Fiat Panda 4x4 ?

[chris_freebie]

Just watching the cricket........

Advert comes on for two elderly ladies driving a Fiat Panda, when all of a sudden a bomb of some sort falls destroying lots of the road.

And as old ladies in Fiat Panda's do, they drive into it and have a whale of a time etc.

Then the caption to the advert is the NEW FIAT PANDA 4x4........

Just in case someone has dug the Waitrose car park up ??

What's that about !!

[busta]

Just come back from a ski trip in the alps, those guys have hundreds of them! I guess they are more capable in the snow than normal cars but cheaper than soft roaders.
Shame the new one is so slow though, 14 secs 0-60...
Bernie

[chris_freebie]

14 seconds in a Panda? are you sure you weren't going down hill

[raceboy]

4x4 Pandas are nothing new

[vrooom]

Replace the engine with uno turbo

[busta]

vrooom said:

Replace the engine with uno turbo

if you can find one that hasnt rusted away...

[chris.mapey]

busta said:

Shame the new one is so slow though, 14 secs 0-60... Bernie

It's actually slower than that

I've got the Fiat pre-launch blurb on my desk at the moment, and it quotes 0 - 60 in...

(go on have a guess)...



No, it's slower than that. Have another go.




Wrong again.


It's actually 0 - 60 in 20.0 seconds (DOUBLE )

Chris

[flat16]

I had a Panda 4x4 forced on me as my first car in the '80s... You would be lucky to crack 80mph with it. Body roll was terrifying, although good fun.

The 'box went on it and cost £900 to replace. Not only that, but it was a 2 month wait while one was shipped over from Italy as no breaker had a s'hand one, I even contemplated fitting a 2wd 'box.

Off-road performance was surprisingly good though, and road tests of the time indicated the reviewer's astonishment that it wasn't bad at all.

Panda 4x4? Never again... Get behind thee Satan...

>> Edited by flat16 on Tuesday 28th December 13:58

[flintstone]

chris_freebie said:

a bomb of some sort

I thought it was meant to be an asteroid?

[rich 36]

our Waitrose are having the car-park resurfaced
What a co-incidence!

[jamesc]

raceboy said:

4x4 Pandas are nothing new

I had one of the original Panda 4x4's in 1985; I have to say it was one of the best cars I have ever owned. I also did sevral road rallies it; especially when "black ice" was around!

Great car and the new one looks good.

[chris_freebie]

rich 36 said:

our Waitrose are having the car-park resurfaced What a co-incidence!

Fiat have just the car for you !

[silverback mike]

I tell you what, the little b'stards can get anywhere, not a bad little car the 4x4 panda.

[markmullen]

Just been thinking, if the chassis isn't that bad and the off road capabilities surprisingly good but the acceleration appalling then all it needs is a different engine.

Being a Fiat I wonder if one of these would fit

[cptsideways]

One made it to Banjul in the Gambia last year, I think it cost £25 & they did no servicing or maintainence to it either.

[dinkel]

Since the 50s there were 2cv Shaharas', big fun.





http://grumlt.citrina.lt/Sahara/Sahara.html

www.desertprats.com/news/news10.phtml

www.fiat500classics.co.uk/fiat_500_models.htm

[silverback mike]

cptsideways said:

One made it to Banjul in the Gambia last year, I think it cost £25 & they did no servicing or maintainence to it either.

Been there, odd place.