RE: SOTW: Fiat Tipo 2.0ie 16v
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). An awesomely fun car to own and drive, the noise was fantasic and the handling was very well planted. 
Joined today just so as I could post a comment.
I bought L394 ULY in 1995 from a Rover dealer in Herts for £6795 (list price for a new one was £15-16k). My first'expensive' newish car.
Black, 3 door, Starfish alloys, Italian, and a facility where the ICE backlight colour could be changed from red to green and back!! Marvellous.
I was also a 'CAR' magazine subscriber at the time and there it was, featured in the magazine and given an excellent review (by John Simister I think).
Drove it all over the country. Often very vigorously.
Wonderful memories, Happy daze!!
Sold it in 95 for £6000(ish) and took that and some more money to Walkers in North (it is!!) Allerton to buy an Integrale. Faster certainly but (obviously) more expensive to run as a daily driver.
DVLA says L394 ULY is unlicensed now so hope nothing untoward became of it.
I bought L394 ULY in 1995 from a Rover dealer in Herts for £6795 (list price for a new one was £15-16k). My first'expensive' newish car.
Black, 3 door, Starfish alloys, Italian, and a facility where the ICE backlight colour could be changed from red to green and back!! Marvellous.
I was also a 'CAR' magazine subscriber at the time and there it was, featured in the magazine and given an excellent review (by John Simister I think).
Drove it all over the country. Often very vigorously.
Wonderful memories, Happy daze!!
Sold it in 95 for £6000(ish) and took that and some more money to Walkers in North (it is!!) Allerton to buy an Integrale. Faster certainly but (obviously) more expensive to run as a daily driver.
DVLA says L394 ULY is unlicensed now so hope nothing untoward became of it.
Frimley111R said:
Always worries me when they say how long they wanted a car for, finally bought it and then sold it two minutes later. Not helped by 'I couldn't be bothered to change a fuse'.
Thing is, for a lot of people, the reality doesn't live up to the dream.If you're more used to modern cars, with all their creature comforts and driver aids, something like a Tipo feels very much of a different generation.
A lot of drivers just can't get used to the raw-ness of old-school hot hatches as daily drivers.
Personally, if I didn't have a company car, I'd be down there this afternoon - as he's only a few miles up the valley.
Rollcage said:
VeeFour said:
You idiot.
The Tipo was one of the very first mass-market galvanised cars, so they resisted rust much better than *any* of their peers.
And yet they still managed it. I can remember welding up an auto a good few years ago - inner arches and boot floor IIRC.The Tipo was one of the very first mass-market galvanised cars, so they resisted rust much better than *any* of their peers.
Galvanising doesn't stop rust completely - but the Tipo was a bloody great leap forward for mass produced cars.
ooh ooh I had one too, a red 5 door with the Recaro interior, as has been said the 5 door was the faster and better car!!
I put Bilsteins and Eibachs on it and the handling was fantastic, a real fwd Integrale (shared engine and platform I think)
loved it to begin with but after 2 engines and a gear box I gave up with it and sold it on
to be fair I was young and bought a bit of a lemon but I think reliability was not great on these
not a spot of rust though
I put Bilsteins and Eibachs on it and the handling was fantastic, a real fwd Integrale (shared engine and platform I think)
loved it to begin with but after 2 engines and a gear box I gave up with it and sold it on
to be fair I was young and bought a bit of a lemon but I think reliability was not great on these
not a spot of rust though
Yes, good shed, dont understand why people moan about it being £995, realitically you could get at least £100 off, possibly more and its a roadworthy, interesting, mot'd car with reasonable performance, people obscene ammounts for less interesting cars or options on cars, having your calipers sprayed a different colour on the new Mclaren is £830 plus vat !
Alwsys scope for sticking a FIat Coupe turbo engine in as well, plentiful and it would be anice sleepr, guy on the Fiat Coupe forum has done it.
Alwsys scope for sticking a FIat Coupe turbo engine in as well, plentiful and it would be anice sleepr, guy on the Fiat Coupe forum has done it.
Zircon said:
Fugly car - would be pretty low on my list of cars to spend a grand on.
Just my opinion of course.....
+1Just my opinion of course.....
I remember my old Boss had several Tipo's when new, he was literally taking them back to the Dealer almost weekly for problems to be fixed, even the Fiat loan cars would breakdown! He would only buy Fiat's and every one was monumentally un-reliable, despite being serviced on the dot and changed every 2 years.
Then there was the cheap trim that rattled and fell off, the rubbish quality paint that faded and went dull very quickly, spongey brakes on the ones I drove. I drove a 1.6 and 2.0, not this particular variant, they were reasonably fun to drive, but just felt so cheaply made. If you really have a thing for Italian cars and want something a bit unusual then fine, but I can see no other reason to bother personally.
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