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Hi Jim,
I guess you'll think I'm an old bloke....35 next month! (yikes!)....still single though and still with a sense of humour (and some dough! thanks to being un married?)...I dig my new Panda in almost every way....although at times I wish Fiat hadn't called it ...'Panda' ....there's a jerk at work who can't help himself taking the p**s out of my car's name.....calls it a shoebox, bamboo shoots chomper etc ever day....(I will lay him out soon though!)....anyways he can't afford a new car and is simply jealous of a my reliable little beauty
The speed thing......I find the 1.2 (have the dynamic) nippy around town and even on motorways I don;t get much older whilst it reaches 80......I made the cardinal error the other week tough.....took a MINI Cooper for a test drive (it was Sunday, I was board!)......yeah I know, big mistake!....they are a great little car and the right foot thing kind makes me pine for more from my car.....although I have no intentions of changing motors at the moment.....roll on the Panda Sporting or Abrath within the next 2 years.
I guess you'll think I'm an old bloke....35 next month! (yikes!)....still single though and still with a sense of humour (and some dough! thanks to being un married?)...I dig my new Panda in almost every way....although at times I wish Fiat hadn't called it ...'Panda' ....there's a jerk at work who can't help himself taking the p**s out of my car's name.....calls it a shoebox, bamboo shoots chomper etc ever day....(I will lay him out soon though!)....anyways he can't afford a new car and is simply jealous of a my reliable little beauty
The speed thing......I find the 1.2 (have the dynamic) nippy around town and even on motorways I don;t get much older whilst it reaches 80......I made the cardinal error the other week tough.....took a MINI Cooper for a test drive (it was Sunday, I was board!)......yeah I know, big mistake!....they are a great little car and the right foot thing kind makes me pine for more from my car.....although I have no intentions of changing motors at the moment.....roll on the Panda Sporting or Abrath within the next 2 years.
is there any hard evidence on the sport moddels of the panda yet? and prizing?
i am 22years old, im info streetracing but as you could imagine it does not give any respekt when standard but with a OBD tuning, 16" weels, lowering, window tin, over 1000Wrms stereo and a bodykit it will defently turn heads and it will get all that
i am 22years old, im info streetracing but as you could imagine it does not give any respekt when standard
but with a OBD tuning, 16" weels, lowering, window tin, over 1000Wrms stereo and a bodykit it will defently turn heads and it will get all that I'm 50 in a few months and am amazed how much small cars like the Panda have improved since 1973 when I passed my test. So long ago you actually had to do hand signals as part of the test.
One of my first cars was a 1965 Hillman Imp made by Rootes who are now Peugeot. It was reare-engined! an all alloy single overhead cam unit of 875cc quite advanced for its time in that respect but looking back the spec was well basic.
Top speed 80.8 (Autocar test figure for 3rd May 1963)
0-60 in 23.7 seconds
Drum brakes all round, no abs or any such like
4 speed box
Fan for heater - optional extra
No electric windows, mirrors or screen washers, single speed wipers
No reclining seats or rear seat belts
no central locking or anti-theft devices or hazard warning lights
manual choke, carb, no fuel injection
But with a good heavy tool box in the front to compensate for most of the weight being over the rear wheels it could see off a standard mini on a good twisty A road.
Now I have a Panda dualogic, just because Im old doesnt mean I can't enjoy technology. And the Panda has enough go and comforts for me.
One of my first cars was a 1965 Hillman Imp made by Rootes who are now Peugeot. It was reare-engined! an all alloy single overhead cam unit of 875cc quite advanced for its time in that respect but looking back the spec was well basic.
Top speed 80.8 (Autocar test figure for 3rd May 1963)
0-60 in 23.7 seconds
Drum brakes all round, no abs or any such like
4 speed box
Fan for heater - optional extra
No electric windows, mirrors or screen washers, single speed wipers
No reclining seats or rear seat belts
no central locking or anti-theft devices or hazard warning lights
manual choke, carb, no fuel injection
But with a good heavy tool box in the front to compensate for most of the weight being over the rear wheels it could see off a standard mini on a good twisty A road.
Now I have a Panda dualogic, just because Im old doesnt mean I can't enjoy technology. And the Panda has enough go and comforts for me.
