RE: 10,000 miles in a Panda

[Amirhussain]

Brilliant.

[Petrolhead Tom]

What a great achievement.

[Jamie VTS]

What a fantastic achievement, made even more impressive as they didn't feel the need to use a moving refuelling tanker!

[FWDRacer]

Where are the 4WD justification 'tards when you need them. 2WD Panda. Say it out loud. Superb.

[rijmij99]

Jamie VTS said:

What a fantastic achievement, made even more impressive as they didn't feel the need to use a moving refuelling tanker!

Ha! epic thread reference is epic

[Twincam16]

excel monkey said:

Twincam16 said:

excel monkey said:

Twincam16 said:

Love stories like this. Why can't we have a sporty version with modifications based on this - the Lancia Ypsilon Integrale?

Because Lancia has no brand equity in the UK, and complex turbo hot hatches sell in tiny volumes.

I don't care.

You asked a question. I gave you an answer.

I asked a petrolhead question, you gave a tight-lipped business-minded answer to kill any notions of fun speculation of such a car while seemingly trying to demonstrate your ball-crushing business acumen.

Fun.

[Chris71]

FWDRacer said:

Where are the 4WD justification 'tards when you need them. 2WD Panda. Say it out loud. Superb.

But did it have snow tyres?

[talksthetalk]

excel monkey said:

Twincam16 said:

Love stories like this. Why can't we have a sporty version with modifications based on this - the Lancia Ypsilon Integrale?

Because Lancia has no brand equity in the UK, and complex turbo hot hatches sell in tiny volumes.

Lancia (IT) = Chrysler (UK).
Go and fill your boots

[excel monkey]

Twincam16 said:

I asked a petrolhead question, you gave a tight-lipped business-minded answer to kill any notions of fun speculation of such a car while seemingly trying to demonstrate your ball-crushing business acumen.

Fun.

I didn't realise it was a rhetorical question. I thought you were being serious and demanding that Lancia build 10,000 RHD Ypsilon Integrales by the end of the week.

No ball crushing here. Having seen the current Lancia range on sale in Europe, I honestly don't think we're missing out on much, when we already have the 500 Abarth and the MiTo.

Don't want to take the thread off topic. Well done to the two guys who did this challenge.

[BoRED S2upid]

Fair play to them almost 1000 miles a day cooped up in a Panda rather them than me.

[RichTBiscuit]

Twincam16 said:

excel monkey said:

Twincam16 said:

excel monkey said:

Twincam16 said:

Love stories like this. Why can't we have a sporty version with modifications based on this - the Lancia Ypsilon Integrale?

Because Lancia has no brand equity in the UK, and complex turbo hot hatches sell in tiny volumes.

I don't care.

You asked a question. I gave you an answer.

I asked a petrolhead question, you gave a tight-lipped business-minded answer to kill any notions of fun speculation of such a car while seemingly trying to demonstrate your ball-crushing business acumen.

Fun.

I take an immediate dislike to anyone using the phrase 'Brand Equity'

[Chevykevv]

tomv1to said:

Someone buy me a 500 Abarth I reckon I could beat them

Thats an impressive time. It took me and a mate just over two weeks to do slightly lower mileage route to get to Ulanbaataar in Mongolia in a Daihatsu Hi-Jet.

I don't think your spine could cope with an Abarth for that journey, the OH has one and I think she's had the suspension removed

I had two of the previous model Pandas and they were brilliant little cars, I'd have another in a flash if I didn't need a van at the moment.

[tomv1to]

Chevykevv said:

I don't think your spine could cope with an Abarth for that journey, the OH has one and I think she's had the suspension removed

I had two of the previous model Pandas and they were brilliant little cars, I'd have another in a flash if I didn't need a van at the moment.

I used to have one, and regularly used it for the 500 mile drive from London to visit my family on the east coast of scotland. I remember it being really comfortable even with the Esseesse kit, although, the car I traded it in for was a classic mini.

Also now that I think about it, the leaf spring suspension started to slip apart on the Hi-Jet in mongolia due to the thrashing we gave it on the mongolian 'roads.' We ended up using bungie chords to hold it together.

Edited by tomv1to on Wednesday 13th February 18:00

[PedalToTheMetal]

By the way, Paul Brace is the man responsible for the Eagle Speedster. http://www.jaguarspeedster.com/ Good guy!

[Bohally]

Have been off road in a Panda 4x4, bloody impressive bit of kit. Enough to worry the guy in the Disco!

[soad]

Road does look a tad rough in the main photo!
Well done, chaps.

[howertings]

This brings back memories of many moons ago when four of us young bucks headed off to Lanzarote for a two week surf trip. After the usual cock-up with rental cars by the rental company we had to settle for a beat-up MK1 Panda as there was not another car to be had on the Island and the whole place was closed anyway for Easter. Although the car never started after we drove it away from the rental "office" due to a dud battery, we hammered it up and down the brutally rough off-roads of the Island for the two weeks looking for waves with 4 up and all of our gear, boards etc, and the car never missed a beat. What a great little car for what it was. Happy days.

[KM666]

Amazing stuff, its always good to hear stories like this.

[MadDog1962]

That's amazing considering the state of the roads, and border issues. Approximately 1000 miles per day is a lot, especially in a Fiat Panda. For most of us 600 miles in a day is sensible limit, even on good roads.

[Usget]

Top work, always said the Panda was epic! I think it looks great in overlander spec - they should make a Super 1600 version for rallying (or invent and subsequently dominate the Super 900 class, I suppose)