General It's December...where are they then?

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General It's December...where are they then?

Its the 2nd week of December now and the crimbo deccys are up everywhere so the dealer demonstrator 500s ought to be at Bristol Docks / compound at portbury now soon, if dealers are getting them before Xmas day.

Would anyone near Bristol be a luvvy and go have a sneck over the fence and see if there's any sign of them. :confused:

If I take take my nephew to Bristol docks just after crimbo (he's ship and Fiat car mad),it will be all closed up and can you see any Fiat cars from public highways near the docks or is it all hidden from view?:confused:

If anyone can give me a location for the compound I'll go down & take a look, with the telephoto lens on the SLR, I live about 15mins up the road.
 
Its right by the side of the motorway you cant miss it (y)

I see it everytime i go down that way :D
 

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Its December and pwig the fiat car salesman says the RHD 500s are arriving in December so keep your eyes peeled evryone

Guess the date and colour and location of the first uk RHD sighting.Me I guess itll be an ickle white one somewhere near bristol and not til 2nd half of DEc. Prove me wrong if you can. :cry::cry::cry:

Saw a whole transporter full of them going East on the M4 last night as I exited on the M32/M4 junction when I was going West:)

It was dark so all I know is there was definately a yellow one, some lighter colour ones, & some dark ones.
 
Well I can tell you all, they have been arriving on a few ships in Portbury mixed with the Panda's. I doubt very you'll see them from the Avon Bridge.

Currently there is about 100 of them in various trim and colours etc. :)

As to when they will be in the showrooms for the Launch, thats a question I can't answer, I think its after Christmas. :cry:
 
i got a call last week from my dealer. i have two on order a lounge and sport. the lounge has come out fine.

However the sport, i cannot have funk white and now i have been told that i cant have ivory interior with red leather (ivory steering wheel, centre dash etc). I can only have it in black with the red leather.

I was so close to cancelling the order, i have had a deposit down 8 months on a car and spec'd it fully 1month ago and now fiat tell me this.

The dealers have no clue, as fiat are in an absolute flap!

However, good news the fiat computer system is now up. My two cars have a build date and im told i will get mine on the 21st January 2008, both of them!

Cant wait.
 
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my dealer has informed me, (he showed me the letter from Fiat). That with the sport you cannot have Ivory inside full stop! at the moment anyway.

You have to have black interior. All sports come with part leather either brown or black. So i now have to have Black interior i.e. dash, headrests etc with red leather seats.

Your exterior car colour will still be on the inside though.

Dont think you can have cloth in a sport? Either half leather or upgrade to full leather? Thats how i understood it from the beginning as i originally wanted the ivory and red cloth.
 
Is the sport trim really leather or a good quality imitation leather? I had a look at a LHD Sport a few weeks ago with grey cloth and the black 'leather' - it certainly looks like leather
 
When do you expect your demos to arrive N500POP, and
when will you be getting a 500 Pop to go with your number plate? :)

There's already a 500 sport in a Fiat showroom and advertised for sale on autotrader at a Fiat dealership in the West Midlands, although they want to keep it until 21 Jan for the launch.

I believe that the 'suggestion' from Fiat is that dealers might like to keep their showroom/demos until April, but you if you intend to be one of the dealers kind enough to sell a demo 500 in the next week or two, rather than keep it until April, I suggest you mention it on this forum - I'm sure someone here would give it a good home. :eek:
 
but you if you intend to be one of the dealers kind enough to sell a demo 500 in the next week or two, rather than keep it until April, I suggest you mention it on this forum - I'm sure someone here would give it a good home

Sell it on here for list price, or on nf500.com and ask at least 2k over list price:cry:

Have dealers got their 500 Lounge demo cars yet?
Make sure you all tell us when youve had a demo.
 
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