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| i read in various places that stability control will be mandatory in the united states in a few years. will the fit have it for 2009? does anyone know? | |
| Honda has announced that the 09 Fit will debut at the NY auto show. There has been some changes but will stay close to the Japanese model. Hope this helps. | |
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I drove a friend's automatic with paddle shifters. I drive like a grandmother, but can you say slow? It'd be dangerous on older big city freeways that have no acceleration lanes. There was no fun, barely knew if it had shifted as the engine was constantly struggling under very easy conditions. Otherwise I like the current car. The new one looks very generic, which is much better than most recent Honda cars. Too bad the local dealer is so lackluster (I'm being kind). Those of us living in the great white north don't need a sunroof, we need insulation on top. |
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Replying to: mcmanus (Mar 02, 2008 4:33 pm) 1500-200rpm for the Fit's engine is like lugging a V8 at 500-1000rpm. You have to wind it up like a S2000 to get any power. But once you do, it moves fairly quickly. P.S. it's not designed to be a 0-60 drag racer, either. Once it gets going, it'll easily do a 20-40mph transition quick enough to keep up with traffic.
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Replying to: mcmanus (Mar 02, 2008 4:33 pm)
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Replying to: mebman (Mar 05, 2008 10:25 am) I have driven the 1.3L Fit and no way would you be able to use it on US Highways. It's a city car and a friend of mine overseas owned one. I drove it quite a bit when I visited him. It's ok in the city but they had NO highways at all where he lived. The 1.3L is just not powerful enough. But if you lived in say Guam, it would be fine. But US Mainland, forget it. Also you economy won't be as good as you think it will be. It makes the engine work much harder under load to climb small hills and carrying people. It would not get 40-50mpg here since his got about half that driving in the city. It's called a Jazz in Asia. I'm all for great fuel economy but the 1.3L isn't that great in real life usage.
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Replying to: tiff_c (Mar 05, 2008 1:42 pm) And tiff_f is right about the gas mileage too. Not the Fit, but there are so-called the kei-cars in Japan, all of which are 660 cc in displacement. They can guzzle gas for their size because people push them hard to get a meaningful forward motion. Smaller engine does not always translate into a better mileage.
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Replying to: jacksan1 (Mar 05, 2008 2:24 pm) His Jazz was great because he lived in a city of about 2 million people, lot of traffic and crazy drivers much worse than here. But 60 kph was as fast as you could get the car to go in the city except late at night. We did get it up to 100 kph but that was on a trip out of the city on a very long rural road. That's only 60 mph! It was ok at those speeds even with 3 of us and packed full of fireworks. But on a US highway it would be like riding a bicycle. Also his mileage was always 10.5 km/l no matter how slow and careful or rough he drove it. Outside the city he'd get 12km/l but never better than that. Maybe the 1.5L would do better, I don't know. i did test drive a 1.5L CVT and it was ok, but no idea on fuel economy. Jacksan is right. Little cars only do well when you drive them easy. Drive them like a big V8 and the mpg drops big time.
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i read in various places that stability control will be mandatory in the united states in a few years. will the fit have it for 2009? does anyone know? As far as I can tell it won't, which is a shame because that's one feature I really want. There's a big difference between the acceleration in the Manual and in the Automatic, which I leads to a lot of the differing opinions. I live in Ohio and when I drove a Fit here it seemed to handle the terrain well enough, but I don't how it would handle when I travel to Pittsburgh, the home of some terribly steep hills and poorly designed on-ramps. I have a V6 Ford Contour right now that laughs at all of those things, but some other vehicles I drove in the area (Dodge Dynasty, Chevy Blazer) made it more stressful. |
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