Hello everyone! Just bought my Fiat today, its a white Fiat 500 pop, manual transmission, and the only upgrade is the alloy wheels. Was looking for a car to buy and the choices were pretty close - either a BMW or an Audi, both used. Then I remembered that Fiats cost next to nothing brand new so next thing I know I'm driving home in a Fiat and loving it.

I'm a long time member of the BMW community and will likely return there eventually when I get enough money to buy a low mileage BMW. I love that community, and hope my experience with the Fiat community will be the same .

First upgrades I plan to do is get a clear bra on this thing and drop a couple vinyl stripes along the bottom. There's no Russian flag vinyl option for the roof, and that would just be too crazy anyways, so I figure a couple of discreet blue and red stripes along the bottom of my while car to represent my motherland :slayer:

Looked at the USA 500 forum quickly, and mudflaps seem like a good idea, but I need to see more pics. I'm a hardcore DIY guy, learned how to change head gaskets out of necessity while owning a couple bimmers. First thing I bought after buying the Fiat was a retractable micro USB cable. It was dirt cheap and a very clean solution to keeping my phone charged. When it's not in use, just give it a tug and it slips back into your glove compartment box and takes up no space at all, with no messy cables taking up space in your glove box

Welcome to the forums, our USA section is quite new - but with dedicated members such as yourself, we should be able to build it up into *the* USA 500 hub

What has your experience of the US dealers been like?

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