For what I do for a living, I travel abroad around once a month and often take a rental car.
In the long boring journeys between meetings, I have decided to review the cars I take to entertain myself. I hope my limited experience would help your decision, if you are thinking about buying one in the future.
So here is my first review;
Car: Abarth 500 ( Spanish spec, not the hot Abarth from the UK)
Duration: 4 days with motorway/ city driving/
Notable features: fold back fabric roof – pointless when going down the motorway.
Auto gearbox with paddle shift
Same design as all the fiat 500
The auto gearbox is awful - in auto or manual shift, each shift was greeted by a jerk. So bad I had to decelerate on every up shift I made. Having spent 7 years before driving a DSG car, this Fiat gearbox was nightmare.
There were buttons on the centre console to select reverse and forward. What’s wrong with a stick selector?
Ride is firm enough, like the sport mode on the I30n
Seat was bad - my bum cheeks were resting against the slanted sides. After a long drive my left leg was tingling, and the left check was numb. I have an average size bum, it’s not me.
Window buttons - why the hell they put them on the centre console? Very annoying with the many toll booths I had to deal with.
Engine - 1.4 turbo. Punchy enough in sport mode. Normal mode was a bit too dull.
Exhaust - sounds great on idle, but no way as good as the i30n when driven. No pops and bangs
Driving position - the steering wheel does not go close to yourself. Only up and down. A FIAT characteristic it seems.
That’s it, rant/ review over!
2 weeks ago I was away again and had a VW Polo. I have nothing to say, good or bad. It’s like a ceramic mug. It does what it does for being a small hatch back and that’s it.
No drama , no emotions, absolutely nothing.
In the long boring journeys between meetings, I have decided to review the cars I take to entertain myself. I hope my limited experience would help your decision, if you are thinking about buying one in the future.
So here is my first review;
Car: Abarth 500 ( Spanish spec, not the hot Abarth from the UK)
Duration: 4 days with motorway/ city driving/
Notable features: fold back fabric roof – pointless when going down the motorway.
Auto gearbox with paddle shift
Same design as all the fiat 500
The auto gearbox is awful - in auto or manual shift, each shift was greeted by a jerk. So bad I had to decelerate on every up shift I made. Having spent 7 years before driving a DSG car, this Fiat gearbox was nightmare.
There were buttons on the centre console to select reverse and forward. What’s wrong with a stick selector?
Ride is firm enough, like the sport mode on the I30n
Seat was bad - my bum cheeks were resting against the slanted sides. After a long drive my left leg was tingling, and the left check was numb. I have an average size bum, it’s not me.
Window buttons - why the hell they put them on the centre console? Very annoying with the many toll booths I had to deal with.
Engine - 1.4 turbo. Punchy enough in sport mode. Normal mode was a bit too dull.
Exhaust - sounds great on idle, but no way as good as the i30n when driven. No pops and bangs
Driving position - the steering wheel does not go close to yourself. Only up and down. A FIAT characteristic it seems.
That’s it, rant/ review over!
2 weeks ago I was away again and had a VW Polo. I have nothing to say, good or bad. It’s like a ceramic mug. It does what it does for being a small hatch back and that’s it.
No drama , no emotions, absolutely nothing.