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| Well Honda didn't exactly do an advertising blitz with the Fit, at least not that I was ever exposed to. Maybe they didn't expect it to be so lauded and so sought after. Perhaps they intended a minimal release to gauge the market. After all, fickle Americans are likely to return to their SUVs (and now crossovers) as soon as gas prices drop again (and it appears that SUV sales are gaining ground again). So the Fit was a bit more of a success than Honda was prepared for.... Maybe they will slate it for North American production in the coming year or in 2008 and then we'll be happily saturated with them on our streets! | |
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New test results out...fit did good. Sad to see one getting crushed in the picture on this page. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16273695/ |
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Replying to: fitman548 (Dec 19, 2006 11:15 am) 
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Replying to: backy (Dec 19, 2006 11:38 am) |
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Replying to: fitman548 (Dec 19, 2006 11:15 am) It seems that a tweaking of the computer is all it takes to make the Fit as safe as can be. Has anyone heard anything on that yet?
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Replying to: crowb (Dec 19, 2006 12:41 pm) 
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Replying to: fitman548 (Dec 19, 2006 11:15 am) "New test results out...fit did good. Sad to see one getting crushed in the picture on this page." Actually, technically the Fit and the Versa did very, very POORLY but each manufacturer, as a result of the Insurance Institute's tests, went back to the drawing board to fix their problems and had IIHS re-run the tests at the manufacturers' cost with the fixes. (The Fit front airbags deployed too early and then deflated too early to fully protect the dummies. Don't know the Versa's problem but it was side impact related instead.) Would we have ever known about these problems if IIHS hadn't run the tests? Would they have been fixed? Why didn't Honda, with its VERY advanced testing facility and years of producing the Fit, catch this issue before the car got imported here? Does the emperor have any clothes? Yet import owners are quick to overlook this "glitch" and tout the good results (they are good) once the mistake has been fixed. If I had paid over MSRP in the last few months I would park my Fit at the dealer and ask for a loaner Civic etc. until they fixed the "glitch". This is way too important to wait for a recall letter from Honda. I'd also be asking them for free oil changes for the rest of my ownership. Likewise Subaru Impreza and the pre-2006 Civic got IIHS passes a year and a half ago - on assurances from the manufacturers that crash test "issues" were being fixed (and that the Civic was being completely overhauled) IIHS let them off the testing hook that year and tested the Cobalt, Corolla, Jetta instead; would have been much more interesting to see how those cars compared to the oft-lauded Subaru and Honda that year. I'm just a little irate that if issues like this had popped up with Ford or Chevy, people would have been bad-mouthing them for months or longer.
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Replying to: micweb (Dec 19, 2006 1:30 pm) If I were a Fit owner, I would definitely follow up with the dealer. Sometimes they know about a fix before the letters go out (this happened with me a couple of times on cars I've owned, the dealer fixed the problem before I got a letter). |
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Replying to: crowb (Dec 19, 2006 9:10 am)
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Replying to: akin242002 (Dec 20, 2006 7:41 am)
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