Seriously guys, I don't get the blackjack colour, wouldn't you have to spend half your life looking after the bodywork
If it's what he wants let him go for it!
I agree, it's not my cup of tea either.
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If it's what he wants let him go for it!
I agree, it's not my cup of tea either.
So basically you're just speculating.
Tell me logically why in this age of emissions being king would they release a 1.4 105 or 101 bhp engine based on a stone age block AND the twinair 105bhp?
It aint gonna to happen. Hmmmm do I buy the car that's got free road tax (or at worst probably £20-£30) or do I buy the one that's going to cost me £95-115 a year to tax? Decisions!
BTW I wasn't slagging him off, I was just having a bit of a joke about the fact that there is absolutely no way of speccing a 500 on a mobile Apple product. I think some people are reading a little too much into stuff
Michael, what links can you show me that show that the 85bhp twinair is the best of the 3 TA engines considering no one as yet seems to have driven the 65bhp one or the 105bhp one? If you looked in the first post you'd see that he actually wanted the most powerful non Abarth model in the range so why not wait (as he himself suggested) for the 105bhp twinair which is closest to his original requirements?
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Hello Jack
I'm 19 and I currently have a 57 plate 1.4 sport 500 100hp. I drove the 500 as a courtesy car from a Fiat garage and instantly fell in love with the car. I then went onto Pistonheads have a look in more detail of the specs available at the time. I found a Red 500 with the white strips along the side and decided it was the car I wanted. Went to my local fiat garage in Aberdeen looking for a 1.4 500 sport in that specific colour scheme with the chrome upgrade (minus the bonnet strip)- even to the point of paying for shipping costs of one from kent!!! -yes I am fussy haha
I used some of the 'go-supermarket-compare' sites and got the cheapest quote of £1300 from admiral insurance, even after declaring a write off. It has now dropped to £750 this year.
I plan to be tinkering with the performance and handling with the car early next year.
As a first car I highly recommend a second hand 500 and a ding in a brand new one will reduce you to tears.
I'm 19 and I currently have a 57 plate 1.4 sport 500 100hp. I drove the 500 as a courtesy car from a Fiat garage and instantly fell in love with the car. I then went onto Pistonheads have a look in more detail of the specs available at the time. I found a Red 500 with the white strips along the side and decided it was the car I wanted. Went to my local fiat garage in Aberdeen looking for a 1.4 500 sport in that specific colour scheme with the chrome upgrade (minus the bonnet strip)- even to the point of paying for shipping costs of one from kent!!! -yes I am fussy haha
I used some of the 'go-supermarket-compare' sites and got the cheapest quote of £1300 from admiral insurance, even after declaring a write off. It has now dropped to £750 this year.
I plan to be tinkering with the performance and handling with the car early next year.
As a first car I highly recommend a second hand 500 and a ding in a brand new one will reduce you to tears.
BTW I wasn't slagging him off, I was just having a bit of a joke about the fact that there is absolutely no way of speccing a 500 on a mobile Apple product. I think some people are reading a little too much into stuff
I know you weren't I was just making light of the whole apple debate, makes me laugh, becasue as we all know, Android is by far and away the best
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I think you mean Windows Phone 7I know you weren't I was just making light of the whole apple debate, makes me laugh, becasue as we all know, Android is by far and away the best
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I agree. My first car (in 2001) was a 1979 Fiat 131 and I didn't need to watch where I parked it for fear of someone dinging the pristine new paintwork, and I didn't need to worry that i was going to scratch it when parking etc etc. Plus I owned it outright, so no worries about making payments every month and so on. I suspect the OP isn't going to go for an 80's Maestro or something sensible as a first car so a used 500 really is the more sensible option tbh.
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BTW I wasn't slagging him off, I was just having a bit of a joke about the fact that there is absolutely no way of speccing a 500 on a mobile Apple product. I think some people are reading a little too much into stuff
There might be soon now adobe has caved in to apple and having the flash sever port flash websites in a html5 format to apple mobile products!
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So basically you're just speculating.
Tell me logically why in this age of emissions being king would they release a 1.4 105 or 101 bhp engine based on a stone age block AND the twinair 105bhp?
It aint gonna to happen. Hmmmm do I buy the car that's got free road tax (or at worst probably £20-£30) or do I buy the one that's going to cost me £95-115 a year to tax? Decisions!
I'm not going to get engage in a debate with you but here are a few links but they're not the ones you're looking for...
I reckon – guess believe suppose
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reckon
To rely with confident expectancy
might - this is self explanatory.
Speculation
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/speculation
No.3 a conclusion or opinion reached by such contemplation: These speculations are impossible to verify.
Going forward I would request that you call me by my 'handle'.
muffin8118
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sorry to be negative but two cylinder and 65 bhp..... is going to sound like a sewing machine and not going to have a lot of poke! reminds me of those Trabants!
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I'm also keeping used an option, but I'll be keeping the car for 4 years so would prefer it to be new, straying towards the blackjack TA (anyone seen one?) and the TA in the blue/grey colour
see if any dealers have a pre resistered/ low mileage ones in stock?
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/...es/fuel-type/petrol/seller-type/trade_adverts
my evo was 8 or so months old and had 27 miles on the clock and was more than £2k cheaper than a "brand new" one
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Thats exactly what I plan to do, I don't want many extras so should be easy to source what I want, excluding the blackjack
Michael, you still don't get it
How can you speculate that one engine is going to be better than two others which no one outside of Fiat will have driven? That's like me saying that I think the next Mini will be better looking than a possible facelift of the 500. Not knowing what either looks like my speculation is about as useful as yours which is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Come back when the 65 and 105bhp twinair's have been launched and we can have this discussion.
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Exactly like that, not ready to buy for a couple of weeks yet though and why does that have silver alloys?
They may have sold them onto someone else for a fee Or as others would say, a 'fee'
Or as others would say, a 'fee'Stoneacrepartsdirect
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Hello,
I can confirm that Stoneacre Lincoln do have a blackjack in stock. It's a 1.2 pre-registered vehicle.
Regards,
Jamie @ Stoneacre Lincoln
I can confirm that Stoneacre Lincoln do have a blackjack in stock. It's a 1.2 pre-registered vehicle.
Regards,
Jamie @ Stoneacre Lincoln
