Each dealership does have their own policy when it comes to reserving in-transit inventory. I'm surprised they wouldn't since every dealer can special order cars from the factory.

While there are no delivery dates that are firm, my dealerships does have a list of what we are getting for sure. We do give customers the option to reserve a car or special order.

 

I looked all over the northeast for four months, trying to get a blue EX CVT. They were always "In Transit." I finally got a silver one in NH and a black one three days later in NY.

 

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I put a deposit down on one the dealer had on order

 

I had to wait 6 weeks for my 2015 EX-L w/navi. I originally wanted the dark grey metallic but would have had to wait even longer. My dealer traded a yellow EX for my black EX-L navi with a dealer about 8 hours north of us.
Ultimately very happy with my choice to get the black Fit. Just had the windows tinted dark as legal here in FL and it looks amazing! Love the car.

 

I'm just about to pick up my LX Manual this Saturday that I've been waiting for since the end of October.

The dealer I'm buying it from only gets one manual transmission Fit every other week.
I was first promised a black LX, but if I want that colour I have to wait another 2-3 weeks, whereas if I settle for the Grey then I can get it sooner.

So grey it is.


Best of luck to everyone waiting for their Fit's. It'll be worth it.

 

I don't recall a car ever being in such short supply for such a long time. That must be a teeny tiny factory.

 

Not a lot of people where I am from want the manual transmission.

If I got the CVT I would of had it a while ago.

 

Supply seems to have gotten considerably better in recent months. The second shift at Celaya seems to be bearing fruit, but of course much of it might be gearing up for the HRV.

A 200-mile radius search for Fits on Cars.com used to turn up less than a hundred cars, but now the number is over 500. My local dealer is actually showing several cars in the configuration I want (white LX CVT).

Of course, dealers want to keep the "feeding frenzy" and subsequent high prices going as long as possible, but the fact is that Fits aren't nearly as hard to come by as they used to be.

I am somewhat bemused by people buying new cars who compromise the configuration they want just to get a car a couple of weeks sooner. You're going to live with the car for a long time, what's a couple of weeks?

 

A few months ago, when I was still looking, dealers listed cars that were in transit, but they didn't list them as being in transit. Not very helpful.

 

I don't doubt that the dealers are still listing "in transit" cars, but the overall numbers have at least quadrupled in the last two months which means that the drought is coming to an end.

 

Bought mine last month in the Tampa Bay Area (FL) and there was an ton of them in every color and every trim level. I had 25+ FITs to choose from across 8 dealerships in this area, though I can't say for sure how many were being counted as in transit stock. I can only confirm the 3 dealerships I put into a bidding war for my EX had every car on the lot that was listed on their respective site.

 

Great! I waited from mid-April ("They'll be in next month.") till July 28th.

 

Also per this thread and confirmed via my conversations with dealers while trying to track one down to reserve in Dec, many of the parts for the Fit and all Fits enter the US travel via rail through the border crossing at Laredo TX.

As I'm sure you know because you have been following the current condition of Texas's rail lines (I mean, who wouldn't be?!) they are essentially booked solid with pretty lengthy wait times to get space. This is primarily due to the oil and gas fields here buying up all the train space, which won't stop until the pipelines they are working on in state get built out over the next few years.

It will probably take a bit of time for the logistics systems to ramp up (we're probably seeing that start to bear fruit now but it has a long way to go) and get a good mix of Fits to every dealer. Oddly enough my local dealers have a good number of Fits in stock, but nearly all are manual transmissions. Howdy Honda in Austin has over 20 of them listed as on the lot now, and if you want a CVT you have to wait (they are all listed in transit).

 

So oil in Canada is keeping Fits in Mexico from getting to the U. S. Not surprising.