And its a fiat 500 sport. Its her first car purchase ever,(just out of collage) . She even got a manual transmission, after some practice with my Porsche. She is in love with her new car.
And honesty I like the little thing too, it does some pretty neat hands free Bluetooth crap. It has decent poower and the five speed is very good. But it handles outstanding for a car of this class i had a blast in there demo. The car has very little body roll And nearly endless amounts of grip. Once pushed past its grip limitations it really has no bad tendencies, but when driven with the stability control system on you just can't get into trouble in the first place. The suspension is just right for the car of this type, firm but not rough. It is a fun car to drive, its not a corolla.
I don't like everything about it though. The rear "twist beam" axle works just fine but it seems like they took the cheap way out. Seemingly the sunroof option was only intended for people under 5'4" or people who have horrible posture, my hair rubs the roof and I'm only 5'10" or so. But thankfully she didn't want the sunroof. The interior is very plastic, but it looks nice and functions well. The recommended oil change interval is 8,000 miles, talk about planed obsolescence. The little 1.4 has got to be hard on oil with its "multi air" design, it has no throttle plate and uses variable intake valve lift to monitor air flow. It had that damn o.a.t coolant that gets hungry and ruins everything in about six years. The oil filter is in a inconvenient location but it is a tiny car after all.
Josh
And honesty I like the little thing too, it does some pretty neat hands free Bluetooth crap. It has decent poower and the five speed is very good. But it handles outstanding for a car of this class i had a blast in there demo. The car has very little body roll And nearly endless amounts of grip. Once pushed past its grip limitations it really has no bad tendencies, but when driven with the stability control system on you just can't get into trouble in the first place. The suspension is just right for the car of this type, firm but not rough. It is a fun car to drive, its not a corolla.
I don't like everything about it though. The rear "twist beam" axle works just fine but it seems like they took the cheap way out. Seemingly the sunroof option was only intended for people under 5'4" or people who have horrible posture, my hair rubs the roof and I'm only 5'10" or so. But thankfully she didn't want the sunroof. The interior is very plastic, but it looks nice and functions well. The recommended oil change interval is 8,000 miles, talk about planed obsolescence. The little 1.4 has got to be hard on oil with its "multi air" design, it has no throttle plate and uses variable intake valve lift to monitor air flow. It had that damn o.a.t coolant that gets hungry and ruins everything in about six years. The oil filter is in a inconvenient location but it is a tiny car after all.
Josh
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