Fiat Panda or something else?!
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I can almost guess the answer already but I quite like them for some reason!
I'm looking for something cheap, simple and hopefully reasonably entertaining as a second car to save having to use my Land Cruiser for everyday local running around. It also needs to be suitable for teaching my girlfriend to drive.
The budget is really at little as possible, ideally cheap enough that I can leave it parked and generally abuse it without having to worry.
There's a ready supply of Panda's from about £1k up but is there a better choice that I've overlooked?
I'm looking for something cheap, simple and hopefully reasonably entertaining as a second car to save having to use my Land Cruiser for everyday local running around. It also needs to be suitable for teaching my girlfriend to drive.
The budget is really at little as possible, ideally cheap enough that I can leave it parked and generally abuse it without having to worry.
There's a ready supply of Panda's from about £1k up but is there a better choice that I've overlooked?
I maybe overstated the "fun" element a bit! By entertaining I just meant in crappy small car style that encourages being driven to the rev limiter everywhere without really breaking any speed limits!
In other words - does a 1.2 Panda handle well enough and rev cleanly enough to at least make it vaguely entertaining?
In other words - does a 1.2 Panda handle well enough and rev cleanly enough to at least make it vaguely entertaining?
snowandrocks said:
I maybe overstated the "fun" element a bit! By entertaining I just meant in crappy small car style that encourages being driven to the rev limiter everywhere without really breaking any speed limits!
In other words - does a 1.2 Panda handle well enough and rev cleanly enough to at least make it vaguely entertaining?
A Panda's a load of fun, though dynamically you'll never mistake it for a sports car! The ride's pretty choppy as well, and it's not the quietest of cars. In other words - does a 1.2 Panda handle well enough and rev cleanly enough to at least make it vaguely entertaining?
As a pootling around town/learning to drive car, it's completely excellent.
Mrs. Rooster has had one for about three years, the posh one with the 1.2 engine and climate control. Cracking little thing - brilliant everywhere except the motorway, where it gets a bit breathless.
Slow but entertaining, can be provoked into lift-off oversteer and it always has a zest for life which only small Fiats seem to have. I'm hatching a plot to swap it out for a 100hp version...
Slow but entertaining, can be provoked into lift-off oversteer and it always has a zest for life which only small Fiats seem to have. I'm hatching a plot to swap it out for a 100hp version...
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