{"id":1456,"date":"2006-06-23T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2006-06-23T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T03:28:00","slug":"fit-to-be-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Fit to be Tied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has been calling around on the <a href=\"http:\/\/automobiles.honda.com\/models\/model_overview.asp?ModelName=Fit\" target=\"_blank\">Honda Fit<\/a> all day.  It seems there are 16 of them in Southern California&#8230; and 12 of them are black&#8230; and the other 4 have been presold! Needless to say, it looks like it will be difficult to get one.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we&#8217;re considering our second choice: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota.com\/matrix\/index.html?s_van=GM_TN_MATRIX_INDEX\" target=\"_blank\">Toyota Matrix<\/a>. What are the <a href=\"http:\/\/newcars.cars.com\/\/compare\/CompareFrameset.asp?Language=EN&#038;ExtPrimaryCode=&#038;ModelID=8369&#038;Acode1=USB70HOC081A0&#038;Acode2=USB60TOC171B0\" target=\"_blank\">plusses and minuses<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The plusses: The Matrix is slightly larger and slightly heavier. It has a larger (1.8l vs. 1.5l) engine that gives more horsepower proportional to weight. It has significantly better emissions (Tier 2 bin 5 \/ ULEV II  vs LEV II for the Fit). It is slightly roomier, and it think it has slightly more cargo space. It is easier to find; there are more of them on dealer lots.<\/p>\n<p>The minuses: It costs about $2K-$3K more, has a slightly larger turning radius, and gets milage equal to my Civic, instead of being better. It isn&#8217;t as &#8220;sporty&#8221; has the Scion xB or the Fit.<\/p>\n<p>The Fit has an engine roughly equal to my Civic. I remember how the hamsters would pant trying to get up Sepulveda Pass at 65mph. The larger engine might do better on the freeways. We&#8217;re going to give it another test drive tomorrow on our way to see <i>Tick, Tick, Boom<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife has been calling around on the Honda Fit all day. It seems there are 16 of them in Southern California&#8230; and 12 of them are black&#8230; and the other 4 have been presold! Needless to say, it looks like it will be difficult to get one. As a result, we&#8217;re considering our second <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1456\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-car-tipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}