General 1.6 MJet Sporting....

cardinalbiggles · May 7, 2009

Looks like its available now on the Fiat site!

Perhaps just as well I held off on the 1.9 Sporting afterall!

Oh and looks like they have dumped the yellow...

Ffoxy · May 8, 2009

cardinalbiggles said:
Looks like its available now on the Fiat site!

Perhaps just as well I held off on the 1.9 Sporting afterall!

Oh and looks like they have dumped the yellow...

Nah 1.9 8valvers raaaawk... see how few are advertised for sale lol!

Almost everybody that has one wants to keep it.

colin79666 · May 8, 2009

interesting - it's not being offered in the Eleganza (which used to have the 1.9 120bhp)

Mattyk · May 8, 2009

1.9 aaaaaaaany day, sounds better to people not in the know, 1.9 is bigger!

its a tough bastard the old 1.9 too

rosshutchie · May 8, 2009

Noticed they changed that. About time, but I really cant see the 1.6 being as tunable as the 1.9.

adamcot · May 8, 2009

Have you seen the list price?

£14400

grande punto · May 8, 2009

I think i will stick with the 1.9 !!. Cracking car in my opinion, leave the 1.6 to the people who prefere smaller things !

georgios1976 · May 8, 2009

Well, 235lb/ft at 1750 revs, 62.8mpg and 119g/km of CO2 (£35 road tax bracket) is way better than the 1.9 8v.

The price is steep, I am sure that a few weeks down the line Broadspeed etc will have at least £3.5k off list price.

Thank God they dropped yellow! They also seem to have dropped the hill holder facility and the CD-MP3 player too, they have however added cruise control and lockable fuel cap.

I have not driven it yet though, I guess it will be quieter, faster during in-gear acceleration, should also achieve over 50mpg under mixed driving conditions (I am currently in the 42-45mpg zone, can't get any better than that).

Mayatt · May 8, 2009

hill holder was pretty good i thought, notice it not being there when get into misses car to drive, corsa still have it. and putting the cost up for less equipment seems a bit bizarre? got cruise standard on my 08 car and lockable fuel cap has been around a while.

colin79666 · May 8, 2009

lockable cap has been since 07my

fair enough losing the mp3 cd player, after all you can play mp3s through blue and me

14k is way too high though - that's more than an Abarth!

JTD_Liam · May 9, 2009

cardinalbiggles said:
Looks like its available now on the Fiat site!

Perhaps just as well I held off on the 1.9 Sporting afterall!

Oh and looks like they have dumped the yellow...

When i looked a few days ago it was just the 1.6 Mjet that had limited colours available, but the Tjet Sporting had the usual colours still available, so i wondered if they were phasing the colours in gradually on the Mjet. They could be phasing them out on the Tjet ofcourse, but id guess its the former as otherwise it'd be a pretty narrow colour choice.

Its also weird how leather is available on Dynamic, GP & Sporting models but not the luxury Eleganza spec.

ducasi · May 9, 2009

JTD_Liam said:
Its also weird how leather is available on Dynamic, GP & Sporting models but not the luxury Eleganza spec.

According to the "Compare/Spec" charts, it's a £800 option on all Eleganzas, Dynamics, and GPs. The Sportings have a different £600 "Sports Leather Interior" option.

Im-Mia · May 9, 2009

adamcot said:
Have you seen the list price?

£14400

lol..... ******** to that - buy and abarth! ..... its cheaper!

Tris Harris · May 9, 2009

:yeahthat:

who in their right mind wouldnt choose an Abarth over one lol

JTD_Liam · May 9, 2009

ducasi said:
According to the "Compare/Spec" charts, it's a £800 option on all Eleganzas, Dynamics, and GPs. The Sportings have a different £600 "Sports Leather Interior" option.

Try putting it on an Eleganza in the configurator! It won't have any of it. It's been taken off the Dynamic & GP specs in the configurator aswell now. Fiats configurator is generally much better than other manufacturers that ive used but i wish theyd make things match up, ie the spec sheets & configurator.

punto_matt · May 9, 2009

Go use bmws its mint lol

JTD_Liam · May 10, 2009

punto_matt said:
Go use bmws its mint lol

I may have a play around with it then. Id just used Renaults, Fords & Citroens ones & Fiat seemed better than all those.

Mayatt · May 11, 2009

Tris Harris said:
:yeahthat:

who in their right mind wouldnt choose an Abarth over one lol

mr 30k miles a year but yeah always abarth win imo

ghsaunders40 · May 16, 2009

georgios1976 said:
Well, 235lb/ft at 1750 revs, 62.8mpg and 119g/km of CO2 (£35 road tax bracket) is way better than the 1.9 8v.

The price is steep, I am sure that a few weeks down the line Broadspeed etc will have at least £3.5k off list price.

Thank God they dropped yellow! They also seem to have dropped the hill holder facility and the CD-MP3 player too, they have however added cruise control and lockable fuel cap.

I have not driven it yet though, I guess it will be quieter, faster during in-gear acceleration, should also achieve over 50mpg under mixed driving conditions (I am currently in the 42-45mpg zone, can't get any better than that).

I have driven the 1.6 a few months ago in europe. I will say its quieter and more ecomomical, but there is no way it is quicker. It picks up slowly, has more lag and lacks grunt above 65 mph. As I drove it on a track with a Tjet and an 'old mjet' I can also say it cant even think of keeping up on the straights! It does feel lighter in the corners than the 1.9. but the acceleration of the 1.9 outweighs this advantage.

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