Results of Car & Driver‘s May 2006 comparison “$15,000 Cheap Skates:”

Some high points:

  • Quickest to 60 mph and in the quarter mile (8.7 and 16.7 seconds).
  • Most supportive seats and overall nicest interior. “Acura-grade gauge cluster.”
  • Set apart by handling — lane change faster than the competition and even the Corvette Z06.
  • Shortest and narrowest, while maintaining 42 cubic feet of cargo space and a flat load floor when the seats are folded.
  • C&D elects it “the president of economobiles.”

I don’t know why I’m so psyched about this, but I am. Score another for my favorite team. On another note, all of the above manufacturers with the exception of Nissan have clean URLs for these particular cars. To be honest, this seems to be the exception for Honda since the Fit page is treated like a microsite at this point. Still cleaner than Nissan’s, though — those are a mess.