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What I meant was that in a car where you can tilt the bottom part of the seat, where your butt and legs go, I usually tilt the butt down and the front up, so my thighs are slighly elevated. The seats in the Fit put your thighs completely horizontal, which makes the legs a little longer and thus the pedals a little close for me.
I had the best experience with buying and got the FIT for what I wanted. The auto dealer is Flow Honda located in Winston-Salem, NC. I had previously bought our CRV through them using the Internet Manager (wonderful to work with) and was not disappointed this time either. In all my buying experiences he was one of the best I had and will continue to deal with.
The only thing I have found that I miss is the front window tinting but I am on the trail of that also. This is a wonder car and I would recommend.
No matter, I'm gonna get remote entry soon.
Nice little car with lots of room inside. We had two 265lbs. in the front seats and had just enought shoulder room, but was in need of a center console armrest.
I found to car to be decent from a power standpoint, but, in the end, it's not tearing the asphalt off the ground....just enough pep to make the car fun to drive.
It does handle very well....very well. No body roll with a couple of spirited turns. I even did some really quick turns, ala the slalom set up and found the car to be VERY stable.
At 90 it's a rock....felt a lot better than my Scion xB.
Carpet...horrible...is that even carpet?
Magic seats....cool, but probably will never be used once the car seats are in for the kids.
I fit in the cargo area....try that with an xB.....nah.
Radio sucks, but it's decent for factory, but I do like the aux input down towards the bottom of the front of the car...nice.
Paddle shifters...lame...but, I did find that even in the DRIVE mode, I could downshift into 4th when passing only to have the car shift back to 5th automatically once the pass was made....kind of nice if you hate the lag of an automatic when you NEED to make a pass.
I love it. Needs a sunroof and some tint on the windows, but it's everything I've ever wanted in a little car.
Now if the dealer would drop the $1500 in options I'd consider it.....
Hmm... but the paddle shifters can do more than just that.
I believe that if you pull the lever back from 'D' to 'S' ('Sport mode'), you then get to fully select the gears with the paddles. Meaning that, the car won't shift back to the gear the car decides is best, and you're basically making manual shifts but with the paddles. Your gear choices will 'stick'.
For me, the paddle shifters are just a gadget, but being able to drop a gear or two to make a pass, then have the "atuomatic" transmission go ahead and upshift seems kind of handy.
You sound like you have more negatives about the car than positives. Maybe you shouldn't get it. "Radio sucks", "Paddle shifters lame".
I would never base a purchasing decision based on the performance of a radio or componet of the car that can be totally ignored.
I've owned 4 Hondas in the past and consider them to be a terrific value, but the radio is indeed inferior to another vehicle in its class.. the Scion xB.
While the Fit may have aggresive styling, it doesn't have the performance to back it up.....it does handle very well, but straightline performance is almost laughable....0-60 in 11 second.
With all of that being said, I still consider the Fit to be a great choice for me, I just don't view things thru the "Honda Glasses".....there are things that could be better....sunroof, armrest, better carpet and less dealer gouging.
And yeah, the dealer gouging right now is pretty outrageous. :surprise: Hopefully supply will catch up with demand by the end of summer, and that will go away or at least lessen a lot.
If not, I bet a lot of people pre-sold on Honda will starting looking at the alternatives (Versa, Yaris) rather more closely. Having to swallow $500-1500 of dealer options of dubious value is simply not acceptable. :P
Sorry, Motorweek must have received the Fit with less horseposer and fewer watts.
And I do agree, xA are butt ugly, one of the many reasons I didn't purchase an xA.
While the stereo is many steps up from a Kraco or Sparkomatic.....it's not a deal breaker for me. A big hole in the dash would be acceptable to me. Audio's a personal thing, everyboy's ears are different....nothing that $1000 a Circuit City couldn't fix.
:shades:
Methinks Motor Trend didn't use the paddle shifters in their AT Fit.
Car and Driver did, and reported a 0-60 time of 10.4 seconds for their Fit Sport AT... still not great, but you'll keep up with traffic at least.
What's suprising to me is that the manual is SO much faster... I guess that taller gearing on the AT really takes a toll. Still, I'll take the lower revs at highway speeds.
People think traffic accelerates so quickly that you need some 0-60 in 8 seconds car to keep up. However, traffic can take anywhere from 15-25 seconds to get up to 60 mph (on a road that allows it). Almost any car is perfectly capable of keeping up with traffic.
...as for the Fit's performance, I have found my 5MT to be very enjoyable to drive. I'm not thinking of it like a Civic Si, but for what it is the Fit is a fun car.
The May Car & Driver did a test on the Fit Sport M/T and 6 similar cars and, of course, the Fit was number 1. Just got my August Motor Trend and they test the Fit Sport Automatic against the Yaris and the Versa and again, the Fit is numero uno. I thought about buying the automatic because of the city portion of my normal route and the fact that the rpms are much lower at highway speeds. But the Motor Trend shows that the acceleration penalty is high for the automatic. Even though the manual is pushing 3800 rpm at 80, it seems that the engine is happy living there and it doesn't penalize me with NVH. I'm glad I got the M/T.
I must admit, the major reason I went for the Sport model was the keyless entry but I do enjoy the cool stereo (what's WMA?), cruise control, and the nice looking alloy wheels. I can't believe the big ad in my August Motor Trend where it says "And the Fit Sport also adds ..." and they don't mention the keyless entry. Big oversight by Honda's marketing team.
Problems so far - none, zip, 0.
It is part of the Windows Media framework. An initial reason for the development of WMA might have been that MP3 technology is patented and has to be licensed from Thomson SA for inclusion in the Microsoft Windows operating system. WMA format can compress files much better than MP3 and if you use Windows XP you can download Windows Media Player 10 for free and use it to create/playback WMA files.
chris
MP3 has no such scheme. Also, both formats produce files of roughly the same size, and the audio quality difference between the two formats is not high (maybe if you're an audiophile and/or have a REALLY high-end pair of headphones).
I prefer MP3 for the reasons stated above, but WMA works for some folks as well. The iTunes AAC/MP4 format is a successor to MP3, except that it has a DRM scheme, and, also like WMA, sounds slightly better than MP3 (assuming the bit rate is the same), though again you have to be pretty picky and/or have good equipment to hear it.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14970219.htm
I had a 95 Accord Wagon with dual front airbags. It was severely rear ended while the car was parked one time. Over $5,000 in damage. Airbags never deployed. I hadn't even thought about it until this second, b/c naturally I wasn't worried about it since we weren't in the car when it was hit..
Is airbag deployment related to the tension on the seatbelt?
Even with only tall mode/cargo/long mode, it's still quite a bit ahead of the competition for now though.
I'm still not crazy about the steer wheel adjustment I have to make in order to see the mph dial, but I'm getting used to it.
Just went back to check the Quick Reference manual and it says nothing to indicate you have to move the back seat back a little to get the front seat into refresh mode. I wonder why they don't tell you that? Anywhere? I futzed with it for about 15 minutes the first week I got the car and couldn't make it happen. Didn't really need to use it so hastily moved on. But finally worked it out over the weekend.