marysville, right? they have that cool heritage center there. nice facility indeed. looks like she's hooked on the Golf!

yah, i was thinking more inline in the future when GAFIT is ready to get a performance oriented hatch if he so desires, not a direct comparison to the GK which is an economy hatch for daily tasks.

 

Yeah, I slaughtered that City's name.

 

Yeah, the Fit vs VW hot hatches. My older brother gives me crap about my Fit...
​​​​The bastard drives a new Golf R....absolutely stunning hatch. It replaced his 370Z, which replaced his 'Vette, which replaced his '66 911, which replaced his bug-eye Sprite. But that's OK by me...he's a hotshot businessman, I slave away as a nurse. Fit is go!!!

 

Golf-R huh? good car choice!

i have one too and a mk7 GTI, but for daily tasks, the Fit is A LOT more versatile for carrying things. plus no worry parking it where ever.
door dings? who cares! easy access panels. not the case on the Golfs if u get a ding on the quarter panel..!

 

My bro has always been one to have a DD and a "for fun" car...he sold both his Z and his DD (Explorer, iirc) and now the R is his DD AND "fun" car. It is wicked wicked fun, I could live with one

 

The Z is a pretty cool car and there is nothing like driving an actual RWD sports car, especially in the corners. I do like the Golf R a lot though. Due to the 6 months of winter we get up here I'll always keep my for fun car separate that way I can mod it how I like and not worry about salt and corrosion.

 

sounds like he made a great choice! DSG or MT? mine is MT cause i tried DSG on my GTI and it's okay for the commute, but boring to drive on the weekends.

 

To be honest.
I kind of miss my old 2010 Honda dash.
HUGE almost cartoonish climate control knobs...huge volume knob...
and the technology interface pretty much started and stopped with being able to plug in a USB stick to play music.

We keep advancing and expecting more, but I'm not sure that is always good thing.

 

I've seen the orange in person. It looks more like "salmon pink" to my eye. A disappointment.

 

In North America, I'm tired of major auto makers "thrilling us" with new color choices, and those choices being "Orange" or "Yellow".

IMO there is a lot that could be done to make color choice truly interesting. I'm tired of Orange and Yellow being promoted as some great cutting edge option.

Which is why in part I like to stick to the classics. Red, White or Black. Orange or Yellow? Not cutting it IMO.

 

fitchet- nissan puke aka juke was a good example of them offering all sorts of silly colors for all sorts of bits. i was like facepalm.

 

Did it ever occur to you that the reason car companies think yellow and orange are "thrilling" is because of people who make "safe" conservative choices like white, red and black?

 

I would guess that orange and yellow and the like are popular colors for products in general in Asia, especially in japan where a lot of car companies are based. Japanese designers see these colors all around them, they're popular on Japanese cars and thus Japanese designers (with their rigid thinking) conclude that these colors must also be popular in North America. So suck it up and go and buy that orange Fit.

 

The orange may have a niche market here in the Knoxville area, as orange cars do sell more than elsewhere, it seems - folks here bleed orange because of University of Tennessee sports - football is a religion, and orange is their color. When we first moved down here, I was like wtf is everybody wearing orange clothing for ???!!!??? Strange ....now, I know, but still find it strange it's just a bunch of unpaid big kids playing football, nothing to be fanatical about, but....I'm in the minority down here, and...no, I would not buy an orange Fit

 

I have to say that the new orange doesn't come up with my expectation.

 

Motor Trend has a positive review on its website. It remains confusing whether the EX manual has Honda Sensing.

 

Pretty favorable review from AutoBlog:

https://www.autoblog.com/2017/08/24/...ty-technology/

 

Speaking of Honda Sensing, Car and Driver panned the adaptive cruise control in their long term Civic. Other complaints about the lane departure warning make me happy to have my 2015.

 

My Dad has a 2017 CR-V with the lane departure warning. It was a total and utter mess on our mountain curvy roads. It was constantly trying to steer me towards the center line of the road (not safe going around curves in the mountains with rednecks in big trucks). When I had a safe spot I let it direct me. Took me right over the center line and into the oncoming lane.

It then caught itself and started screaming at me to steer back into my lane.

My Dad reports that it's better on the Interstate, but still too annoying to use. Plus the steering feedback is just creepy.

I think we are just in the slightly early development stage for some of these features. My Lincoln alerts me to eminent death regularly. Luckily I can just mute it.