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The Honda Fit, besides having an adorably Japanese name (seriously, who would name a car that" The same society that would name one of their cars the Bongo Friendly, I suppose) aims to be nearly all things to a certain slice of the population pie. The Fit wants to be small enough for the urban environment, yet big enough for four adults (five in a pinch).
Small, miserly on gas, yet practical and a hatchback so it can haul a modicum of stuff. Usually, trying to spread yourself this thin is a recipe for disaster (see Aztek, Pontiac) yet somehow, Honda makes it work.
Modestly Misplaced
No, I am not going to say you can take the Fit on The Great American Road Trip, jazz blaring on the stereo, visions of Kerouac and Cassady flashing through your brain in the middle of the great American middle. The Fit might be a number of things, and do a number of them well, but blasting through Montana, say, at 80 miles an hour is not one of them. The Fit is roomy, but you need more vroom, dig" This is the third-generation Fit to hit the road in America and the first real update since the 2015 model. What it is, in general terms, is Honda’s version of the VW Golf or the Toyota Yaris, only oddly different somehow. The Fit always had odd styling and, as Honda has gotten more sedately extreme in their styling these days, the Fit has gone right along with it. Only it doesn’t work as well. Or at least it doesn’t ...