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We got our Tipo Easy Plus M-Jet2 on 15th December.
It was always going to be a difficult change because since trading in an Alfa 147 in 2012 we’ve been running little 500s, a Twin Air for the first six months, it was written off when we T-Boned a Toyota! :bang:
After that we had 4 Abarths, two in Legends Blue, a Podium Blue one and finally a red one, which we’d only had for six months. We always knew the red one was going to be the last, the compromises, size being the biggest. The other compromises are the things that made it fun.
In the end, the final straw was when my mother in law got almost stuck fast and we had a hell of a job getting her out. I said “We need to do something” :shrug:
I phoned the dealer and they had some deals going on and we got our “18” reg pre-reg Tipo for a very good price, pretty much a swap, no real change in monthly costs. It had 1 mile on the clock, all my “new “ cars came with more mileage!
Because it was the festive season we did a lot of visiting family & friends and have now clocked up 1,100 miles, we normally do about 8,000 a year.
First impressions:
Big! Comfortable, economical and easy to drive.
I was comfortable from the start, but It took a while to get used to the conventional driving position, it took a while to stop fiddling with the seat, I’ve stopped doing that now.
I’d forgotten how awesome cruise control is!
Although its an Easy Plus, our Tipo has the comfort pack, so includes climate etc, I don’t need the extras with the higher spec versions. I can’t live without DAB radio, 6 Music is brilliant! :worship:
The magazine bitch about “ scratchy plastics, bland grey interior” the only dodgy plastics are the door caps. I’ve hired a few Golfs, Audis etc for work, and the Tipo is fine compared to them, well screwed together and miles cheaper.
Driving wise, its fine “it’s a car”, we know its built and set up more on the comfort side, it rolls a bit, not too badly and there is grip there, you just drive in a different way. You can’t stand it on its nose, like we did with the 595, I don’t feel left behind, its not ”fun” in an Abarth way, but then again, not much is!
The 595 is lively, a scamp, you have to “drive” it all the time, you can’t really relax whereas the Tipo is less demanding, relaxing, you guide it, rather than drive it hard.
Its strange that we don’t miss the 595, but it shows that a Tipo Is the right choice for this time in our lives, it has and does everything we need in a car. And my mother in law likes it!
We changed from an in your face car to one that is pretty much anonymous, but one of my friends is thinking of buying a SW Tipo, people have complemented it and a neighbour is fed up with his VW going wrong that he might get one!
The Tipo gets a bad press, as do most FCA products, the press is so bias in the UK towards VAG, JLR & Ford that its not even funny.
The Tipo is far better than most of the reviews suggest, I really like it, may even love it It’ll keep us going for a few years until we get another Alfa…..
It was always going to be a difficult change because since trading in an Alfa 147 in 2012 we’ve been running little 500s, a Twin Air for the first six months, it was written off when we T-Boned a Toyota! :bang:
After that we had 4 Abarths, two in Legends Blue, a Podium Blue one and finally a red one, which we’d only had for six months. We always knew the red one was going to be the last, the compromises, size being the biggest. The other compromises are the things that made it fun.
In the end, the final straw was when my mother in law got almost stuck fast and we had a hell of a job getting her out. I said “We need to do something” :shrug:
I phoned the dealer and they had some deals going on and we got our “18” reg pre-reg Tipo for a very good price, pretty much a swap, no real change in monthly costs. It had 1 mile on the clock, all my “new “ cars came with more mileage!
Because it was the festive season we did a lot of visiting family & friends and have now clocked up 1,100 miles, we normally do about 8,000 a year.
First impressions:
Big! Comfortable, economical and easy to drive.
I was comfortable from the start, but It took a while to get used to the conventional driving position, it took a while to stop fiddling with the seat, I’ve stopped doing that now.
I’d forgotten how awesome cruise control is!
Although its an Easy Plus, our Tipo has the comfort pack, so includes climate etc, I don’t need the extras with the higher spec versions. I can’t live without DAB radio, 6 Music is brilliant! :worship:
The magazine bitch about “ scratchy plastics, bland grey interior” the only dodgy plastics are the door caps. I’ve hired a few Golfs, Audis etc for work, and the Tipo is fine compared to them, well screwed together and miles cheaper.
Driving wise, its fine “it’s a car”, we know its built and set up more on the comfort side, it rolls a bit, not too badly and there is grip there, you just drive in a different way. You can’t stand it on its nose, like we did with the 595, I don’t feel left behind, its not ”fun” in an Abarth way, but then again, not much is!
The 595 is lively, a scamp, you have to “drive” it all the time, you can’t really relax whereas the Tipo is less demanding, relaxing, you guide it, rather than drive it hard.
Its strange that we don’t miss the 595, but it shows that a Tipo Is the right choice for this time in our lives, it has and does everything we need in a car. And my mother in law likes it!
We changed from an in your face car to one that is pretty much anonymous, but one of my friends is thinking of buying a SW Tipo, people have complemented it and a neighbour is fed up with his VW going wrong that he might get one!
The Tipo gets a bad press, as do most FCA products, the press is so bias in the UK towards VAG, JLR & Ford that its not even funny.
The Tipo is far better than most of the reviews suggest, I really like it, may even love it It’ll keep us going for a few years until we get another Alfa…..
