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

What Is The Price Of The 2020 Honda Amaze Petrol? 

The Honda Amaze is available for sale with both petrol and diesel engines, and both the engine options offer manual and CVT type automatic transmission options. With a 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.

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

The Honda Amaze petrol comes equipped with a 1.2-litre normal petrol engine that is capable of generating 90PS of maximum power and 110Nm of peak torque. Amaze petrol’s power output and power:weight ratio are amongst the best in the B2 sedan segment.

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In the entire B2 sedan segment, only the Hyundai Aura comes with a turbocharged petrol engine. The Aura’s power output and power-to-weight ratio are comparable to the Amaze, but as it is turbocharged, its torque output is significantly better than its rivals in the segment. When it comes to the non-turbo petrol engine powered cars in the segment, the Amaze’s torque:weight ratio is comparable with its rivals.

The Amaze petrol comes with a 5-speed manual transmission and CVT type automatic transmission option. In this segment, the Maruti Suzuki Dzire offers the best fuel efficiency, while the Amaze is one of the least fuel efficient cars.

What Are The Dimensions Of The 2020 Honda Amaze?

The Amaze is a B2-segment sedan and thus, its length is almost 4m. The Maruri 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 Petrol Variant-wise Features

What are the Features of 2020 Honda Amaze E Petrol?

The Amaze E variant with the petrol-manual powertrain is priced at Rs 6.17 lakh. This base variant gets all the standard safety features. Additionally, it offers safety features like front seatbelt pretensioners with force limiter, Day & Night IRVM, Impact Sensing Door Unlock and ISOFIX anchors. Its list of functional features includes all-4 power windows, door pockets and front accessory socket. 

Style related 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 Amaze E’s features are listed below:

The E variant 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 Petrol?

The Amaze S is Rs. 71,000 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 added 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, which includes 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. 

The S variant also comes with a CVT type automatic transmission option. The S petrol automatic is Rs. 90,000 more expensive than its manual counterpart.

The Amaze S petrol does not completely justify its additional premium over the base E variant with all its added features, but you can still consider it as it mostly covers all the must-have features. 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 Petrol S Special Edition?

The Amaze S Special Edition is Rs. 12,000 costlier than the S variant in case of all the powertrain options.

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 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 Petrol?

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. If you are looking for the petrol-automatic powertrain, then this variant also offers paddle shifters. 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 Petrol?

The Amaze’ top VX variant is Rs 48,000 more expensive than the V manual variant, while being Rs 41,000 more expensive in its automatic version than its corresponding V automatic. 

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. 

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

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’s 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 Petrol Should You Buy?

The Honda Amaze’s S Special Edition is our top recommended variant. It covers all basic and some modern-day features, and is also attractively priced over its 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 be recommending to go 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.