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Among the 277 Honda entries in the MotorJury library, the Honda Brio holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2011. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Honda Brio properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Lamborghini Lamborghini Aventador, the Tesla Tesla Model X, the Jeep Jeep Grand Cherokee — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Honda Brio reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.2 L Honda L engine#L12B3 i-VTEC / L12B3 i-VTEC Straight-four engine / I4 (DD1) / 1.3 L Honda L engine#L13Z1 i-VTEC / L13Z1 i-VTEC I4 (DD2); quoted output is 65 – (L12B3) / 73.5 kW (L13Z1); kerb weight is recorded at 910 –; drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 71 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Honda's own catalogue the Honda Brio sits alongside the Honda Envix, the Honda Crider, the HPD ARX-03, the Honda 0 SUV. Design is credited to Akihiko Ohhashi, Keisuke Nakamura and Takeshi Aoki. Assembly is recorded at Thailand: Ayutthaya (city) / Ayutthaya / India: Greater Noida (Honda Cars India / HCIL) / Indonesia: Karawang Regency / Karawang (Honda Prospect Motor / HPM).
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