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Yeah, I own a Honda Fit, and buying a sub-$20k subcompact car for daily use and being willing to do short-term rentals of something when I need to (very rarely,

by kemayo 3y ago

Yeah, I own a Honda Fit, and buying a sub-$20k subcompact car for daily use and being willing to do short-term rentals of something when I need to (very rarely, the Fit has a lot of cargo space for its size) has been an excellent trade-off. Particularly since in daily life having decent gas mileage and being able to park in any available spot is far more useful... The main drawback of owning it, honestly, is that there's always the worry that someone in a behemoth pickup will collide with me, and I'd come off the worse from that. I'm sure there are people out there who actually need the capacity of a pickup truck... but I don't think that most of the people who own one actually do. Certainly not the people you see driving them in town with an empty bed.

AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
Honda fits are like a bag of holding, I've moved 500lb machine tools in one. I wouldn't mind the flexibility of having a pickup truck shaped object because I never use the rear seats and always have them folded down for moving around other stuff, but nobody makes tiny pickups like they did in the 80s/90s. I also can't be alone in thinking this because I've seen an explosion in 80s Japanese micro trucks around town recently after some people documented the import process online.
- rimunroe 3y ago
  I absolutely love how you can fit 8 foot lumber in the Fit with the gate down
  - AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
    I at one point had a guy with pickup (without a rack) trying to load lumber and remarked at how much easier of a time I was having loading the same lumber into the fit. It was pretty funny and I was surprised at his candor given my usual truck owner interactions.
    - rimunroe 3y ago
      Yeah! It being at or below waist level makes a huge difference. I usually get at least one skeptical look when I pull up to the local lumber yard with it. I'm always the only non-truck or van there.
- throw0101d 3y ago
  > […] but nobody makes tiny pickups like they did in the 80s/90s. The Japanese do! * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck :)
- beej71 3y ago
  > Honda fits are like a bag of holding 100% true. Sadly our Fit was destroyed by a Big Azz Truck that didn't see it.
neogodless 3y ago
My favorite personal anecdote was when I drove ~90 minutes to a friend's house in January so we could use his '98 Tahoe to pick up a king sized bed from Ikea. But we couldn't actually close the back doors with all of the boxes in there. It was quite chilly. When we got back to his house, I said "you know what, let's at least try to fit this in my (2007) Honda Fit. If it works, I'm warm, you don't have to waste 180 minutes on a round trip (with the first half freezing), and I save a bunch in gas." He thought I was crazy and it would never work. But wouldn't you know, with the passenger seat folded back we could get everything in with the hatch closed. I was able to drive the bed straight home and save my friend a lot of hassle!

by kemayo 3y ago

AnarchismIsCool 3y ago

Honda fits are like a bag of holding, I've moved 500lb machine tools in one. I wouldn't mind the flexibility of having a pickup truck shaped object because I never use the rear seats and always have them folded down for moving around other stuff, but nobody makes tiny pickups like they did in the 80s/90s. I also can't be alone in thinking this because I've seen an explosion in 80s Japanese micro trucks around town recently after some people documented the import process online.

rimunroe 3y ago
I absolutely love how you can fit 8 foot lumber in the Fit with the gate down
- AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
  I at one point had a guy with pickup (without a rack) trying to load lumber and remarked at how much easier of a time I was having loading the same lumber into the fit. It was pretty funny and I was surprised at his candor given my usual truck owner interactions.
  - rimunroe 3y ago
    Yeah! It being at or below waist level makes a huge difference. I usually get at least one skeptical look when I pull up to the local lumber yard with it. I'm always the only non-truck or van there.
throw0101d 3y ago
> […] but nobody makes tiny pickups like they did in the 80s/90s. The Japanese do! * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck :)
beej71 3y ago
> Honda fits are like a bag of holding 100% true. Sadly our Fit was destroyed by a Big Azz Truck that didn't see it.

neogodless 3y ago

My favorite personal anecdote was when I drove ~90 minutes to a friend's house in January so we could use his '98 Tahoe to pick up a king sized bed from Ikea. But we couldn't actually close the back doors with all of the boxes in there. It was quite chilly. When we got back to his house, I said "you know what, let's at least try to fit this in my (2007) Honda Fit. If it works, I'm warm, you don't have to waste 180 minutes on a round trip (with the first half freezing), and I save a bunch in gas." He thought I was crazy and it would never work. But wouldn't you know, with the passenger seat folded back we could get everything in with the hatch closed. I was able to drive the bed straight home and save my friend a lot of hassle!