2020 Honda Amaze Diesel Variants Explained - Which Variant To Buy?

What Is The Price Of The 2020 Honda Amaze Diesel?

The Honda Amaze is available for sale in both petrol and diesel engine options, and both the engines are available with a manual and a CVT type automatic transmission. With manual transmission, both the engines come in 4 variants, namely -- E, S, V and VX. Apart from these, the S special edition variant is available with all the powertrain options as well. Barring the base E variant, the automatic transmission option is available in all the variants. 

The Amaze petrol has a starting price of Rs 6.17 lakh, while the diesel version’s prices start from Rs 7.63 lakh. The Amaze manual’s corresponding petrol and diesel variants have a price difference of Rs 1.30 lakh, excepting the base E variant, which has a Rs 1.46 lakh price difference.

The following tables offer you a look at the pricing and price comparison details of the 2020 Honda Amaze petrol and diesel versions: 

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What Are The Engine Specifications Of The 2020 Honda Amaze Diesel?

The Honda Amaze diesel comes packed with a 1.5-litre diesel engine that when paired with the manual transmission can offer 100PS of maximum power and 200Nm of peak torque. When this engine is paired with the CVT automatic transmission, it delivers 80PS of maximum power and 160Nm of peak torque. While the Amaze diesel manual offers a fuel efficiency of 24kmpl, the automatic version delivers a lesser fuel efficiency of  21kmpl.

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In this segment, apart from the Honda Amaze, there are 2 other diesel sedan options - the Hyundai Aura and the Ford Aspire. With the manual transmission, the Amaze’s power:weight and torque:weight ratios are comparable with the Aspire’s, while they are better than the Aura’s.

Apart from the Amaze, the Aura diesel is available with an automatic transmission option, but that’s an AMT, while Amaze gets a CVT. Excepting the Amaze diesel-automatic, all these 3 cars offer the claimed fuel efficiency of around 25kmpl. 

You can check the engine specs details and comparison of the 2020 Honda Amaze diesel in the table below:

What Are The Dimensions Of The 2020 Honda Amaze?

The Amaze is a B2-segment sedan and thus, its length is almost 4 meters. The Maruti Suzuki Dzire is by far the widest car in this segment, while the Tata Tigor is the tallest. The Ford Aspire has the longest wheelbase in the segment, but the Amaze offers a more spacious boot. Like the rest of the cars in this segment, the Amaze is also available with 14-inch and 15-inch wheel sizes. 

Honda Amaze Diesel Variant-wise Features 

What are the Features of 2020 Honda Amaze E Diesel?

The Amaze E is priced at Rs 7.63 lakh. This base variant gets all the standard safety features, apart from which it offers safety features like front seatbelt pretensioners with force limiter, Day & Night IRVM, Impact Sensing Door Unlock and ISOFIX anchors. Functional features include all-4 Power Windows, door pockets and front accessory socket. 

Style features of the E variant include body coloured bumpers, but black door handles and ORVMs. It comes with 14-inch steel wheels without wheel covers. The Honda Amaze E variant’s features details are listed below:

The Amaze E lacks a handful of must-have features including - audio system with steering-mounted controls, wheel covers, body-coloured ORVMs and door handles, remote central locking and electrically adjustable ORVMs. Hence, we would suggest that you consider buying a higher variant of the Amaze and give this base variant a miss.

What are the Features of 2020 Honda Amaze S Diesel?

The Amaze S diesel is Rs. 55,000 more expensive than the E variant.

The S variant offers added features in all the domains of safety, entertainment, functional and style. 

In terms of safety, this variant offers features such as remote central locking and speed sensing auto door lock, while from the entertainment perspective it has an audio system with steering-mounted controls.

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This variant adds several important functional features like tilt steering, height adjustable driver seat, electrically adjustable & foldable ORVMs, rear accessory socket and rear armrest.

As far as style related features are concerned, the S variant adds body-coloured door handles and ORVMs, 14-inch steel wheels with full wheel covers and shark-fin antenna. 

You can check all the added features of the Honda Amaze S variant over the base E variant in the table below:

The S variant also comes with a CVT type automatic transmission option. The S diesel automatic is Rs. 80,000 more expensive than its manual counterpart.

The Amaze S diesel is a sensible upgrade over the E variant with all its added features, as it offers good value. The S variant mostly covers all the must-have features. However, we would recommend that you consider going for the S Special Edition instead of the S variant.

What are the Features of 2020 Honda Amaze S Special Edition Diesel?

The Amaze S Special Edition is Rs. 12,000 costlier than the S variant.

The S Special Edition adds in 3 more features, namely -- a 7-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay & Android Auto, front armrest and seat covers. It is very evident that these features are fully worth spending the additional amount of just Rs 12,000. Thus, it makes sense to buy the S Special Edition instead of the S variant. 

It is also worth noting that the S Special Edition’s features are exclusive to this variant only, and are not available in any other higher variant.

The following table offers a look at the additional features of the Honda Amaze S Special Edition variant:

What are the Features of 2020 Honda Amaze V Diesel?

The Amaze V variant is Rs. 60,000 more expensive than the S variant. As already mentioned earlier, the V variant does not offer the S Special Edition’s features. Thus, the V variant gets added features over the S variant.

Over the S variant, the V variant offers the added safety features including fog lamps and rear defogger. Other key add-on features include smart key with push-button start/stop, auto AC, LED positioning lamps and 15-inch alloy wheels.

The added features of the V variant over the S are mentioned in the following table:

The Honda Amaze V variant’s added features justify the additional premium over the S variant. 

What are the Features of 2020 Honda Amaze VX Diesel?

The Amaze top variant - VX is Rs 48,000 more expensive than the V variant. 

For this additional amount, the VX variant will offer you a touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and rear parking camera. With the manual transmission, this variant comes with cruise control as well. 

The following table offers you a look at the Honda Amaze VX variant’s additional features over the V: 

According to our internal data, the VX variant’s added features do not completely justify its asking price over the V variant. 

If you are considering buying the VX variant just for the touchscreen infotainment system, then we would recommend that you choose the V variant instead and retrofit it with a touchscreen infotainment system.

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Honda is also offering an Exclusive Edition accessory pack with the top VX variant, that too without any additional charges. This accessory pack adds in seat covers, front armrest, illuminated sill plate and ambient lighting to make the package enticing. There is also chrome decor around the windows, fog lamps and on the boot. Of course, these features are not must-haves, but if you wish to buy the V variant and retrofit it with touchscreen infotainment system, rear parking camera and seat covers, then it is sensible to buy the VX Exclusive Edition for now.

The Honda Amaze VX Exclusive Edition’s added features are mentioned below:

Which Variant Of The 2020 Honda Amaze Diesel Should You Buy?

The Honda Amaze’s S Special Edition. It covers all basic and some modern-day features, and is also attractively priced over the lower variants. 

If you wish to get a more feature-rich variant, then we recommend the V variant. However, if you are planning to buy the V and then retrofit it with an infotainment system, rear parking camera and seat covers, then for the time being, we would recommend going for the VX Exclusive Edition instead. This special accessory pack has been introduced for the festive season, and Honda is currently not charging anything extra for this over the VX variant’s price tag. 

What Are The Colour Options Of The 2020 Honda Amaze?

The Honda Amaze is available in a total 5 exterior colour options, namely - Red, White, Silver, Brown and Grey. Among these exterior colours, the base E variant is offered in only Silver and White colour choices. 

Note: Here is a quick look at our length-based segmentation of cars to give you an idea of how we are classifying cars based on their size.