have a friend who knows the owner of a honda dealer in my area....he told him that there are only 2 Sport MT Fits in the ENTIRE US!

yet I have a guy in his dealership telling me my car will be in end of June


anyone else have a deposit on a MT and how long have you been waiting

I know they are hard to come by but ONLY 2!! holy hell

 

there are more than 2 Fit Sports with a M/T in the US. this forum alone proves that. Ive got a CBP M/T Sport. i was pretty lucky to find it too. it just so happened that there were only 3 Fits at my local Honda Dealership and all three where base models. but that previous day a the lady traded in her Fit sport (now my Fit sport) for and MDX. And it wasnt just any sport, its was my Honda Dealership's showroom model back from in 2009 when the second gen Fit first came out. so not only did i score a M/T Fit sport, i scored a M/T Fit sports with LOTS of optional accesories!

goodluck getting your Fit!

 

He means in dealer's inventory, and even that seems impossible. My local dealer got 3 in in the last month (I think they're sold now, though). They are trickling in, but I think Honda doesn't want to sell the car here.

 

There were zero in the midwest when I initially went to purchase my GD3

 

In the fall of '08 we had to order ours and wait until Honda built Sport M/Ts with navi. They built an entire batch around Thanksgiving. All of us who were waiting got them in mid-January of '09. I think they only sell about 5% with M/T.

Cheers.

 

a simple search on cars.com produced at least 3 manual fit sports in the chicagoland area so obviously that person isnt taking about the entire US

 

cars.com had quite a few new M/T Sports listed in the Chicago area when we were looking, too. Every single new Sport M/T Navi listed was bogus. Our local dealer's online inventory was a few days out of date as well. There were several listed as far away as North Carolina that were also nonexistent. We simply struck out and had to order. Perhaps things are different now, though.

Cheers.

 

ya cars.com is BOGUS.......postings are good for like 90 days....they usre them as lures to get you to the dealer and then they dont have anything! i doubt he is serious it just pissses me off that hes the manager and his employee is giving me false hope haha plus my bday is friday....maybe i was a little to hopeful id get it on or near my bday haha

 

When I did my search last week, I only used cars.com (and kbb.com) as a reference. Once I found a listing, I contacted the dealer.

The first time, I found one at McGrath City Honda... I only spoke to the automated script online (it was really late at night). The script "confirmed" they had a SSM Sport M/T. When I got to the dealer the next day, they had already traded to another dealer DAYS before.

Then, when I went back, for shits and giggles, I only looked at "last 1 day" listings (meaning new listings)... 1 new one showed up at Matteson. I called them, talked to a LIVE person, they said the car wasn't listed in their computers, but it was on Cars.com AND their website. She said it happens if the car is still inbound. Went to then dealer the next day (1 hr drive!!! at least it was a Saturday)... confirmed with the sales guy, put a deposit on it. That was this past saturday.

The sales guy called me today, said the car could be in as early as tomorrow and no later than thursday. WOOT!!!

This is better than the other car I had originally put a deposit on. An SSM Sport w/Navi was "promised" to arrive around the 4th of June. I get a call on the 8th telling me it won't arrive until 22nd. THEN, on the 9th, I get another call saying it will be even later, from the 25th-28th!!! wtf? After I complained about the manager's so-called promise, he tried to BS me. BAD move, now my money is going elsewhere.

Basically, what I'm saying is... if you're looking for something RARE/hot... don't get your hopes up for any listing more than a day or two... BUT, call anyway. You just might get lucky.

BTW... if you're willing to travel... there should be a few Sport M/Ts in TN and MN... at least in SSM color. When I called McGrath City Honda (to ask them to help confirm)... the guy said that at least 5 dealers in TN have SSM Sport M/Ts. I didn't check other colors.

 

haha, I never used cars.com, I pretty much walked in and told the dealer I wanted a CBP Sport MT, and he said he had one coming so ya, nice dudes tho, plus they have a price worth the wait not to mention the price for my trade in...so Im still going to ride it out

 

A benefit of living in CA, we decided yesterday we wanted an orange Sport MT. Called 2 dealers in our area, drove out the door 30 minutes later. Theres a lot of thing I dont like about CA but I guess car availability cannot be on that list. I would have waited too.

 

I'd be stunned if you could duplicate that anywhere in the mid-West. Even had your color!

Cheers.

 

i had a 600 dollar deposite on a white honda fit sport in manual back in October, it took over a month before i got it.

 

I was just lucky...had been looking for months... Was in contact with one dealer...he was tryin to get me to take his only sport mt but it was ORM which I didn't want. I told him I had decided to pass on that deal and for him to just let me know when the 2010s began arriving. About a week and a half later I checked my email and he had sent me a message saying randomly a 2009 sport, mt, in white had showed up. I called him, was very skeptical, and made him tell me like 3 times point blank that it was true. Told him we'd be there in 2 hours. We drove the 1 hour 45 min to the dealer and when I was parking, I saw her in a back lot...ended up buying her that day!!!! Sometimes its about making a relationship with a salesperson. And luck.