Honda Fit

To compete in a world gone mad for sport utes, the Honda Fit promotes excellent cargo space, magic seat versatility and over 300 miles of range to get you to the ranch.

The Honda Fit may be inexpensive, but it comes with a backup camera, readable screen, and smartphone apps — though Apple CarPlay is is the only app that consistently works.

The HFP trim for the Honda Fit lowers the car 10 millimeters, adds black 16-inch wheels, and tacks on a rear hatch spoiler that could shade a small family.

The 2018 Honda Fit gains a mid-cycle update that includes a Sport HFP package that gives the little subcompact a sportier, wider appearance to accentuate its hatchback handling.

The Honda Fit HFP Sport package gets a silver ball on the manual shifter that accentuates the Fit's roomy center console.

The Fit is full of magic seats in front and back. Fold the front seat all the way back (unique in its class) and the chair back works as a lawn chair for leggy rear-seat passengers.

The 2018 Fit shows off the brand's more stylish steering wheel controls — a welcome upgrade from the plastic buttons that have adorned previous models.

The 2018 Fit's five-door configuration can swallow five passengers, full shopping carts, or a weekend's worth of camping equipment.

Back for 2018 is the Fit's staple, 130-horse (with CVT tranny), 1.5-liter gerbil wheel. The Fit sorely needs a turbo, which it may just get in 2020.

The Honda Fit's front passenger seat folds flat to allow extra legroom for big palooka's like Detroit News auto critic Henry Payne.

The stripped interior of a Fit race car reveals the gas tank under the driver's seat for better rear cargo versatility.

Like other Hondas before it, the Fit competes in U.S. race series like SCCA. A Fit in racing trim is shown in front of Honda's LA Performance Center.