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Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:17 pm
by shadrack
;)[quote="Chief1409"]
Hmmmm, seems to me there are a lot of people who think because a car is small it's girly??
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Not all small cars are girly, but ones that have a colour option of barbie pink do seem a little girly! If your after something more manly try the micra cc or ka convertible lol ;)

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:33 pm
by X5Sport
I drove a Cassis (Purple to you and me!!) Micra 'Shape' in the 1990's........ 8)

Went like a bat out of hell even if it did sound like a chain saw on steroids at 'motorway speeds' :P

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:38 pm
by jaynana
[quote="shadrack"]
;)[quote="Chief1409"]
Hmmmm, seems to me there are a lot of people who think because a car is small it's girly??
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Not all small cars are girly, but ones that have a colour option of barbie pink do seem a little girly! If your after something more manly try the micra cc or ka convertible lol ;)
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:rofl:

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:40 pm
by pvr
For clarification, the Abarth is my wife's car  :))

I drive the manly Z4M, X5 and Golf :)

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:14 pm
by X5Sport
[quote="pvr"]
For clarification, the Abarth is my wife's car  :))

I drive the manly Z4M, X5 and Golf :)
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So that's one Hairdresser's car (though a lot better than a TT), a Truck and a Shopping Trolley in that order then.  The 'manly' one is which......or did you mean to type mainly?

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:34 pm
by pvr
I know how to type, thanks  :P

Been using all cars during the last week, which is a first.

Just means I have to wash all of them as well though  :'(

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:44 pm
by 535dboy
[quote="X5Sport"]


(though a lot better than a TT
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But so far behind a Porsche

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:50 pm
by pvr
[quote="535dboy"]
[quote="X5Sport"]


(though a lot better than a TT
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But so far behind a Porsche
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A real one, yes (911). Not the poor man's version  :P

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:55 pm
by 535dboy
[quote="pvr"]
[quote="535dboy"]
[quote="X5Sport"]


(though a lot better than a TT
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But so far behind a Porsche
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A real one, yes (911). Not the poor man's version  :P
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I'm poor now yes having forked out £63k of the governments tax sorry my hard earned. If you don't spend £100k on your 991 when you buy one then you haven't specced it right or you have been tight!

They only keep making the 911 because they are still working out how to get the engine in the right place! 50 years on and they are still scratching their heads!

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:17 am
by jaynana
doesn't the boxter have the engine in the same place as the 911?

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:20 am
by 535dboy
[quote="jaynana"]
doesn't the boxter have the engine in the same place as the 911?
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Nope. Boxster mid engined like a proper car say Ferrari - 911 is so old, like PVR, that it was built 50 years ago they designed the car and forgot about the engine and plonked it right at the back becaus they couldn't think of anywhere else!

Re: Fiat 500 or Abarth 500 - opinions?

Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:55 am
by X5Sport
[quote="535dboy"]
[quote="jaynana"]
doesn't the boxter have the engine in the same place as the 911?
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Nope. Boxster mid engined like a proper car say Ferrari - 911 is so old, like PVR, that it was built 50 years ago they designed the car and forgot about the engine and plonked it right at the back becaus they couldn't think of anywhere else!
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That'll teach them to nick an old Beetle chassis then...... :)) :)) :))