WR-V

Overview

This page is the first-generation Honda WR-V as Honda Cars India itself documented it. Honda launched the car on 16 March 2017 and called it a “sporty lifestyle vehicle” in the release that day; the same press office had set that date two weeks earlier, on 2 March 2017, when it announced pre-bookings at ₹21,000. Two engines and two trim levels — S and VX — were on the order sheet from the start. The specification table below comes from Honda’s own WR-V features and specifications page, read from Internet Archive captures of 7 December 2019 and 9 August 2022, and the prices come from Honda press releases that carry their own dates.

The dimensions are the same across that whole span, and Honda’s page states them plainly: 3,999 mm long, 1,734 mm wide and 1,601 mm tall on a 2,555 mm wheelbase, with a minimum ground clearance of 188 mm in the unloaded condition Honda footnotes, a 363-litre boot, a 40-litre tank, five seats and a 5.3 m turning radius. One number is disputed outside Honda: a reference work lists the wheelbase at 2,550 mm. This table prints the 2,555 mm Honda publishes.

The 1,199 cc four-cylinder i-VTEC petrol with sixteen valves is rated 90 PS (66 kW) at 6,000 rpm and 110 Nm at 4,800 rpm, and the 1,498 cc four-cylinder i-DTEC turbo-diesel 100 PS (73 kW) at 3,600 rpm and 200 Nm at 1,750 rpm. Honda fitted a five-speed manual to the petrol and a six-speed manual to the diesel; no automatic or CVT was offered for the India car on the pages read here, and cruise control is listed for the diesel only. Economy is where the car changed most over its life, so the basis is stated rather than blended: the pre-BS-VI WR-V was certified at 17.5 km/l petrol and 25.5 km/l diesel, and the BS-VI version Honda launched on 2 July 2020 at 16.5 km/l and 23.7 km/l. Every one of those four figures carries Honda’s own footnote that it is certified by ICAT under Rule 115 of the CMVR 1989 — a laboratory certification, not a road measurement. The mileage row above prints the BS-VI petrol number, which is the one that applied to the cars Honda sold last.

Pricing moved four times, and each step is dated on a Honda document. The 11 July 2019 release that introduced an “enriched version” — a new Diesel V grade — priced the Petrol S MT at ₹8,15,000 and the Diesel V MT at ₹9,95,000 ex-showroom Delhi. The BS-VI launch release of 2 July 2020 set the four-variant line this catalogue carries: SV MT ₹8,49,900 and VX MT ₹9,69,900 on petrol, SV MT ₹9,79,900 and VX MT ₹10,99,900 on diesel. Honda’s own WR-V price page as archived on 11 August 2022 listed the petrol SV at ₹9,10,900 and the petrol VX at ₹9,89,107. Period reporting put the 2017 launch range at ₹7.75–9.99 lakh and the August 2022 diesel figures near ₹11.27–12.31 lakh; MotoSutra has not read a Honda document carrying either, so neither is printed as a catalogue value. Honda also sold a styled variant it called the WR-V Exclusive Edition, whose own page was live on its site in December 2019; no pricing for it was found on an official page.

Honda’s specification page gives mass per variant rather than one number — 1,084 kg for the 2019 petrol S and 1,103 kg for the petrol VX against 1,168, 1,190 and 1,198 kg for the three 2019 diesel trims, and 1,087 kg and 1,106 kg for the 2022 petrol SV and VX against 1,205 kg and 1,234 kg for the diesels — so this record leaves the kerb-weight row out instead of picking one variant and presenting it as the car. No top speed appears, because no Honda document read here states one. Nor does a crash-test star rating: Honda’s releases list two front airbags and ABS with EBD as standard equipment, Global NCAP’s India results and Bharat NCAP’s roster both carry no WR-V entry, and the three WR-V crash results that do exist belong to other cars in other markets — Latin NCAP awarded a two-airbag Brazil-specimen WR-V one star in September 2022 with 41.03 percent adult and 40.66 percent child protection, ASEAN NCAP awarded an Indonesian WR-V RS equipped with Honda SENSING five stars in 2023, and Japan’s JNCAP awarded the India-built Elevate, sold in Japan as the WR-V, five stars in April 2025 according to Indian motoring press. None of those is a rating for the India WR-V, so none is published as one.

The end of the car is documented by absence rather than by announcement. Honda’s July 2020 release is the last WR-V price list the company published that MotoSutra has read; the WR-V is gone from the line-up on Honda Cars India’s current home page, which now carries the City, Amaze, Amaze 2nd Gen, ZR-V and Elevate, and the old WR-V address on that site hands back the home page rather than a WR-V page. Indian trade reporting in 2022 said the model was to be axed in favour of a new compact SUV, and in April 2023 that it had been removed from Honda’s website, but Honda issued no discontinuation release, so “discontinued” here records the state of Honda’s line-up and the MotoSutra catalogue, not a manufacturer statement. The second-generation WR-V shown in November 2022 was never launched in India; it sells in South-East Asia, and in Japan as the Elevate built here. That means there is no later India spec sheet to compare this one against.

The palette is official and it changed with the facelift. Honda’s 2 July 2020 release names Premium Amber Metallic, Lunar Silver Metallic, Modern Steel Metallic, Golden Brown Metallic, Radiant Red Metallic and Platinum White Pearl, and the price page read alongside it lists an extra premium starting at ₹4,000 for Platinum White Pearl. The 2017 launch release listed a different six: Premium Amber Metallic, Modern Steel Metallic, White Orchid Pearl, Carnelian Red Pearl, Alabaster Silver Metallic and Golden Brown Metallic. The swatches below use the 2020 names. Honda published no paint codes with either list, so MotoSutra shows names without claiming a matched colour value.

MotoSutra drove this car, and the proof survives online. “Honda WRV 2020 Review - First Drive” ran on www.motosutra.in from 28 August 2020, was updated on 10 November 2020, and is readable in an Internet Archive capture made on 26 November 2020; a rewritten version titled “Honda WRV Review 2022 - First Drive”, dated 9 May 2022 and also bylined Rahul Singh, survives in captures of the same article at a /blog/ path from 14 October 2024 and 18 January 2025. The 2020 address itself was still serving the article in a capture of 30 May 2024 and had become a 404 by 4 June 2024. That test is the only measured material on this page, and it is quoted as what it is: a dated first drive of the BS-VI car at its launch, not a current verdict and not a second-hand specification.

Two figures came out of that drive. The BS-VI petrol car reached 100 km/h in 15.1 seconds, which the test noted was almost a whole second slower than the BS4 car had managed, with the petrol engine running to a limiter at 6,500 rpm; the BS-VI diesel managed 13.03 seconds, 0.38 seconds behind the BS4 diesel, and the test attributed the losses to the emission hardware rather than to any change in state of tune — Honda’s lean-NOx-trap route to BS-VI needs periodic rich mixtures to regenerate, which is the mechanism the article describes. The same test says openly that the full MotoSutra fuel-efficiency run had not been carried out on the car, so no measured economy number survived from it, and the 16.5 km/l and 23.7 km/l on this page remain Honda’s ICAT-certified laboratory figures rather than road results. The archived price table in the 2022 rewrite is the one other figure worth reconciling: it listed the SV petrol at ₹9.25 lakh, the VX petrol at ₹10.03 lakh and the diesels at ₹11.41 and ₹12.41 lakh, rounding Honda’s own petrol numbers upward — the Honda price page captured on 11 August 2022 reads ₹9,10,900 and ₹9,89,107 — and matching the trade figures for the diesel that this record cites but does not print as catalogue values.

• 90 PS (66 kW) at 6,000 rpm and 110 Nm at 4,800 rpm from the 1,199 cc i-VTEC petrol, on Honda’s own India specification page
• BS-VI certified mileage of 16.5 km/l petrol and 23.7 km/l diesel, against 17.5 and 25.5 km/l before the emission change — all four footnoted by Honda as certified by ICAT under Rule 115 of CMVR 1989
• MotoSutra’s own first drive of the BS-VI car, published 28 August 2020, put 0-100 km/h at 15.1 seconds on petrol and 13.03 seconds on diesel
• 188 mm of ground clearance in a body 3,999 mm long, on Honda’s figures, with a 363-litre boot and a 5.3 m turning radius
• Priced from ₹8,49,900 to ₹10,99,900 ex-showroom Delhi in the BS-VI line-up Honda announced on 2 July 2020