Honda has introduced its first mid-life cycle update for the Elevate. It brings several much-needed upgrades to its mid-size SUV through refreshed looks and feature additions. But what’s exactly new on the Elevate facelift? From exterior, interior, features, and price, we compare the new and old models to find out.
Honda Elevate new vs old: Exterior
The Elevate facelift retains much of its design from its predecessor, but updates make it look bolder than before. The LED headlamps with L-shaped signatures have been carried over, but are now connected by segmented DRL strips. The older model offered two grille design choices, but the newer Elevate gets a gloss black grille with a honeycomb pattern. The bumper has been retained, but the fog lamp housings now get a body colour finish. Additionally, the Honda badge has been repositioned from the grille to the bonnet. Additionally, the body cladding around the vehicle gets a gloss black finish as opposed to the matte black finish on the outgoing car.
In profile, the Elevate facelift looks largely identical to its predecessor, even carrying over its 17-inch alloy wheels. Except this time, there’s silver cladding for the lower sides. At the rear, the LED tail-lamps on the facelift now get the connected treatment, though the bumper has been retained. There’s a new Nordic Forest Pearl paint job as part of the Elevate’s colour palette.
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Honda Elevate new vs old: Interior and features
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Inside, the Elevate facelift looks largely similar to its predecessor. However, there’s more leatherette padding on the dashboard with tasteful use of ambient lighting, replacing the faux wood trim on the older model. Additionally, the HVAC control housing on the facelift has been slightly tweaked. The older Elevate was offered with two dual-tone themes, namely black and white and black and brown. The new one, however, comes with the former theme only. Black versions come with an all-black cabin theme.
Honda has introduced much-needed feature additions to the Elevate facelift. This includes powered and ventilated front seats, first-in-segment rear seat ventilation, a 360-degree camera, an air purifier, and factory-fitted ambient lighting. Safety enhancements include rear disc brakes, an electronic parking brake with auto hold, front parking sensors, and adaptive cruise control with stop-and-go functionality for its level 2 ADAS suite. The new Elevate continues to come with features from the older model like a wireless phone charger, part-digital instrument cluster, a lane-watch camera system, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and an 8-speaker sound system.
Honda Elevate new vs old: Sound insulation
On another note, Honda has claimed to improve the overall NVH levels, which were a major drawback of its predecessor. Sound deadening to wheel arches. This has been done by adding more sound deading materials behind the instrument panel and wheel wells.
Honda Elevate new vs old: Prices
The Honda Elevate facelift begins at the same price as the older model at Rs 11.80 lakh. Comparing like-for-like variants, prices on the new Elevate have increased by up to Rs 53,000. There’s also the addition of a new top-of-the-line ZX+ trim. While the older Elevate topped out at Rs 15.36 lakh, the newer model tops out at Rs 18.30 lakh, marking an increase of Rs 1.94 lakh.
All prices are ex-showroom, India
Vishal Venugopal
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