Every car is an argument about what matters, and the Honda Brio makes its case with Petrol engine and 65 –. Honda built from 2011 — as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Its designer of record is Akihiko Ohhashi, Keisuke Nakamura and Takeshi Aoki.
The story
The Honda Brio is a city car produced by Honda since 2011. It is mainly sold in Southeast Asia and also in other regions, positioned as an entry-level hatchback model slotted below the Fit/Jazz and the City. Along with the complementary Amaze sedan, it is the second smallest car in Honda's global line-up as of 2026, after the Super-One electric car.
The name Brio is Italian for 'vivacity' or 'verve'. In August 2013 in Indonesia, several entry-level Brio variants received an additional Indonesia-inspired name to comply with the country's Low Cost Green Car (LCGC) program. The name Satya (Sanskrit: 'true', 'genuine', 'sincere' or 'faithful') is used as the suffix.
What is underneath
Under the skin sits Petrol engine; it is rated at 65 –; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Kerb weight is 910 –. Power-to-weight lands near 71 horsepower per tonne, which is unhurried — enough for the job, not for the bragging. The gearbox is a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 5-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / CVT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2345 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Where it sits in Honda's history is not in doubt: it was built at Ayutthaya. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Toyota Aqua, the LADA Granta, the Daihatsu Mira e:S. Nearby in the Honda catalogue sit the Honda Envix and the Honda Crider.