Those slots also make it easier to slide spare change out of the cup holder, try it. There is a slight ramp in there, and the change slides right up.

 

Have you ever had a drink in an oversized styrofoam cup and put in the deep square cupholders in the dash? The cup slides down deeper and wedges itself more and more tightly against the sides of the cup holder as you drive (especially over bumpy roads). But thanks to the square shape of those cupholders you can easily wiggle your drink out. It'd be much harder if they were round.

 

My god, you've got it. I was looking for an ergonomic reason. Something witty that pulled in a round-peg-in-a-square-hole analogy, but I couldn't make it work. Well done!

Edit: well, OK, this too.

 

No drinks in my Fit except for bottled water.

I don't want coffee or juice stains all over the interior.

I find it mildly annoying how the round bottled water container (this one)...

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...has a propensity to topple over and sit at an angle in the center console cup holders.

Why didn't I test this out during the test drive!!!

 

op- funny you mentioned this cause i didn't even think twice about the shape.

and tencho is right, bottles are rectangular shaped in japan.

 

Hehe... Also, when you got your ice cold drink in a paper/wax or plastic cup it forms a wet condensation on the outside surface. That condensation forms a seal and a vacuum when you place that cup in a round cup holder making it even harder to lift the cup out of the cup holder. And again ...the deeper down the cup goes into the round cup holder... the stronger the seal and vacuum ...the more difficult it is to remove the cup.

So another reason those square cupholders are awsome is so you can easily release the seal and vacuum by gently squeezing the cup near the cornes of the cup holder.

 

Take a look at your doors! Each door has one bottle-holder. I comfortably fit a 27 oz. stainless steel klean kanteen in the front door bottle holders leaving my cup holders for the safe keeping of any cups I may accumulate during my commute.

Working at Starbucks, I am constantly bringing drinks into my car. The in-dash cup holders are wonderful. I can safely keep an iced TRENTA size cup from spilling. They are actually quite deep, providing a lot of stability I did not have in my cup holders of cars previous.

The lower shifter knob cup holders are not in use in my car as I have a satellite radio unit in the way and feel more comfortable using the deeper within-reach in-dash cup holders. As for the center "console" cup holders, I have a little Bell change dispenser in the deeper one and hold my cellphone/chapstick in the more shallow of the two.

 

Nice jug, might have to get one.

 

This is kind of silly, but after owning my fit for two years, every time i get into another car with some sort of drink in my hand (as a driver or a passenger) i instinctively reach out to place it in the non-existent cup holder in front of the corner air vents. it's like driving a stick for two years and hopping into an automatic and still pressing for the clutch pedal that's not there. Happen to anyone else?

 

I did that when I got into my old Subaru last week--I wanted to put my coffee cup in the cupholder and realized it was not there.

 

I have a 27 oz klean kanteen and I can't get it into the door bottle holders. Is there something I'm missing? Do you have to jam it in there? I wonder if the door bottle holders are smaller on my '11?