Honda Activa 6G

Since it was launched in 2001, the Honda Activa has been one the best-selling family scooters in the country. It offers a perfect blend of a family-friendly design, a reliable motor, and practicality. Over its life, the Activa has been offered in a number of subtle yet good looking colour options, variants and got a host of rider-friendly features. All this helped Honda highlight the Activa as the perfect scooter for an average Indian family.

• Honda Activa has a simple yet appealing design language which has helped it in staying on top of the sales charts as it hasn’t changed much.

• It gets neatly designed metal body panels which gives the Activa its familiar stance and has decent build quality levels.

• The scooter gets a well-designed LED headlight along with a halogen tail light and indicators which go well with the overall design.

• It also features minor chrome elements on the front section which gives it a slight premium touch.

• I found the Activa to be quite purposefully designed in terms of its looks and styling.

• The Honda Activa 6G comes equipped with some useful features including a silent starter, an engine kill switch, an integrated pass switch, and an optional LED headlight.

• It also gets an engine stop-start feature which makes the Activa a bit more fuel efficient.

• The external fuel-filler cap, inspired by the Activa 125 makes filling fuel easier.

• The H-Smart variant gets a host of features that includes a remote key, which can unlock the scooter from a distance.

• The Activa 6G gets a full analogue console while the top spec variant gets a 4.2-inch TFT display with a ton of features such as smartphone connectivity, side stand indicator, trip meters, speedometer, odometer, clock, turn-by-turn navigation and SMS/call alerts.

   

• The Activa is a decently comfortable scooter which gets an upright riding stance with a perfectly positioned handlebar and gets a decent size floorboard area too.

• I found the seat to have enough room for my 5’9”  frame and I was quite comfortable riding the Activa.

• In my opinion, a slightly spacious floorboard area would have been a comfortable addition for increased comfort and storage space for carrying more luggage.

• The Honda Activa provides decent comfort for the pillion too, the only area where it could have been better was if it had a longer seat but it is still decent in terms of pillion comfort.

• Also, the footpeg positioning allows for a comfortable place for your pillion to rest their feet.

• This motor offers a good mix of usable performance, reliability and efficiency.

• It is also known for having great refinement and delivers its power in a smooth manner.

• Out in the city, I found the Activa to be quite a manageable scooter as the smooth power delivery makes it breeze to ride in heavy traffic conditions.

• It has got enough performance to make those quick overtakes at city speeds and I found the scooter to be quite quick up to 40kmph with quick throttle response.

  

• Being a scooter, the Activa is intended for city riding and to be honest, it has decent performance on offer to ride on the highway at a steady average speed of 65-70kmph.

• The Honda Activa is quite a light scooter, and that makes it very easy to manage in the city.

• The soft suspension setup interferes in the handling but then the Activa was never meant for high-speed cornering.

• In most riding conditions, the Activa handles well and the ride quality is quite good while riding in the city even with a pillion.

• It gets drum brakes at front and back,  and I feel the braking power is quite well for the kind of performance the Activa has got.

  

• Other than that, it also gets the safety net of CBS (combined braking system), which ensures that the front brake is also applied automatically when using the rear brake.

• As an everyday scooter, the Honda Activa is pretty good option.

• It gets a well-tuned suspension setup, more-than-sufficient braking performance, and a refined and efficient motor.

• It's not the most feature-loaded scooter but comes equipped with some usable set of features.

• All this makes the Honda Activa quite an appealing product for the Indian masses.