I remember that when I was young, my favorite cartoons were "Head Text D" and "Bayshore MIDNIGHT", which formed a different kind of emotion for JDM under the influence of these classic works. Every New Year's Festival, I will save a little money to buy my beloved car model, and this love is still maintained, "Men are teenagers to death" This sentence is not unreasonable. When I arrived at the university, the domestic modified car culture gradually took shape, coupled with the popularity of the Internet, my spare time was basically immersed in various modification competitions or modification videos, and it was also at that time that Man Ge slowly developed feelings for Honda Fit.
Whenever someone around me mentions the Honda Fit, I always build friendships with them quickly. You may be a former GK5 owner who was replaced by an MPV because he started a family; he may be a small white-collar worker who just came out of work and just mentioned GR9 and is ready to take the first bucket of gold for the job to modify. Anyway, there is no language barrier between you, there is no generation gap, maybe this is the romance between men.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the birth of Honda Fit, more than ten years younger than Mange, it has already gained more than 8 million car friends around the world, accumulated more than 1.3 million fans in China, and has repeatedly won the annual car awards in Japan, China, North America and other countries and regions around the world, from users to the industry are well recognized, Fit has influenced the lives of at least two generations of young people. Today, Fit is not just a classic model, it is also a sentiment.
Of course, just relying on feelings is certainly not enough to support the trust of these nearly 8 million riders, and the reason why Fit is loved by young people is because it has comprehensive product highlights and brand charm. Why has Fit become a hot-blooded supercar in the minds of the people? The students began to take notes.
Enough sports, enough fun to keep sucking powder
First of all, the word sport is very important, Honda has embedded the bloody movement gene into every detail of Fit's design, so its appearance has been talked about since the debut of the first generation, and the fourth generation of Fit currently on sale has also been inheriting this sports gene. The fourth generation of Fit adopts a new design language, bringing two series, Tide Run Pro (SPORT) and Tide Crossing Max (CROSSTAR), the former with a sense of sportsmanship, and the latter closer to the home to meet the increasingly diversified requirements of users.
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Looking back at the first, second or third generation of models, it will not be outdated, and it can even awaken hormones, which is an important reason why it can last for a long time.
The second is, of course, performance, because the exercise gene is not just on the surface of the design, it makes your blood boil in the bones. The fourth generation of Fit is equipped with a 1.5L Earth Dream engine, which can output 131Ps of abundant power, with a maximum torque of 155N·m, as one of the world's top ten engines, the power performance can be said to be the first in the same class. The fourth-generation Fit also set a new record for the speed of The Zhuzhou International Circuit with a lap time of 1 minute 56.988 seconds in November this year, and followed the lap challenge of Zhuhai, Beijing and Zhejiang Circuits to achieve good results again, setting a record for lap times in South China, North China, East China and Central China, which can be called the "king of the track" in A0-class cars.
Since the Fit modification competition held in 2007, Honda can be regarded as playing with the domestic modification culture, and since then, the phrase "Fit is not as good as pushing it into the sea" has been widely circulated in the play car industry, which is actually the playability of Fit. That's true, when you have a Fit, you can't help but change it, that's the magic of it.
After the launch of the fourth generation of Fit, Honda is also very thoughtful to provide pure modification supplies for riders, while reserving modification interfaces to provide modification space for modification enthusiasts. Honda's royal modification factory infinity MUGEN brought the fourth generation of Fit Unlimited Modified Version, JR-Modification Agency has launched a number of modified cars based on the fourth generation of Fit, these modification cases have provided a mature modification direction for the owner's subsequent modification, so that Fit's hot blood sports "super running" gene and modification gene have been further inherited and continued, and young people directly love to live.
Because of the power, handling and playability, GK5 brings the fit to the "altar", and the fourth generation of fit not only inherits the sporty orientation of the GK5, but also greatly improves the driving quality and safety performance. The fourth generation fit has made targeted improvements to the chassis, improved the front and rear suspensions, and improved the driving quality of the vehicle by changing the shock absorber bracket, taking into account the handling and riding comfort, and then with the increase of sound insulation materials, sound absorbing materials, dashboard thickness and other sound insulation measures.
It is worth mentioning that the fourth generation of Fit is Honda's first model equipped with the latest Honda SENSING safety super sense, which includes ACC active cruise control, CMBS collision mitigation braking system, LKAS lane keeping assist system, RDM lane offset suppression system, these four systems can achieve close to the L2 level of automatic driving. Although positioning A0 class sedan, but it can be said to be S class in the safety area, just rush this sincerity, try to ask which young people do not like such a fit?
Big enough to stand out from the crowd
Honda in the play space this piece can be described as handy, "space magician" is not a waste of time, small to fit this A0 class car, it can also give you to play out the space performance of the B class car, the fourth generation of Fit's ride space can be said to be the strongest in history. In the front row, the "evolution" of the fourth generation of fit can be clearly felt, and by optimizing the pedal angle, the layout of the interior structure, and adjusting the rear seat recline angle, it has an excellent legroom performance in the same class.
In the rear row of the CROSSTAR model, the housekeeping skill "Magic Seat" has been added to improve the utilization of space and increase the riding comfort. Man Ge feels that the fourth generation of Fit is not only to meet the owner's love of play, the home aspect is also taken into account, in the A0 class car of about 100,000 yuan, can be "fun" and "Gu family" between each other to complete each other, in addition to Fit, I can not think of other models.
High enough quality to pass on word of mouth
As Man Ge said earlier, the premise of feelings is that there are excellent product highlights, and in the 20 years of upgrading, it has conquered the market again and again, and has become a sentiment car in the hearts of more than 8 million users around the world. This charm is its high quality, fit quality is not only the "preference" of users, it is also recognized in the industry. In the 2021 China New Car Quality Research IQS ranking, GUANGQI Honda ranked first in the quality of new cars in the mainstream car market, and Fit also won the top 1 in the market segment.
Of course, it is not only a first-hand market segment, but also popular in the second-hand car market, with a three-year retention rate of more than 65%, with an absolute advantage to win and win the first place in the small car retention rate, the retention rate is still a strong proof of whether the car can become a classic, Fit is simply a high-quality companion for human beings.
Write at the end:
According to the latest data released, the fourth-generation Fit sold 10,286 vehicles in November and 87,089 vehicles in January-November, an increase of 59.9% year-on-year, continuing to lead the A0-class sedan market. To achieve such results, Man Ge is actually not surprised at all, because its position in this market segment is still difficult to shake, there is not such a large space for it to be so sporty, there is not such a large space for such a small space, there is such a cheap and not so good performance and playability, there is such a strong performance and not so high retention rate, anyway, there is no opponent at the same level at present. It may be the next generation of fit that can surpass the fit in the future.