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Last week a friend and I went up to TN and had the luxury of driving through some sweet mountain passes.

If you haven't heard of Deals Gap, google it.

11 miles, 318 turns, no ingress/egress. That's right, I said 318 turns.

I must say, any more power than what we had wouldn't have done us any good. The Fit's performance was fantastic. At one point, we even ended up pushing some motards (of course, they weren't going nearly as fast as they could).

The stock handling and acceleration (surprising, I know) was quite perfect for those tight turns.

To all you Fit drivers, Deals Gap gets four thunbs up from us.

 

Haha, awesome! Do you drive stick or auto?
Curvy mountain rounds are the fun if you know how to handle the car
Tre

 

that looks like a blast.... shame the roads in texas are mostly flat and boring. at least I get decent mileage because of the flatness

 

not bad. i was hoping to be the first fit at GMR but the fog totally stopped us

 

dude don't hit up GMR. Some guys got jacked @ gunpoint. It's unsafe there.

 

Yeah, GMR is bad game now. Just hit up Deal's Gap. It's only like 2000 miles away.

 

Oh Im Going!!!!!!

 

Let's make a run up Big Bear.

 

Let's all try to keep up with Bitter in his WRX




And then laugh at him when he gets 18 mpg and we get 26! Take that! haha
Tre

 

anyone gone up to vegas with the Fit yet ? im going there next month and im very uncertain about that one long hill.... my accord was able to make it .. slowly, now with the Fit, im really worried.

 

Your Fit will be fine. Just throw it into a lower gear and take it easy.

 

that's reassuring to hear

 

heading to vegas n the 4th o july

 

im heading there on evening of the 3rd, hoping to arrive there around 11ish pm. tho im uncertain how long im staying there :P
if you see a taffy white with cali plates and tinted windows, that just might be me

 

It's cool its cool. By the time you guys DO catch up to me, I will have filled up, taken a nap, grabbed a snack, refreshed and ready to go downhill.

 

It's interesting you drive a WRX, Bitter. I just sold a stock 02 to purchase my Fit.

On the roads I was on, all the power the WRX has would have done me little good.

In all honesty, I think my times would have been better in the Honda than they would have been in the Subaru.

The fastest we could really ever get was approximately 35 mph, and with the tight handling of the fit, we could hold much of that speed through the corners.

Good times.

5 speed, bytheway. Nice transmission, especially coming out of the WRX.

 

Nice to see a fellow (former) WRX owner on the board. Mirrorworks also recently sold an 05 for the Fit. In case you were wondering, Mirrorworks and I are friends, so we're just doing some friendly trash talk.

But I agree with you. The handling ability on the Fit is great, being so light. The quicker steering rack is also something I envy from the Fit. The Fit, out of the box, is an incredibly nimble car. And I think someone mentioned this earlier, but I would take a Fit to autocross over a WRX any day.

However, I spent the previous weekend taking the Fit on a mini-roadtrip up and down California. And I will have to say that the Fit left me missing the WRX. Both are great cars but at the time I just prefer the WRX. To each his own.

Another thing... I will always envy the mileage from a Honda.

 

Nice pic!!

 

what's GMR?

 

My question exactly.

I am moving to Virginia at the end of the year, and can't wait to get my little VFR up on Deal's Gap. Maybe next summer, I'll be one of those motards. I might not be going warp 9, but I will live through it and have an ear-to-ear grin on my face.