Great car - not a thing wrong ! Minor items I would have liked included:
1. A real 5 th gear that would keep the RPM's at 60 mph at 2,000 instead of 3,000
2. A fuel filler door inside opener
3. A temperature guage
4. A MPG guage
5. A reclining 40% of the back seat to make into a bed with the front seat reclined
6. LRR tires like the Bridgestones on the Insight

The car rides, handles, functions like a champ - looks like first tank will be close to 40 MPG.

BTW all 4 my dealer got were gone the first day.

 

How about putting the back seat flat and moving the front seats forward. You can lay with you legs and feet hanging off the end by the front seats.

 

Can't do that the front seats are much higher.

woops - # 7 is I would have liked the front drivers seat to go 1 more notch further back

 

No I don't mean to lay the front seats down- unless you like a 8 inch lump on your bed. I mean to put the front seats forward towards the dash and use the cargo and flat back seat to lay. Your feat can hange between the back seat and the front seat (head towards hatch and feet towards front). Maybe?

 

OH - thanks , I will try it. BTW the Dunlops may be LRR tires , The SP series is according to a Prius site , so maybe the SR37 A/S on the Fit are as well.

 

The fuel door doesn't have an open-lever inside the car?

Does it even lock? Will I have to purchase a locking gas-cap?

 

The fuel door doesnt have a open lever inside because it isnt a locked door, it is open at all times. Purchasing a lockable gas cap is an option if you dont mind having to carry around an extra key on your keyring and having to manually open it each time you fill up.

 

How about an air mattress? That'd eliminate the height diff. between the laid-down front seats and the back. Way comfy, too.

 

No locking gas cap? How retarded! I imagine that's one of those annoying omissions to make people go for the Sprot, which I guess I'll end up doing.

 

There's no locking gas cap on the Sport version, either. But you can buy one for the low, LOW price of $30-35.

 

Tell me more about the base Fit tires-- Dunlop's website has a SP40 A/S listed as a 65,000 mi tire for 175/65 R14 81S, but no SP 37 A/S.
Thanks!

 

The tire has stamped on it SP37 A/S - I could not locate it either on Dunlops website. I was trying to find out if it was LRR and what the Mu was - the Bridgestone Potenza's on my Insight are .0062 according to Green Seal while the best Dunlop was .0092 not very close. Anyway after trying a bunch ot tires on the Insight there was a huge difference in gas mileage and functioning of the vehicle. Check out Green Seal 's site. Ted

 

Seams like this transmission has fairly aggressive gearing for that high of RPM in 5th at that low of a speed...

 

The auto trans. is close to 2,ooo rpm at 6o m.p.h. (and you can still change gears manually if you want.)

 

somewhat off topic (but he did mention 40MPG)

has anyone used a full tank yet? i wanna know the real world MPG.

 

UGH, look at that "sport muffler". Look at how thin the exhaust pipe is until the tip....I mean, if they're gonna dress up p00p, why don't they at least make the tip travel the full length of that tiny extension at the end?

 

Im sure there is an MPG gauge, just press the little round thing near the dials ?

 

No- there are 2 trip guages and an oil % life remaining.

 

I am sure us Uhmeerikans don't get the MPG gauge or locking gas filler door, because Christine Ra didn't hear any of the hipsters she met at the rave parties worrying about gas mileage, or siphoners.

 

Funny, but probably true!