Around March of 2011, I thought seriously of selling my 2003 Nissan Xterra XE. I’ve always liked my truck but it’s fuel economy was always a negative. And now with Regular over $1.32/L and my personal situation, keeping a truck as a daily driver with mostly city driving didn’t make too much sense. The final push was the failure of my transmissions’ first gear and the cost to fix it. So, while I had the vandalism on the truck fixed and the re&re of the transmission with a second hand unit, I started shopping for a new car.
What I needed was good fuel economy and four doors. Sporty would be nice. And I didn’t want to spend too much money initially so it had to be second hand and relatively close to whatever I could get for my truck. I narrowed my search to small four door hatchbacks. Alphabetically: Honda Fit, Mazda3, Nissan Versa, Toyota Yaris. I did my research and the GD3 Fit won because of fuel economy, handling and those “Magic Seats”. It needed to be the Sport model, 5 speed of course and in silver or white. The Mazda3 was nice but outside the budget I set. The Versa was a bit blah for my tastes and the Yaris was just too small.
I found & purchased a 2007 Honda Fit Sport in Storm Silver Metallic from Regency Volkswagen in Coquitlam. I traded in my truck for the Fit. At delivery, the Fit had 56,498km.
GD3 is the chassis code for 2007-2008 Honda Fits. 2009-2012 Fits are referred to as GE8’s. 2013-2019’s are GK’s.