Honda Freed Spike

The Honda Freed Spike is a small tall wagon that Honda built and sold in Japan from July 2010 until September 2016, with a hybrid version added in October 2011. It is based on the Freed minivan but drops the third row of seats in favour of a Fit-style dive-down second row, a reversible floor board and side pockets behind the dark rear quarter windows, so that the load space is as practical as possible. The cargo area is more than two metres long, long enough for adults to sleep in the car. It seats five, has its own front bumper, headlights and wings, and uses a 1.5 litre i-VTEC four-cylinder engine of 87 kilowatts with a CVT in front-drive cars and a five-speed automatic in four-wheel-drive cars. It was the Freed counterpart of the earlier Mobilio Spike, and cumulative registrations had reached 114,571 by May 2015. Sales ended on 16 September 2016 with the redesign of the Freed, whose two-row version was renamed Freed Plus.