Simple reason really: it's part of the facelift/refresh of the GE lineup. Marketing people will sell the 6MT as part of a raft of improvements to help sustain or raise the sales numbers on the Fit.

Annoyed? Consider this: You've already had 2-3 years' head start driving a GE. Why be annoyed?

 

Yes. Just as its cheaper to produce a car with an open differential, versus a limited-slip. I'd much rather have an LSD over a 6th gear.

Not really, but I guess I'm one of the few that thinks a 6th gear on the Fit is not at all necessary. Try driving a 4.7 or 4.9 Final Drive short geared 5-spd car (a Type R for example) across the country, 32 hours humming along at 5,000 RPMs going 80mph. Still gets 32 mpg, for a car rated at 28 highway. I guess I'm used to being halfway up the tachometer at freeway cruising speeds, but so is every fuel injected Honda engine.

 

Because with the short gear ratio, it was obvious from the start that a 6th gear was a must.

32MPG, while you could get 35mpg instead, in a 3500lb 300hp BMW 335i (long geared)...

 

And then I'd get raped by maintenance and the cost of BMW replacement parts, and wouldn't have the best handling fwd car ever made. I wouldn't be able to turn lap times faster than cars worth $30,000 more, with my $14,000 4-cylinder 1.8L. Yes, 1.8L. I wouldn't be able to put 50,000 K miles on whatever that BMW you mentioned is, turn around and sell it for more than what I paid for it 5 years ago, as I can with my 1997 ITR. I wouldn't have been able to track multiple times at Buttonwillow in CA, to VIR in Virginia (coast to coast), because I would have paid so much more for the stupid car you're talking about. And I if I would have bought that BMW, then I wouldn't be on a Honda Fit forum, telling people to buy a BMW.

Oh yeah, the type R I'm talking about is also 13 fing years old. (1997).

/stupid talk about stupid BMWs and 3mpg. I've gotten 36.36 in the R anyway, but its an R, so why the hell would I want to drive like a girl, like you'd have to in that BMW to get the mileage you're talking about?

 

What about a sunroof? Would that be too much to ask for in 2011?

 

I'm in for the moonroof!!

 

I wouldn't mind doing that one day myself

 

honda needs to give you a reason to trade in your old fit, plus Honda is trying to keep ahead of the competition in the Fit market segment.

The 2011 model will have VSA standard option...and a 6MT hopefully to keep it at the top value in its market segment!
moonroof and Bluetooth would also be welcomed!