How do 500's do after 9 years and 80k miles?

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captainhook said:

Can I also get some advice on a potential purchase of fiat 500 60 reg that has around 60k miles on the clock?

My brother's gf want's to buy one and wanted advice but have no idea...

It was be used regularly for short motorway runs, it's a 1.2 petrol she's looking at, do you think it will be sufficient?

Is there any major problems with these cars? any recalls that should of been done?

Don't know about recalls, suspension arm bushes wear pretty often but not that tragic in terms of cost. Whilst speed maniacs may disagree I think the 1.2 is perfectly fine well established little engine simple and reliable perfectly ok for most folk

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LuS1fer said:

AC43 said:

That's not a bad shout - just read a review and the Twin Air actually has more torque than the 1.4. Apparently it's good round town. Interesting.....

I should say I have had both as hire cars and the Twin Air felt much faster and had a great gear knob. The downside is it sounds like a bag of nails (I had to check it wasn't disel) but that soon adds to the character that the other lacked.

They do sound distinctive/a bit odd from outside. I'd just assumed they were a bit gutless but they're only something like 10bhp down on the 1.4's with something like 10lb/ft more torque. Round town the additional torque is probably much more useful that the missing top end. For example my wife's Clio mainly lives between 1,000 and 3,000 rpm.

Plus, short of a hybrid, it's pretty much the cleanest way to drive in town.