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500 Our New Twinair

I have been looking a little bit and have still not seen another 12 plate yet.

My wife loves 'her' to bits...we wanted to give her an Italian name to reflect the brand and styling we chose and opted for my dear old nanna's name 'Luigina' (she goes by Gina for short);)

Funnily enough, I recall going to Rome around 33 years ago to stay with family and one of the family (a barrister) had a flashy new Audi, but mainly drove his little white 500! Like all the other 500's 'everywhere', it had it's dents and scuffs caused by the mayhem that is driving in Rome. I recall driving past the colloseum in this little car...and every time the traffic stopped, people were behaving like lunatics.
Years later, when a 16 year old apprentice, one of the lads got his first car (an old 500) and on the few occasions he gave a couple of us a lift, we accepted but proceeded to hide our faces whilst driving through town! Well...we were 16 yr olds and busy thinking about really wanting XR3is and Cosworths....so it wasn't a cool car to us at all.
Would like an original now though(y)
 
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Here's a few pics of our new car (it was delivered 29th Feb and had to be hid in the garage...much to my wife's dismay)

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I love your car i especially like the black rims on it though id be paranoid of kerbing them. Mines white with italian stripes on it :slayer: and it would be awesome having a brand new car when the reg has only just come out. I made the mistake of buying mine in january so only had a new reg for 2 months by that time there was loads of 60 plates knocking about. So far ive only seen 1x 12 plate car parked on the car park at my work a citroen berlingo people carrier (n) lol.
 
Gorgeous :)
I've not spotted any 12 plates on the road yet, mind you I haven't been looking either :)

There doesn't seem to be many about - sign of the times perhaps, here's ours though. It's a hastily taken pic. by my daughter who's buying the Astra next to it.

500 Lounge 1.2

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