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06/09/2008 01:25. The Jazz, one of the world's most popular small cars, is back, but has it lost a little of its cheekiness, asks Andrew English

In just seven years Honda's Jazz has driven such a coach and horses through the supermini market it is hard to remember a time when it wasn't here and Honda sold its miserable Logo in such small numbers you needed the resolution of the Hubble space telescope just to spot one on the road. Honda's marketing has not always been so surefooted, but the Jazz (aka the Fit in non-European markets) has been a truly world success. More than 2.3 million have been sold since the 2001 launch and today it is marketed in 115 countries and built in America, Japan and China. In the UK it has sold 160,918, absolutely smoking established rivals such as Renault's Clio and Peugeot's... // Telegraph.co.uk