^ gotta love that

but ill keep my fit for as long as i can, unless i get a job with insane pay, then id get a sti hatchback

 

i plan on keeping the fit until after i graudate college, then who knows haahha. i was hoping to buy a used porsche rofl

 

Steve244...The minder may be smart, but anything done by computers is subject to error. I see it all the time in the VERY expensive planes I fly, and look at what is happening to Toyota now. Good possibility that it is in the electronics. Anyway, I like getting my hands dirty and twisting bolts and nuts with my toys, so I will keep Valvoline happy and buy more of their oil. The sucker should last forever. My grandson says he wants it when he turns 16. He is 5 now. Likes it better than my Solstice!

 

Smart kid.

 

Well duh, it's a Solstice. :-). Figures GM would offer a car that looks sporty, but gets out handled by most import econboxes. That fact they actually thought that it could compete with the Miata, was laughable right from the beginning.

 

We looked at Miatas. So ordinary. And slow.

 

Miata's strength is it's near perfect 50/50 weight distribution which makes it one of the best handling cars out there(just ask all the weekend autocrossers out there) It's never been marketed as a "fast" sports car. To each their own though.

 

you should have gotten an S2K
or a used Boxster

 

I actually want to keep it as long as possible until the wheels fall off.

myke

 

You need to read back a couple of post to see that it was a 91 Accord with high performance equipment not a Fit.

 

I know... but the pontiac had more zoom zoom. For squirting around the freeways the miata was maybe half a zoom.

 

Handling? I have had my Solstice, the lower powered version, on the track at Phoenix International Raceway. Blew the doors off Nissans. No Miata would come out and play. The turbo Solstice blew my doors off. Enough said about Miatas. Dull, boring and overpriced.

 

I suspect, that of the two, the Honda will grace our garage for much longer (just to veer back to topic). :highfive: citabria7

 

Yeah, the Fit will be there longer. Most Solstices are pretty well built. I, or we, have had 3 of them. Two were gems, and the other, mine, has had 21 warranty visits. Nothing big, just small irritants. But put the top down, and there is not much of anything better.

 

I'll keep my month old '09 Auto Sport for about 8 years and see how it's doing then. When the weather is at least halfway decent, my car stays home and I ride my motorcycle. Roadtrips are done on motorcycle. My previous car was a '98 Acura TL that started wanting repairs at 135K miles - and I wasn't going to start down that investment path. The Fit is much roomier and of course uses regular gas and a lot less of it. As long as the Fit is running well I see no reason to plan on parting with it.

 

I am going to trade my fit for a 3rd generation FIT if its significantly better. Or a 2nd gen FIT hybrid if it gets significantly better MPG and if the price is reasonable. Or if I just have to keep up with the current technology and oil prices in terms of mpg.

I also want to complement the fit with a nice bang for buck supercar. That has always been my dream.

 

I bought mine in October of '08 and got rid of it in September of '09. But I've never had a car for over a year or so, so it's nothing 'personal' against the fit.

 

'Til I get really, really tired of it-- which averages about 10 years for each car I've had.

 

I plan to keep my fit long enough to look like this!!!

 

or this