hopless500
Trundling along
- Location
- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
Didn't Buy the Car we took for a Test Drive.
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DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
Surprised it actually lasted 2 years
The BiL had one of them. I drove it a few times. He took it in for it's MOT and the bloke came out after a few minutes shaking his head. The next day it went in the auctions. Different times then. Moral, never buy a car over a meeting in a pub.Yep. Fiat X19. Owned for 10 months. Bills of £1000 in total
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
My brother had a fiat 500, the sort you had to double declutch in. He liked it although he was too tall for it. Fortunately it had a sunshine roof.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
My feeling is the current Fiat 500 is too popular for it's own good. The Panda seems to be a much better built car than the 500 but it's also a much lower production volume
My wife has a 500 and whilst I wouldn't want one myself I can see the attraction. On the odd occasion I've driven it I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience mainly due to the retro design which makes me smile. It has also been faultless so far (2 years) which is not something that can be said for the Volvo I have at the moment or the Mercedes I had last.
The Panda is lower production for a reason, mainly that they can't shift the pig ugly piles of cack!
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
I had a Fiat Panda, a proper one, not one of the new ones. It was buzzy and a bit light (and shocking pink) but I bought it new on a J reg in 1991 and finally sold it to someone who had been trying to buy it from me for a while, in about 2002. A great little car. The only things I had to fix on it was to get a new window when someone broke in for the radio that I didn't have and a new airbox thingy which cost me £4 from the breakers yard.
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Er... you know that the 500 is in essence a re-skin of the Panda's chassis & running gear?
Er... you know that the 500 is in essence a re-skin of the Panda's chassis & running gear?
Yes, but it's not pig ugly though. Which is the point I made if you ead my post.
ayceejay
Guru
- Location
- Rural Quebec
When I part exchanged my Morris Ital the sales bloke allowed me £500.00 but told me he didn't want the car as it would be a liability. He got that right - I couldn't give the bloody thing away.
swee'pea99
Squire
That's hilarious! That really was the nadir of the great era of British Leyland, wasn't it? "How are we going to drag the last few quid out of the universally acknowledged pile of poo that is the Morris Marina? I know! We'll curve off the edges a bit and call it the Ital - then everyone will think it's a bit sexy, a bit...you know...Italian." Jesus H.
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
My parents had a brown/bronze one. I did use it for a few months after they bought a Sierra. Can't recall there being any more problems than with anything else of that era. There were a lot of poor cars around at that time.
With test drives we were looking for a sensible family car, something like a Zafira or Picassa.
Then I went out in an Alfa and bought that
Primal Scream
Get your rocks off
- Location
- On the road to hell
I have a Fiat Sedeci , bought new, after 88k miles have had very little trouble until last week when the timing belt went and that was my fault for not having it replaced sooner.
Nice motor and nice to drive
Nice motor and nice to drive
GrasB
Veteran
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
Yeah, the Panda looks far better than a poor retro-ripoff of an old design!
