Sadly no longer the owner of a Fiat. The Punto will be missed, and has been a fantastic car during 2.5 years ownership and never missed a beat.

For those interested I thought I'd give a breakdown of the costs during my ownership, doing 20,000 miles a year:

Bought the car 36 months ago for £6k with 27k miles on.

During that time it's had:

Service at £110
Service, pads and disks at £270
Cambelt and water pump change at £200
New Power steering column - £350
Two drop links and 2 rear shocks - £50 all in (fitted myself)

Sold with 75k miles on for £3.2k. Roughly equates to 6 pence per mile vehicle depreciation, 17 pence per mile fuel cost (36 MPG average at 117PPL), and 3 pence per mile for servicing/maintenance.

Total is 26p per mile. Don't think that's too bad really all in.

Now leasing an A1 (attached), got a deal I couldn't turn down. A big step up from the Fiat, and being a diesel should hopefully save me a few pennies.

I'm going to stick around though, don't think there's many forums online that are as good or helpful as this one.

Couldn't blame you on the Audi, a friend of mine has an S-line, really nice motors.

No Pics of your punto?

Mothers got an A1 with the top spec, it really is a big upgrade in every way!

kidpunto said:

No Pics of your punto?

Mothers got an A1 with the top spec, it really is a big upgrade in every way!

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Never did a member's motor page thing, but I've attached a couple of the photo's I took before advertising it.