Based on the report by bestcarweb.jp and accompanying renders, the Jazz, or Fit as it is known in its home market, will come with new headlights, a thicker grille bar derived from that of the Vezel (HR-V), new C-pillar, vertical daytime running LEDs on the flanks of the front bumper and as with the above mentioned prototype, horizontal instead of vertical taillights.

While the interior remains shrouded mystery, the online publications claims that the Jazz’s biggest change will come underneath its bonnet, where it will get the same 95kW 1.0-litre turbocharged three-cylinder engine that does duty in the European spec Civic.

Although the current model’s normally aspirated 1.3 and 1.5-litre motors will reportedly be carried over, the hybrid will have a reworked version of the current car’s 1.5-litre Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) powertrain equipped with a dual-mode setup taken from the new Insight, that Honda claims will return a claimed fuel consumption figure of 2.5-litres/100km, bettering the 2.6-litres/100km of its biggest rivals, the Toyota Aqua and Nissan Note e-Power.

At present, Honda is likely to only reveal the Jazz in-full sometime in 2019 or in early 2020.