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Mechanical, car-shaped, giant mecha mosquitoes are attacking! What will the little 2009 Honda Fit do to protect itself from their fuel hungry proboscises plunging into its gas tank? Well, luckily they're stereotypical stand-ins for the stereotype of American gas guzzling whales. Luckily, these monstrosities aren't very smart, as they're passing on 9000 gallons of tanker truck fuel for the 10.6 gallons in the Fit, but hey, they're just mindless fuel pests like the stereotype of the companies that spawned them, so what do they know? [Youtube] More »
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As if the Honda Fit didn't already sip gas like fuel is approaching stratospheric prices, which it is, Honda is working on sticking a version of their hybrid system in the little city cruiser. The company had originally expressed some reluctance to increase the price of small cars by dropping in the expensive hybrid parts, but President Takeo Fukui explains that with the price of crude oil going up "a Fit hybrid is starting to make sense." The plan is to make the switch in the early 2010, which means that it would likely launch on platform similar to the 2009 Honda Fit that debuted in New York this year, depending on where exactly in the development range this falls. More »
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