Comments on: Honda Fit Sport Review

By: Steaming Pile

Steaming Pile — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:06:27 +0000

@pq – You got that right. At some point in one’s life, getting up from the driver’s seat of a subcompact becomes a challenge, then a struggle. That’s why old people like big cars. I have a Scion xA that is laid out in a similar fashion, and I love it. I can imagine the Fit is at least as good.

By: pq

pq — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:56:45 +0000

There’s another reason to like sitting up high in a car: you don’t feel like you’re being born every time you struggle to clamber out of the floor-clinging bucket seat.

By: moto

moto — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:07:53 +0000

Best North American subcompact, no doubt. Honda has the winner in the econobox market.

Now why does Europe get the 3-door hot hatch version and North America cannot?!?!? (They call it the Civic Si in Europe, but it’s basically a 3-door Fit chassis with the 200hp Civic 2.0 engine.) This is repulsive in every sense of the word.

Okay, so it costs Honda $millions in testing to get the 3-door chassis safety tested. And Honda’s marketeers think the 3-door wouldn’t sell because the prior 3-door Civic Si sold poorly at the end of its life. Could that have been because the last gen Civic Si in North America made due with a 160 hp engine, tight dimensions, and styling so anemic that every tuner on the planet eventually migrated to platforms that offered 50 more hp out of the box?

Fine, the 5-door it is. I’d give up the spoiler and the plastic add-ons for a Fit Sport worthy of the name: a successor to the Civic Si, please!!!