New Shed - Love it!
Discussion
Had this about a month now, it was originally bought for the other half as she has just got a new job as a home to home carer, but I seem to find myself driving it more and more as each week passes!
I know its nothing special, but its worlds apart from the VAG Dag I use as a daily commuter!
Any trip to the supermarket that I need to do, I'm jumping in it straight away for a little blip... so much fun to drive!!
Anyway, thought I would share and wondered if anyone else shares the same feelings as i do...
I know its nothing special, but its worlds apart from the VAG Dag I use as a daily commuter!
Any trip to the supermarket that I need to do, I'm jumping in it straight away for a little blip... so much fun to drive!!
Anyway, thought I would share and wondered if anyone else shares the same feelings as i do...
DannyVTS said:
Not sure I'd want a little un in the back after seeing the NCAP video! Top shed anyway!
Yeah I totally agree... Fortunatley, we use the VAG Dag for travelling with the baby, he was only in the back for a little drive to a family member (matter of 2 streets away, dont go over 20mph)
Perhaps! The little un doesn't travel in it in all fairness, I'd feel safer taking him in his own little plastic "flinstones" style car! 
For the cost of it though... Sub £600 with yeats ticket and MOT and the only slight thing wrong is the handbrake not holding (pain considering I live on a 95% gradient of a hill)... Excuse the exaduration!
For the cost of it though... Sub £600 with yeats ticket and MOT and the only slight thing wrong is the handbrake not holding (pain considering I live on a 95% gradient of a hill)... Excuse the exaduration!
I like it 
Whilst NCAP is not to be dismissed, I would point out that you, I and most on here were transported daily in our parents cars long before NCAP and crumple zones became the norm.
TBH, I think some people these days think they're invincible in their millions star NCAP cars with airbags everywhere... and drive accordingly.
Whilst NCAP is not to be dismissed, I would point out that you, I and most on here were transported daily in our parents cars long before NCAP and crumple zones became the norm.
TBH, I think some people these days think they're invincible in their millions star NCAP cars with airbags everywhere... and drive accordingly.
t!Balmoral Green said:
Nothing quite like abusing a small Italian
As for the NCAP comments, don't forget that back in the day, a BMW 3 series rated barely more than an Austin Metro anyway.
And the little frenchie still performed better than a Chrysler voyager! As for the NCAP comments, don't forget that back in the day, a BMW 3 series rated barely more than an Austin Metro anyway.
Edited by Balmoral Green on Saturday 26th March 10:28
Great shed! I love tinny little low-powered cars with skinny tyres, you can hoon everyhwere and still stay more or less within the law.
I had a Suzuki Alto courtesy car recently and in some ways it was as much fun as the TVR I'd temporarily exchanged for it. There's something very organic about low-tech cars without PAS or enough power to induce problems with torque steer and so on; even the most mundane examples can feel quite sporting (no pun intended!) in some respects.
Coincidentally, at the age of the kid in the photo I was being ferried round in either a Vauxhall Viva or an Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV (an early one at that, with the really poor quality steel) and I appear to have survived intact. Compard to those, I suspect a Seicento has the structural integrity of an armoured Range Rover. True, you could spend £10,000 more on something with a full 5 NCAP stars, but skip forward a decade and that, too, will seem like tin foil. Or you could chill out, enjoy some top shedding and try not to crash. Personally, I think you've made the right call.
I had a Suzuki Alto courtesy car recently and in some ways it was as much fun as the TVR I'd temporarily exchanged for it. There's something very organic about low-tech cars without PAS or enough power to induce problems with torque steer and so on; even the most mundane examples can feel quite sporting (no pun intended!) in some respects.
Coincidentally, at the age of the kid in the photo I was being ferried round in either a Vauxhall Viva or an Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV (an early one at that, with the really poor quality steel) and I appear to have survived intact. Compard to those, I suspect a Seicento has the structural integrity of an armoured Range Rover. True, you could spend £10,000 more on something with a full 5 NCAP stars, but skip forward a decade and that, too, will seem like tin foil. Or you could chill out, enjoy some top shedding and try not to crash. Personally, I think you've made the right call.
Chris71 said:
Great shed! I love tinny little low-powered cars with skinny tyres, you can hoon everyhwere and still stay more or less within the law.
I had a Suzuki Alto courtesy car recently and in some ways it was as much fun as the TVR I'd temporarily exchanged for it. There's something very organic about low-tech cars without PAS or enough power to induce problems with torque steer and so on; even the most mundane examples can feel quite sporting (no pun intended!) in some respects.
Coincidentally, at the age of the kid in the photo I was being ferried round in either a Vauxhall Viva or an Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV (an early one at that, with the really poor quality steel) and I appear to have survived intact. Compard to those, I suspect a Seicento has the structural integrity of an armoured Range Rover. True, you could spend £10,000 more on something with a full 5 NCAP stars, but skip forward a decade and that, too, will seem like tin foil. Or you could chill out, enjoy some top shedding and try not to crash. Personally, I think you've made the right call.
I agree, it was bought for one purpose - that being ferrying SWMBO to work and back... turns out it now has another purpose - ABUSE!! I had a Suzuki Alto courtesy car recently and in some ways it was as much fun as the TVR I'd temporarily exchanged for it. There's something very organic about low-tech cars without PAS or enough power to induce problems with torque steer and so on; even the most mundane examples can feel quite sporting (no pun intended!) in some respects.
Coincidentally, at the age of the kid in the photo I was being ferried round in either a Vauxhall Viva or an Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV (an early one at that, with the really poor quality steel) and I appear to have survived intact. Compard to those, I suspect a Seicento has the structural integrity of an armoured Range Rover. True, you could spend £10,000 more on something with a full 5 NCAP stars, but skip forward a decade and that, too, will seem like tin foil. Or you could chill out, enjoy some top shedding and try not to crash. Personally, I think you've made the right call.
No power steering, and not anough power to generate understeer means throwing it into corners at a good pace!! I was surprised by the rev limit on it though... Redlines at around 7500RPM! But it has the torque of a hand drill so I suppose the little Con Rods are not presented with much lateral G...
Still a great drive though!!
hora said:
Top tip- dont crash.
A White transit pulled out on me in a 40 around a semi-blind corner yesterday. I blipped the brake to upset the handling, jilting the wheel at the sametime then steered round his frightened (and now stationary) face
Sounds like some skilled evasive action there.A White transit pulled out on me in a 40 around a semi-blind corner yesterday. I blipped the brake to upset the handling, jilting the wheel at the sametime then steered round his frightened (and now stationary) face
I think I would have opened the door and used my feet to stop the car, like you did when you were a kid on your skateboard!!
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