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Re: thinking of buying a fit
Your tooo stupid to find one to buy.
Spaz wrote: > The Honda Fit IS the BAD and the UGLY. I'm not stupid enough to buy > one, especially at the ridiculously high price Honda is charging > American fools. > <turtledan@msn.com> wrote in message > news:1152998204.919943.158150@75g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com... >> I am considering buying the fit. Also looking at the Yaris and >> Nissan's new Versa. Anyone have any thoughts. Camparisons? The >> good, bad and ugly. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
Your tooo stupid to find one to buy.
Spaz wrote: > The Honda Fit IS the BAD and the UGLY. I'm not stupid enough to buy > one, especially at the ridiculously high price Honda is charging > American fools. > <turtledan@msn.com> wrote in message > news:1152998204.919943.158150@75g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com... >> I am considering buying the fit. Also looking at the Yaris and >> Nissan's new Versa. Anyone have any thoughts. Camparisons? The >> good, bad and ugly. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
santos wrote: > Overall, I think it's a great little car so far. I don't expect to > have any issues with it. With 40mpg my commute cost is now about half > of what it was before with the WRX. Make no mistake. This is not a > hot hatchback like a GTI or WRX. It gets you from point A to point B > with little drama and no flair. With the 5-speed it keeps up pretty > well with traffic. Seems pretty well screwed together. I think it's > the perfect solution for $3.25 a gallon gasoline these days. I have about 1200 miles on my Sport Auto. I echo all the comment made by Santos. Very roomy vehicle. The radio is nice good, love the Aux feature and the MP3 playing. The paddle shifters are a bit of a gimmick, but could come in handy for driving on snow, or long downhills. I am no longer in that much of a hurry that I have to downshift to overtake someone. Ride is a bit firm, but the car is very controlled. I would avoid the rubber floor mats - the front ones are too small and slide around. The rubber mat for the trunk area is good. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
santos wrote: > Overall, I think it's a great little car so far. I don't expect to > have any issues with it. With 40mpg my commute cost is now about half > of what it was before with the WRX. Make no mistake. This is not a > hot hatchback like a GTI or WRX. It gets you from point A to point B > with little drama and no flair. With the 5-speed it keeps up pretty > well with traffic. Seems pretty well screwed together. I think it's > the perfect solution for $3.25 a gallon gasoline these days. I have about 1200 miles on my Sport Auto. I echo all the comment made by Santos. Very roomy vehicle. The radio is nice good, love the Aux feature and the MP3 playing. The paddle shifters are a bit of a gimmick, but could come in handy for driving on snow, or long downhills. I am no longer in that much of a hurry that I have to downshift to overtake someone. Ride is a bit firm, but the car is very controlled. I would avoid the rubber floor mats - the front ones are too small and slide around. The rubber mat for the trunk area is good. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
santos wrote: > Overall, I think it's a great little car so far. I don't expect to > have any issues with it. With 40mpg my commute cost is now about half > of what it was before with the WRX. Make no mistake. This is not a > hot hatchback like a GTI or WRX. It gets you from point A to point B > with little drama and no flair. With the 5-speed it keeps up pretty > well with traffic. Seems pretty well screwed together. I think it's > the perfect solution for $3.25 a gallon gasoline these days. I have about 1200 miles on my Sport Auto. I echo all the comment made by Santos. Very roomy vehicle. The radio is nice good, love the Aux feature and the MP3 playing. The paddle shifters are a bit of a gimmick, but could come in handy for driving on snow, or long downhills. I am no longer in that much of a hurry that I have to downshift to overtake someone. Ride is a bit firm, but the car is very controlled. I would avoid the rubber floor mats - the front ones are too small and slide around. The rubber mat for the trunk area is good. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
santos wrote: > Overall, I think it's a great little car so far. I don't expect to > have any issues with it. With 40mpg my commute cost is now about half > of what it was before with the WRX. Make no mistake. This is not a > hot hatchback like a GTI or WRX. It gets you from point A to point B > with little drama and no flair. With the 5-speed it keeps up pretty > well with traffic. Seems pretty well screwed together. I think it's > the perfect solution for $3.25 a gallon gasoline these days. I have about 1200 miles on my Sport Auto. I echo all the comment made by Santos. Very roomy vehicle. The radio is nice good, love the Aux feature and the MP3 playing. The paddle shifters are a bit of a gimmick, but could come in handy for driving on snow, or long downhills. I am no longer in that much of a hurry that I have to downshift to overtake someone. Ride is a bit firm, but the car is very controlled. I would avoid the rubber floor mats - the front ones are too small and slide around. The rubber mat for the trunk area is good. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
Hi there.
I have a Jazz which (I think) is the same as a Fit. ("Fit" in the UK = something someone does when they've lost the plot). Anyway it's the first car we've owned that our family actually love. It's fairly basic, we have 1.4 Auto SE but everything on it works fine. Someone went into the driver side door and it's broken at the moment. It cost 700GBP to fix which is about what people say a door costs to fit and spray. I did 2 postings a couple of months ago about the good and the bad. Here they are. Sorry there's a bit of duplication... One other thing; some people have actually paid over the list price to get one early. (In the USA? Not sure). Anyway, they're not that good for goodness sake. Wait a couple of months or weeks or days! - Very good round town. Very nippy in all "close quarter" situations - Mine hardly ever goes over 30mph. Most trips less than 5 miles YET 41 mpg. I think this is 34 US mpg. - Noisy on motorway - Not amazingly powerful at speed - Not so good on high speed motoring, that said VERY good in stop-start driving situations, so if you're a motorway traffic jam every day, you'll be fine. - Gearbox is amazing - Drive select (P - D - N - R lever, you know) is a bit vague; there's no gate on it and it's easy to slip into one of the weird low torque D options only to find out you're in it when you want to zip off :(. - (optional) Boot bags total waste of time - Roof mounting storage thing is quite nice, but not worth the money - Don't bother with those boot/shelf mats. They get in the way - Wish I'd got the automatic air temp option - Rear windscreen washer - wiper is poor but works - Quite slow to warm cabin in the morning - Mine's never been back to the dealer. Hooray! - Easy to keep clean - Stereo OK, but see note below... - Good to park / reverse - Kids like it - Will easily take 2 adults and 1 kid in back seat. - Totally easy to shuffle seats around. Hooray for that too. - Good leg room front and back. - Rear view mirror vibrates (worst case vibration found so far is Pink Floyd's "One of these days" when it gets to the on-off-on-off bit). Might need to avoid death metal too (but that's for a whole different reason) :). - Magic seats are just that; very clever - I'd recommend this car if you drive round town. It works. I'm a UK based Jazz user. To be honest, I'm a fan of the car. It's never given me a problem, it's got good economy and it does have a lot of nice features. - Don't know anything about that dealer carry on. Never had any problems myself BUT I did a pre-purchase survey in the local DIY shop car park of Honda users. There's just no way that the Honda dealers are as good as Mercedes (only owned MB till the Jazz). I expect problems when there are problems if you get my drift. THIS DID NOT TURN OUT TO BE TRUE WHEN I HAD TO GET DOOR DAMAGE FIXED. THEY WERE VERY GOOD. - I got my Jazz in 2 weeks with a very good trade in on my A160 which was a total disaster of a car. You see the difference for me is that my Jazz has never been to the garage; my A160 was always in it! - Not had any problems with the floor covering. In fact this is the easiest car to clean inside and out that I've ever owned. See note below however... Don't bother with vac. cleaner, just use a stiff brush on the seats. Work from the top down. Remove the carpets when you get to them, brush off on a wall. No worries. Damp cloth over the plastic surfaces works fine. - Don't buy the cargo mat. It's just not needed; it gets in the way when you put the seats down. - Personally, I like the wheels BUT I've found that you need to be careful to clean them behind the spokes otherwise dirt quickly builds up there too. It's easy to do with a soaked sponge, just remember to do it. - I've not had a problem with power at low speeds; it wants to be away. At higher speeds (e.g. 70mph) it's got very little zip. - Stereo fine for me apart from the fact that the rear view mirror wobbles at high bass levels. It was suggested in one newsgroup that I could turn it down :). - I drive an automatic and I don't get this gear change problems at all. As I understand it, the car has a continuously variable ratio box. The manual changer (only used it once) is only there to give you something to play with. Forget about it. Pull away as fast as you like and there are no changes; it just gets faster and faster. Amazing. There is a problem with the auto shifter thingy. It's got no gate between the various forward drive options. Too easy to slip into one of them and find there's a problem next time you set off needing power. - There's no problem with seeing the stereo. The petrol filler cap on my Jazz does lock. - The rear window wiper is FAIRLY (not totally) useless - There is a really small problem with dirt on the outside of the car. I've got mud flaps BUT when you come to power-wash the car you need to take special care to remove the very large amount of heavy-dirt / mud on that bottom radius just below the doors. It's got that lumpy-bumpy under-car coating and boy does the c**p stick! - The magic luggage carriers are a total waste of time. So are the rubber mats you can get for the knee-height self. HTH. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
Hi there.
I have a Jazz which (I think) is the same as a Fit. ("Fit" in the UK = something someone does when they've lost the plot). Anyway it's the first car we've owned that our family actually love. It's fairly basic, we have 1.4 Auto SE but everything on it works fine. Someone went into the driver side door and it's broken at the moment. It cost 700GBP to fix which is about what people say a door costs to fit and spray. I did 2 postings a couple of months ago about the good and the bad. Here they are. Sorry there's a bit of duplication... One other thing; some people have actually paid over the list price to get one early. (In the USA? Not sure). Anyway, they're not that good for goodness sake. Wait a couple of months or weeks or days! - Very good round town. Very nippy in all "close quarter" situations - Mine hardly ever goes over 30mph. Most trips less than 5 miles YET 41 mpg. I think this is 34 US mpg. - Noisy on motorway - Not amazingly powerful at speed - Not so good on high speed motoring, that said VERY good in stop-start driving situations, so if you're a motorway traffic jam every day, you'll be fine. - Gearbox is amazing - Drive select (P - D - N - R lever, you know) is a bit vague; there's no gate on it and it's easy to slip into one of the weird low torque D options only to find out you're in it when you want to zip off :(. - (optional) Boot bags total waste of time - Roof mounting storage thing is quite nice, but not worth the money - Don't bother with those boot/shelf mats. They get in the way - Wish I'd got the automatic air temp option - Rear windscreen washer - wiper is poor but works - Quite slow to warm cabin in the morning - Mine's never been back to the dealer. Hooray! - Easy to keep clean - Stereo OK, but see note below... - Good to park / reverse - Kids like it - Will easily take 2 adults and 1 kid in back seat. - Totally easy to shuffle seats around. Hooray for that too. - Good leg room front and back. - Rear view mirror vibrates (worst case vibration found so far is Pink Floyd's "One of these days" when it gets to the on-off-on-off bit). Might need to avoid death metal too (but that's for a whole different reason) :). - Magic seats are just that; very clever - I'd recommend this car if you drive round town. It works. I'm a UK based Jazz user. To be honest, I'm a fan of the car. It's never given me a problem, it's got good economy and it does have a lot of nice features. - Don't know anything about that dealer carry on. Never had any problems myself BUT I did a pre-purchase survey in the local DIY shop car park of Honda users. There's just no way that the Honda dealers are as good as Mercedes (only owned MB till the Jazz). I expect problems when there are problems if you get my drift. THIS DID NOT TURN OUT TO BE TRUE WHEN I HAD TO GET DOOR DAMAGE FIXED. THEY WERE VERY GOOD. - I got my Jazz in 2 weeks with a very good trade in on my A160 which was a total disaster of a car. You see the difference for me is that my Jazz has never been to the garage; my A160 was always in it! - Not had any problems with the floor covering. In fact this is the easiest car to clean inside and out that I've ever owned. See note below however... Don't bother with vac. cleaner, just use a stiff brush on the seats. Work from the top down. Remove the carpets when you get to them, brush off on a wall. No worries. Damp cloth over the plastic surfaces works fine. - Don't buy the cargo mat. It's just not needed; it gets in the way when you put the seats down. - Personally, I like the wheels BUT I've found that you need to be careful to clean them behind the spokes otherwise dirt quickly builds up there too. It's easy to do with a soaked sponge, just remember to do it. - I've not had a problem with power at low speeds; it wants to be away. At higher speeds (e.g. 70mph) it's got very little zip. - Stereo fine for me apart from the fact that the rear view mirror wobbles at high bass levels. It was suggested in one newsgroup that I could turn it down :). - I drive an automatic and I don't get this gear change problems at all. As I understand it, the car has a continuously variable ratio box. The manual changer (only used it once) is only there to give you something to play with. Forget about it. Pull away as fast as you like and there are no changes; it just gets faster and faster. Amazing. There is a problem with the auto shifter thingy. It's got no gate between the various forward drive options. Too easy to slip into one of them and find there's a problem next time you set off needing power. - There's no problem with seeing the stereo. The petrol filler cap on my Jazz does lock. - The rear window wiper is FAIRLY (not totally) useless - There is a really small problem with dirt on the outside of the car. I've got mud flaps BUT when you come to power-wash the car you need to take special care to remove the very large amount of heavy-dirt / mud on that bottom radius just below the doors. It's got that lumpy-bumpy under-car coating and boy does the c**p stick! - The magic luggage carriers are a total waste of time. So are the rubber mats you can get for the knee-height self. HTH. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
Hi there.
I have a Jazz which (I think) is the same as a Fit. ("Fit" in the UK = something someone does when they've lost the plot). Anyway it's the first car we've owned that our family actually love. It's fairly basic, we have 1.4 Auto SE but everything on it works fine. Someone went into the driver side door and it's broken at the moment. It cost 700GBP to fix which is about what people say a door costs to fit and spray. I did 2 postings a couple of months ago about the good and the bad. Here they are. Sorry there's a bit of duplication... One other thing; some people have actually paid over the list price to get one early. (In the USA? Not sure). Anyway, they're not that good for goodness sake. Wait a couple of months or weeks or days! - Very good round town. Very nippy in all "close quarter" situations - Mine hardly ever goes over 30mph. Most trips less than 5 miles YET 41 mpg. I think this is 34 US mpg. - Noisy on motorway - Not amazingly powerful at speed - Not so good on high speed motoring, that said VERY good in stop-start driving situations, so if you're a motorway traffic jam every day, you'll be fine. - Gearbox is amazing - Drive select (P - D - N - R lever, you know) is a bit vague; there's no gate on it and it's easy to slip into one of the weird low torque D options only to find out you're in it when you want to zip off :(. - (optional) Boot bags total waste of time - Roof mounting storage thing is quite nice, but not worth the money - Don't bother with those boot/shelf mats. They get in the way - Wish I'd got the automatic air temp option - Rear windscreen washer - wiper is poor but works - Quite slow to warm cabin in the morning - Mine's never been back to the dealer. Hooray! - Easy to keep clean - Stereo OK, but see note below... - Good to park / reverse - Kids like it - Will easily take 2 adults and 1 kid in back seat. - Totally easy to shuffle seats around. Hooray for that too. - Good leg room front and back. - Rear view mirror vibrates (worst case vibration found so far is Pink Floyd's "One of these days" when it gets to the on-off-on-off bit). Might need to avoid death metal too (but that's for a whole different reason) :). - Magic seats are just that; very clever - I'd recommend this car if you drive round town. It works. I'm a UK based Jazz user. To be honest, I'm a fan of the car. It's never given me a problem, it's got good economy and it does have a lot of nice features. - Don't know anything about that dealer carry on. Never had any problems myself BUT I did a pre-purchase survey in the local DIY shop car park of Honda users. There's just no way that the Honda dealers are as good as Mercedes (only owned MB till the Jazz). I expect problems when there are problems if you get my drift. THIS DID NOT TURN OUT TO BE TRUE WHEN I HAD TO GET DOOR DAMAGE FIXED. THEY WERE VERY GOOD. - I got my Jazz in 2 weeks with a very good trade in on my A160 which was a total disaster of a car. You see the difference for me is that my Jazz has never been to the garage; my A160 was always in it! - Not had any problems with the floor covering. In fact this is the easiest car to clean inside and out that I've ever owned. See note below however... Don't bother with vac. cleaner, just use a stiff brush on the seats. Work from the top down. Remove the carpets when you get to them, brush off on a wall. No worries. Damp cloth over the plastic surfaces works fine. - Don't buy the cargo mat. It's just not needed; it gets in the way when you put the seats down. - Personally, I like the wheels BUT I've found that you need to be careful to clean them behind the spokes otherwise dirt quickly builds up there too. It's easy to do with a soaked sponge, just remember to do it. - I've not had a problem with power at low speeds; it wants to be away. At higher speeds (e.g. 70mph) it's got very little zip. - Stereo fine for me apart from the fact that the rear view mirror wobbles at high bass levels. It was suggested in one newsgroup that I could turn it down :). - I drive an automatic and I don't get this gear change problems at all. As I understand it, the car has a continuously variable ratio box. The manual changer (only used it once) is only there to give you something to play with. Forget about it. Pull away as fast as you like and there are no changes; it just gets faster and faster. Amazing. There is a problem with the auto shifter thingy. It's got no gate between the various forward drive options. Too easy to slip into one of them and find there's a problem next time you set off needing power. - There's no problem with seeing the stereo. The petrol filler cap on my Jazz does lock. - The rear window wiper is FAIRLY (not totally) useless - There is a really small problem with dirt on the outside of the car. I've got mud flaps BUT when you come to power-wash the car you need to take special care to remove the very large amount of heavy-dirt / mud on that bottom radius just below the doors. It's got that lumpy-bumpy under-car coating and boy does the c**p stick! - The magic luggage carriers are a total waste of time. So are the rubber mats you can get for the knee-height self. HTH. |
Re: thinking of buying a fit
Hi there.
I have a Jazz which (I think) is the same as a Fit. ("Fit" in the UK = something someone does when they've lost the plot). Anyway it's the first car we've owned that our family actually love. It's fairly basic, we have 1.4 Auto SE but everything on it works fine. Someone went into the driver side door and it's broken at the moment. It cost 700GBP to fix which is about what people say a door costs to fit and spray. I did 2 postings a couple of months ago about the good and the bad. Here they are. Sorry there's a bit of duplication... One other thing; some people have actually paid over the list price to get one early. (In the USA? Not sure). Anyway, they're not that good for goodness sake. Wait a couple of months or weeks or days! - Very good round town. Very nippy in all "close quarter" situations - Mine hardly ever goes over 30mph. Most trips less than 5 miles YET 41 mpg. I think this is 34 US mpg. - Noisy on motorway - Not amazingly powerful at speed - Not so good on high speed motoring, that said VERY good in stop-start driving situations, so if you're a motorway traffic jam every day, you'll be fine. - Gearbox is amazing - Drive select (P - D - N - R lever, you know) is a bit vague; there's no gate on it and it's easy to slip into one of the weird low torque D options only to find out you're in it when you want to zip off :(. - (optional) Boot bags total waste of time - Roof mounting storage thing is quite nice, but not worth the money - Don't bother with those boot/shelf mats. They get in the way - Wish I'd got the automatic air temp option - Rear windscreen washer - wiper is poor but works - Quite slow to warm cabin in the morning - Mine's never been back to the dealer. Hooray! - Easy to keep clean - Stereo OK, but see note below... - Good to park / reverse - Kids like it - Will easily take 2 adults and 1 kid in back seat. - Totally easy to shuffle seats around. Hooray for that too. - Good leg room front and back. - Rear view mirror vibrates (worst case vibration found so far is Pink Floyd's "One of these days" when it gets to the on-off-on-off bit). Might need to avoid death metal too (but that's for a whole different reason) :). - Magic seats are just that; very clever - I'd recommend this car if you drive round town. It works. I'm a UK based Jazz user. To be honest, I'm a fan of the car. It's never given me a problem, it's got good economy and it does have a lot of nice features. - Don't know anything about that dealer carry on. Never had any problems myself BUT I did a pre-purchase survey in the local DIY shop car park of Honda users. There's just no way that the Honda dealers are as good as Mercedes (only owned MB till the Jazz). I expect problems when there are problems if you get my drift. THIS DID NOT TURN OUT TO BE TRUE WHEN I HAD TO GET DOOR DAMAGE FIXED. THEY WERE VERY GOOD. - I got my Jazz in 2 weeks with a very good trade in on my A160 which was a total disaster of a car. You see the difference for me is that my Jazz has never been to the garage; my A160 was always in it! - Not had any problems with the floor covering. In fact this is the easiest car to clean inside and out that I've ever owned. See note below however... Don't bother with vac. cleaner, just use a stiff brush on the seats. Work from the top down. Remove the carpets when you get to them, brush off on a wall. No worries. Damp cloth over the plastic surfaces works fine. - Don't buy the cargo mat. It's just not needed; it gets in the way when you put the seats down. - Personally, I like the wheels BUT I've found that you need to be careful to clean them behind the spokes otherwise dirt quickly builds up there too. It's easy to do with a soaked sponge, just remember to do it. - I've not had a problem with power at low speeds; it wants to be away. At higher speeds (e.g. 70mph) it's got very little zip. - Stereo fine for me apart from the fact that the rear view mirror wobbles at high bass levels. It was suggested in one newsgroup that I could turn it down :). - I drive an automatic and I don't get this gear change problems at all. As I understand it, the car has a continuously variable ratio box. The manual changer (only used it once) is only there to give you something to play with. Forget about it. Pull away as fast as you like and there are no changes; it just gets faster and faster. Amazing. There is a problem with the auto shifter thingy. It's got no gate between the various forward drive options. Too easy to slip into one of them and find there's a problem next time you set off needing power. - There's no problem with seeing the stereo. The petrol filler cap on my Jazz does lock. - The rear window wiper is FAIRLY (not totally) useless - There is a really small problem with dirt on the outside of the car. I've got mud flaps BUT when you come to power-wash the car you need to take special care to remove the very large amount of heavy-dirt / mud on that bottom radius just below the doors. It's got that lumpy-bumpy under-car coating and boy does the c**p stick! - The magic luggage carriers are a total waste of time. So are the rubber mats you can get for the knee-height self. HTH. |
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