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Automotive News & Views What is "wrong" with these new subcompacts?
8647 messages, Last post on Nov 26, 2009 at 7:17 PM
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Replying to: british_rover (Jun 21, 2008 11:47 am) The other criteria is how many of a particular model is sold. I think the reasoning is that once you reach a certain number sold , it is not new anymore.
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Replying to: guss (Jun 23, 2008 9:33 am) |
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"For the first five months of the year, U.S. sales of the Fit were up 64.0 percent to 29,784 vehicles. And that's before the updated model even arrives." "We had planned to sell between 30,000 and 40,000 and figured out very early that wasn't enough, so we increased production to 60,000. That still wasn't enough," Mendel said here last week" So they will shoot for 80K annually in the U.S. when the model starts selling in October. Even then it may not be enough, but there's only so much they can do - they are pulling from a global well of Fit production that is only half a million or so, and is maxed out. http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080623/FREE/14228425/1528/n- ewsletter01
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Replying to: nippononly (Jun 23, 2008 8:20 pm)
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Replying to: ateixeira (Jun 26, 2008 7:48 am)  They do plan to bring even more North American capacity for small-car production on-line in the next five years, I believe. For now, they are playing with the notion of sending Chinese-built Fits (already in production and currently being sent to Europe) to the U.S. Not sure if anyone would even notice, or if they would care. I suspect if they did notice they would care.
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Replying to: nippononly (Jun 26, 2008 8:37 am)  I just wish that they made a Civic wagon or hatch for the US of A.  james
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Replying to: oregonboy (Jun 26, 2008 9:29 am) Around town, the 1.5L Fit bests the heavier 1.8L Civic. |
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Replying to: oregonboy (Jun 26, 2008 9:29 am)  And graduate is right - around town the Fit will do better regardless of transmission. And around town is where most people do most of their driving...
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Replying to: nippononly (Jun 26, 2008 10:54 pm) Speak for yourself!  Or, maybe I'm just not "most people." In today's world of urban sprawl, I'll bet people do a lot more highway driving than you might think.
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Replying to: thegraduate (Jun 27, 2008 6:47 am)
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