Abarth 595 Competizione as a daily?

[Ruskie]

Debating one of these on a cheap lease for a couple of years, essesse model. My only concern is being 6ft 3!

[ecsrobin]

Ruskie said:

Debating one of these on a cheap lease for a couple of years, essesse model. My only concern is being 6ft 3!

Don’t get a sunroof and you’ll fit.

[xyyman]

I'm 6'2'' and fit fine. As said a sunroof will eat into headroom a fair bit.

[Bungleaio]

Ruskie said:

Debating one of these on a cheap lease for a couple of years, essesse model. My only concern is being 6ft 3!

Sunroof will hit your head but the 595c will be ok.

I found a steering wheel extender was a game changer in giving me a much better driving position.

[cheeky_chops]

anyone put winters on... Or any ideas on what size wheels fit, assuming std 500 wheels do too??

[ecsrobin]

cheeky_chops said:

anyone put winters on... Or any ideas on what size wheels fit, assuming std 500 wheels do too??

If you have brembos then a smaller wheel may not fit.

[cheeky_chops]

ecsrobin said:

If you have brembos then a smaller wheel may not fit.

yes i do, good point

[Shappers24]

After 4 months the little Abarth has gone.

Never bonded with the car and problems with the dealer I got it from soured the whole experience.

It has its charm, but for me, it’s got some fundamental flaws which I couldn’t live with daily. As far as small fun quirky cars go, I think the mini beats it all over the board. But I guess that is highly subjective.

Took a hit financially (mainly as I paid extra for a 12 month warranty..) but it was a scratch I needed to itch and lesson learnt.

[Yacht Broker]

The world has officially gone mad - £40k for a 7yr old 695C!!!!

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202105243...

I passed on one of these pre-Covid @ £15k from a main dealer. They are pretty nice, but not really that special (just nice paint, nice wheels and comedy understeer).

[Hugo Stiglitz]

Shappers24 said:

After 4 months the little Abarth has gone.

Never bonded with the car and problems with the dealer I got it from soured the whole experience.

It has its charm, but for me, it’s got some fundamental flaws which I couldn’t live with daily. As far as small fun quirky cars go, I think the mini beats it all over the board. But I guess that is highly subjective.

Took a hit financially (mainly as I paid extra for a 12 month warranty..) but it was a scratch I needed to itch and lesson learnt.

I'm still very tempted. I've bought a private purchase 120D for every day/family stuff and I need a proper spin in one but I'd love an Abarth. It ticks the daft box within me.

[pidsy]

Amazingly - WBAC have just offered me £14k

2017 - comp, 28k miles.

If it wasn’t modified, I’d be tempted.
Values are silly atm.

[T5GRF]

Try Cazoo- they’re offering way more than WBAC…

[cheeky_chops]

Hugo Stiglitz said:

I'm still very tempted. I've bought a private purchase 120D for every day/family stuff and I need a proper spin in one but I'd love an Abarth. It ticks the daft box within me.

Really happy with ours, very R5 GT turbo as the Garrett cranks up. Missus makes little "brrrm" noises as she walks in the house! Build is cheap but knew that. White wheels always dirty. main gripe is sabelt is too high, im 6ft1, the headroom is fine but i feel like im sitting lower in our E-tron

[pidsy]

T5GRF said:

Try Cazoo- they’re offering way more than WBAC…

£14,150

Mental.

[ecsrobin]

As an example I sold to WBAC in October for £9,500 on a 2017 Comp PP but 45,000 miles was still £2-3k over the PCP settlement figure so was happy but the market has gone crazy with supply and demand my new car with 8,000 miles and a year old is over list!

[Hugo Stiglitz]

cheeky_chops said:

Really happy with ours, very R5 GT turbo as the Garrett cranks up. Missus makes little "brrrm" noises as she walks in the house! Build is cheap but knew that. White wheels always dirty. main gripe is sabelt is too high, im 6ft1, the headroom is fine but i feel like im sitting lower in our E-tron

Try the seat rail mod?

[123DWA]

pidsy said:

Amazingly - WBAC have just offered me £14k

2017 - comp, 28k miles.

If it wasn’t modified, I’d be tempted.
Values are silly atm.

Same here, I bought my comp in march and WBAC are offering me a £1000 profit on it. I'm just too lazy to have the induction kit & exhaust put back to standard. If anyone fancies a 2014 Grey Comp with Tan sabelts then let me know. Its done 50k with full history including a cambelt change.

[pidsy]

123DWA said:

pidsy said:

Amazingly - WBAC have just offered me £14k

2017 - comp, 28k miles.

If it wasn’t modified, I’d be tempted.
Values are silly atm.

Same here, I bought my comp in march and WBAC are offering me a £1000 profit on it. I'm just too lazy to have the induction kit & exhaust put back to standard. If anyone fancies a 2014 Grey Comp with Tan sabelts then let me know. Its done 50k with full history including a cambelt change.

I hope it’s a forge induction kit - the noise it makes!

[123DWA]

pidsy said:

I hope it’s a forge induction kit - the noise it makes!

Yes it is haha. The noise that it pushes into the cabin when you're 'pushing on' is brilliant!

[SweetBabyCheeses]

Ruskie said:

Debating one of these on a cheap lease for a couple of years, essesse model. My only concern is being 6ft 3!

Ordered one of these from this batch last week in Campovolo Grey, everything else standard (as I believe they all are). I have upwards of £5,000 profit sat in a highly specced up Cooper S in month 35 of a 48 month PCP and I don't use it any more as WFH - used to do 14,000 per annum now do about 1,300. It works out much cheaper than the Mini on this lease over 31 months (pre-regged so I don't want it after the warranty) and I get the windfall at the start.

If I don't like the Esseesse, it'll mainly sit in the garage gathering dust and if I do, it'll go out and get thrashed for fun. But I've gone from being a heavy car user to barely needing one.

But this deal is a bit nuts in the current climate when the price of everything has gone up, and these seem to have been frozen in their own little world. Maybe for good reason - I'll find out when I drive it! But even if the ride is utterly horrendous, it can't be any worse than the R53 Cooper S I ran on run flats for four years, 2008-2012. Can it?!

I wanted something rapid(ish) that would fit in quite a tiny garage, and had been looking at 9 year old MX-5s but prices going up along with the rest of the market made the numbers unpalatable to me - not to mention running an older car I don't know the history of and having to bring the infotainment up to speed and re-leathering a steering wheel (I can't be doing with shiny old steering wheels!). If I'm getting rid of a car I love purely for financial reasons, the net figures have to be worth it.

Then this lease deal sort of came out of nowhere. I opened it and deleted it in the deft manoeuvre muscle memory has become very good at performing and then my brain processed what I had just seen and undeleted it and I thought it was a good deal. After 17 days of chewing it over and looking for anything better, I've decided to go for it. Whether it's good against how cheap they may have hitherto been, I don't know, but it's certainly good next to anything else.

I'm already - before I've even got it - bemoaning the fact Esseesse will have the boggo 500 emblazoned dash, and much mentioned absences of cruise control and heated seats that are just how things are with 595s. But I wasn't in a position to choose. Got to take a bit of pain, and if this is what slumming it looks like I can probably do it.

I'm 5'5/5'6 by the way, so am offering completely nothing to your situation! Sorry.

I'm only about 16 pages into this thread having discovered it the other night, but from what I can see the 595 Esseesse was removed from the range earlier this week as it disappeared from the configurator even though it's everywhere else on the site. Apologies if this has already been mentioned.

Anyway, I'll keep you all posted when it arrives. I'll probably have some questions! For instance "Why?" and "What have I done?" for starters.

I'm looing forward to hopefully being pleasantly surprised, but if not at least it's a collection of nice parts even if they don't gel to formulating a good car!

This is thread is making entertaining reading anyway - cheers folks!