As some of you may already have an inkling, i'm not over the moon with MJ that i bought last november.
I want something that is going to make me smile even just a little bit. Unfortunately the MJ can't seem to do that. So i'm going to get something a little less sensible that will be fun.
Initially I was over-awed by the 500 Abarth. Cute cheeky ought to be fun etc. But now i'm not so sure it isn't more of a marketing excercise and maybe isn't going to as driver focused as i expected it to be. Not being able to disable the ESP is seriously
in my eyes. Price seems to be hiking too.
Other option is the Twingo RS where you can turn off the ESP and it ought to have a cracking chassis knowing renail.
The price of a Twingo RS is going to be around 12K by the time i've specced it up.
Now my partner says that he is a little unhappy with me stretching my budget and a friend of mine has access to his mum's 100hp which he keeps raving about. This guy has a caterham and drives a 5 series normally. That impressed me.
The price difference between a 100hp and a Twingo RS is about 3K. A 100hp can be had for under 9K without too much of a problem. It may provide enough fun for me to enjoy it. I'm not worried about drag races, I know on paper it isn't quick by any means but a nigh on 50% power increase over the MJ has got to be noticable right?
So i'm going to test drive one see what I think.
Off I trotted to my local dealer, saw the guy we originally dealt with last year who we get on well with. He wanted to be very helpful except the dealership had gone into administration the night before! FFS. He suggested supersaver which i'm obviously aware of, but now i need to find somewhere where i can organise a test drive. He suggested Platts in Stoke which is a little bit of a trek but do-able.
Hopefully my original dealer will be saved by a buy out or something and then we may able to do business hopefully. If i like it i'm thinking Red NO ESP and a subwoofer would do me.
Funnily enough my partner said to me, 'look if it costs a couple of grand its got to be worth it to stop the constant moaning about the MJ!'
I want something that is going to make me smile even just a little bit. Unfortunately the MJ can't seem to do that. So i'm going to get something a little less sensible that will be fun.
Initially I was over-awed by the 500 Abarth. Cute cheeky ought to be fun etc. But now i'm not so sure it isn't more of a marketing excercise and maybe isn't going to as driver focused as i expected it to be. Not being able to disable the ESP is seriously
in my eyes. Price seems to be hiking too. Other option is the Twingo RS where you can turn off the ESP and it ought to have a cracking chassis knowing renail.
The price of a Twingo RS is going to be around 12K by the time i've specced it up.
Now my partner says that he is a little unhappy with me stretching my budget and a friend of mine has access to his mum's 100hp which he keeps raving about. This guy has a caterham and drives a 5 series normally. That impressed me.
The price difference between a 100hp and a Twingo RS is about 3K. A 100hp can be had for under 9K without too much of a problem. It may provide enough fun for me to enjoy it. I'm not worried about drag races, I know on paper it isn't quick by any means but a nigh on 50% power increase over the MJ has got to be noticable right?
So i'm going to test drive one see what I think.
Off I trotted to my local dealer, saw the guy we originally dealt with last year who we get on well with. He wanted to be very helpful except the dealership had gone into administration the night before!
FFS. He suggested supersaver which i'm obviously aware of, but now i need to find somewhere where i can organise a test drive. He suggested Platts in Stoke which is a little bit of a trek but do-able. Hopefully my original dealer will be saved by a buy out or something and then we may able to do business hopefully. If i like it i'm thinking Red NO ESP and a subwoofer would do me.
Funnily enough my partner said to me, 'look if it costs a couple of grand its got to be worth it to stop the constant moaning about the MJ!'
