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The fit isn't a great car for highway driving. Yeah, they are popular for city drivers would also into mini coopers and SMART cars. There are plenty of 'little cars' on the market, but people don't genreally like them because they are impactical and sucky to drive compared to compact suvs and sedans, that are more or less the same price and offer a way more comfortable experience.
after you go over 65mph it feels like the wheels will fall off, and it's low weight and box frame makes it blow around like a leaf in any substantial winds. I chose a civic because it was so much safer and more comfortable for highway driving at 70mph+. it is a much stiffer chasis, my civic can hit 110mph before it starts to feel sketchy.
Civic and HRV and CRV are way more stable and comfortable vehicles and get the same mileage, and have more storage space.
A modern Mini Cooper is nothing like a Smart car. It's comparable in size to a Golf, or a Corolla hatch.
which model? the countryman is bigger, but the basic one is still barely a 4 seater. the 2 door is tiny.
The normal Cooper.
The 4 door Cooper is the same width as the 2 door, 1cm taller, and 16cm longer, based on a 2013-2018 model since that's what this tool has available:
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mini-cooper-2013-3-door-hatchback-vs-mini-cooper-2013-5-door-hatchback/
Compare a 2 door Cooper vs 2 door Golf and it's barely different:
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mini-cooper-2013-3-door-hatchback-vs-volkswagen-golf-2012-3-door-hatchback
Or 2 door Cooper vs Smart Fortwo:
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/smart-fortwo-2014-3-door-hatchback-vs-mini-cooper-2013-3-door-hatchback/
The Smart is clearly a smaller size. The Cooper and the Golf are basically the same. There's definitely a lot more cross shopping of Coopers and Golfs than Coopers and Smarts.
The 40mpg highway mileage that the Fit gets tells me that you have different priorities than I do on the highway.
my civic gets over 40mph on the highway. usually 42+
I've also never experienced the "wheels wanting to fall off" bullshit or the wind buffeting it personally.
The only thing I don't like about highway driving is the revs get higher when you go fast.
Which AFAIK is because the fit is geared more towards lower speed driving, but honestly it is not a problem.
Ours is perfectly stable at highway speeds and is absolutely capable of greatly exceeding the speed limit if you are patient enough.
I also love how much shit can "fit" in it, lol. I have the back seats down often, hauling lots of stuff.