General First & Last Generation

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General First & Last Generation

My German wasn't really (or even nearly) up to reading that, so I tried Babelfish - hmm not entirely English, but quite amusing and almost makes sense in places........ :eek: Maybe better after pub chucking out time??? ;) As the writer carefully sums it up: There rum place it still, the spirit of the old Panda (y)

Some nice piccies though :)


What became from the Panda?


Which for a career: From the rolling sticking box to the small Schickimicki. Our exit shows whether the old and the new Fiat have Panda thing in common.
ANNOUNCEMENT From Joachim State of the small two-cylinder starts with a tormenting Huster, at whose end I do not know: Does the engine run? But, he runs! Because it scheppert by the thin sheet metals, as wär ’ s cardboard. Step clutch, the course clean ge press k k kt – loosely. Under bad Zetern the Fiat reaches the speed of a torture chamber, I creeps by the city like in former times the Italian Grandpas. In little relaxed frog attitude, with first sweating marks of the plastic seats. “The mad crate”, TC, then read at that time the slogan for the Panda. Truely to it is only the second part. Which for a crate! The meeting with the cult small car can quite shock. Mamma mia, is that little car! That it should be thus: the origin of the Panda family, a long success story, which continues starting from March 2012 with the third generation of the Italian small car.
Overview: All news and tests to the Fiat Panda

Kind regards from the autostone time: The Fiat Panda 30 is absolutely no more UP ton of DATE. As the story 1980, there called its designer Giorgio Giugiaro loose-went to the Panda a “household appliance”. Simple technology, simple function. Throw away with defect. Which happened often enough. Admitted, the Panda version 30 with the two-cylinder from the Fiat, at that time driven by us, already become outdated, 126 never came on the German market. With us the crate had at least four cylinders and 34 HP. The Urmodell fished Fiats from the museum, as a companion for the exit with the new one, for which again two-cylinder carries, this time however with 85 HP and as point of the hippen savings avant-garde. Thus the times change. Felt more than only 31 years lie between the two Fiats. Between them a world lies. The old person, this rough block, was even in the meager 80s, when the cars any desire was expenditure-flogged, a basis-democratic shock. So relentlessly hardly another revealed its cheap production. Hard edges, plan disks. In addition Gartenstühlchen as seats, a rear seat, which can be hooked as hammock, in front the shelf over the whole Wagenbreite – all this rose from pure household dictation, today one would say: Cost optimization.
Overview: All news and tests to Fiats

Quotation in sheet metal: Also the newest Panda reminded optically still removes at its Urahn. The Ur-Panda does not give us one training hour in “simple goes ’ to s”. Or therein, which dared Fiats to expect its customers. And those? Lifted the car promptly on the cult throne. Such Nulldiät efficiency may not take the liberty the new one any longer, quite the reverse: Meagerly is out. Finally the Panda is valid since the current generation (since 2003) as mark in the mark Fiat, which is pampered and by all only somewhat more to have is than the predecessor: more trunk (225 litres instead of 205 litres), more Chic, more gloss, more technology, more Schnickschnack, so that the customers slam shut with the extras as generously as with the lifestyligen 500er. Nevertheless the Panda had to remain optically absolutely the old person. Operation successfully, how first reactions point to Gäs and Piazze: The Italians recognize it, appreciative nodding (“Ahh, nuova Panda! ”). No miracle, particularly since its designer Roberto Giolito distributed the signature mark wastefully: on wheel hubs, tail covers, in (now shorter) the tail lamps and inside in the coinage of the large plastic surfaces.

ANNOUNCEMENTSome, only no proud-swollen chest may be missing to the small one! Thus the Panda carries now like naturally screens, which shine like piano lacquer, for keys for surcharge-requiring speech recognition or a TomTom Navi, which is implanted above in the center console. The new seats have multicolored samples, for long equipment put even the front seat passenger seat-back flat. Which for a progress since the sharpened wax cloth optics from the Urmodell. “Nuova” may be the Panda, “gigante” however not yet, despite the four centimeters of broader axles (of the 500er). The space gain lives the thicker side impact protection. Thus the Fiat far uninhibited renouncement requires, if winter tags the statically loaded Wollmäntel in the shoulder contact kneeling star. High roof lets be enough air upward.

The beginner lets technical look age-old his ancestors. The two-cylinders, in addition a natural gas version and the 75-PS-Diesel are to discharge assistance of modern Spargimmicks in the most economical form under 100 gram of CO2 per kilometer – such as asynchronous operation system, the key “Eco mode” or a generator, which switches themselves off independently, if she is not used. What do we find against it in the engine compartment of the first Panda? Not only the spare wheel, but also XXL jacking equipment, which would know even a Iveco truck elevators. And despite whole modern things – or straight therefore – itched it Roberto Giolito to transfer a piece from the old into the new Panda. Vorm front seat passenger yawns again a deep file cave, in which in the future from the Lippenstift to the Karamellbonbon all possible will disappear rappeln and. There rum place it still, the spirit of the old Panda.

Technical data Fiat Panda 0,9 twin air (2011) two-cylinder row engine, turbo, in front crosswise • four valves per cylinder • capacity 875 cm ³ • achievement 63 KW (85 HP) with 5500/min • max. torque 145 Nm with 1900/min • front wheel drive • Fünfganggetriebe • L/B/H 3648/1644/1551 mm level of fuel in the tank of 35 litres.

Technical data Fiat Panda 30 (1980) two-cylinder row engine, in front lengthwise • two valves per cylinder • capacity 652 cm ³ • achievement 22 KW (30 HP) with 5500/min • max. torque 41 Nm with 3000/min • front wheel drive • Vierganggetriebe • length/width/height of 3380/1460/1445 mm • level of fuel in the tank of 35 litres.
 
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