General Here it is, officially the new Panda

[AndyRKett]

Article linked above also said:

The Panda will remain available on the continent until the end of the decade, owing to its continued strong sales.

It’s not the first time fiat have binned off a model for uk sales, they’ve been doing it for years, they carried on selling the mk2 Punto as the “classic” till 2012 in other European countries while here they stopped selling it in 2005 when the grande appeared. No one should be surprised that when they bring the grande panda to the uk they are not going to want to arm sales of that car by offering a cheaper model.

Other countries such as those in Eastern Europe and especially Italy is full of people who would never splash out on the grande panda and so it’s stupid to loose those customers by not offering a car they can buy.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Yes, but any forum readers reading the post where it was linked might otherwise think that the model is actually dead as in, not in production anywhere. Important distinction. The title does indeed reference off the sale in the UK, but a UK publication / any publication could title it the same even if it were a complete end of production in other markets too. You know what the media is like nowadays with clickbait titles and the like.

...I wonder if given the Italian price being so much closer to earth, if it's actually cheaper to import a new one from there and still end up cheaper... steering wheel on the wrong side probably wouldn't be worth it mind you hahaha

An important update to those who didn't read the article and/or misunderstood the title which referenced the UK.

I managed to avoid both traps, fortunately, due to my old-fashioned proclivity for reading things

 

[SB1500]

I managed to avoid both traps, fortunately, due to my old-fashioned proclivity for reading things

You can never be too careful...