The seemingly innocent Honda Fit is causing quite a debate between my brothers and me.
It's a long story but the Twainfecta family recently lost the '04 Audi due to a driving fault of hers and an insurance fault of mine. Whoops. We need to get a new car and without that trade-in value from the old car, we'll need to be economical about it.
I didn't even realize it but apparently I've had a secret crush on the compact, metro-friendly Honda Fit. It costs about $17-$18k new and has only been in the U.S. for a few years so the used market is pretty limited. With some trepidation, I sent a picture of the car to my younger brother. It didn't take long before I got a phone call from my older brother that went something like this, "um... I'm not sure how to say this... I gotta say: not a fan of where your car search is headed." I let my emotions get the best of me and I told him that the two of them are just a bunch of conservative, southwestern rednecks who can't appreciate a good urban vehicle.
This exchange left me wondering, have I been living in D.C. too long? Does my interest in the Fit symbolize my spiral away from the core values that got me where I am today? Do I now find appeal in what I would have once scoffed at and written off as, in my younger brother's words, "a fusion of a minivan and a PT Cruiser." Or are my brothers really just not progressive thinking enough to see that this car embodies efficiency, practicality, value, and just the right amount of garish, euro trash style? I just don't know.
Anyways, yesterday we rode our bikes to the closest dealer to give it a test drive. It was about what I expected. Rides like a Honda. Safe. Not too exciting, but not very boring either. But I could envision some fun road trips, and some good times folding the seats in various contortions as we fit things here and there (the car's specialty). Who knows, maybe one day Twain Jr. could even inherit it. The dealer didn't quite have the model we were looking for so we didn't make any hasty decisions, but now I am in the thick of a bidding war between all the area Honda dealers to see who can give us the best price.
