What should I offer my friend for his Honda Jazz i-Shift, and is the transmission reliable?

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What should I offer my friend for his Honda Jazz i-Shift, and is the transmission reliable?

A friend who, due to the onset of Parkinson’s Disease, can no longer drive, has asked me to sell his car, a Honda Jazz 5 door ES i-Shift, metallic paintwork, first registered in March, 2010 with 7200 miles on the clock. I am interested in buying the car for my wife. What would be a fair price to offer him? I seem to recall some correspondence in your columns regarding certain difficulties with an automatic version of the Jazz range. Was it the i-Shift? And if so, what were the problems? My wife has never driven an automatic transmission car and would have no pre-conceptions.

Asked on 9 November 2013 by JB, Ashby de la Zouch

Answered by Honest John

Yes, the i-Shift is an automated manual and was a temporary aberration by Honda eventually eliminated by customer resistance to it. If the gearshifts are not manually selected by the paddleshifters, they are slow, and progress can be in a series of lurches. A fair private purchase price would be about £6500.

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