On
display at the concluding NAIAS is Honda's latest new model, an SUV based on
the popular Honda Fit/Jazz. Done as a global model, meaning to be sold
in all countries in the world, Honda is finally and wisely capitalizing
on the hugely popular Fit/Jazz platform.
A SUV smaller than the
CR-V but available worldwide is sorely needed by Honda and this new
model meets that need. The car on display at the NAIAS is a concept but
is indicative of the new model which Honda says will go on sale in Japan
at the end of this year (2013), and then followed by 'sequential
introductions' in other countries around the world.
