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Car Forum / Honda Cars / June 2006Honda Fit not available for order
Well, not only can I not look at or test drive a Fit, but now the dealers in my area are no longer taking orders for the Fit. Nice. > Well, not only can I not look at or test drive a Fit, but now the dealers in my area are no longer > taking orders for the Fit. Nice. You may be happy with the Mazda 3 or it's earlier design the Protege 5. Check cars .com for Pro5's from 02 and 03 for sale in your area. Wife LOVES her yellow 5 speed, and on trips we get right close to 40 m.p.g. bob > You may be happy with the Mazda 3 or it's earlier design the Protege 5. Check cars .com for Pro5's > from 02 and 03 for sale in your area. Wife LOVES her yellow 5 speed, and on trips we get right > close to 40 m.p.g. bob I see the 2007 Mazda3 hatchback now comes with a Mazdaspeed turbocharger. 230 horsepower for a little car like that is mindblowing. I wonder if I'll be able to test drive it or is Mazda going to pull a Honda bullshit move of advertising something that's not available. >>You may be happy with the Mazda 3 or it's earlier design the Protege 5. Check cars .com for Pro5's >>from 02 and 03 for sale in your area. Wife LOVES her yellow 5 speed, and on trips we get right [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > little car like that is mindblowing. I wonder if I'll be able to test drive it or is Mazda going to > pull a Honda bullshit move of advertising something that's not available. There were > > Well, not only can I not look at or test drive a Fit, but now the dealers in my area are no longer > > taking orders for the Fit. Nice. > > > You may be happy with the Mazda 3 or it's earlier design the Protege 5. > Check cars .com for Pro5's from 02 and 03 for sale in your area. Wife > LOVES her yellow 5 speed, and on trips we get right close to 40 m.p.g. You should check what you're smoking more often. I nver get above 30 mpg out of my sedan (A/C on, 5sp). I think Mazda states 35 mog highway. There is no way (unless all your freeway trips are downhill) you can reach 40 mpg. I do recommend Protege or Protege 5 nevertheless. Excellent car. Light and agile. Superb handling and unlike civic from the same era it has wonderful seats. Civic lower cushions are too short (I'm 5'10"). > Well, not only can I not look at or test drive a Fit, but now the dealers in my area are no longer > taking orders for the Fit. Nice. This is typical for a popular new Honda (I think Honda doesn't always know how popular a new car will be). When I was in college long ago, and the Accord first came out, one of my teachers had to order one from a dealer in a small town 150 miles away, since there were none to be had locally (San Diego). Now I'm in Loveland, Colorado, and I just heard that a FOAF had to go to Kansas City to buy a new Fit. Frankly, I think it's worth the wait, rather than buying some other brand. Calvin > Frankly, I think it's worth the wait, rather than buying some other > brand. It's not worth the wait for me because in my area, there's nothing to wait for even though there are 3 Honda dealers here. They're not taking any more orders for the rest of the year. Either Honda already sold out this year's production, or there's a recall, or they've stopped production, I have no idea. I'll I'm being told is that they're not available. It's a truely unique experience to go to 3 car dealers who won't even try to sell you a car. hahahahahahahaha > It's not worth the wait for me because in my area, there's nothing to wait > for even though there are 3 Honda dealers here. They're not taking any [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > truely unique experience to go to 3 car dealers who won't even try to sell > you a car. hahahahahahahaha Every business has the right to refuse service to people, if they wish. Perhaps you've made a 'name' for yourself in your area. > Every business has the right to refuse service to people, if they wish. Perhaps you've made a > 'name' for yourself in your area. Thanks a.shole. Please continue with more insults, if you can. >> Every business has the right to refuse service to people, if they wish. >> Perhaps you've made a 'name' for yourself in your area. > > Thanks a.shole. Please continue with more insults, if you can. chill. honey gets you a lot further than vinegar. just call around until you find someone that has the car you want. last time i bought a new car, i did that and ended up traveling some considerable distance to get the exact vehicle i wanted. as long as you can test drive locally, doesn't mean you have to buy locally. > chill. honey gets you a lot further than vinegar. > > just call around until you find someone that has the car you want. last > time i bought a new car, i did that and ended up traveling some > considerable distance to get the exact vehicle i wanted. as long as you > can test drive locally, doesn't mean you have to buy locally. No thanks. I'm not going out of my way for a cheap subcompact like a Honda Fit. I already traveled 60 miles to a dealership who told me over the phone that they had one on the lot. I was there less than an hour later and it wasn't there. I don't mind traveling for a vehicle that I know I want, but I don't know if I want a Fit because I can't even see one, let alone test drive one. Seems like I have no choice but to give up on Honda. All three local Honda dealerships had my name, address, and phone number for over 2 months and none of them ever returned my calls. This is a simple case of supply and demand. Fits are being produced as fast as quality will allow, that's all there is to it. Together with record high gas prices, and the fact that people act like scared sheep, or Chicken Little at every bump in the road, doesn't help dampen demand either.. > > Frankly, I think it's worth the wait, rather than buying some other > > brand. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > no idea. I'll I'm being told is that they're not available. It's a truely unique experience to go > to 3 car dealers who won't even try to sell you a car. hahahahahahahaha -- Tp, -------- __o ----- -\<. -------- __o --- ( )/ ( ) ---- -\<. -------------------- ( )/ ( ) ----------------------------------------- No Lawsuit Ever Fixed A Moron... >Well, not only can I not look at or test drive a Fit, but now the dealers in my area are no longer >taking orders for the Fit. Nice. I've been looking to see one on the road here in Los Angeles, and I think I finally saw my first the other day, looks like a Focus and a Matrix had a love-child. Wasn't there a funky little Civic micro-van about twenty years ago? My Accord lease expires in a few months, and I've been looking at the smaller models ... though I expect to end up with another Accord, ugly LED taillights and all, unless I run off the reservation and get my hands on a Toyota. It does seem a slow introduction for the Fit, but it took quite a while before the new Civics were common on the street, as they are now. Selling like hotcakes, apparently. Are the sales targets for the Fit as high as for the Civic? Probably not. J. > It does seem a slow introduction for the Fit, but it took quite a > while before the new Civics were common on the street, as they are > now. Selling like hotcakes, apparently. Are the sales targets for > the Fit as high as for the Civic? Probably not. Seems like a pretty stupid thing for Honda to do. It's like they're deliberately trying to drive people to the competition. Seems like everybody is coming out with subcompact 5 door cars right now. I have no problem getting one from Chevy, Ford, Mazda, Hyundai, Saturn, Toyota, Volkswagen... And if the Fit is selling like hotcakes like you say, why have I not seen a single one on the road yet? Looks like a big hoax to me. Looks like a big hoax to me. Sure you don't work for the competition? bob >> It does seem a slow introduction for the Fit, but it took quite a >> while before the new Civics were common on the street, as they are [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > And if the Fit is selling like hotcakes like you say, why have I not seen a single one on the road > yet? Looks like a big hoax to me. Depends on the demand in your area, I suppose. Give it a few months, and I'm sure a Fit will be at your local dealer. I live in a small city with one Honda dealer, and it took a few months before I started to see new Civics in abundance here. But I have already seen a few Fits. >> It does seem a slow introduction for the Fit, but it took quite a >> while before the new Civics were common on the street, as they are [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >And if the Fit is selling like hotcakes like you say, why have I not seen a single one on the road >yet? Looks like a big hoax to me. I meant the Civic is now selling like hotcakes. There are so many hotcakes, er, cars, on the road here in Los Angeles, Honda could sell a few hundred Fits a day before the odds of actually seeing one on the road got reasonable. Saw a skit on Mad TV last night involving a Yaris. Is "Yaris" funnier than "Fit"? J. > > It does seem a slow introduction for the Fit, but it took quite a > > while before the new Civics were common on the street, as they are [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > people to the competition. Seems like everybody is coming out with subcompact 5 door cars right > now. I have no problem getting one from Chevy, Ford, Mazda, Hyundai, Saturn, Toyota, Volkswagen... The smallest 5 door from Mazda is somewhere between compact and midsize in weight in dimension. And Mazda 2 is woefully underpowered (so I've heard). Unless there is a 5 door mazdaspeed 2 scheduled for the US I'm not sure what you mean. Kabura is 3 door I think and is more compactish than subcompactish. What is the Mazda subcompact you're talking about? I'd like to get one with the 1.8l engine miata no longer needs. |
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