Antioch Agent

I’m a happy owner of a newer generation Honda City. The reworked design replaced their dated looking one that basically was screaming for a new look. When Honda reworked the whole design, it became from this …

Older Gen - 3rd Gen

to this !

New City - Gen 1

2002, and much much better. Certainly a worthy improvement. One of the things that really stood out, was that thick chrome strip above the emblem. And that’s where the grill craze had it’s early beginning. So, we had 1 distinct bold line on the Gen 1 grill. But still the design was left slightly wanting, something just wasn’t quite right …. so with that, they decided to give it it’s first major facelift in 2005.

New City - Gen 2

Aaah. This was the one I happily jumped onto the Honda band wagon with. Not perfect, but counting the number of Vios’s zipping on the road … it was an obvious choice in the mid range sedan offerings (please feel free to disagree with me on that point).

Now, along with the introduction of this facelift, were the fog lights and slightly reworked face. But count the grills. It now stood at 2 bold lines for generation 2. But it still kinda worked, as there was a bit more growl to the slightly petite earlier version.

Then come Q4 2008 and Honda, once again uncontent at letting things stay status quo, they decided to unveil yet another facelift on an what was probably deemed about the right time to ramp things up (Let’s do one every 2-3 years!). And this occasion, in an attempt to retro-rize the City, they zapped all curves on the grill … turning it to ruler-like geometrics and came up with this!

New City - Gen 3

And there we have it. Gen3 gets 3 bold looking lines on the grill! Any guesses, what a possible Gen 4 might just look like? *chuckle* It’s highly unlikely, but you just never never know. In IM speak, *LOL*!