2026 Honda Fit.
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It looks like it’s almost time for a new generation Honda Fit/Jazz. The illustration above isn’t that great looking, but it does show a really cool design with some welcomed retro Honda design cues.
The Honda Fit was sold in the US from 2006 to 2020, through 3 generations. A fourth generation came out in 2020 but has never been sold in North America, since Honda decided to focus on the HR-V instead, which is really too bad as the Fit had many fans in the US. The current 4th generation is even available as a Hybrid in some markets.
Honda seems to be getting ready to launch a fifth-generation as soon as the end of this year. And of course, it will not be coming to the US. Again, too bad. Especially for the Hybrid version. I am currently test-driving a Civic Hybrid hatchback and have had no problem averaging 55MPG. I can only imagine what a smaller Hybrid Fit would get.
Sales of the Fit in the US never went over 80,000 units a year, which was back in 2008. By the time Honda killed it over here in 2020, numbers were down to 32,488. At the same time, the HR-V went from 42,000 units in 2015 to over 122,000 last year. I guess it’s hard to make a business case for the poor old FIt over here.
And yet, why not!
If I had to guess why this entire class of car has died in the US, other than the fact that people are buying SUVs and not cars, is that the Fit fell into that “too thin, too small” classification. It doesn’t have much ‘elbow’ room for all these big Americans. The other issue with that is our higher speeds and I wonder if these much smaller vehicles can even pass current crash safety standards.