General My first 500

[ELL4EVER]

As a 19 yr old with an ageing car i was looking to upgrade. I was looking for something fairly fast, cheap to run and easy/fun to drive which looked great. Couldn't resist this street model

 

[The Twins]

Great choice!
Welcome to the forum ; )

 

[ELL4EVER]

Thanks, I can't stop looking out the window at it ^_^

 

[The Twins]

Electroclash grey? One of the best colours for sure.
We have two 500's and love 'em to bits.
These little cars really get to you don't they?
Here are Luigi and Rosa lol (hence user name on here)

You have named your 500 right? ; )

 

[ELL4EVER]

I love the electroclash grey colour, I haven't seen one this color before. They look really good, especially the white with black wheels
What engines do they have?
Yes I love driving round in Slash (named after the guitarist), super fun to drive and it's so comfortable.

 

[The Twins]

Love the name! Love Guns and Roses.
Ours are 1.2 Lounge and Twinair model (before it was 'Street')
I've made a few mods to my TA.

 

[ELL4EVER]

I love the sound of the twin air model, makes me smile whenever I get inside

What mods have you done?

 

[The Twins]

Scroll down the recent posts to : "One year / 25k miles in 500 Twinair". It's all there : )

 

[ELL4EVER]

Wow you have modded quite a lot of things. I really like all the fittings on slash so I'd probably just want to change the exhaust and remap the ecu

 

[The Twins]

Oh no! You've got the modding bug already lol

 

[staffordmike]

You're 19 and you've got a 13 reg car? When I was 19 I had a 12 year old Triumph Herald!

 

[staffordmike]

I like your car by the way!

 

[werdna]

Is it a TA ? if so it may be Tech House Grey, like mine.

 

[ELL4EVER]

Hehe cheers. I did have a 17 year old mitsubishi colt but I decided to treat myself after a promotion at work and got this

 

[The Twins]

Giving your age away Mike ; )

 

[ELL4EVER]

Is it a TA ? if so it may be Tech House Grey, like mine.

It's definitely electroclash grey

 

[The Twins]

Hehe cheers. I did have a 17 year old mitsubishi colt but I decided to treat myself after a promotion at work and got this

Well done. Good for you!

 

[ELL4EVER]

I'm so glad I got this car, it has a certain charm and character compared to others I have test driven. I tried a vw up before buying slash and it was quite dull

 

[The Twins]

Yes Fiat got it just right with the 500.
The styling is quite faithful to the original (unlike Mini) Makes me smile every time I drive mine.
I'm sure if we could show the new 500 and the new Mini to Dante Giacossa and Alec Isigonis (the original designers) I think I know who would approve of their 'new' cars more.

 

[ELL4EVER]

Yeah I'm not a fan of the new mini, it's ok to look at but the interior definitely isn't as nice. I did contemplate buying a Cooper s but it was so overpriced so I stuck with what I love and that's Italian cars. I also looked at the alfa romeo mito but the 500 is such a good car that I had to get one.