[beachx4me]

Very unfortunate, all my dealings with Blount have been positive and their service dept is wonderful.

[mixsonci]

I was just notified by email with pictures that my FIT has arrived and is waiting for me when I get off the plane in December. Yay, can't wait. A new car, a new house and Florida sunshine. It's especially nice to hear mostly positive remarks about Blount snce I'll have to be using their service department.

[Ohiogirl]

you won't need the service dept. much. We have one of the 1st Honda Fits available from 2007, about 140,000 miles on it right now. Plan to get another in a year or two. It "fits" in our CYV garage with 2 golf carts (and 3 bikes, 2 storage cabinets, a workbench and numerous other stuff hung on the walls.

Only 2 drawbacks that we see - passenger seat gets uncomfortable on long trips but that's partly because we usually have so much in it that we can't recline the seat. Hoping they improved the seat padding on the new ones. I'm going to investigate seat pads or something before the next long trip. We do go 3-4 hours between stops, and that doesn't help either.

Also, be careful pulling in to parking spaces with a curb in front - it is low and you can damage the understructure.

[mixsonci]

Good to know, thanks. I'll be driving down from Boston in January, so I'll let you know how comfortable the seat is. I'll be driving so Mom will be the one sitting in the passenger seat and we will have a lot of stuff in the car (including my cat), so she probably won't be able to recline either. I did notice that it looked a bit low in the pictures, that concerns me a bit.

[railroadman]

Originally Posted by John_W

Last year I wanted to buy a car that was new on the market, a Turbo Veloster and only 700 were brought over from Japan on the first ship and dealers were only get one or none at all. Jenkins Hyundai wasn't getting any and I didn't care if the dealer was a little ways away. So I went on AutoTrader.com, I typed in the make, model, engine, transmission, and a 100 mile distance from this zip code. I didn't want black or red, only silver or white. After two weeks a silver model popped up at Red Hoagland Hyundai in Winter Haven. I called them on the phone, the internet salesman walked out to the car with the phone and answered any questions I had. I then told him to hold it, I'll be there in two hours.

Autotrader also gives the price of what your present car is worth on trade and what I should pay for the new car. After arriving at the dealer, I drove the car, told the salesman what I would pay and how much I wanted for my trade. After he left the room, he returned in 30 seconds and said we have a deal. I drove the car home that day, this is what it looks like, I paid $22,600.

John:

Good Morning! I have some questions concerning your Turbo Veloster. The car looks great, did you get the 6 speed or the automatic transmission and are you still happy with your purchase? Looking for my retirement car and something fun to drive.

Thanks for your help.
Randy

[John_W]

Originally Posted by railroadman

John:

Good Morning! I have some questions concerning your Turbo Veloster. The car looks great, did you get the 6 speed or the automatic transmission and are you still happy with your purchase? Looking for my retirement car and something fun to drive.

Thanks for your help.
Randy

The car turned two years old on Oct 10th and it has just over 15,000 miles. The only maintenance has been the normal service, which I had done at 3750 miles, 7500 miles and 13,000 miles. I usually get about 26 -27 mpg around town and 30 on the highway. It's an automatic, my wife can't shift gears so that was the reason for that.

Last two times I was in the dealer (Jenkins of Ocala) they didn't have any turbos, the salesman at Jenkins said they were limited. I wouldn't buy the regular version, I hear it's a real dog. They are 138 HP compared to 201 HP on the turbo. The only thing I didn't care for was the 3 doors, I don't know why they didn't put a 4th back seat door on the drivers' side, I guess to be different. You can't be a big person and drive one of these, I'm 5'9" and have no problem but if you're over 6' then probably forget it.

Mine is Ironman Silver, I thought white looked good as well, they also make black, red, blue, silver (matte finish) and aspirin (orangish). The matte finish is very unique but I hear it's difficult to keep looking right. Everything is standard including the leather seats, the only option is the moon roof/naviation package and that's about $3500. I've had moon/sun roofs before and didn't really use them and don't care for more bright light shining down through. When I bought mine the base price was $23,925 but as my post above states, I didn't pay that amount. I read that some dealers were charging full list plus more. I've read lately that Hyundai might discontinue making the Veloster due to poor sales, only 30,000 sold in North America since it's introduction in 2010. I think the regular engine is the reason for that, why not make all of them turbos?