2009 Honda Fit Sport: Lucerne Valley Rocks | Long-Term Road Tests Blog on Edmunds' Inside Line

2009 Honda Fit Sport: Lucerne Valley Rocks




This weekend my nephew entered his first-ever desert race. So my daughters and I piled into the 2009 Honda Fit to head out to their campsite in Lucerne Valley to wish him well and roast a few marshmallows with my brother and the rest of his family.

They'd parked the Airstream and unlaoded the dirt bikes well off of the pavement in an unmarked primitive "campsite." To get there, the Fit had to negotiate 6 miles of washboard dirt road and packed sand tracks. Granite Road and Transmission Line Road see more use than you'd think, so it wasn't much of a problem.



It was pitch black when we headed home, as only the desert on a moonless night can be. But the Fit's headlights proved more than up for it. (As big as they are, I would have been shocked it they weren't.)

I didn't expect these dirt tracks to be in the navigation system's database, but they were. The system had no trouble establishing a route right from the campsite, and it guided us back out through the maze of criss-crossing dirt tracks easily.

NIce job, Fit.

Dan Edmunds, Director of Vehicle Testing @ 5,375 miles

• Posted by: Dan Edmunds April 18, 2009, 11:30 PM

 

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Good that Edmund's reported on the great headlights, unlike Consumer Reports which gave it a failing grade.

If you're complaining of the headlights on the 09 Fit, either you are blind or you have a defective headlight system.

 

Neither... I wasn't too impressed with the headlights. Silverstar's help, I went the HID route. To each his/her own.

 

i think a lot of ppl complain about the headlights because its aimed too low. i can see that as a problem, but places i go there's sufficent lighting for it to not be a safety issue.

 

My headlights are GREAT since I aimed them properly. From the factory, they were aimed at the ground right in front of the car. Even the high beams wouldn't light up road signs.