COMMENT: Prius reign ended by Fit a worthy term
Author: Graeme Roberts | 4 February 2011
There would have been some popping of champagne corks at Honda HQ in Tokyo today after earlier reports were confirmed that the Fit - which most outside Japan and North America know as the Jazz - had toppled the Toyota Prius from 19 months at the top of the Japanese sales charts.
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