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Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
From: steve(at)italiancar.co.uk (SteveH)
Subject: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:37:45 +0100
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DervMan <dervman(at)ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Ford raised the city car game by devising a chassis that slapped everything
> else in the class about the face with a wed haddock in the twisty material
> but also gave it a supple ride and decent motorway refinement.
Then lumbered it with a wheezy old pushrod engine and Fisher Price
styling.
The Cinq. was boxy, but, especially once lowered, looked just *right*.
I`ve snipped some stuff, but I`ll refer back to the PAS, aircon etc.....
what the *fuck* is the point in stuff like that in a stripped out little
hatch? - I mean, it robs the Ka of desperately needed bhp, so you`re
better off without it.
Cinq. wins every time for me.
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SUBJECT: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
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From: "DanTXD" <dan405(at)SdanPontAherMun.com>
Subject: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:16:55 +0100
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"Pete M" <pete.murray(at)blue-nopressedmeat-yonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:42af2b5c$0$18644$14726298(at)news.sunsite.dk...
> In news:M6xre.14403$jS3.3968(at)newsfe2-win.ntli.net,
> Rob <finlayson1SPAMTRAP(at)ntlworld.com> decided to enlighten our sheltered
> souls with a rant as follows
>> Pfft
>>
>> dont knock them till you`ve abused one
>>
>> I still steal the wifes punto sporting for a bit of back road abuse
>> and leave the Cav at home 1242cc`s a god awful 85 brake (well a few
>> tweaks so more like 95) and typical squat fiat handling great fun
>> i`m just waiting on her breaking it so i can steal the engine and
>> drop it into a Cinq. Now that would be interesting :)
>
> I drove a hired Seicento poverty model from Amsterdam to Brussels a few
> years ago. Thrashed it to within an inch of its life all the way there,
> and just sat at, um, 90ish all the way back.
>
> Cost me the equivalent of £14.00 in fuel to do something daft like 500 km.
>
> Comfier than the train though.
>
*shudder* ANYTHING is better than having to resort to public transport.
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Dan
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From: "DanTXD" <dan405(at)SdanPontAherMun.com>
Subject: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:21:56 +0100
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"SteveH" <steve(at)italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
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> DervMan <dervman(at)ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Ford raised the city car game by devising a chassis that slapped
>> everything
>> else in the class about the face with a wed haddock in the twisty
>> material
>> but also gave it a supple ride and decent motorway refinement.
>
> Then lumbered it with a wheezy old pushrod engine and Fisher Price
> styling.
>
> The Cinq. was boxy, but, especially once lowered, looked just *right*.
>
> I`ve snipped some stuff, but I`ll refer back to the PAS, aircon etc.....
> what the *fuck* is the point in stuff like that in a stripped out little
> hatch? - I mean, it robs the Ka of desperately needed bhp, so you`re
> better off without it.
>
> Cinq. wins every time for me.
On Parkers, it says (or at least, it used to) that the PAS equipped Ka`s
were about a second slower to 60.
Now THAT`S pittiful :)
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Dan
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