New Daily Shed: Mini First, Alfa Mito, or Fiat 500

[shirazjiwa]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 04 August 2010 at 19:19

[V6Alfisti]

Fifth Gear video review between the Mito and Mini here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62z8jl8Vlc

[timpot]

My experience on looking at these cars.

Started looking at second hand mini's as a replacement car.

Then everywhere I looked I saw mini's driving by. Don't like to follow crowd.

Scrappage scheme then came about and my work shed was suddenly worth a lot more than I paid for it.

Off to Fiat we went looking at 500's. We had worked out a 1.2 sport with headrest's,different wheels and a stripe was for us.

Just to cover all our options we popped into Alfa to rule out the Mito to ensure we had made the right choice.
Half an hour later we had changed our minds. Hearts and heads set on the Mito, bigger car for wife and kids.

Our 1.4 lusso in Etna black arrived in the Dealer yesterday and we hopefully pick it up next week.

[dingocooke]

Oh Mini everytime, well built, reliable, great residuals; my wifes 54 plate Mini One has been a gem, not a single fault from new, and ride quality and lack of rattles and squeaks to rival bigger cars. Only criticism is tiny boot space (less than a real mini even) and a touch thirsty if youre doing lots of miles. The Mito is lovely, but build quality poor in comparison to the Mini One in my opinion; the Fiat 500 is a true marmite car; you either love it or loathe it, Im in the 2nd camp Im afraid, but hey each to their own!!
Have fun whatever you decide!!

[P17_GTA]

You got lucky with the Mini then, the early ones we're awfull.... but did look good.
The one we had was very poor quality all round with loads of faults.
And the new ones if better are no where near as nice as the Fiat or Alfa in my opinion.

[k-ink]

Mmm, tough call. Maybe not the car with electric steering that is well known to fail. Just an inspired thought.