Posted by Ed Kim on September 22, 2011 at 6:51 pm
As I drove the new Sonic, Chevrolet’s replacement for the unloved Aveo, I realized something. There really are no bad small cars in the marketplace anymore. The Sonic accelerated with authority. It was quiet. It was nimble. It rode nicely. It had plenty of creature comforts. It was even nice to look at. Truly, being behind the wheel of the Sonic was an entirely agreeable place to be.
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Posted by Ed Kim on August 18, 2009 at 8:06 am
When I was a kid, I loved all manner of transforming robots. Transformers, Go-bots, Voltron…if it could change shape and function, I loved it. As an adult, I’m no different. I love multi-functional furniture, living spaces, and of course, automobiles.
Apparently, so do a lot of people. Part of the reason that SUVs became so popular was because they were multi-functional. They could carry people in comfort, but they could also be reconfigured to haul cargo. Or, they could be reconfigured to carry both. SUVs gave people the flexibility to adapt the vehicle to their needs, rather than the other way around.
Of course, there’s no reason why lessons learned from the SUV can’t be applied to other kinds of vehicles, and the Honda Fit you see here is one of the best examples of multi-functionality applied to a vehicle at any price. It may be tiny on the outside, but there’s a staggering amount of out-of-the-box smart thinking on the inside that makes it more useful than many vehicles twice its size.
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