'09 Honda Fit Makes Top 10 in World Car of the Year

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01-27-2009, 11:05 AM

txmatt

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'09 Honda Fit Makes Top 10 in World Car of the Year

wcoty.com | World Car of the Year Awards

Not bad company...

"The 2009 World Car of the Year will be selected from the following cars listed in alphabetical order. Eleven cars are listed as there is a tie.

- Audi A4 / Avant
- BMW 7 Series
- Citroen C5 Sedan / C5 Tourer
- Fiat 500
- Ford Fiesta
- Honda Fit / Jazz
- Jaguar XF
- Mazda Atenza / Mazda6
- Nissan GT-R
- Toyota iQ
- Volkswagen Golf VI"

01-27-2009, 11:12 AM

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I don't know how they pick World Car of the Year...to me that doesn't make sense, 'cause you're really picking through apples and oranges (and grapefruits and berries....)
Come on, Nissan GT-R vs. BMW 7 Series vs. Honda Fit???
They're totally different cars and totally different price ranges haha.

01-27-2009, 12:16 PM

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For its class it is top notch, You cant put it beisde a supercar but for its own, It is top!

01-27-2009, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by M4psycho

Simple. How good is the car? Period.

Good can translate into many things, such as how revolutionary or ingenious a certain car's feature is to its class and/or to the industry. Ex. the Fit's Magic Seats.

I keep posting this article which sums up the Fit's ingenuity:

Honda Fit: Candidate for Best Car - WSJ.com

01-27-2009, 02:49 PM

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I think they're going to put all the car names up on a wall. Then they're going to throw a dart, and whichever one it lands on is *drumroll*.............. The Car of the Year!

01-27-2009, 02:59 PM

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The GE8 is badass. What else is there to say?

01-27-2009, 03:03 PM

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The GE8 is badass. What else is there to say?

+1 for that

01-27-2009, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by CrystalFiveMT

Simple. How good is the car? Period.

Good can translate into many things, such as how revolutionary or ingenious a certain car's feature is to its class and/or to the industry. Ex. the Fit's Magic Seats.

I keep posting this article which sums up the Fit's ingenuity:

Honda Fit: Candidate for Best Car - WSJ.com

Profound assessment Crystal5

This is one of my most favorite paragraphs in that article
it definitely nails why I think the GE (and all fits in general) is such a marvel

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Ponder this for a moment. Then consider how, as the package shrinks, the difficulty in building a truly good car increases. How do you even find the space to engineer everything you need into a car the size of the Fit? So it can pass crash tests, so it's comfortable, so it's drivable, and so you can still build and sell it for less than $20,000? A nice luxury sedan that costs three times as much is inherently less impressive because it poses fewer challenges to engineers.