I started wondering why Honda had to change the fine name Jazz to Fit? Perhaps this has come up before and the answer is clear. If so I'd like to here the WHY.

So I started looking
Fit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Than guessing it was an acronym, tried a few

Fun International Transportation
or Fun Intellectual Transportation

how about
Frequently In Third (place)

What's your guess

 

Fin' Intelligent Transportation

 

Maybe just the fact that almost anything in your lifestyle will "Fit" into the car.
The car can "Fit" into tight spaces.

 

My wife and I call it the "F" "it", but I'm guessing that's not what Honda was thinking. When we discusss what car to take to dinner we say..."ahhh..."F" it and hop in the Fit."

 

I love the name "Fit", It fits the Fit so well. Its very fitting lol!

Tyler

 

I still want a sticker that says "Suck Mah Fit!"

 

Got my vote to fit into tight spaces

 

I like Jazz better than the name fit

 

i say it comes from the fact that if Fits anywhere... and it will Fit a ton of stuff!

 

Wait, I'm confused, I thought the JDM GD was called a Fit, and they only call it Jazz in Euro Countries, and a few others? Am I wrong? If not, that'd mean that Fit came first, then came Jazz. (But what about the chicken and the egg?)
Also, I don't really like the name Jazz. It's not very...well, very anything. Jazz is a type of music, not a cool little 5 door grocery getting monster. I used to have a better explanation for why I didn't like the name. It sounds like something my 90 year old grandmother would say "Oh that little car is so Jazzy!" Just my .02

 

i think it was a fit first, then they changed the name to jazz for the euro market because in england saying "fit" is like saying "hottie". in england :"that bird is fit!" in america: "that chick is a hottie!" and i think the name fit is testament to the large interior cargo area and the small outer dimensions.

 

i think it just means it fits into people's lifestyles... and it does, if you
get the chance to drive one.

 

i think the name 'fit' fits the fit very well. It fits a lot into it and fits into a lot. it's also fit as in able-bodied or agile. i don't think i could have come up with a more fitting name for the fit.

and yes the 'fit' came out as the 'fit' in japan before it came out as the 'jazz' in europe.

 

This is kind of a tangent...

I notice some of the marketing materials for the Honda Fit and Wii Fit share the same font. Kinda weird.

 

lol, illusive should get on making these next

 

The problem with the name "Fit" is that when you do a search for parts, you get a ton of hits for parts that "fit" other Honda models.

I hate that.

ed

 

hahaha TOTALLY!! i hate that.

if you put in fit/jazz gd3 its a more precise search.

 

I have heard that "Fit" is a word in Japan that means "small on the outside and big inside" or something like that? Or maybe it is just a random name, and that was the first slogan for the car.

Anyway the reason for the car was getting the name Jazz when it was going to be sold in Europe is that the name "Fit" could easy be mistaken for the word "fitta" in the nordic countries. If you dont know what it means, look it up, and then you understand why it's not named so in the nordic countries.
But the slogan for the car would "fit" verry well

 

Fit isn't a japanese word... they most likely just co-opted it from English as they do with a lot of words (sometimes more appropriately than others). Personally I like the name Fit.... it has more meaning than most other car names (Celica? Tahoe? sentra? etc etc). I just hate it when people ask what car I drive... they're always saying "a what??"

 

I really like the name Fit - it is as strange and different as the car itself. Hey, my vanity plate explains what the Fit means to me Cat :x