General Thinking of buying a Grande Punto Sporting

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General Thinking of buying a Grande Punto Sporting

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Hi Guys
Glad I managed to find this site-loads of useful info here!
At the moment I own a 2003 Copper S which is worth £11500 and costs £1250 to insure. Visited the Fiat showroom yesterday and looking at the Grande Punto Sporting 1.4 16v and loved it! Thinking of buying the 1.9 diesel sporting due to it being 130 bhp! Is this a good choice? If i go for this my insurance will halve to £650! If i do get one I will prob get black! The only trouble is a couple of motoring mags have been a bit negative but I like the look of the car.
Any advice/hints much appreciated!
Tom
 
minibbb said:
Hi Guys
Glad I managed to find this site-loads of useful info here!
At the moment I own a 2003 Copper S which is worth £11500 and costs £1250 to insure. Visited the Fiat showroom yesterday and looking at the Grande Punto Sporting 1.4 16v and loved it! Thinking of buying the 1.9 diesel sporting due to it being 130 bhp! Is this a good choice? If i go for this my insurance will halve to £650! If i do get one I will prob get black! The only trouble is a couple of motoring mags have been a bit negative but I like the look of the car.
Any advice/hints much appreciated!
Tom
The GP is a very good car do not believe everything you read - take test drive - will not be as quick as your cooper S, but the diesel is faster than the figures suggest on the road and you will save a fortune on fuel.
Biggest bug for me is the lack of small cubbyholes for storage and glovebox is tiny boot is bigish very deep.
I think after driving a mini you appreciate the comfortable ride in the GP.
Bluetooth system is superb even without the blue & me.
 
Hi

I guess it all depends what you want from your car.
I have a Grande punto sporting 1.4 16v, Insurance group 4 which costs me £200 a year fully comp, protected, £200 excess with legal cover plus it only cost just over £100 to tax for the year.
Ok it's not as quick as the 1.9 but still nippy enough to have fun without costing me a packet in fuel. (not that the 1.9 will cost much more i think)
As for the colour black always looks so good but can be an arse to keep clean.
I have new orleans blue and thats gonna be an arse to keep clean aswell.

What ever you go for i'm sure you will love it.

Lee
 
I swapped a 2004 MINI Cooper for a GP Sporting 1.9, thought I'd miss the MINI but tbh haven't missed it once. The performance difference between the Cooper S and the Sporting is going to be quite big and the build quality of the Fiat cant match the MINI but it isn't as bad as some.

The insurance is a plus, I was paying £490 for the MINI (17's & the Aero Kit declared) and the GP's premium is £300 so can't complaint.

I'd say go for it, with the new MINI just round the corner 2nd hand values are going to take a knock so now is a good time to change.
 
cheers for the replies guys, some helpful things there. 48 mpg sounds very tempting indeed! Is Broadspeed a good way of buying a car? They have the 1.9 for £10700 as opposed to my dealers price of £11995
 
minibbb said:
Is Broadspeed a good way of buying a car? They have the 1.9 for £10700 as opposed to my dealers price of £11995

Unfamiliar with broadspeed, but you could always print off your qoute with broadspeed take it to your fiat dealers and get them to price match.

However the delivery times with fiat on the GP arent the best, some members have had to wait way longer than first qouted for delivery so be prerpared for a bit of a wait
 
cheers mate,
lastly, is it a turbo diesel and is anyone doing a decent chip for them at the moment?
 
certainly something to think about when I get bored with it! Getting excited about the prospect of a brand new motor!
 
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