Someone, somewhere on the internet, to someone else:
"I don't know if you've ever been in a Fit or a Versa, but their "cargo area" has maybe enough space for a cooler. It would be very difficult to put more than two people + stuff for more than just a weekend trip in there, and camping would be hard as well." Now, I don't speak for the Versa...in fact, I rather do not like them, and hence don't own one, but this is just untrue for the Fit. It is one of the most efficient transportation vehicles for its size and gas I've ever seen. However, saying is not showing, so, here we go!
Here it is configured comfortably for 4 passengers. With the back seats up, you have about 26 deep x 36 x 36 cargo cube to fill.
This can be filled quite effectively, and easily hold a normal human's weekend roadtrip's worth of stuff, or four backpacking backpacks standing up next to eachother:
In this case, it held:
- Two Large Sleeping Bags
- Two small flexible coolers
- One large low rubbermaid
- Two large storage rubbermaids
- One duffle
- One kitty transport vessel
Now, if it's just a roadtrip for two, which many are, then it's a different story all together. We can fold down the rear seats (not remove them), and with the front seats in a comfortable sustainable position, we have over a five foot deep cargo area. For comparison, this is the same size as a short bed Tacoma pickup truck.
This will hold, um, a rather lot of things. Actually, more things than I had in rubbermaids in my garage, so I had to start improvising (note the large cardboard box and the milk crates of electronic stuff)
Yes, everything fit with the doors closed...that picture was boring due to tinted windows so I didn't upload it.
Still have plenty of leg room. If my wife wasn't taking no part in this nonsense, I'd have a picture of myself sitting comfortably in the driver's seat.
A total inventory:
- Three Large Sleeping Bags
- Two small flexible coolers
- Four large low rubbermaids
- SIX large storage rubbermaids
- Two milk crates
- One large cardboard box
- One duffle bag
- One full daypack
- One internal frame backpacking pack
- One kitty transport vessel
I'd say this is a rather bit more than 'maybe enough space for a cooler,' and if you need more than that for a weekend camping trip, why, I pity you.
If you have another person you want to bring along, you can easily sacrifice, say, two of the large tubs and fold up one of the back seats and not lose much storage--they are 60/40 split, so he will still be comfortable, and you can carry the above minus two of the large rubbermaids.
This doesn't address the 'long' option for carying, where the passenger can sit behind the driver and the front passenger seat flips back, allowing you to fit up to a 9'6" item (like say, oh, a pair of
these kayaks) in the passenger side.
I did this as an exercise for my self as well, as I'd never tried to max out what I could Fit in the Fit. This load is in addition to a dining room table and four chairs (with a passenger), two large rolled area rugs (11 x 14 and 10 x 10, I believe, again with passenger), an assembled desk and chair, and many many other things on a daily basis. Did I mention it gets 35mpg, and is consistently ranked 'best value' and has a couple 'car of the year's under its belt as well?
What can I say other than THE FIT IS GO!
