Toyota Vios or Honda City

Toyota Vios And Honda City 

Since Vios was lunched few years back in Malaysia, Vios has becomes City direct competitive until now. Both of these cars offered same performance and sporty outlook and also have the similar competitive pricing. They are even gentle to your wallet for the petrol cost as these 2 cars, thanks to the advanced technology from the Japan cars maker. Not to mention on the quality and resell value, Toyota and Honda always has best the resell value compared to other cars brand.

Lets have a look on them!

Exterior

Outlook! I believe outlook is the FIRST thing people will seek for when buying a vehicle!
City come with impressive Modulo body kit that make you dont want to get off your car :)

Modulo City

And

TRD Sportivo Vios and G Limited Vios.

TRD Sportivo and Limited G Vios

City and Vios come with stylish chrome grill which is so shinning until it able to reflect your face when you stand close to it. Both of them come with fog lamps, side mirror with indicator for extra visibility and safety, aerodynamic body and door visor. Vios TRD come with gold colored 15" inch 7 spoky sport rims with 10% lighter weight compared to normal rims. While City has slight bigger rims which is 16" inch sporty rims that enhanced the entire cars outlook but retain the tyres width size of 185/55/16. While Vios may come with TRD body kit or G-Limited body kit, depending on which variant that you have chosen  Citys modulo bodykit is an optional accessories with cost of RM2,950.

Interior

Stylish Panel Meter

Place to put drink

Paddle shift and audio control on the steering

Spacious space to put your things

Stylish design

Citys Interior

Orange Ambient Digital Panel Meter

Leather Wrapped Steering with Audio Control 

Stylish Panelling

Hot TRD Leather seat

Alluminium TRD Sportivo Scuff Plate to welcome the driver and passengers

 TRD Sportivo Vioss Interior

Both of these cars offered attractive interior which make us resist to get out from the car!

Vios TRD Sportivo offered leather wrapped steering, leather seats and  leather gear knob for sporty feeling while G-Limited Vios without the leather wrapped on the steering and gear knob. While City dont have such variant, City only come with black fabric seats.
Vios panel meter was located at centre of the panel dashboard which is very convenient for driver to monitor their speed while driving but the drawback is leave right and left side of dashboard empty and look plain. City panel meter located in front on the driver which is the right side of the dashboard. The panel meter come in blueish colour and have 3 round dial meters which are RPM, Km/h and fuel indicator. New City has the Eco indicator to show the driver driving behaviour whether aggressive and green driver. Vios do not has this Eco feature.Both car have able to monitor your average fuel consumption as well through the small digital LCD display.
Legs rooms seem good for both front and back passengers for both Vios and City, 4 persons shall be comfortable and anything more than 4, behind passenger may feel slight cramp.
Steering feel for Vios is good as it gradually heavier according ratio when you driving faster. Same for City but City has a plastic which not as firm feeling as Vios. Yet, City has paddle shifts on the steering which give another excitement of driving pleasure where cannot find in Vios.
Driving Vios was comfortable as the suspension is tuned for comfort drive but the drawback when making aggressive turning, the car will steering to the other side due to soft suspension. City on the other hand have sportier suspension, it is more harder and when we go through bumper and pothole, then car might shake harder but have better stability when cornering compared to Vios.

Lets look on their performance! 

PERFORMANCE and TECHNOLOGY

ENGINE -The heart of the MONSTERS!

City i-VTEC offer 120SPS!

Vios VVT-i offer 109 PS!

Both of these cars are packed with 1.5L engine under their hood! It seem City win 11PS@ 4Nm on performance compared to Vios. Both of these engine produces high acceleration power and superb in fuel consumption which able deliver 16.5km/L (City) and 17km/L(Vios) on highway drive on average of 100km/h speed. Vios doing better on acceleration during the initial RPM (1K~4K), more powerful acceleration compared to City, but I-VTEC start to kick in when at higher RPM(4K~6.5K) which give City a boost a later stage. Torque graphs above explained why this happened. Overall, City and Vioss acceleration is good and the transmission is smooth for a sedan car with small 1.5L engine. Check out the standing start acceleration from 0-100km/h at below:

Standing Start Acceleration(0-100km/h)
New VIOS @ 11.81 sec / CITY VTEC @ 12.37 sec

Reminder: Fuel consumption will increase as you press the pedal harder.

Transmission

Honda City

5-Speed Automatic Paddle Shift Transmission

The class-leading 5AT offers efficient speed range with its wide and close gear ratio. Power start acceleration is briskly achieved for an exhilarating drive. With fuel economy and quietness on high speed in mind, the excitement never stops. Its automatic lock-up control does its job smartly as well as to improve response. Fuel wastage is reduced during low speed with its extended lock up.

Toyota Vios

Super Electronic Controlled Transmission (ECT)*

Enjoy linear acceleration and smooth gears shifts as the ECT selects the optimal gear position for hassle-free driving, no matter the road condition.

Both of them offered excellent transmission to outperform their engine. City do have 5-speed gear with paddle shifts while Vios come with 4-speed gear on gear knob. 

Different style, different excitement =)

Turning Radius

5.0m Minimum Turning Radius

Navigate round tight corners and U-turns with the Citys trusted steering ability. Its amazing manoeuvrability is the result of its 5.0 minimum turning radius.

4.9m Minimum Turning Radius

The Vios is ideal for city driving. You can easily manoeuvre narrow U-turns and tight parking spots with its minimum turning radius of 4.9m and short overhang.

Vios have slightly better minimum turning radius compared to City. Compared with a few other vehicles with similar specification, these 2 cars have an awesome turning radius. I can make U-turn easily in tight and small lane while if I turns with other vehicle, I might get stuck while turning, end up need perform fast T-point turn in middle of road :(
Bingo to these 2 cars!

Safety

G-Force Control Technology	Pedestrian Injury Reduction	Driver Restraint System
G-CON absorbs and spreads collision energy during an accident, minimize injury to both car occupants and pedestrians.	Impact-absorbing front components (bumpers) reduce pedestrian injury	Specially designed seat belts that keep you strapped in whilst limiting excessive pressure on the chest.
Braking
ABS, EBD and BA. helps you stop the car safely while maintaining control and stability.

City and Vioss Safety Features

Safety is one of the most essential features for a good car. Vios and City come with dual-airbag for front driver and passenger. Not only that, they come with Anti-lock brake system (ABS), Electronic Break Distribution (EBD) and Brake Assist (BA) which helps you stop the car safely while maintaining the control and stability.

Specification

Honda City Specification -- Click this for Citys specification

Toyota Vios Specification -- Click this for Vioss specification

Price

Honda City   Grade E   Grade S

Price (RM)  90980.00  85980.00

Vios                TRD Sportivo   G LimitedPrice 

Price (RM)         92,013.50            89,613.50

Both of these cars have the competitive and similar price which is around RM90K. For Vioss price range, I did not compare J spec and E spec due to these 2 specs may not available at  other country.

Maintenance

One of the very important point that you need to consider as well when buying car as some car may cheap but the maintenance may cause your pocket a big hole!

Lets compare City and Vios.

Here are the Preventive Maintenance Rates and Costs for the City and Vios.

• City i-VTEC
Information are extracted from here.

Honda Citys Maintenance

• Vios VVTi

Toyota Vioss Maintenance

The maintenances chart showed that Honda City  is more expensive than Toyota Vios in long run. 

Source: 

Honda - www.honda.com.my

Toyota - www.toyota.com.my

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