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Subject:
Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting

From: "Pete M" <pete.murray(at)blue-nopressedmeat-yonder.co.uk>

Subject: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:10:31 +0100

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In news:1gy5tnw.1syq1jrb1jh4nN%steve(at)italiancar.co.uk,

SteveH <steve(at)italiancar.co.uk> decided to enlighten our sheltered souls

with a rant as follows

> DervMan <dervman(at)ntlworld.com> wrote:

>

>> "Me" <no.0ne(at)nowhere.com> wrote in message

>> news:9mire.601873$Ge2.500631(at)fe03.news.easynews.com...

>>> Took the missus car for an MOT the other day and can anyone tell me

>>> how this car is known as a "Sporting", I think a moped would have a

>>> better 0 to 60 time and everyone tries to intimidate you when you

>>> drive them too!

>>

>>

>> Please ignore the helpful advice on making one faster, it doesn`t

>> work, it`s still slow in a straight line...

>>

> <snip>

>>

>> Annoyingly for Fiat, Ford produced a sub-B car that trades punches

>> in the performance stakes, goes around corners even better, uses

>> more petrol, has a longer service interval and sits in a cheaper

>> insurance bracket - oh and sold stacks more.

>

> That was also more expensive, less rust resistant, had a nasty engine

> designed in the 1950s and looked like it was styled by a 5 year old.

> The

> Ka may (allegedly) corner better, but it`s just not fun. It`s also

> loads bigger on the outside but, for some unfathomable reason,

> smaller on the inside.



Ka`s handle and corner fucking brilliantly though, the Fiats don`t. They

just feel like they do.





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Pete M

"If it does more than 20 mpg in town, I don`t want it"

Range Rover Vogue SE,

Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2

Ford Capri (ressurection started)



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SUBJECT: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
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From: steve(at)italiancar.co.uk (SteveH)

Subject: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:20:49 +0100

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Pete M <pete.murray(at)blue-nopressedmeat-yonder.co.uk> wrote:



> > That was also more expensive, less rust resistant, had a nasty engine

> > designed in the 1950s and looked like it was styled by a 5 year old.

> > The

> > Ka may (allegedly) corner better, but it`s just not fun. It`s also

> > loads bigger on the outside but, for some unfathomable reason,

> > smaller on the inside.

>

> Ka`s handle and corner fucking brilliantly though, the Fiats don`t. They

> just feel like they do.



I don`t see the point in that.



I want my car to feel lively. Which is why I`m stealing the 156 tomorrow

:-)

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SUBJECT: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:25:20 +0100

From: Douglas Payne <douggie(at)cheerful.com>

Subject: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting

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Vamp wrote:

> "Douglas Payne" <douggie(at)cheerful.com> wrote in message

> news:42adccc4$0$2999$ed2619ec(at)ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net...

>

>>Me wrote:

>>

>>>Took the missus car for an MOT the other day and can anyone tell me how

>>>this car is known as a "Sporting",

>>

>>Well the manufacturers stuck some stickers on that say "Sporting", and

>>hence the Seicento Sporting came into existence. If it was fast they`d

>>probably have called it a Seicento "BLISTERINGLY QUICK".

>>

>>As it happens, they stuck the stickers to a car that has been designed to

>>be driven at full chat everywhere and still be reasonably good fun but not

>>actually very fast.

>>

>>Douglas

>

>

> or very safe! i think i`d have a moped over the crappy death trap fiat`s

> seen there ncap test results? :)



I`ve got a moped. I rode it all over the place when I was 16.



Being mechanically restricted to 30mph isn`t much fun on today`s roads.



Personally, I`d take the Fiat every time.



Douglas










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