EOFY car deals: Honda offering 8-year warranty on ZR-V & CR-V until June 30

Honda Australia has announced an eight-year / unlimited-kilometre warranty for select vehicles until June 30, as an end-of-financial-year offer.

All ZR-V SUVs, 2023-build CR-V petrols and 2024-build CR-V hybrids purchased between May 1, 2024, and June 30, 2024 are covered by the promotional warranty – up from the brand’s standard five-year / unlimited-kilometre offer.

The Japanese brand also offers eight years of complimentary roadside assistance for these vehicles, up from five years.

Other Honda vehicles – the HR-V, Civic and Accord – are not included in the promotion, while CR-V petrols built in 2024 and CR-V hybrids built in 2023 also retain Honda’s standard five-year warranty and roadside assistance.

The extended warranty and roadside assistance follow a previous seven-year/unlimited-kilometre offer for all versions of the ZR-V and CR-V delivered between January 16 and March 31.

All CR-V and ZR-V vehicles delivered in Australia between April 1 and April 30 retained Honda’s standard five-year/unlimited-kilometre warranty and roadside assistance offer.

While other manufacturers have experimented with temporary warranty extensions before shifting to a permanent arrangement, Honda says it has no plans to change its standard five-year warranty arrangement, first introduced in mid-2017.

“Our standard 5-year warranty, 5-year [roadside assist] and 5 low-price services will continue as a great value add as part of our standard offer," said a Honda Australia spokesperson in January.

As detailed here, Honda Australia also recently slashed prices across the HR-V, ZR-V and CR-V line-ups, while the price of the Civic Type R hot hatch has increased.

Honda's temporary eight-year / unlimited-kilometre warranty is one of the longest in the automotive industry, behind Mitsubishi's 10-year / 200,000-kilometre warranty, which relies on the vehicle being serviced within the Mitsubishi dealer network.

Mitsubishi vehicles serviced by independent workshops automatically fall to an industry-standard five-year coverage, with a 100,000-kilometre cap.

Chery, GWM-Haval, Kia, MG, Skoda and Ssangyong offer permanent seven-year / unlimited-kilometre coverage, while LDV has a seven-year/200,000-kilometre warranty for its non-EV models.

The latest promotions offered by Honda follow the brand’s sharp sales decline since 2018. It posted its lowest sales on record in 2023 following a shift to a controversial fixed-price ‘agency’ sales model in July 2021.

In 2023, Honda sold 13,734 vehicles in Australia, down from 14,215 in 2022, 17,562 in 2021, and 29,040 in 2020.

However, local executives have defended the agency model switch – and reaffirmed Honda’s commitment to Australia “for the next 50 years”.

“That was a strategic move, for us to be here for the next 50 years… And I hope it demonstrates to you that we’re not going anywhere. We’re here to stay,” said Honda Australia director Carolyn McMahon in May 2023.

McMahon added that Honda is “happy” with how the agency sales model has been rolled out and blamed poor supply – not a lack of demand for Honda product – as the key reason behind the low sales figures.

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