yeah i was hoping the fit would get the SI treatment one day. All it needed was the 1.5t civic ex-t turbo engine but it never came. Now the fit is hybrid only and i would even take one of those too but they pulled the plug on the fit in the usa. 

The Element had a lot going for it. First, it was powered by arguably the best four-cylinder engine ever conceived of by humankind – the Honda K-series.

> I’d argue that the slow (relatively) sales were due to the Element being ahead of its time and not because it was a bad car.

The Element appeals/appealed to the same people who like(d) VW’s split and bubble vans. They offer a lot of space in a small, urban-friendly footprint, and speed is not a concern. But between increased safety requirements and more “tech” (plus more $$$, obviously), bigger seems to be the only path that most manufacture…

I bought a Honda Fit in 2019. I had shopped those, (mostly older) Outbacks and Foresters, and a few other similar cars. I’d always liked the Element, but the ones I’d seen for sale in NE were super high mileage, well-loved examples.

YES. It was never about whether the car was “ugly” or not. It was, for 12 of the 13 years I owned my 2008 “4wd” EX, a most practical car. I could turn on a time. I could fit bikes in there. I could load PA equipment and plywood road cases without destroying carpet. I could drive from Boston to Chicago and back without…

The Kia Soul beat out the Element in that market segment.

“God, if you don’t want me to eat here, give me a sign.”

This! All day long...

For those who have never seen the handle inside the Model 3...

HEADLINE:
Company known for being crappy to deal with, acts $#1++y, to the surprise of no-one.

Door handles that open doors are not disruptive enough.

The first question the Hertz representative should have asked when the customer was given this as a alternate was “Have you ever operated this vehicle before? Let me show you all the differences from a standard vehicle and how to find charging stations. “

This is one of those times when the government needs to step in and mandate regular manual door locks and opening mechanisms, and not the “Oh just open this panel and push this hidden button” backup methods.

The blame falls squarely on the criminals stealing cars, maybe the parents of the criminal for raising their kids in a shytty manner, and no one else. If we treated criminals like they do in Singapore (with a violent ass beating in addition to prison time and fines) this wouldn’t be an issue. The car is an inanimate…

Why is the standard interior door handle not a mechanical release in the first place? That seems pretty f-ing stupid.

Hertz are scumbags for sure, but this is why the EV revolution is not viable as it stands right now. This would never have happened with a real car, worst case would be a recovery guy came out with a can of gas. But really, they could have been back on the road again with a two minute stop at any number of gas…

I don’t know anything about the law, especially as it pertains to immobilizers, but even if they’re not required, I would think most companies would just include them anyway to avoid exactly this situation. That, or they’d just have one single ignition system across their entire lineup and not some weird tightwad shit…

It’s free enterprise in action - industries, and the players within, will always do the right thing, so there is no need to regulate.

I really think this has been the single largest complete fuck up by a major automaker in recent history, even over Dieselgate. The fact that they cheaped out on security to begin with, hoped it would go away, issued a half-assed “fix”, and are continuing to ignore the fact that they did anything wrong in the first…