RE: Fiat Panda 100HP: PH Used Buying Guide

[Lewis Kingston]

Gotta admit that I occasionally flirt with the idea of replacing my Forester with one of these (or the Ignis above, a similarly great shout). Hmm...

[df76]

I ran one for nearly five years and 80,000 miles. Long commutes, track days, hillclimbs (slow but fun). Accept it for what it is, and it’s a great fun car. I tried the koni SRT.T dampers on it when they first appeared, and they made a big difference. Still miss it. Cost me nothing.

[greenarrow]

I strongly fancy one of these. Very narrow by modern standards and therefore very quick on the narrow back roads round my way, I suspect.

I had a Cinquecento Sporting once and that was a real tool on the winding back roads. Lack of pace is not an issue on little switch back roads where 50MPH feels too fast in modern fat hatchbacks

[shakotan]

I have one, replacing the bumpstops at the rear with Fiat Coupe ones immediately helps with ride comfort (the standard ones are way too long and allows the suspension to bottom out, hence the stiff ride).

[df76]

shakotan said:

I have one, replacing the bumpstops at the rear with Fiat Coupe ones immediately helps with ride comfort (the standard ones are way too long and allows the suspension to bottom out, hence the stiff ride).

Mine fell off, and never replaced them.

[Nigel_O]

I could never understand why Fiat didn’t drop the turbo’d lump in from the Punto T-jet / 500 Abarth.

120bhp in its lowest state of tune and 160+ in the faster versions. That would be a proper hoot in a Panda....

[McFist]

HardMiles said:

These do look like fun! Some more nice Beachy Head photos. Do we have an EB local at PH?

EB local here! Haven't taken any recent shots but took a few nice pics at Beachy Head of my car in this Readers' Cars thread a couple of years back. Lots of good locations for car pics there.

Around about 18 months ago most of the loop road was resurfaced with fresh asphalt. Absolutely superb as a drivers' road now and relatively undiscovered, but keep it quiet!