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Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
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
news:1gy643y.bpjgsou5ljo5N%steve(at)italiancar.co.uk...
> 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 :)
--
Dan
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 23:23:48 +0100
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DanTXD <dan405(at)SdanPontAherMun.com> wrote:
> "SteveH" <steve(at)italiancar.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1gy643y.bpjgsou5ljo5N%steve(at)italiancar.co.uk...
> > 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 :)
*ding*
The Fiat solution for PAS was much better (once it arrived on the Sei) -
they used electric assistance rather than using a power-sapping
hydraulic pump they grabbed from the parts bin.
--
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From: "Pete M" <pete.murray(at)blue-nopressedmeat-yonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Fiat Sceicento Sporting
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:37:15 +0100
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In news:3h93asFg2kveU1(at)individual.net,
DanTXD <dan405(at)SdanPontAherMun.com> decided to enlighten our sheltered souls
with a rant as follows
> "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,
[cinqs and seicentos]
>> 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.
To be honest, Dutch public transport is brilliant, it just wasn`t available
the day I needed it.
--
Pete M
"If it does more than 20 mpg in town, I don`t want it"
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