The Fit is Go!

The Canole family has added a few vehicle to the fleet. Total mileage for our cars has dropped from 242,000 to 80,000.

The new Canolemobile is...

The Honda Fit.


We started looking at cars last summer (we like to take things slowly). I drove a Prius and HATED it (there was no feel to it... it was like driving a golf cart... you're completely isolated from the driving experience). Checked out the Accord and Camry. Not bad, but HUGE in their current incarnations. Didn't care much for the Civic. The Venza turned out to be too expensive. We didn't want another SUV. So where did that leave us?

A friend of mine with a similar family situation said he had been digging the Honda Fit.

Honda Fit? What's that?

I hadn't really even thought about it before then. I looked into it The reviews were all great. Both the Car & Driver crowd AND the Consumer Reports crowd loved it. The idea of a Fit kept growing on me Can a car that small be safe? Yup. Five star crash safety ratings all around. Maybe a small car would be good for our daily commute. Maybe we don't need that much car.

I test drove one in November. Whoa. Tons of fun (it's a Honda...). The Fit is the exact opposite of the Prius.

And for a car this small, it's enormous. It's got tons of space.


So why buy a car now? First, we got a pretty good deal (my suggestion - do your homework online, get your quotes, then show up on the last day of the month). And second, if the current economic trend continues, and the apocalypse does come, we'll all driving around looking for gas Road Warrior style soon enough. So it'll be nice to have a car that gets 33 miles per gallon on the highway.