2016 Honda Fit

The 2016 Honda Fit just does what it's consistently done, and does abounding things even bigger than the last-generation car. It makes the best use of its baby footprint; it's added appealing, alfresco and in; and it earns the best crash-test array of any baby hatchback new Japaneses car dealer, not to acknowledgment aberrant ammunition economy.

The Fit sets the benchmarks for autogenous space, utility, and assurance for baby hatchbacks. It's not as absorbing to drive as it already was, and some accessory fit and accomplishment niggles could use some attention, but by a advanced margin, it's our top best in its class.

Pragmatic but attractive, the Fit isn't styled so abundant like a scaled-down minivan anymore. It's developed added against the accepted accompaniment of the art in hatchbacks, with abysmal ancillary creases, a accept band that accentuates the block in its shape, and a leaner, tauter stance. The stubby, abbreviate awning and continued roofline draw out the best body, and the bottle areas are in bigger balance--as are the Fit's bigger auto and tires. It all concludes at a rear end that's actual abundant like a latter-day Volvo—if alone it weren't for the big chrome bar beyond the tail.

The aseptic exoteric could advise the autogenous a few things. The basal outlines are fine--the low birr opens up the berth visually--but the Fit's birr is akin out in a lot of pieces. Bezels, surfaces, shapes, and trim textures--it all comes off okay, but a added compatible attending with beneath cutlines would be a acceptable upgrade.

We've consistently anticipation of the Fit as the baton of the affordable-hatchback cause. It carries on that attitude in this generation, for the a lot of part, admitting some of the acquisitive feel of its council and abeyance tune accept been muted.

The latest Fit is powered by a direct-injected 1.5-liter engine that produces 130 application and 114 lb-ft of torque. A sweet-shifting six-speed chiral gearbox is the accepted transmission, but a lot of Fits will access at dealerships with a continuously-variable manual (CVT) that maximizes ammunition efficiency, up to EPA ratings of 33 mpg city, 41 highway—which vaults Honda to the arch of a chic that includes the Chevrolet Sonic, Hyundai Accent, Nissan Versa, and Toyota Yaris. In a abstracted Sport mode, you can glossy through seven 'gears' with paddle-shifters, if you'd like.

Honda's done a bigger job of authoritative the CVT tolerable than Nissan does, although we still acquisition Subaru's CVTs the best a part of baby cars. At speeds able-bodied aloft any U.S. acceleration limit, the Fit manages to abolish a lot of exoteric babble adequately well. It's hardly the calm of a affluence car, but a part of baby and affordable hatchbacks, the new Fit is acutely added aesthetic than its antecedent was. If alone Honda had paid a little added absorption to engine noise, it would accept been even better, as this Fit, with its new absolute bang and blended intake, can complete a little blatant and uncouth. The Fit rides with a little added ability than it has in the past, and keeps its acknowledging council and handling, but the amount is that the active acquaintance isn't absolutely as angry to the driver's seat.

One of the keys to the Fit's artlessly unparalleled autogenous adaptability is its alleged "Magic Seat" rear-seat setup. The bureaucracy brings a breach folding rear bench that can not alone cast advanced but cast aback and upward, acceptance four altered modes that baby to specific kinds of ample cargo—including a different Alpine approach and a futon-like Refresh mode. Aback seats are blessed places for tall, angular folks, too—more so than in abounding swoopy-roofline cars a admeasurement or two larger. In front, the Fit is added accustomed for its class. Bench cushioning and abutment covers alone the basics—even about to added models in this segment—and some will ambition for added aback bench biking and adjustability.
Honda's 2016 Fit has becoming actual acceptable assurance array from both the Insurance Institute for Highway Assurance (IIHS) and the National Highway Cartage Assurance Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA gives it 5 stars overall, and the Fit accomplished Acceptable ratings in all IIHS categories except the boxy new small-overlap foreground blast tests, area it was rated Acceptable. That agency it's a Top Assurance Pick.

The 2016 Honda Fit now about includes four models and primary builds: a abject Fit LX, a mid-range EX, and a exceptional EX-L. Keyless entry, cruise control, a rearview camera, and air conditioning are a part of abounding items now included even on the abject LX, while mid-level EX models get push-button start, upgraded infotainment, and Honda's absorbing LaneWatch wide-angle lane-change aid from the Accord. The Fit EX-L abundance on covering and added luxury, while a aeronautics trim akin assuredly gets a arrangement account the premium, with a high-contrast affectation and reside cartage data.