Honda dealers to Team-BHP: City Automatic discontinued

The first murmurs of the automatic gearbox equipped variants of the Honda City sedan being discontinued were heard on the Team-BHP forum. Team-BHP decided to get in touch with Honda India dealers for more information of the same. Multiple dealers have confirmed to Team-BHP that the Automatic variants of the Honda City have been discontinued. Reportedly, orders for the City Automatic were being taken until the stocks of the 2012 model existed. 

Now that most Honda dealers have exhausted stock of the 2012 City Automatic sedans, fresh bookings for the automatic variants have been stopped as Honda is rumoured to have stopped producing the automatic variants. According to multiple Honda dealers, the Japanese car maker will restart production of the automatic variant of the City sedan in January 2014. With Honda already launching the next-generation 2014 Jazz hatchback in Japan, the next generation City sedan is the next car in line for a full model change.

Internationally, the all new 2014 Honda City could be launched by the end of this year, with an Indian launch scheduled to happen next year. So, Honda might restart production of the automatic variant of the City once the next generation model arrives. For those who are particular about buying an automatic car from the Honda stable, at a price point under 10 lakh rupees, their options include the automatic variants of the Brio hatchback and the Amaze compact sedan. 

Alternate options in the C-segment automatic sedan class include the likes of the Volkswagen Vento, the Skoda Rapid, the Nissan Sunny, the Renault Scala, the Maruti Suzuki SX4, the Hyundai Verna and the new Ford Fiesta. Clearly, there's no dearth of automatic cars for the C-segment car buyer as almost every major car brand save for Fiat offers an automatic gearbox in the C-segment sedan space.