Confessions of a Honda Fit Lover

Do you remember this...

 My super cute 2007 Honda Fit that I bought back in 2011? Yep, this is Hollie BeeBee, my adorable car that fit my needs and personality so perfectly.

  Well, then this happened....

 It happened last Tuesday Feb 11 as I was leaving Wal-Mart after I stopped to purchase Austenland. (Have you seen it yet? So good!) When the light turned green I started to proceed through the intersection as one would normally do. There was a truck that was in front of me who had waited for the light as well and he made it through fine. As I was in the middle of the intersection just before I reached the median I heard the screeched of breaks from my left side.

 I had no time to react before a Red Dodge Pickup truck crashed into the side of my car and turned my car to face the lane he had just come from. He immediately drove around my car and then peeled out of there as fast as he could.  There was a lady in a van who witnessed the accident and followed him and got his license plate number. Thank heaven for her!

I, fortunately, was not injured beyond being sore from the impact and a stiff knee from hitting the dash. My beautiful Hollie BeeBee, however, did not fair so well as you can tell. And I got the word a few days later that she was totaled. :`( That was the most devastating part of the whole thing for me because I really loved my car! I love Honda Fits and felt so fortunate to be able to find one I could afford and that fit my personality so well. Here are some things I love about Hollie and Fits in general:

• Hollie is a Honda Fit Sport (that little spoiler in the back makes such a difference in the look, so cute!)
• the ease of putting the seats up and down for transporting cargo
  
• how much stuff you can hall in a Fit! Seriously for how small they are on the outside you can get so much on the inside. People are always amazed with the stuff I can unload inside my car.
• Along with that the roominess around the seats. My long legs are not crammed in like they are in other cars. I've had people ask how I can fit in it because I am so tall. It is like the Weasley's tent from HP and the Goblet of Fire or Mary Poppins bag, small on the outside but so much space on the inside.
• the back seat is not attached to the floor so I can store stuff underneath it and still have passengers sit there and have leg room.

  

  See because the seats can lit up like this when the seat is down you get a good 6 inches or so of storage space you wouldn't usually get. I love that and use it all the time.

• Hollie's color!! (I get bored with the neutral color cars, I like that it was a more unique color. Plus finding your car in the parking lot is so much easier when you don't have a color that everyone else has.)
• the great gas mileage. I got consistently 31-32 mpg in my normal driving. And got as much as 45 on the freeway!
• the price range of the car. I love the affordable nature of Fits. They are one of the least expensive cars out there but are such a great value. It's practical and not extravagant which is how I see myself, not anything fancy but a good value.
• The look of the car. At first I wasn't as in love with the look of the car but now I adore it. I think they are so cute!

I was heartbroken because while I love Fits a lot, the color of Hollie was what made her unlike all the other Fits out there. That color blue is not offered in the newer Fit models. I decided I wanted to get another Fit (because seriously I'm in love with them) but figured I was going to have to settle for a boring color. To make the story short after some stressful days I found a Fit that took the sting of loosing Hollie away. One that had a beautiful color that I like as much and maybe more than Hollie's color. 

Introducing my new car, Cici. (Can you figure out where the name came from?)

The color is called Blue Raspberry which is a cool name, though I'd describe it as turquoise. Turquoise has started to infect my brain the last few months. It's just so pretty! So it's interesting that I found this color car.

I got a great deal on this car! It's a 2013 and was the price of 2010's with fewer miles. The redesign and improvements on the car are pretty cool I must admit. One fun thing that came with this car was a remote start system. I can sit in my house and start my car. I already used it this morning because it was chilly outside. My car was warm when I got out to it. :) 

Here are my Fits side by side. They sure are great cars.

In the end things worked out well. God always manages to do that for me, for which I am grateful!