only caveat is that it comes with a much higher price tag to start with but over the long run, does the City Hatchback RS e:HEV actually save you more money?

Join Adrian as he crunches some numbers to find out whether you can indeed save more money by spending more money.

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Quick Specs:
2024 Honda City Hatchback RS e:HEV
Electric Motor Power: 109 PS
Electric Motor Torque: 253 Nm
Transmission: Single-ratio automatic transmission
Price: RM109,900

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Intro: 00:00
Fuel Consumption & Related Cost: 00:46
Periodic Maintenance Cost: 01:08
Insurance & Secondhand Value: 01:30
RM14k Buys You What Exactly: 02:48
Driving Impressions: 04:06
Final Thoughts & Conclusion: 06:03

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[thsim]

I drive a City Hatchback RS eHEV and I think its better power and refinement can justify its higher price tag. Not to mention some extra features like the electronic parking brake with auto brake hold.

[aimanfitriiv]

at the end of the day both variants are very good but just the rs ehev is a much better value and equipment 👌😄

[draarontan]

I believe the editor wrongly put the petrol price differences for both variant.

[CByAx]

Neck-to-neck really. Is all depending on how much U drive weekly/ monthly. No harm to get the hybrid but beyond the warranty gotta keep an eye on battery and inverter (both would cost a bomb)

[ThurairajLetchumananTL]

you forgot to include interest rate for those 14000, which would be about 500. So you actually need longer time to recoup the value.

[jrkoster]

After 10 years and 200k km the hybrid battery probably needs to be replaced, making the value near 0 (or scrap) for the hybrid car, whereas there will still be sensible retail value for the non-hybrid petrol variant; so all the minor fuel saving and maintenance differences for the hybrid are for nothing; and what about an earlier failure of the hybrid system after warranty runs out before the 10 years of age of the car? (There are many hybrid electric components that can fail)

[norhilmiarif]

honda city hatchback 1.5L RS second hand vs Honda city hatchback facelift RS full spec?

[adivanpersie]

not having spare tyre really a dumb move, just had blown out tyre, not punctured tyre and luckily there was spare tyre in my old vios car.

[zainadam]

Why no silver colour for the rs variant 😞

[KC_]

Unfortunately Honda jacked up the price for the 2024 facelift models. Hence, the price is higher than the previous year.

[Moonfacez]

eHEV is way better but i do not like the gearbox that handles it

[lokekaryew]

Yes agreed. The Hybrid is a better drive overall 👍

[AdamsCraftingTable]

when la honda malaysia will facelift this one. its been almost 6 months since the sedan version was facelifted

[Firdaus_Rahman]

City HB V-sensing specs & above or Yaris G specs???

[sflee]

No spare tyre is a deal breaker for me

[fawzcopter]

Hopefully, they didn't raise the price for the facelift release.

[amirnazhan]

Thank goodness no more review about overhype Mazda cars. But that 7.3l/100km is a bit over. On average is like 5.6l/100km more or less.

[hanknkh]

Your info isn't very accurate. I'm driving an 8 yo Honda jazz and am getting 14kml above for about 200km distance every night doing grab. That's like 7l/100km and that's including traffic jam and stuff. A hybrid should be alot more efficient than that.