Cars you didn't know existed...
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HTP99 said:
BFleming said:
ElectricSoup said:
Funny old thing, the saloon isn't on FIAT's UK website...
Seems to be a new addition on there now: https://www.fiat.co.uk/new-car-deals/offers/tipo-s...Not listed under the Tipo heading though.
School day for us all (mostly me).
95hp 1.4, my god that engine must be decades old!!
I can't for the life of me work out why Fiat aren't in a great place at the mo!
HTP99 said:
"Now available from £9995", I bet there has been a mad rush at Fiat dealers since the announcement!!
95hp 1.4, my god that engine must be decades old!!
I can't for the life of me work out why Fiat aren't in a great place at the mo!
If that's anything related to the 1.4 in the 2011 Punto I put up with then it's a terrible engine mated to even more awful car. It's end cannot come soon enough. 95hp 1.4, my god that engine must be decades old!!
I can't for the life of me work out why Fiat aren't in a great place at the mo!
TommoAE86 said:
If that's anything related to the 1.4 in the 2011 Punto I put up with then it's a terrible engine mated to even more awful car. It's end cannot come soon enough.
Granted the n/a 1.4 is a bit asthmatic but the car is a long, long way from awful. Have you driven one? I think with a different badge on the snout opinions would be quite different
te in every conceivable way including the engine. 
ElectricSoup said:
Funny old thing, the saloon isn't on FIAT's UK website, but it's available brand new from dealers according to autotrader ads:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/new...
Interestingly, the brand new ones are direct from Fiat dealers, but literally EVERY single pre-registered Tipo saloon is a 69 plate, and they are all being sold from Mangoletsi, a dealer group based in Knutsford, Cheshire I think...https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/new...
Edited by ElectricSoup on Wednesday 11th December 10:50
Very odd that one dealer seems to have every single Tipo saloon that appears on autotrader!
TheInsanity1234 said:
Interestingly, the brand new ones are direct from Fiat dealers, but literally EVERY single pre-registered Tipo saloon is a 69 plate, and they are all being sold from Mangoletsi, a dealer group based in Knutsford, Cheshire I think...
Very odd that one dealer seems to have every single Tipo saloon that appears on autotrader!
I wonder if Mangoletsi has scored some semi-official surplus stock from Cyprus or Malta, or somewhere RHD further afield.Very odd that one dealer seems to have every single Tipo saloon that appears on autotrader!
TheInsanity1234 said:
Interestingly, the brand new ones are direct from Fiat dealers, but literally EVERY single pre-registered Tipo saloon is a 69 plate, and they are all being sold from Mangoletsi, a dealer group based in Knutsford, Cheshire I think...
Very odd that one dealer seems to have every single Tipo saloon that appears on autotrader!
The one that made me post the Tipo Saloon was outside the Fiat garage in York, but I can’t see that one on AutoTrader Very odd that one dealer seems to have every single Tipo saloon that appears on autotrader!
psi310398 said:
TheInsanity1234 said:
Interestingly, the brand new ones are direct from Fiat dealers, but literally EVERY single pre-registered Tipo saloon is a 69 plate, and they are all being sold from Mangoletsi, a dealer group based in Knutsford, Cheshire I think...
Very odd that one dealer seems to have every single Tipo saloon that appears on autotrader!
I wonder if Mangoletsi has scored some semi-official surplus stock from Cyprus or Malta, or somewhere RHD further afield.Very odd that one dealer seems to have every single Tipo saloon that appears on autotrader!
Having said that, the clocks will be whatever was ordered irrespective of the country.
Easy enough to change the speedo cards on Irish imports.
My money is on a spectacular misbuild - an order for a batch of stock cars that should have been ordered ( maybe even were ordered ) as hatchbacks that somehow got built as saloons.
Easiest way to deal with them is to pre reg them and then 12 months later when they have all been sold through you can forget it never happened. Until one gets rear-ended and someone wants to order a boot lid!
My money is on a spectacular misbuild - an order for a batch of stock cars that should have been ordered ( maybe even were ordered ) as hatchbacks that somehow got built as saloons.
Easiest way to deal with them is to pre reg them and then 12 months later when they have all been sold through you can forget it never happened. Until one gets rear-ended and someone wants to order a boot lid!
Excuse the cross post but I thought this should be here
https://gtspirit.com/2015/06/29/ultra-rare-bugatti...
Dapster said:
Escort3500 said:
That car is owned by the Pastor family - one of Monaco's richest, and one of the biggest real estate players in the Principality. The driver is Gildo Pastor who owns Venturi Automobiles. 
https://gtspirit.com/2015/06/29/ultra-rare-bugatti...
h0b0 said:
Excuse the cross post but I thought this should be here
https://gtspirit.com/2015/06/29/ultra-rare-bugatti...
Here's one that I actually knew existed, but I didn't realise any were roadworthy. It takes impressive commitment to drive a car for which there's only a single other in the world, and probably zero spares for most parts.Dapster said:
Escort3500 said:
That car is owned by the Pastor family - one of Monaco's richest, and one of the biggest real estate players in the Principality. The driver is Gildo Pastor who owns Venturi Automobiles. https://gtspirit.com/2015/06/29/ultra-rare-bugatti...
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