Honda Jazz
Honda Jazz buyers frequently pass comments on the car’s styling. One often overlooked yet significant part of the Jazz’s look is its bonnet.
Not only does the bonnet form an important part of the overall style of the Jazz, but it gives you some other benefits, too:
1. The steep angle of the Honda Jazz bonnet angle allows greater visibility of the road ahead. This enhanced visibility adds to driving safety (of course, if you can see a potential accident, you increase your odds of avoiding it). The superior visibility also helps with better parking -- when you can easily see the surrounding area, you can move the Jazz much more confidently and safely in that area. ( A few different types of parking assistance are available for drivers who want more help for parking ).
2. The Jazz’s steep bonnet profile lines up smoothly with the slope of the windshield. When you are driving the Jazz, this means that air moves easily over and around the car. This is often referred to as a profile that is ‘slippery’ and it means that there is less air resistance or ‘drag’ on the car and it moves more easily. This strategic aerodynamic design means that the Honda Jazz motor doesn’t have to labour as hard to move the car through the air. In turn, this helps to improve the Jazz fuel economy.
3. With the engineering of these aerodynamics, the air isn’t pushed and swirled around the car as much as a less aerodynamic car. A car with an uneven or squarer profile (where the bonnet and windshield don’t line up in a continuous, smooth profile) would make the air eddy and whirl more as it is pushed over and around the car and this means an increase in wind noise. So the Honda Jazz has been designed to reduce wind noise around the vehicle.
4. Safety is a major consideration for many Honda Jazz buyers and the bonnet has a few more tricks up its sleeve in the safety department. In the event of a fronatl collision, the bonnet is designed to concertina or progressively ‘scrunch up’, as you can see in the crash picture below. This has a couple of safety benefits. Firstly, it helps other parts of the front of the car to absorb impact energy, which increase deceleration times to reduce the forces on the Jazz’s occupants. Secondly, combined with reinforced bonnet hinges, it minimises the chances of the bonnet being pushed through the windscreen in a frontal collision.
Honda Jazz (Honda Fit in USA) bonnet helps with safety
5. A flatter, more horizontal car bonnet is more likely to reflect the sun’s light into the car, and more concerningly, into the eyes of the driver. The Honda Jazz has a steep angle bonnet which is designed to eliminate glare reflected by the bonnet. This reduces the likelihood of the driver being temporarily dazzled or fatigued by the sun glare, thereby making for safer driving.
6. Less reflected sunlight, as explained in no.5 above, means that the Jazz steep bonnet angle also reduces the amount of UV light that is reflected into the car. This helps to reduces the risk of sunburn to occupants on long drives and slows the fading effects of UV light on the car’s interior.
7. The steep bonnet angle on the Honda Jazz also lessens the reflected heat from the sun into the car. This can contribute to marginally cooler interior temperature when driving on hot days. this in turn means that air conditiong doesn’t have to work quite as hard and is a small contributor to better fuel economy.
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