Honda City Hybrid vs Honda City Diesel vs VW Virtus DSG: Drive To Death!

Fun fact: The Honda City diesel goes limp mode after a range 0km restart and won’t rev past ~1,000rpm

EDIT: Fuel-efficiency data as per Zigwheels' standardized real-world test (city/highway):

Honda City Diesel: 15.32kmpl/21kmpl
Honda City Hybrid: 20.15kmpl/23.38kmpl
VW Virtus DSG: 12.12.kmpl/19kmpl

As Alan stated in the video, the hybrid delivers its best highway efficiency with consistent/steady drive conditions but is sensitive to fluctuating traffic wherein EV mode can't engage as often/easily. The constant highway filtering that we had to do on NH8 is what ate into the City Hybrid's efficiency.

A diesel is a diesel is a diesel is a diesel

For me virtus is the real winner with that much of power

Diesel best

lol completely highway drive with just marginal city driving, you expect a hybrid to defeat diesel lol.
The fact that even with that much highway driving it was so close tells you which ones better.
Do a complete City drive and see who wins, and with that margin. Definitely it won’t be close like the highway.
Your diesel would be crying.

I own a Honda Amaze iDtec. Even tho it only has a 35L tank, I easily get 750km range everytime I fill up. On long drives TVM -> Kozhikode fuel efficiency on the dash is always between 23.5 to 24.7kmpl.
Amazing engines these Honda cars.
People saying it's slow. Ive got 100bhp and 200nm of torque on a car that weighs 850kg. It's zippy.

I was emotionally hurt when Honda decided to stop diesels, i was in college and my dream was to buy a Honda city Diesel and i just passed out this year then thought will buy amaze Diesel and now they are only available in second hand market. I will always miss the option to buy a new Diesel engine by Honda. I love Honda and we have two Honda cars at home, a city 2008 and trust me it still works as good as new even after 15 years of life i obviously cannot drive that on roads anymore but none of my family members wants to sell it. I wish Honda bring back the diesels but that’s not going to happen now.

Bro it's City diesel is 50 liter tank

And city hybrid is 40litres

i own a vw vento and honda city petrol. Let me tell me you one important thing to consider, the range "0" on vw cars comes pretty early from honda...VW can run more in range "0" then the hondas. Tried & tested

I may be late to join the party.. but you Gentlemen earned my Respect.. cheerss.. 🎉🎉🎉

Whatta review.... absolute amazing 👏🏼

With 0 range,the city still has 7 litres of petrol in reserve.
I am a 5th gen city petrol manual owner.

Surprised to see it's tough for you to your hands on even 150s 😅

ZigWheels and PowerDrift both are from Pune 🤔

Bann stupid hybrids!

I’m from northeast and we have just one dealership of VW that too it’s 400 kms away from my location, it’s sad that they don’t provide enough service centres and dealerships in our northeastern states, if we people here would like to buy any of their models than we have rethink about their after sales services. So here the enthusiasts people who would like to have one VW would rather buy other brands like Hyundai or Honda because of network service centre’s availability.

All those saying diesel hybrid the point of the hybrid is to make it more environmentally friendly

Pl do more like this . ❤

Diesel jazz has 30+ efficiency around 80kmpl speed. Nd I have achieved it consistently😅

U didn't compare fuel tanks

Diesel hybrid does make sense as it would surely further bring down the emissions and increase the efficiency of the car.

U guys broke it to me the best possible way, afterall just 78 kms difference means less than 1000rs expenses on fuel , why not go for the GT 150 hp 🔥

Diesel will always win, no doubt.

I have managed to get 1005 kms on a full tank in my Elite I 20 diesel before lt started blinking of last point of fuel gauge.

No diesel sedan under 25-30 lac in the Indain market that provide auto transmission. Last was hyundai verna & that has also been discontinued... Hopefully some good brand should restart diesel with auto transmission below the 30 lac budget in a sedan ..skoda diesel is actually missed by many ... no matter petrol or hybrid the good fuel efficiency is diesel & wins by a huge margin.. any idea if any good brands will get diesel sedans. I have a 2019 skoda rapid diesel , 2018 skoda superb both with auto transmission & thr mileage is unbeatable. Drove the petrol slavia, octavia & superb they will finish ur pockets with the bad fuel efficiency by all 3. With my little rash driving the mileage was really terrible ... my diesel rapid on highways gives me fuel efficiency of 25plus km & diesel superb manages to give 18-19...

Our Tiago diesel giving 28 kmpl on highway

Very good experiment and super relevant to know where hybrid stands in present and diesel still rocks!! Miss them!

This is such a delightful comparison , You guys are amazing , Thank you !!!

The problem is that you guys are mostly on high ways which is not the strength of hybrids but the other way round for diesels

Nice efforts. Each driving condition with details like distance and speeds would have given more useful information as to which conditions are preferred for FC for each of these cars. Sadly this was missing.

Litrally Indian version of top gear/grand tour. The walkie talkie and all

Really enjoyed the video, thank you guys. 👍👍

Honda will stop it's diesel cars. So.....

Absolutely good work...

its not about the fuel efficiency we car guys usually think of ,its the performance 😈 virtus gt is none the less

Bandages bandage 🩹 🤣🤣🤣

Hi friends, it is really interesting comparison.
Really enjoyed every discussion you people had on the way.
It was superb and looking forward such videos of comparison.
Thanks all of you….

Diesel wins... bring back diesel master piece engine guys. We deliberatelywant it.... 🤕🤕

A Diesel is A Diesel is A Diesel

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Petrol is shit

With 4-5 people in each car & their luggages… I think each car’s range would reduce by 100 kms at least

Ah yes... a flawed comparison. They say 'full tank of fuel' but don't mention anything about fuel tank sizes and mislead people to think all three cars have the exact same fuel tank

This is exactly what i wanted to see... All the myths interms of range has been busted

Imagine if is Diesel AT vs Hybrid ecvt..

I'd still have the Virtus for the sheer driving excitement that car gives you.

The best test drive.. we really wanted such reviews of the cars . 👍

I recently bought THAR diesel automatic but had there been city diesel automatic I wouldn’t even have thought about THAR. took a casual test drive and bought it. I knew Verna TC, but wasn’t a safe car.

City Diesel is the mos affordable among them