Posted on 05/12/2012 7:24:52 PM PDT by seton89
The dealership has never had a Fiat 500 Abarth to test drive. When one arrives, it has already been sold.
I haven’t but the ad with the angry Italian chick makes me want one.
My wife won’t let me have an angry Italian chick.
Fix It Again, Tony!!
No but I live on Maui and have eaten a lot of POI.
40 on the lot in Midlothian VA.
Jay Leo has a video on his website of his roadtest:
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/cars/fiat/2012-fiat-500-abarth/
Your wife is SO CORRECT! At ALL COSTS avoid “an angry Italian chick”. Your life has been saved by your wife!
However, if you really want a really good ride a hot Italian chick is the way to go. Unfortunately you won’t know if you’re on foot or horseback at any one time as the olde saying goes. Dangerous country that.
Didn’t say I didn’t want one, just I couldn’t have one. Besides at my age I could only drive it like it deserves once or twice a day.
Females emasculating males in commercials? WHAT? SHOCKED I TELL YA! /sarc
Just make sure the hot Italian chick you going to drive around isn’t a communist.
That angry Italian chick is actually Romanian I believe.
“My wife won’t let me have an angry Italian chick.”
My wife is an angry Italian chick, but we work on the anger.
And I’m one of a very small number of Americans to have owned two Fiats.
Why would anyone want to buy the little POS.
It is a death trap, way too small, no room, an advertised gas mileage of 28 to 32 which is about the same as a Camry.
The price is about the same as a Camry too, at $22,000 for the straight stick model while the Toyota has automatic for that price.
Unles you just have top have an Italian car that still looks like the Fiat they built in 1960 but with less gas mileage , take a pass.
The 170 hp version is fine if you want to hot rod the little toy, but if you want a race car-—buy one.
My comments for them too!
Having visited Italy several times I can assure you that the ITALIANS don’t drive Italian cars.Buy German...Japanese...Korean.Hell,buy UAW if you must.But not Italian..unless you like rental cars.
In one of the WORST marketing moves EVER the local Fiat dealer parked one outside the entrance to Magee women's hospital in Pittsburgh.
Remember this is Pittsburgh. Most women here are ...full figured ...to start with.
They are even more full figured when they are pregnant. WAY more.
So let's park this little FIAT right where they have to walk by it to get into the hospital.
Heck my BUTT is bigger than the dang car! Mrs p6 could use two of them for roller skates.
Preggers women were SPITTING at the car because it made them fell fatter than they were. No way could any of them ever hope to fit in it.
That said I had and loved a Fiat X1/9. When Mrs p6 was pregnant with our first child back in 1970 that was the car we had. I used to drive her to work and pick her up right in the center of downtown Pittsburgh. She HATED the car....HATED THE CAR!
To make a long, sad story short she made me give it to her brothers at the family farm 90 miles north of the city. The first thing they did was drive up the neighbor's farm driveway and spin it backwards through the barn door. Undaunted the one brother and a neighbor jammed a couple of cases of beer into the trunk and took it for a joy ride into a remote area along the Shenango river where I had 40 acres.
At high speed on a deserted logging road a shift was missed and the engine blew.
This was before cellphones so they sat and drank until someone came looking for them. After dark....
Then a bunch of them polished off the rest of the beer and used a pick up truck to push the Fiat back to the farm. On the way back the brake lines broke.
Yee-HAW!
The Fiat ended up in the bottom of the cesspool.
As far as I know it's still there...well at least what's left of the rust.
Good times, good times.
At one time I had two Spyders. One to drive and one to cannibalize to keep the other one running.
Fun car, when it ran, and a true learning experience in auto repair/diagnosis.
“At one time I had two Spyders. One to drive and one to cannibalize to keep the other one running.
Fun car, when it ran, and a true learning experience in auto repair/diagnosis.”
Drove Italy, top to bottom, then back to top, in a 124 Sport Coupe, no air, minimal Autostrada (they have a lot more now).
Memorable.
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