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Honda showed off a new Fit that only travels 100 miles, tops out at 90 mph and will likely be slower than the current version when it goes on sale in 2012. Also, it's electric powered, so there's that. More »
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Japanese people are too cool for the Honda Civic, preferring the more compact and lifestyle-appropriate Fit. Of course, this is also a country where the Minidisc player is wildly popular, so take their judgment with a grain of wasabi. [WSJ] More »
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What the heck is going on in Japan lately? First it's Toyota and their ongoing cover-ups recalls and now the Honda Fit/Jazz is being recalled for a fire-causing faulty switch. More »
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Their road trip took a bad turn when the Easts hit a coyote. Assuming the animal was deceased, they drove off before finding it lodged in their Honda Fit. It survived, unharmed, only to escape from the rehab center. [KCRA] More »
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From Los Angeles, where this sort of thing happens all the time, comes this illuminating helicopter-cam footage of a plucky and tenacious yet felonious Honda Fit driver. Video after the jump. More »
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, never short of tests, put six mini/microcars to the roof strength test. The result? If you have to, you might be better off rolling a Smart Fortwo than flipping an Aveo. More »
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What's the best way to sell the 1983 Honda City Hyper Turbo? Honda's Japanese-market admen figured that the ska popmasters of Madness would be just perfect for a series of super-frantic TV spots. More »
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Instead of pissing off a whole culture with an Indian Revolution, this time automotive advertisers are putting a Joker-like spin on Honda's Jazz campaign for the sub-continent. Why so serious? More »
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Microcars are often chosen for urban driving because they're affordable, fuel efficient and easy to park. With fender-benders the largest urban driving hazard, the IIHS tested bumpers on seven popular microcars, None earned top marks and five were rated "Poor." More »
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This morning's IIHS report on the shocking finding that little cars don't take well to colliding, at speed, with bigger cars? Now we have the crash videos. Let's take a look at all three below. More »
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This just in from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: Minicars like the Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit and Smart ForTwo perform poorly in 40 MPH frontal oncoming crash tests. Also, water is wet. [Automotive News] More »
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We've always lauded the Honda Fit for its high build-quality. Proof? One took down an Amtrak train in Chelsea, Michigan last night. More »
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Ray and I spent a good portion of the morning arguing over the suitability parameters of the 2009 Honda Fit Sport, culminating in him saying, “I iz the decider.” Here’s why he’s wrong. More »
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The 2009 Honda Fit Sport is cheap, practical and fun. But should you buy one? More »
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Yesterday, we were impressed by how well the 2009 Honda Fit Sport, well, fit. Let's break it down and try to figure out why. More »
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We've already driven the 2009 Honda Fit. The 2009 Honda Fit Sport promises to combine utility and fun into a small, cheap, appealing package. Can it deliver? More »
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Tuner Neil Tjin, already expected to display his work at SEMA next week with a custom Pontiac G8 CST, will also be bringing a surprise 2009 Honda Fit to the Vegas event. Details are still under wraps, but the Fit obviously receives Tjin's trademark baby blue paint, along with aftermarket alloys wearing low-profile rubber. We thought Tjin's G8 looked pretty sharp, but we're not so sure about this one; the black wheels make the already too-small wheelwells on the Fit look even tinier, and the whole thing has sort of a hopped-up Prius vibe to it. In person next week, it could be different. Make the jump for another view or click here for high-res versions of both photos. More »
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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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Automotive News reports that the 2009 Honda Fit is scheduled to start arriving in showrooms as you read this, more than a month earlier than the planned October 1 arrival. Why the rush? Fit sales are up more than 70% this year in light of high gas prices and positive press; Honda has done everything possible to increase production, but dealers were still going to be sold out of Fits for most of September. Rather than lose sales, Honda sped up its product plans, getting the new Fit to market seven weeks ahead of schedule. This being Honda, we don't expect there to be "some assembly required," but even the best automaker can get in trouble when they're pushing too hard. More »
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Former Jalopnik intern Eric Tingwall over at that magazine all about the Automobile has put together a small-car fuel economy comparison to finally settle the question of whether a compact hybrid like the Prius is actually a less-expensive alternative to non-hybrid compacts. As Tingwall mentions, the real equation is a lot more complex than just "purchase price plus fuel cost," involving insurance, maintenance and the real kicker: depreciation. We're not going to give away the results, but we will say Prius owners' smugness isn't entirely unjustified. [Automobile] More »
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As we told you yesterday, we asked our many-layered friend John Krewson to take a spin in the new 2009 Honda Fit. After yesterday's taste of the new-and-now-priced-to-move-starting-at-$14,550 Honda Fit, he's brought us the whole red pepper of a review today. — Ed. More »
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We've asked our many-layered friend John Krewson to take a spin in the new 2009 Honda Fit. He'll have the full first drive for us tomorrow. In the meantime, here's a taste. — Ed. More »
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With media outlets (including this one) constantly screaming "OMG STFU GAS PRICES!" you'd think there would be a small car revolution, balancing out the drop in truck sales. But Automotive News reported today that, though cars like the Civic and Yaris are improving sales numbers, products like the Chevrolet Aveo, Pontiac G5 and Mitsubishi Lancer are either stagnant or actually showing sales declines. What gives? More »
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Sure, they're not only not cool, but we really can't stand them, but some of the most efficient vehicles on the market are five-door subcompacts and eight-passenger minivans. So what happens what you combine the two? Well, if you're Honda, you start with a Jazz, or as it's known in America, the Honda Fit, and then make it just a touch bigger to fit a third row of seats. Then, swap in some rear sliding doors, and you've got yourself a compact minivan that can seat up to eight people. But just how mini is it? 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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The 2009 Honda Fit has just been launched at the New York Auto Show. Aside from the irritatingly average, Gap-clad models cheerily driving it on stage, notable features are the 1.5-liter i-VTEC engine mated to either a 5-speed manual or automatic transmission - the Fit Sport comes with paddle shifter - the six airbags that come as standard, the ACE body structure - it's strong and light to boost safety - and the one-touch fold rear seats. The full press release follows the jump.
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Yeah, that's pretty much all we got. The new 2009 Honda Fit is expected to debut at the New York Auto Show at the end of next month. Yes, we'll be there to cover it live. We're also expecting Honda to take the front end of the new 2009 Honda Pilot unveiled in Detroit this year and figure out some way to cram all that chrome in the Pilot's grille area into the grille area of the new Fit recently launched in Japan. Voila, new 2009 Honda Fit. More »
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The second-generation Honda Fit may not be Godzilla, but it's at least a Gamera. The beloved little Honda beat out both the Nissan Skyline and Subaru Impreza for the coveted Japanese Car of The Year award. This is quite the turn around from last year, when the large, Mothra-like Lexus LS was given the award. More »
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The next incarnation of Honda's subcompact Fit (Jazz for you continental types) is going on sale in Japan this week. You've already seen the new design, by way of a recent anticlimax. Now the details on Honda's next-generation fit come on the heels of news the company's sales are off dramatically in Japan, giving the new Fit that much more pressure. A newly tweaked 1.3-liter four and CVT transaxle provide go to the base model, while a new Road Sailing (RS) version gets a 1.5-liter producing 20 extra horses (120 total). As for utility, it gets a novel utility function, "Ultra Seat!" (exclamation ours) that allows rear seating to dive and release in one motion. We'll get our shot in the US by 2009. More »
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So in case you didn't notice due to our server hiccups on Friday, it looks like the walls of that there embargo on the JDM 2009 Honda Fit fully came a-tumblin' down at the end of last week — well before we're supposed to see it in person at the Tokyo Auto Show near the end of next month. Edmunds has the full scoop on the new Fit in all it's shiny n' tiny glory. Or however much glory you can get into a car shaped like a door wedge. Although it's not as tiny as the last model. Like its stablemate, the new Accord, the new Fit's actually gotten bigger — the wheelbase has been increased 2 inches to 98.4 inches and the overall length went up 2.2 inches to 153.5 inches. Bigger, longer and more...wedgier? [via Edmunds]
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Yesterday we showed you a few shots of the new 2009 Honda Fit. Well, the very strange looking man who runs the Hollywood Extra has uploaded a few more interior shots and one new exterior shot of the new 2009 model of Honda's econo-wedge, the Fit (Jazz) — still almost a month before the expected reveal at the Tokyo Auto Show. Wow, look at that cheaptastic interior...we can almost imagine the industrial plastic smell!
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