Just to share. According to SA, this is for E and S spec. Car must register by end of month.

Been using it on my current City, no issue also.
It is not auto, but I press the fold button after I park everytime.
Close to 7 years already, working fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH5poCS1T18

City RS e:HEV overview by sweet tom yum girl.
It is already on sale and available to drive in tom yum land.

I think they wanted to launch early, but waited to see if X50 going to tapau their sales.
Will wait and see if Honda can price this City competitively, or become like SDH, overpriced.

Detailed review of RS e:HEV (in Thai):


This post has been edited by adkiller: Dec 18 2020, 03:11 PM

Test drove it, NVH is much better than my last gen City.
WapCar also did a comparison on the NVH between new Vios, Almera and City. All about the same (new Almera just 1 DB quieter).
Car tires also play a very important role. The default Goodyear tires are usually very noisy. Kena pakai CC6 at least.

Hi guys,

Here is another review of the RS e:HEV, but in ENGLISH!



Hopefully there will be more reviews in English for us to understand this car better.

This post has been edited by adkiller: Jan 24 2021, 12:32 PM

Well if the price is too high, people will go for other options. Also the competition, Ioniq, is already at this price. So if priced higher, what is the value proposition? Above 100k, people will just consider the Civic or wait for X50, even if the tax rebate expires. If they want to price it above market also, they would do it after the rebate expires. But we will have to see, the Thai pricing is an indicator that pricing the RS for our market is going to be challenging. We can only hope that they don't down spec the model for our market.

Also when Honda Malaysia takes this long to launch, when Thai people are already driving it on their streets, is an indicator that there is red tape in the way. MITI determines the final pricing of the car, unfortunately. This is a repeat of when the HRV RS was trying to launch in our local market. Honda had already teased and started taking booking for 6 months before it actually launched. Eventually, many canceled and decided to wait for the X50 or go for other options instead.

Just my 2sen.

By elsewhere, you mean Proton?
While Honda may be silent after screwing up on the initial launch date, at least they don't keep coming back to only disappoint us.

I am still considering. It is a hybrid after all. Hybrid is always more expensive than only ICE.
Part of the reason for the high price is that the hybrid/EV incentives from the Najib administration has been discontinued by Mahathir's administration.
So there are no longer Hybrid or EV pricing incentives for this type of car. Just the regular EEV incentives across the board (got nothing to do with electric/hybrid).
Even though the low spec Civic is in the similar price range, it is still a low spec car. You might as well consider the City V spec in that case.

The pricing drama is the same as with the HRV previously, Honda was trying to maintain the pricing of the facelift but was forced by MITI to push up the price.
Many that booked the HRV facelift eventually cancelled the car, especially the HRV RS.
This is just a repeat of the same nonsense.

Current administration is busy with COVID-19 and its own political survival. So expect any automotive plans to be put on hold.
The incentive introduced by Mahathir's administration is rubbish, it is meant to be anti-consumer.
You will have to just suck it up if you want o buy a hybrid now.

This is their mistake of being overconfident, put all the best features in the RS, nothing left for lower tiers.
Thinking customers would opt for RS, just to get some of the new safety features. Now harga RS dah gila mahal, got nothing else price competitive.
Malu lah, when even Almera VLT can beat their V spec in terms of specs.

This post has been edited by adkiller: Mar 11 2021, 03:20 PM

What color you getting bro?
Heard white pearl got limited stock.

Any recommendation for boot tray and reflective films on door panels?
The Honda official accessories are super expensive.

Did you manage to get a boot tray that fits?

How to use one USB port for thumb drive (MP3 files) and the other USB port for Carplay/Android?

Thanks.

The boot in the RS is shallow, not as deep as the other specs.

Correct, for last year's stock.

Ok, then why 2 USB ports? Weird.

Wasn't this offer also available last year? Too many offers, can't track di. Lol.

You can check it out at showrooms already. There is one available at Sumber Auto, PJ.