It has a rear locker in great working condition. We have four kids, so we need something safe for all of six of us, otherwise I do like the Fit. brendan On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:21 PM, joel walker <uncajoel@bellsouth.net> wrote: > be fairly close to work. I'll likely ride public transit quite often. My >> wife needs the reliable, newer car so we'll be trading in our CRV for a >> (gasp!) minivan. Blah. >> > > if you like the honda crv, may i suggest you take a look at a honda fit? > > it has lots of minivan features ... like flopping seats ... but 4 normal > doors. > only thing is, to get some nice features, you have to buy the Sport model > which has a nifty transmission (paddle shifters on the steering wheel for > the automatic trans). nice to have but i could have done without that part > ... all i really wanted was the remote unlock and the cruise control. > > anyway, it's not a bad little car. smaller and lighter than a minivan, but > i get like 37 mpg on the highway and 30mpg in town (cept in summer ... down > here in the southeast, you run the air conditioning a LOT in summer, so the > worst i've gotten on an all-in-town tank in july was 25.5mpg). > > and they're less than half the price of a minivan. > > best of luck! > unca joel > > |
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