OMGWTFBBQ - spare wheel... in the engine bay?!?!
Non-electric windows?
At least it has plastic wheel arches
Why would you want electric windows?
The interior is a bit interesting because the doors have the components in Mk1 locations, though the colours are dire and modern. And I think the plastic wheel arch edges are going for the Subaru Forester look (I don't like them!)
Is it just my imagination or are those outside door handles off the Tipo? :chin: I noticed one day that those would fit but I always preferred the Uno's style.
Brazil Unos have always had the spare wheel in the engine bay. Under the skin, I think this is very much like the Brazil Uno has always been - totally different metalwork around the engine bay, more similar to the FIAT 127 (which also had the spare wheel in the engine bay
).
If you look carefully in the third photo (the one taken from the rear of the blue car), you can see evidence of significant differences underneath:
- There is a fore-aft pivot visible for the suspension arm - so there will be a transverse leaf spring and transverse control arms with struts, again similar to the FIAT 127 and 128 in the UK.
- The exhaust system silencer/muffler is also transverse.
- In the fourth photo (under the front), you can see an extra bar or two. I don't know what those are. I think they are either protection (similar to the bar fitted under an Uno Turbo intercooler/oil cooler), or possibly an antiroll bar for a different, 127/128-style suspension system. I think that the Brazil Uno uses a similar setup to the European Uno at the front (pressed-steel control arms with two bushes each), but I could have been wrong all these years and it could actually have a setup like the 127/128 (thin cast-iron control arm each side with one bush and anti-roll bar for location).
Anyway, with the rear suspension being more independant than the European set-up, it probably drives and rides a little better. The blue car appears to be jacked-up for semi-offroad use but it has plastic wheel trims that would probably last five minutes off-road
The red car is a better height, doesn't have the silly plastic wheelarch extensions, nice body-colour on the bumpers, and I like the look of those wheels - on the red car I think they're alloys - quite Alfa-Romeo-like! Photo 6 shows they're silver on the inside rim, which steel wheels wouldn't be
-Alex