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Hatchbacks Honda Fit Honda Fit vs Honda Civic
237 messages, Last post on Oct 29, 2008 at 2:15 PM
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Replying to: bottgers (Dec 17, 2007 10:29 am) What experience do you have with it? I've already taken my Fit on multi-state road trips with a few passengers and the cargo area so full of stuff I had to use the side mirrors to see behind me. I was able to easily drive 70-80 mph on the highway. I think your posts come from lack of experience more than anything else. The Civic is a nice vehicle in the class of the Mazda3 and Corolla. These types of compact 4-door sedans are good for their limited use as a people hauler. The Fit is designed to be much more versatile and practical. Yes you give up a certain amount of quietness and power. If Honda made a Civic 4dr hatch, then I might be in the market for it. But until then, the Civic/Corolla/Mazda3 class of 4dr sedans are too impractical to me. And we've had the Fit now for a little over a year and about 15,000 miles, and the car has been great for our family for a lot of uses. Having the Fit has really cut down on the need to use our big car for weekend trips because of all of the stuff we can put in. And the high ceiling of the Fit make it much easier to put kids in the carseats, which is a lot tougher on cars like the Civic. And the Civic feels so cramped inside as compared to the Fit. As far as price, if the Civic and the Fit were priced exactly the same I would have still bought the Fit. The Civic is slightly more quiet on the highway, it does not handle any better, has a slightly softer ride, and the seats aren't any better. But none this outweighs for me the greater practicality of the Fit. |
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Replying to: kipk (Dec 17, 2007 8:00 am) Them's just my two cents! 
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Replying to: dromedarius (Dec 17, 2007 2:36 pm) 
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...I was preaching the wrong message to a Fit chior.
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Replying to: bottgers (Dec 18, 2007 5:33 am)  I think both are fine cars, but to me the Fit is much more versatile and a better value than the Civic, especially when the Fit gets a little bigger inside and adds a little more power next year, in addition to more modern styling. Then I'd be hard pressed to find any reason to go with the Civic vs. the Fit, especially with the price difference.
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Replying to: bottgers (Dec 18, 2007 5:33 am) Nobody said that the Civic is a bad car, but some folks just wanted the more practical Fit, so that's what they bought. |
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Replying to: bottgers (Dec 18, 2007 5:33 am) Preaching you were. |
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Replying to: backy (Dec 18, 2007 6:44 am)
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Replying to: bottgers (Dec 18, 2007 10:19 am)
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Replying to: backy (Dec 18, 2007 10:59 am)
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