2012 Chevy Sonic LTZ Turbo vs. 2011 Honda Fit Sport, 2012 Hyundai Accent SE ...
In the automotive days/space continuum, life first pokes its head out of the primordial pea soup in the B-length. Some of its denizens are slowpoke slugs with nubs for legs. Others are commencement to sprout wings and dazzling plumage. It’s a interbred bag, with the brightest of its Darwinian candidates evolving at lissom speed and with the dullest apparently content to linger listlessly in dodo-dom. Passage of the fittest, here, means that shoppers do the selecting, and—as we found out—they’d heartier do it pretty damned carefully.
We’ve spent all together aplenty sampling the bargain Bs. In 2006 (“$15,000 Base Skates”), we droned around Ohio celebrating the Buckeye aver’s seven dead and oft-maligned presidents. On that travel, the Honda Fit easily won. We revisited the segment in 2010 (“ Ego Shrinkers ”), only to select the Fit again to the segment’s highest office, nudging out the Mazda 2 Touring and Ford Fiesta SES. As a sequel, those two weren’t included in this competition. Yeah, we recall, maybe they should have been. We’ll confess that neither would have finished anywhere near last in this phiz-off. But we gotta draw the line somewhere. Have you seen our restaurant tabs? There’s the prog, the alcohol, the pre-arraignment hearings, the occasional trifling hotel fire.