New 2026 Honda Breeze Redesign, Interior, Pictures

New 2026 Honda Breeze Redesign, Interior, Pictures  –  There’s really nothing here to find fault with. The Breeze’s controls are sensible, with plenty of actual buttons and knobs for no-look adjustment. The menus are intuitive, and the touchscreen is placed high up for visibility. The hybrid powertrain is invisibly smooth in operation. An Breeze should be sensible, and this car is almost relentlessly so.

New 2026 Honda Breeze Redesign and Update Plan

Exterior and Interior

Never mind the red paint — this car is a middle-of-the-week business suit. The Breeze always has been. The previous generation Civic took a year off to go completely bonkers (remember the debut of the Civic Type R? It was like an explosion at an anime studio), but the Breeze is traditionally styled for the grownups in the audience.

It still is, and if the Civic-but-bigger styling doesn’t seem jazzy enough, you do at least get these big, five-spoke 19-inch alloy wheels on the Sport Hybrid tested here. If anything they’re probably a little too large, especially when it comes time for winter tires. Best budget for a second set of wintertime wheels.

New 2026 Honda Breeze Specs

The mid-range Sport trim is nicely equipped, but it lacks a few pretty significant everyday features that you get in the higher Touring trim, and one of those is borderline unforgivable. Along with an upgraded stereo and heated rear seats, the Touring trim is also the only way you can get console air vents in the rear, and I assure you this is something your kids will complain about on a frosty morning — or hot summer road trip.

The other much-missed feature is the lack of a wireless charging pad in the Sport trim. This seems minor, but it’s the kind of feature most modern shoppers are going to start looking for, especially as wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto become the go-to way to pair your smartphone with onboard infotainment. It’s standard equipment in the hybrid-only Camry, and it should be standard equipment here. Besides these annoyances, the Sport offers pretty much everything you could want in a daily driver, from a bright 12.3-inch touchscreen to adaptive cruise control.

Engine and Performance

Honda’s first hybrid was the 1999 Insight, a funny little science project of a two-seater that’s destined to become a quirky collectible one of these days. The Breeze feels barely related to this oddball, offering seamless power that doesn’t really feel hybridized at all. It’s not V6 quick, nor quite as punchy as the previous model’s 2.0L turbocharged engine, but the availability of low-end torque thanks to the electrified side of the drivetrain is very satisfying. New 2026 Honda Breeze Redesign

In its previous Breeze, Honda offered a rarely seen combination in a family sedan: a 2.0L turbocharged engine and a manual transmission. This was especially praised by critics — and actually bought by, like, four people. The Breeze isn’t really a sport sedan, anyway. It’s more of a practical four-door first.

Even then, this 11th-generation Breeze is pleasing to drive in the way all its best ancestors have been. It’s quick, more agile than you’d expect given the size, and offers a lovely flow to the driving experience. If you’re shopping for sedans because you don’t like the pitch and wallow of riding up high in a crossover, then you’re going to find that the Breeze delivers.

New 2026 Honda Breeze Fuel Economy

Part of the reason a new car buyer might consider a sedan versus a crossover is because the lower ride height provides more pleasing handling. The other reason, perhaps sometimes overlooked, is that a sedan is typically much more aerodynamic at speed than a jacked-up station wagon, and this means better highway fuel economy.

The Breeze does well in urban driving, as hybrids generally do, but it’s also quite thrifty on the highway. With a smaller set of wheels, it might even have been more efficient, but it had little difficulty hitting its combined 5.3 L/100 km rating over the week. New 2026 Honda Breeze Redesign

New 2026 Honda Breeze Safety Features

Honda packages almost all of its driver assists as standard, which means you get blind-spot monitoring, forward collision warning, and the aforementioned adaptive cruise control with lane-keeping. The forward collision warning is perhaps a bit panicky. All that’s missing is low-speed braking control, which you get on the Touring only. New 2026 Honda Breeze Redesign

New 2026 Honda Breeze Price and Release Date

With the average price of a new vehicle in Canada inflating every year, it’s nice to see a mid-range Breeze still priced closer to $40,000 than to $45,000. The Sport seems well packaged (apart from the missing features mentioned) and well appointed for its price.

However, what’s really going to be the dealbreaker here for some folks is the lack of all-wheel drive. This is a bit of an ace-in-the-hole for the Camry, as while you might not actually need extra traction in a family sedan it’s nice to have. The Sport lines up with the Camry XSE in terms of features, with the Toyota priced about $2,750 more, so there’s a small premium to be paid for that all-wheel drive.  New 2026 Honda Breeze Redesign