Honda Fit/Jazz is coming!

[go77306]

Honda is going to sell smaller car to compete with Toyota echo, I believe.

Honda Fit (http://www.cforum.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=4)

[C4S]

That will be great ! better car then Civic, nicer looking ... cheaper ... ( made in Japan ?? )
and the only car from Honda can match with Echo hatch !

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[SinisterProbeGt]

http://www.autoweek.com/weekart/2004/0524/jazzmain.jpg


The five-door Jazz, sold in Europe, is one of two Honda Fit variants.


LOS ANGELES -- American Honda Motor Co. Inc. will add a small car to the Honda lineup next year and give Acura a second light truck sometime in the next two years, Executive Vice President Thomas Elliott disclosed last week.

Conceding a need for Honda to lure younger buyers, Elliott said the new car will be "a true entry-level car, cheaper than the Civic."

He declined to elaborate.

Jeff Schuster, director of product analysis for J.D. Power & Associates, said the Honda Fit is on his company's latest forecast for sale in the United States. "I have it coming in mid to late '05," he said.

The front-drive subcompact Honda Fit is sold in Japan as a four-door sedan, the Aria, and in Europe as the five-door Jazz. It is powered by gasoline engines ranging from 1.2 liters to 1.5 liters. The car is smaller than the Civic.

A dealer source said last week that Honda executives had told him the U.S. car will be a version of the Fit.

"It will be a car for young people in about the $12,000 range," said the source. "Young people will be able to accessorize it like the (Toyota) Scion."

Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., which is rolling out its Scion youth brand nationwide this year, says Scion buyers typically add more than $1,000 worth of factory-authorized accessories to their vehicles at the dealership.

Elliott would not give any details about the new Acura truck, but said it will be smaller than the MDX and probably would not be built in the United States.

"Our percentage of truck sales is not where the market is," Elliott said. "If you want to compete, you must be comparable to the market."

Trucks represented 53.7 percent of total U.S. vehicle sales through April 30, but only 38.9 percent of American Honda's sales, which were about flat through the first four months of the year.

[Shaolin]

I still like the scion better :dunno:

[CRXguy]

Originally posted by Shaolin
I still like the scion better :dunno:

:werd: :thumbsup:

[izzoblitzo]

ah yeah... I can totally see a type r engine swap in that thing, and watch is go 400hp with a few other goodies.

a new definition of pocket rocket.

hahaha
vroooooooooooooOoooOom!

I ran a google search, and it came up with this:

http://speedycars.chinacars.com/wallpaper2/honda/Honda%20Fit%202001%20-%2009.jpg

:eek:

http://www.zweck.jp/service/2-11/2-11-2/images/image_photo.jpg

http://www.zweck.jp/service/2-11/2-11-3/images/image_photo.jpg

[Shaolin]

looking at those pictures it doesn't look that bad.. I'm not feeling the whole upside down SIR body style.. maybe it'll grow on me when i see one in real life.

[Gonthro]

Originally posted by SinisterProbeGt
http://www.autoweek.com/weekart/2004/0524/jazzmain.jpg


The five-door Jazz, sold in Europe, is one of two Honda Fit variants.


LOS ANGELES -- American Honda Motor Co. Inc. will add a small car to the Honda lineup next year and give Acura a second light truck sometime in the next two years, Executive Vice President Thomas Elliott disclosed last week.

Conceding a need for Honda to lure younger buyers, Elliott said the new car will be "a true entry-level car, cheaper than the Civic."

He declined to elaborate.

Jeff Schuster, director of product analysis for J.D. Power & Associates, said the Honda Fit is on his company's latest forecast for sale in the United States. "I have it coming in mid to late '05," he said.

The front-drive subcompact Honda Fit is sold in Japan as a four-door sedan, the Aria, and in Europe as the five-door Jazz. It is powered by gasoline engines ranging from 1.2 liters to 1.5 liters. The car is smaller than the Civic.

A dealer source said last week that Honda executives had told him the U.S. car will be a version of the Fit.

"It will be a car for young people in about the $12,000 range," said the source. "Young people will be able to accessorize it like the (Toyota) Scion."

Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., which is rolling out its Scion youth brand nationwide this year, says Scion buyers typically add more than $1,000 worth of factory-authorized accessories to their vehicles at the dealership.

Elliott would not give any details about the new Acura truck, but said it will be smaller than the MDX and probably would not be built in the United States.

"Our percentage of truck sales is not where the market is," Elliott said. "If you want to compete, you must be comparable to the market."

Trucks represented 53.7 percent of total U.S. vehicle sales through April 30, but only 38.9 percent of American Honda's sales, which were about flat through the first four months of the year.


awww, why'd you go and do that?, you totaly defeated the purpose of him spamming his forum... :rofl: :banghead:

[MM93]

I like the spoon side.......
Spoon has already got there hands all over this car.
I just hope its as good as they say??
Guess we'll see.

http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/features/0308ht_spoonfit/

[Gonthro]

HT: Will the Fit become one of Honda's best-loved cult cars like the CRX?

TI: I believe so. It won't be hard not to recognize the raw potential of the car. It will also become the ultimate poor man's racer.




i think he meant ricer... welcome to the all new ricer of choice, replacing the civic

[GSR Zero]

Looking forward to this one. I saw a Honda Jazz when I was in Hong Kong. :thumbsup:

[CKY]

well if toyota is shipping in the scion, honda had to do something about it ;)

[Toms-Celica]

arg, what a gay name for a car!
' I drive a Jazz!'
' I drive a Pony!'
:eek:

[Meteorite]

Hmmm. For the $18,495 I will take a Smart.
There is something perversely likeable about those strange little cars.