\u201cThe power of love,\u201d sang Huey Lewis with his band, The News, \u201cis a curious thing.\u201d This sentiment comes to mind as we read about Honda\u2019s continual exploration of the 2015 Honda Fit, the latest retailoring of a car that has surprised, interested, excited, and baffled us since its introduction in 2001.<\/p>\n
Because our blog series on Thursdays is about further expounding on a vehicle that you can find, or will soon be able to find, in showrooms, the new Fit fits the bill nicely. We can still remember its early commercials where a robot voice intoned, \u201cThe Honda Fit: The Fit is Go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given its 13 years of production, the Fit is here to stay. Honda leadership went on record this year saying that the Fit will surpass the Civic to become the automaker\u2019s best-selling vehicle. Fortunately, Motor Trend recently conducted a road test of the 2015 Fit in the somewhat-warm environs of Michigan. The article praised the Fit for its paddle-shifting and intelligent downshifts which apparently suited the writers in just the right way.<\/p>\n
The writers cited a \u201cquantum improvement\u201d in the interior. Materials, construction, appearance, and design all seem to have taken a huge leap forward. Honda is investing deep sums in making sure the Fit will be super-integrated with mobile devices, so it makes sense that the interior is receiving more attention.<\/p>\n
The Motor Trend writers went to unusual lengths to measure the change in gear shifts if you opt for the six-speed manual transmission. We\u2019re just surprised and pleased that Honda is keeping manual transmissions alive, even adding an extra gear from the previous five-speed. The writers include cryptic passages, which we\u2019re sure mean something, but alas, we cannot decode them:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat that all means is that, rather than all gears being spaced closer together, the gaps between 1-2, and 2-3 are actually wider spaced than in the old five-speed, while the upper gear ratios are closer together. We applaud Honda for not getting greedy and going taller with the sixth-gear ratio, as that would surely have reduced the car’s ability to pull minor grades in top gear.\u201d<\/p>\n
The center-screen has excellent resolution that belongs in the 21st<\/sup> century, the center console is sized to hold an iPad, there\u2019s more horsepower and torque overall, and the design looks cooler, inside and out. The 2015 Fit: check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThe power of love,\u201d sang Huey Lewis with his band, The News, \u201cis a curious thing.\u201d This sentiment comes to mind as we read about Honda\u2019s continual exploration of the 2015 Honda Fit, the latest retailoring of a car that has surprised, interested, excited, and baffled us since its introduction in 2001. Because our blog […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[339,407],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-sedans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leithcars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}