General 100hp bodykit!!
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General 100hp bodykit!!
Yes, at a cost.
Get a Sporting, they look better than the 100hp and only came in diesel 
Edit: Rarer, too
Edit: Rarer, too
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Isn't the Sporting basically just a normal Panda MJ with different bumpers and tacky "go-faster" stripes (which are likely to be peeling with age by now anyway)?Get a Sporting, they look better than the 100hp and only came in diesel
Edit: Rarer, too
As far as I know it misses out on lots of the better things you get in the 100HP; the 6 speed 'box and the much nicer front seats, for example.
It is even rarer than the 100HP, but it might prove to be so rare that finding one in the right condition at the right is a challenge. I had a quick look on AT and couldn't find any Panda Sportings for sale.
Yeah it's a Dynamic with a front and rear bumper, as you said most have lost their stripes by now, cheap enough to replace though (which I would, but that's personal choice )
6 speed box is hardly essential, nor climate control, and as the OP wants a diesel they'd be looking at an Eleganza I suspect to get CC, don't think any diesels have the 6-speed.
)6 speed box is hardly essential, nor climate control, and as the OP wants a diesel they'd be looking at an Eleganza I suspect to get CC, don't think any diesels have the 6-speed.
You're right, the only Panda with a 6-speed 'box is the 100HP. No, it's not essential, but it sure it nice when you drive it like a 100HP is meant to be driven (or for trundling along in 6th when you're feeling lazy). As for CC, again, not essential (especially in the UK), but it sure is nice to have.Yeah it's a Dynamic with a front and rear bumper, as you said most have lost their stripes by now, cheap enough to replace though (which I would, but that's personal choice
6 speed box is hardly essential, nor climate control, and as the OP wants a diesel they'd be looking at an Eleganza I suspect to get CC, don't think any diesels have the 6-speed.
I'm not quite sure why the Sporting is called the Sporting. It's mechanically identical to a car which is, in fact, entirely the opposite; I'm pretty sure the Panda MJ has to be one of the least sporty cars ever. Don't get me wrong, it's a good car, just not a sporty one.
I guess it's just personal preference though, I just prefer cars which have more about them than their looks suggest, as opposed to cars which try to look sportier than they really are (BMW M-Sport, Audi S-Line etc). I think the Panda Sporting falls into the latter of those two categories, unfortunately.
I was thinking the other day how it would be quite cool to put a diesel motor in a 100hp donor...
Wash your mouth out.
The OP could simply buy a tractor, which has bigger wheels/tyres and 'firm' suspension. Also, as everyone know, the fewer the doors, the sportier the vehicle.
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-Pand...7492810?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item25910f5bca
Not convinced about the looks better than a 100hp comment personally...each to their own i guess.
Not convinced about the looks better than a 100hp comment personally...each to their own i guess.
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Not sure how a 'sporting' badge ended up on that.......100hp looks about a million times better.
Yeah it's a Dynamic with a front and rear bumper, as you said most have lost their stripes by now, cheap enough to replace though (which I would, but that's personal choice
6 speed box is hardly essential, nor climate control, and as the OP wants a diesel they'd be looking at an Eleganza I suspect to get CC, don't think any diesels have the 6-speed.
:yeahthat: and all MJs are only dynamic spec anyway, so AC or Climate fitment will be rare as it was never standard, only ever a cost option.
My MJ looks very similar to the one in the ebay advert but without the front, rear and side addenda. And the colour. And the seat trim.
In other words the wheels and side rubbing strip are the same. As has been said, A/C was an option and would have been very rare on a car that had been brought in for stock. Having said that, I've managed to get by for 9 years without any kind of cabin cooling, opening the windows does a reasonable job 51 weeks out of 52.
If the car is being bought to help with economy and perhaps keep the mileage down on another car, for example a 100HP, then doing without A/C shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience. If the OP wants to make things a little sportier, the alloys would have come with 155s as standard but 165s were available as a factory option. I've fitted 175s (with a corresponding drop in aspect ratio) although I'm unsure as to whether that's been an advantage or not.
I've always liked the various Pandas for being very honest cars, in other words they aren't trying to be something they're not unlike some. With the exception of the Sporting which really isn't very sporting at all. Perhaps the best choice is an honest one.
In other words the wheels and side rubbing strip are the same. As has been said, A/C was an option and would have been very rare on a car that had been brought in for stock. Having said that, I've managed to get by for 9 years without any kind of cabin cooling, opening the windows does a reasonable job 51 weeks out of 52.
If the car is being bought to help with economy and perhaps keep the mileage down on another car, for example a 100HP, then doing without A/C shouldn't be too much of an inconvenience. If the OP wants to make things a little sportier, the alloys would have come with 155s as standard but 165s were available as a factory option. I've fitted 175s (with a corresponding drop in aspect ratio) although I'm unsure as to whether that's been an advantage or not.
I've always liked the various Pandas for being very honest cars, in other words they aren't trying to be something they're not unlike some. With the exception of the Sporting which really isn't very sporting at all. Perhaps the best choice is an honest one.
This, 100% this...
The Sporting isn't sporty. You might as well buy a more common, easier to find, probably cheaper Panda MJ; at least that's not pretending to be something it isn't.
Every other Panda is, as you so aptly put it, very honest; they're exactly what they claim to be, right across the range from the basic but effective transport of the 1.1 Active up to the surprising sportiness of the 100HP (when you consider people's general perception of all Pandas).
I seem to recall a 500 specialist from the North West "chipping" a diesel 500 to produce 100bhp back in 2007. Don't know how this would affect reliability but I'm sure somebody will!
Best bet is to try to find a few 100HP in breakers yards and hope to get the parts required on the cheap, but for the £££ you'll spend buying, fitting and painting that bodykit - you may as well have bought a 100HP in the first place and spend those £100's on petrol Front bumper alone looks like £250 from a quick search online.
Front bumper alone looks like £250 from a quick search online.
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And I wish you good luck finding one!
I tried for over a year and apart from my local fiat Stealer quoting me £850 to supply, paint & fit one, I had no luck.
Even if the OP did get all the trim parts, it would be a PITA to make all the holes in the wheel arches etc to fit them IMHO.
Yes, as with most "I want to attach 100HP parts to a non-100HP Panda" ideas, I think the OP will find that cost, as opposed to the practicalities of carrying it out, will be the prohibiting factor.Best bet is to try to find a few 100HP in breakers yards and hope to get the parts required on the cheap, but for the £££ you'll spend buying, fitting and painting that bodykit - you may as well have bought a 100HP in the first place and spend those £100's on petrol
100HP parts are rare and expensive, if you want a lot of them it's often cheaper to buy a whole 100HP as a donor car and take the parts from that. However, the idea tearing apart any 100HP (even a cheapo high miler) to fit its parts to a normal Panda makes me sad
. At the end of the day, the only practical way to have anything resembling a 100HP, is to buy a 100HP. Thankfully.
Don't they have flared wheelarches? Won't the bumper be too wide?
I believe they're standard size, just with holes for the trim just like the 4x4s.
