Honda Jazz [Mk3 Model 2020] - Are they a good car to buy

Definitely get rid of that Mazda as soon as you can. You might be shocked by the trade in offers you get tho as they are known to be very unreliable.

Regarding the Honda Jazz, probably one of the most reliable cars you can buy. I have driven plenty of older ones (2016 etc) and they are decent cars. I’d have no real complaints apart from them being noisy on the motorway

I had a 2007 Honda Jazz (older generation). The car is bulletproof and very cheap to run. I absolutely love the magic seats and how spacious the car is but small at the same time (Does it make any sense?). For me, the only drawback is the underpowered engine. Sometimes you might feel like you need more power, depending on your driving style. Other than that, the car is excellent. It's the kind of vehicle you can keep for years and years. The suspension is a bit sensitive, so it's worth paying attention to that before purchasing. I consider Jazz the best affordable car. Nothing can beat the realibility, and it's much more comfortable and nice drive compared with Toyota Yaris (As the Yaris is for me the only cheap car that is reliable as the Jazz is).

Buy it! It's a great car.

I had the previous generation. A 2010 which I sold in the summer of 2022 with 150,000km on the clock. I bought a SEAT Ateca which has been trouble free but I regret getting rid of the 1.3 litre Jazz. It was a great little car which, as a previous poster said, is bullet proof. I never had any issues with it at all. If I kept it, it would have 210,000km on the clock today. I'm in no doubt the Jazz would be ticking over as nicely as the day I sold it.

The fold down seating arrangement turns it into a van and the lift up rear seats make it incredibly versatile. These yolks are the cockroaches of the car world, they would literally survive anything.

A great car, you'll love it. I still miss the versatility of my old Jazz.

Nate

Been driving a 2011 Jazz (1.4 99HP) for some years now and it's never given much trouble***. Gets comfortably up to 140km/h on the Autobahn without being TOO noisy. Though I certainly would not call it quiet either. Think 165 is the fastest I've driven it.

Live in Germany and have driven it all the way to Ireland and back 3 times and the west coast of France 5 times and to the UK twice. And a few other EU trips. So put a lot of mileage on it.

Always amazed at the spacious aspect of it as well as the (so far) reliability. We have two kids. On our trips to France we have put in 4 people + 4 airplane cabin size roller suitcases + 4 sleeping bags + 4 deflated air mattresses + a 5 man tent + two large Lidl shopping bags of supplies. And we did not feel compressed or squeezed in. And this was when my youngest was still in a large child seat. He has since this year graduated out of needing the seat so that a little more space won now.

All in all, been a great car for us. Had a Renault Scenic before that which got written off in a crash and to be honest I prefer the Jazz in a lot of ways, including the space. The Scenic looked comparably huge but somehow was less spacious.

I think a large part of it is the back seats. The underneath are a significant storage area. Whereas in the scenic I could barely squish anything under there. Also since we do not use a spare tyre, the tyre hold under the main boot area can accommodate a lot.

The back seats fold down nicely too to turn the entire back of the car into a transport area. Fit some nice full size Christmas trees in there over the years :)

*** The one trouble we did have which I read is actually a "known issue" with that year and model, was with the Air Conditioning. It kept dying in a way that it would only work on 1/4. If you put it higher nothing would happen. They fixed many things but it kept breaking. In the end after a LOT of googling we discovered that it was a "Known issue" and even our Honda dealer didn't (appear to) know this.

What it was in the end was apparently a simple issue with a capacitor/fuse combination on the standard circuit board of the Air Con unit. Whatever the issue was they kept blowing each other (ooo errr). When we brought this information to the dealer they fixed it quite quickly and cheaply and refunded some of the unnecessary work they had done before that.