Yes, it's a common car... but so was the Beetle... and the Mini... but no car built today evokes the classic small car idea better than the Honda Jazz/Fit. In an era of ever-larger wheels and wheel-arches, the Jazz's just-right arches wrap around its 15" wheels perfectly... it's got a tall greenhouse (unlike the mail-slot fashion-victim sloping windscreens in many other cars nowadays) which gives a good view, and it drives like a go-kart. Sure, it's wrong-wheel drive, but so what? It'll still drift on the right corner... and it still holds its head high on the racetrack against more powerful, grippier cars.

How Honda engineers got such a lively chassis past the marketing department is beyond me... but with the new Jazz reported to be softer-tuned, this'll probably be the last of the "old-school" supermini set from Honda...
*claps in applause*

I agree with you dude, 100%!

Apart from "wrong-wheel drive," another "wrong" thing with the GD-series Jazz/Fit you might not have noticed:
Like many Audis, its engine is mounted ahead of the axle line, which should mean understeer galore. But because of its very light L-series engines and its firm suspension tuning, the Jazz/Fit just resists and resists understeer at high speeds.

And truth be told, I like the GD Jazz/Fit more than its newer GE brother, whether stock or dressed-up. The first time I laid my eyes on photos of the GD Fit published in Autocar Asean back in December 2001, I was instantly smitten.

Cheers!