Oooh! TWO phantom raspberry blowers.
yep- youll be paying for fiats critically acclaimed all new mid sized platform...
Amen to this! I've learned the mistakes from buying new!
Me too. My first and only brand new car was the worst i've owned. Numerous faults including airbags, coils, alternator belts & pulleys failing, electrical glitches, fuel supply problems. Plus it cost nearly £200 a month and had lost £4000-£4500 in 18 months.
Therefore as much as it'd be nice to have the latest plate or drive a car from new, i just remember how miserable my only new car made me feel, and that knocks abit of sence into me.
mr advanced driver my demo 500 was in the showroom and had 55 miles on the clock.
my current car was a pre reg that had 60 miles on the clock. no abuse other than being driven off the transporter on to the forecourt.
so a great big childish raspberry to you! :shakehead::shakehead:
In my misspent youth I did some truly shocking things to rental cars in far less than 60 miles.
I never ever thought I'd buy new but then scrappage came along and it really was too good to refuse.
Never quite understood the whole plate thing, it's just a plate with some numbers on it and I care more about the car than the plate.
Could not agree more on the number plate thing. When ringing the fiat dealer for a twin air test drive he asked me if I was planning to wait when buying for the march number plate change. I very nearly laughed. I also shake my head at personalised plates. if you've got that much money to burn give it to a charity ffs!
what's your attraction to potentially waiting for a number plate change if you don't mind me asking? I'd like to understand it, lol.
mr advanced driver my demo 500 was in the showroom and had 55 miles on the clock.
my current car was a pre reg that had 60 miles on the clock. no abuse other than being driven off the transporter on to the forecourt.
so a great big childish raspberry to you! :shakehead::shakehead:
Perhaps it's a fair distance to a decent chippy?surely they could have parked the transporter closer to the dealer..
Rental cars do tend to be very quick don't they! I had a 1.2 Micra up to about 170 indicated in metric whilst going down a rather long Finnish hill It's actually the car in my avatar I ****ing hate Micra's though
the unknown past of a relatively young car is an interesting topic, I would have imagined a car with ultra low milage to be as new but as has been pointed out, that may not be the case.
A few years ago - when we were thinking of buying our Pandas - we flew to Venice (birthday surprise for Mrs b_u) and I particularly wanted to hire a Panda - they fobbed me off with a Micra, despite my histrionic/arm-waving rant - it was quite simply the worst car I've driven - followed closely by a Smart summink or other - apart from being dismal in every way it almost ground to a halt when I turned the air con on.