View Poll Results: 2020 Fit - Will you buy one? [US poll mostly]
It doesn't matter, I've grown to need a larger car than a Fit next time
1
5.88%
It's not coming and I won't buy an HR-V instead - I want a small car and I'll shop another brand
9
52.94%
Yes, if they brought all the trims, and I'd buy the [comment your favorite trim!]
9
52.94%
Yes, if they bring the Crosstar only
1
5.88%
Yes, if it morphs into a compact CUV for the US market
1
5.88%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 17. You may not vote on this poll
2020 Fit voting
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Joined: Oct 2018
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From: Minnesota
Sounds like the 2020 Fit will be a continuation of the current GK5: https://hondanews.com/en-US/honda-au...s-in-showrooms
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,521
From: Manitoba CANADA
Yup, same old, same old. They've bought themselves one more year to make major decisions on the Fit and that's probably a good thing. And the manual will continue to be available which should make the odd person happy.
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Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 59
From: Virginia
The GK5 was a 2014 model year ROW before it came to the US, so it isn’t the first time they have waited for our market.
Would I buy one of the new model Fit?
Sure. Why not.
However, I think it is important that our minds turn to all electric or at least electric-assisted designs.
Norway is prohibiting new all-ICE cars in just a few years, and there is pending legislation in the UK that would take ICE off the road by 2035.
Meanwhile, the US has stepped back from emissions and CAFE standards and we are all buying huge oversized vehicles because they are cheap (no safety standards), and because fuel is cheap.
We probably need to wake up, but that’s just one stupid old man’s personal opinion.
Anyway, sure, I’d buy one of the new cars. I have been buying Honda since 1989, and they’ve never steered me wrong.
Would I buy one of the new model Fit?
Sure. Why not.
However, I think it is important that our minds turn to all electric or at least electric-assisted designs.
Norway is prohibiting new all-ICE cars in just a few years, and there is pending legislation in the UK that would take ICE off the road by 2035.
Meanwhile, the US has stepped back from emissions and CAFE standards and we are all buying huge oversized vehicles because they are cheap (no safety standards), and because fuel is cheap.
We probably need to wake up, but that’s just one stupid old man’s personal opinion.
Anyway, sure, I’d buy one of the new cars. I have been buying Honda since 1989, and they’ve never steered me wrong.
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George Knighton, I am also a stupid old man, and I am confident that over the near term the US will continue to lead the world in a downward spiral to cheap cars, cheaper oil, more landfill junk piling up and more carbon emissions. For me, I wouldn't count on a course change any time soon. Our government is too deeply penetrated by industry agents who care about nothing more than increasing production of stuff America no longer needs in order to siphon money from an increasingly impoverished population towards the pockets of their own family stakeholders and hangers-on.
However, I ALSO suspect that much like the EU, we'll see legislation in certain areas that drastically restrict fossil fuels. We're starting to see this locally, and in occasionally nonsensical ways (Brookline MA is prohibiting residential gas heating, in favor of .. electric? which is more expensive? and more polluting in MA because we don't have enough infrastructure so we buy oil and coal electricity from out of state?). Probably same thing happens in places like LA, SF, Seattle, even DC. Places like Phoenix, hardly set up for success when it comes to trying to become more environmentally friendly, can be improved with solar energy and charging stations, and that's actually happening. Expect certain neighborhoods in NY, Boston to go car-free or limited-access possibly combined with making public transit free of charge. Are these national solutions? No way. But a large portion of Americans do live in large, medium or small cities where they can be implemented. Within this context, the popularity of electric cars (Tesla, many others), Hybrid (Ford, Toyota) will continue to grow.
We have to hope that legislation ends up targeting what's actually impactful, which is not consumer use but business and industrial use. For example, Boston has no-idling laws ... but they don't see to be enforced against diesel trucks, only individuals people sitting around in clean-burning late-model cars. That is the big thing. Individual pollution and energy usage is low relative to use by companies that do things, move things, or make things. We'll see. Over most of American history, business interests have only been reactive to consumer demands to clean up their act. GM is going to go "... but we sell CARS, guys! what do you expect us to do, try to sell less?" right up until the point where consumers buy less of them. So consumer behavior can be encouraging as a first step, even if buy itself it has no hope of cleaning up the planet.
However, I ALSO suspect that much like the EU, we'll see legislation in certain areas that drastically restrict fossil fuels. We're starting to see this locally, and in occasionally nonsensical ways (Brookline MA is prohibiting residential gas heating, in favor of .. electric? which is more expensive? and more polluting in MA because we don't have enough infrastructure so we buy oil and coal electricity from out of state?). Probably same thing happens in places like LA, SF, Seattle, even DC. Places like Phoenix, hardly set up for success when it comes to trying to become more environmentally friendly, can be improved with solar energy and charging stations, and that's actually happening. Expect certain neighborhoods in NY, Boston to go car-free or limited-access possibly combined with making public transit free of charge. Are these national solutions? No way. But a large portion of Americans do live in large, medium or small cities where they can be implemented. Within this context, the popularity of electric cars (Tesla, many others), Hybrid (Ford, Toyota) will continue to grow.
We have to hope that legislation ends up targeting what's actually impactful, which is not consumer use but business and industrial use. For example, Boston has no-idling laws ... but they don't see to be enforced against diesel trucks, only individuals people sitting around in clean-burning late-model cars. That is the big thing. Individual pollution and energy usage is low relative to use by companies that do things, move things, or make things. We'll see. Over most of American history, business interests have only been reactive to consumer demands to clean up their act. GM is going to go "... but we sell CARS, guys! what do you expect us to do, try to sell less?" right up until the point where consumers buy less of them. So consumer behavior can be encouraging as a first step, even if buy itself it has no hope of cleaning up the planet.
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