Honda Jazz review

Honda has definitely upped its interior game in recent years – the Jazz is just as useful as it has ever been, but it looks sharper inside and it’s far more appealingly trimmed, with a clean and uncluttered dash. A win.

Is the Jazz still ridiculously practical?

It's spectacularly roomy for a small car, giving lie to the notion a family needs a crossover. You’ve got excellent visibility out of the car, especially with the generous glazing in the front pillars that helps eliminate blindspots. The rear C-pillars at the back of the car are quite thick, but then Honda throws in rearview cameras to help there. 

Rear legroom is better than ever because the reshaped fuel tank doesn't impact on foot room. And there's masses of storage space including a pair of gloveboxes, and all that vacant air beneath the rear seats. The back seat bases that flip up to create a cavernous space behind the front seats remains a neat party trick. 

What about the bad bits? 

The driver's instrument cluster is full of info, but it has a mish-mash of fonts and no discernible hierarchy of information, so it's needlessly unclear. And in sunny weather the flat top of the dash badly reflects in the flat windscreen.

The central screen is better than the driver's one. It looks decent, and runs phone mirroring, as well as some neatly designed built-in apps. The infotainment can get laggy, mind, as the Jazz isn’t running the latest cutting edge tech.