Abarth 595 Competizione as a daily?
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SweetBabyCheeses said:
Is the dash going to have a gopping great "500" on a sad piece of plastic like mine? If not, go for it 
A friend of mine got around this by buying a normal fiat 500 dash panel off ebay and having a bodyshop smooth over the 500 and paint it body coloured. I think the whole thing was £125 including buying the panel itself.123DWA said:
SweetBabyCheeses said:
Is the dash going to have a gopping great "500" on a sad piece of plastic like mine? If not, go for it
A friend of mine got around this by buying a normal fiat 500 dash panel off ebay and having a bodyshop smooth over the 500 and paint it body coloured. I think the whole thing was £125 including buying the panel itself.As a side, only the 695 Yamaha came with a carbon dash. It was never part of the PP.
you can buy them separately but it’s around £600.
pidsy said:
As a side, only the 695 Yamaha came with a carbon dash. It was never part of the PP.
you can buy them separately but it’s around £600.
They were originally meant to come as part of the PP on the release of the S4 along with the larger screen but delays in manufacturing stopped that and never got added in. you can buy them separately but it’s around £600.
Hugo Stiglitz said:
To be honest what's wrong with 500?
It's a 500!
The car isn't a 500 though. It's not called one. It's not badged one anywhere (aside from where the left it etched into the hatch handle as well). So it's just at odds with everything else. If they still called it a 500 Abarth I wouldn't mind, but it's just an inconsistency. But I find the 500 itself much less offensive than the quality of plastic underneath it. I find neither of them terribly offensive really, just mildly irritating.It's a 500!
123DWA said:
A friend of mine got around this by buying a normal fiat 500 dash panel off ebay and having a bodyshop smooth over the 500 and paint it body coloured. I think the whole thing was £125 including buying the panel itself.
It's a lease so it's got to remain as is. I'll get over it. In fact I already have done. But it's still rubbish 
SweetBabyCheeses said:
The car isn't a 500 though. It's not called one.
It really is though - ‘Abarth’ in this case is really just a Fiat 500 trim level. I guess they stopped calling it a ‘500 Abarth’ for marketing reasons, but it’s a Fiat 500. None the worse for that, though, but it’s really just a fast spec of a cheap little city car.SweetBabyCheeses said:
The car isn't a 500 though. It's not called one. It's not badged one anywhere (aside from where the left it etched into the hatch handle as well). So it's just at odds with everything else. If they still called it a 500 Abarth I wouldn't mind, but it's just an inconsistency. But I find the 500 itself much less offensive than the quality of plastic underneath it. I find neither of them terribly offensive really, just mildly irritating.
I imagine you also think it’s an Italian car when in fact it’s polish. It is a Fiat 500 just a sporty version. jamies30 said:
It really is though - ‘Abarth’ in this case is really just a Fiat 500 trim level. I guess they stopped calling it a ‘500 Abarth’ for marketing reasons, but it’s a Fiat 500. None the worse for that, though, but it’s really just a fast spec of a cheap little city car.
Thanks for pointing out the bleeding obvious as if I had never seen a car before. I am more than aware it is essentially a 500 and has the body and architecture which come off the same production line and are of little of no difference, it's just a fact that the car itself is not called a 500 in any literature and is not recognised in name as a 500 any more so not to change that panel just stinks of cheapness. If Fiat were that bothered about changing the identity in the first place, stick with it and be consistent or don't bother.
I'm struggling to see who would not recognise it as a 500. Or, for that matter, who would feel the need to point it out on a forum such as this when it is a subject oft mentioned by people (who might also just possibly suspect it might essentially be a Fiat 500) and pointed out by hacks when they take one out.
You're not going to ruin Christmas now by telling me Santa Claus isn't real are you?
ecsrobin said:
I imagine you also think it’s an Italian car when in fact it’s polish. It is a Fiat 500 just a sporty version.
No, on the contrary. But to be honest, I would consider a Polish car probably more likely to be better built than an Italian one anyway. Although under Fiat stewardship it's anyone's guess.I should add, I have never been a fan of the Abarth. It's not its link with the 500 that puts me off, more the origins linked to the much older Panda via the now 18 year old Mini platform. I am purely leasing it because it is very cheap for what it is, I am collecting a large sack of cash for selling the fundamentally much better car I currently have and my mileage is now 10% of what it used to be so broadly speaking my car is irrelevant to me so I will entertain a degree of mediocrity if indeed that is what it ends up being. But I may also like it.
But keep it up. I like the lower rungs of the spectrum attempting a degree of condescension. It's bordering entertaining.
SweetBabyCheeses said:
No, on the contrary. But to be honest, I would consider a Polish car probably more likely to be better built than an Italian one anyway. Although under Fiat stewardship it's anyone's guess.
I should add, I have never been a fan of the Abarth. It's not its link with the 500 that puts me off, more the origins linked to the much older Panda via the now 18 year old Mini platform. I am purely leasing it because it is very cheap for what it is, I am collecting a large sack of cash for selling the fundamentally much better car I currently have and my mileage is now 10% of what it used to be so broadly speaking my car is irrelevant to me so I will entertain a degree of mediocrity if indeed that is what it ends up being. But I may also like it.
But keep it up. I like the lower rungs of the spectrum attempting a degree of condescension. It's bordering entertaining.
I should add, I have never been a fan of the Abarth. It's not its link with the 500 that puts me off, more the origins linked to the much older Panda via the now 18 year old Mini platform. I am purely leasing it because it is very cheap for what it is, I am collecting a large sack of cash for selling the fundamentally much better car I currently have and my mileage is now 10% of what it used to be so broadly speaking my car is irrelevant to me so I will entertain a degree of mediocrity if indeed that is what it ends up being. But I may also like it.
But keep it up. I like the lower rungs of the spectrum attempting a degree of condescension. It's bordering entertaining.
Hugo Stiglitz said:
I checked Thule and they don't list one (anymore?) for a 500 or Abarth?!
Do you know your product numbers so I could cobble one up
Thule 754 is the foot kit for a 500. Do you know your product numbers so I could cobble one up
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Complete-Unused-Fiat-50...
Try this. You end up with standard bike carrier, I have standard aero bar plus foot pack. Front foot pack is a bent plate with a pin fitting a hole effectively underneath roof. Rear foot just rests on top of roof. I have a feeling there may be another element (= is but part of 754?) which cantilevers it all down. I’ll keep hunting my emails to see what I can find.
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