Thursday, November 06, 2008

Nice one Fiat...

I've always loved the impossibly small Fiat 500 of the 1960s. Not long ago I saw my first new Fiat 500 and wondered if there would be a hot Abarth version like there used to be of the old one. And sure enough I just stumbled on one...



I bought one of the new Mini's when they first came out (had it for a couple of years and nearly got what I paid for it when I sold it!), after having wanted one ever since I first saw the design sketches. Now I want one of these too... With the sensible one doing over 75miles per gallon - maybe it would be worth it and save me money. I could always imagine it was the Abarth version.

In my dreams. Silly man. I forget you have to put these things on, rather than get into them, and I am not really small enough...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This car was on Top Gear last night .. looked OK but wouldn't trust myself in it cos it's too small.

What you (and me) want is a Dodge Challenger .. that was on too :-)

v8villager said...

Sadly what I "want" and "need" doesn't align... :-(

Actually what I want, what I really really want is to shove a huge hydrogen burning V8 in my old Rover... one day I am sure it will be possible to shove big powerful clean engines into old cars and have a laugh.