500 My 500S

Welcome AKP, great cars - I do love the S models, particularly on 62-64 plates.
What engines have they got... ?
Here are my two... the grey one (great colour ;-) ) is a twinair dualogic and the red is a 1.2, both now on Spanish plates.

Thanks!

Love yours! Great specs. The grey was 85bhp Twinair and the new blue is 105bhp Twinair.

Your backgrounds look amazing!

Thank you... yes this is where we moved to last November, near Valencia in a place called Gandia... Couldn't wait to leave corporate London / IT and try something different here.
Paid £17500 for that Grey S at the beginning of 2014 so didn't much fancy giving it away to WeBuyAnyCar for £5800... So I imported both of them (low miles 21000 on both at the time) and got rid of the BMW X3 that we had.
Second hand cars are much more expensive here.... A 3 year old 500 twinair, assuming you can find one (the 1.2 is usual machine) is around €12000 and forget a twinair with dualogic gearbox, there weren't any available when I looked.

How do you find the 105? I test drove a convertible one before we got the 1.2

p6baseunit said:

Thank you... yes this is where we moved to last November, near Valencia in a place called Gandia... Couldn't wait to leave corporate London / IT and try something different here.

Paid £17500 for that Grey S at the beginning of 2014 so didn't much fancy giving it away to WeBuyAnyCar for £5800... So I imported both of them (low miles 21000 on both at the time) and got rid of the BMW X3 that we had.

Second hand cars are much more expensive here.... A 3 year old 500 twinair, assuming you can find one (the 1.2 is usual machine) is around €12000 and forget a twinair with dualogic gearbox, there weren't any available when I looked.



How do you find the 105? I test drove a convertible one before we got the 1.2

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Wow! What a location. Much better climate and air than London taaaaan.

Interesting that second hand cars are so expensive. I wouldn’t have thought that. Is it a tax thing?

I love my 105. It was weird at first having six gears, but really like the benefit of them. The rear parking sensor, speed limiter and cruise control are very nice too.

Here’s mine and my wife’s from a photoshoot yesterday.

AKP said:

Interesting that second hand cars are so expensive. I wouldn’t have thought that. Is it a tax thing?

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80% of new cars in the UK are sold on PCP leases (just looked it up) so a lot of people are used to a new car every 3 or 4 years. It means that the second hand car market is flooded with these ex lease cars. Our red convertible is one, 30 months old when we bought it at Fiat Watford - 8500miles - £7500 (like new) - was £17500 new.

Spain is like the UK 25 years ago. Most people buy a car and run it into the ground. 8-10 year old cars on the road seems to be the average locally here.
You can buy a Fiat on a lease here, but it is very expensive - For example (from Fiat.es) 500s twinair 105 basemodel €16300 > €3000 down and then €249.49 for 49 months - then you give the car back
€269 for 60months to purchase on HP.
Credit is restricted here and it's more expensive to borrow than in the UK etc

When I last checked there was a tenth of the number of second hand Fiat 500(s) available compared to the UK on a site similar to Autotrader.

There is a transfer tax to pay on changing the name of the owner (by the buyer or putting the car in your spouses name etc), it is 4% of the sale price or government recognised value of the car if just transferring.
Here it is also possible to transfer the car insurance to the buyer, as the car is insured, not the driver!

Love the burgundy colour of your wife's 500!

AKP said:

Wow! What a location. Much better climate and air than London taaaaan.

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We're in a village in the mountains near Gandia and 15mins from the beach. I am 44 and have had asthma since the age of 9. Since being here I have not used either of my inhalers. Also I have not seen a traffic jam here outside of Barcelona/Madrid/Malaga-Marbella.. The Spanish locally here do not commute and car journeys are short. Beats my old 3 hour round trip drive to the office!