General Interior

[skinner05]

Hi, im new to the forum and i have been interested for some time in the 1.9 sporting but have been put off by the basic styling inside (the control panel, very poor when compared with other cars).Does anyone know if there are any plans to update the interior in the coming months?

Also if you could have bought any other car (similar price range and insurance group no higher than 10/11) what would it have been?

 

[Shauncorwyn]

Hi, im new to the forum and i have been interested for some time in the 1.9 sporting but have been put off by the basic styling inside (the control panel, very poor when compared with other cars).Does anyone know if there are any plans to update the interior in the coming months?

Also if you could have bought any other car (similar price range and insurance group no higher than 10/11) what would it have been?

Welcome to the forum
Insurance is group 6 for GP Sporting -
The Plastics could be better looking but are well screwed together.
No doubt there will be some changes but i do not think this year as they have already altered the instruments dials, seems more like evolution as they go along rather than big changes.
As for the competition there are only a few choices: Skoda fabia, fiesta ST, there is not much else for the money - oh you could get a bog standard mini

 

[T14086]

It all depends where you want the money spent,if you want a 'over the top' dash then you higher the price or cost cut somewhere else.

If I feel the need to play with buttons I continually turn the music volume up & down

 

[skinner05]

yea true.My mate has just got a golf and the interior on that is superb but then again it cost 4-5k more than the punto. Performance wise it isnt a patch on the punto though so its what ever you prefer. Interior of the golf with the performance of the punto priced at around 14k would be awesome

 

[jassyo]

yea true.My mate has just got a golf and the interior on that is superb but then again it cost 4-5k more than the punto. Performance wise it isnt a patch on the punto though so its what ever you prefer. Interior of the golf with the performance of the punto priced at around 14k would be awesome

my mother drives a new golf 2.0 fsi gt,she drives my car prefers it to her own car.the golfs made of better interior matrials,but getting kinda long in the tooth,even the puggy 207,new corsa are a notch or two up on the punto.i sat in mates 2.4 multijet brera today even that is let down in the interior in some bits cheap and nasty just small things,but they dont belong in a car that price :bang: what is it with them italllians.there is no excuses for it:bang: :bang:

 

[TroyO]

I don't have a problem with the styling of the GP interior. I think it is nicely laid out and the switch gear is all nicely placed. But the materials do look a bit on the cheap side (especially compared to the 207) and the interior is sorely lacking in storage space.

But the interior is not the reason why I didn't go for the GP in the end, it was the lack of decent petrol engined models. Since I do a lot of city driving, a diesel just did not make sense. I ended up buying a Peugeot 207 GT, a bit more expensive, but better equipped and better performing. It was also cheaper to insure than the GP Sporting, but this is Australia, so the insurance situation for you guys in the UK is mostly likely different.

If I was in the market for the diesel, the situation may well have been different. A GP Sporting is the same price as the 207 HDi, but the Fiat has the better safety kit having ESP and traction control which the 207 HDi lack. Fiat also looks a lot better. In that case I would have most like bought the Fiat instead.

Troy.

 

[Superboy]

The 207's still very nice....have fun!