6-7 years ago they had no plans of bringing Fit into US as well.
My concern is for llama: in original Fit brochure Honda had llama standing in a car, will there be room for llama now with extra seats?

Geez, looks like somebody hit the back end of that thing with a shovel.

I have to question the safety of the third row passengers. It seems that the third row seats are jammed right up the tail gate.

Holy crap that is even uglier maybe than the Pilot.

As much as people may complain about Honda’s design, you have to admit that they are geniuses at packaging.

Wonder if this will come to America in some form to battle the Mazda5, the upcoming version from Saturn (launching in Europe as an Opel) and to a lesser extent the Kia Rondo.

Honda does not do two things. Good design and torque. Other than that they are masters of the autmotive universe.

Yeah, they hit it with a shovel and a sledgehammer and then threw the pulpy mess in the ugly tree.

so i take it they got the name after you cramp in 8ppl and when your trip is over you get out and say FREED ! hmmm, this could do well when smuggling illegals over the border into Texas…. FREED !!!!!!!!!

yes, torque sucks.

But I tell you one thing, in a people mover/minivan, torque is a negative. Giving a car full of kids whiplash , or pulling away with a jack rabbit start is exactly the opposite of what a good minivan ride experience should be.

Sporty minivans are for parents who think they are still teenagers.

A good minivan full of kids is one crushed under the tires of an 18-wheeler.

If they had the thing in US showrooms today it would outsell the Pilot two to one.

TomF, I raise your number to 4 to 1. It can fit ( ) 7, gets well over 30 mpg and if you have a family of 5 and need space and have low budget it’s a no-brainer.

There’s no way you could cram seven fat-ass American’s in that thing. Don’t bother bringing it to the US, the Mazda5 and Kia Rondo have flopped, don’t follow suit.

Buenos is, naturally, curious about its “package.”

Well, naturally mayer_ray-nagin, just so long as no one puts a bra on it.

livelyjay, I see quite a lot of Mazda5’s they move at a brisk pace from dealerships, stop speaking crap.

i like that interior. but yeah, the vehicle as a whole is pretty damn ugly. the near vertical rear end is nasty-looking, even if it does make sense from an interior space perspective.

No way it would fit eight Americans, maybe eight Japanese.

Hey Honda, we want to be “Freed” from these ugly designs. Please FIRE your design chief. First he blames the bean-counters, now he basically took their cubicles and put four wheels on it. Tint the windows dark, give the bean-counters some masks and this will make a hell of a get-away car. The way your designs are heading, you might have to rob Pinafarina to get idea.

What the hell are they smoking at Honda?

I can’t help but think to myself how much this looks like one of those Ssangyongs (es) that veda has. Not knocking on your vehicles, just ugly.

I really do enjoy Honda’s quirky interiors however.

Take the 7-pax, replace the L15 engine with the K24 from the TSX, and Honda now has a great Mazda5 fighter. I’d say ready for the U.S by 2012.

Ugly as hell.

Add another check mark to the “UGLY” column … ’sharpie’, yup.

Mazda5 imitator

8 people? no. 8 Asians? yes.

Astonman12 – I hope that there aren’t any racism-sensitive people on here that misconstrue your comment as being racism. After all, it is actually true, and if anything it is a compliment to Asians which happen to be smaller than fat-ass Americans who can only fit 6-7 of themselves in their minivans.

Anyway, this minivan, like all minivans, is pretty ugly maybe even uglier than average. But the dashboard looks really functional. The front passenger seat can almost be used as a desk to write bills, phone numbers, etc.

Honda already has a Mazda5 competitor.. it’s called the Stream, and Honda would be smart to bring that handsome Civic-based sportwagon to the US ASAP. This is understyled and undermotored, no way would this sell here (unless, of course, it were given away for FREE(d).

^ Honda Stream is handsome?

http://www.atsrentacar.com/Jerome/Stream/HondaStream1.jpg

‘Commodore’, the Mazda5 is the most attractive minivan out.

mazda5 also is priced reasonably, can be had with a manual (but for this kind of vehicle, you be doing it for less maintenance i guess), and projector lens headlamps, with HID Xenon available too.

I’d wait for the 2.5l engine to go in it instead of the 2.3l.

Ugly, but useful. I thnk it can fit eight japanese people. Not eight americans