General The Fiat Express !

[306maxi]

Probably the only one in the country, going by previous comments.

At least it won't be - how can I say this - a 'popular' colour

But it will have lots of chrome and a black ambience interior!

Should be about 2 weeks now....

I don't get why people are so keen to avoid popular colours if they look good. No one's going to buy a vomit yellow with chunks paintsjob car

 

[tuttogas]

No one's going to buy a vomit yellow with chunks paintsjob car

They didn't have one in stock - so I went for the blue

 

[grimwau]

They didn't have one in stock - so I went for the blue

If you ordered the car "NEW" then surely it wouldn't matter which colour you chose as they will all take the same time to make.

Do you mean that you bought one that the dealer had already ordered and that was the only colour available?

 

[tuttogas]

If you ordered the car "NEW" then surely it wouldn't matter which colour you chose as they will all take the same time to make.

Do you mean that you bought one that the dealer had already ordered and that was the only colour available?

It's humour - geddit?

 

[306maxi]

It's humour - geddit?

jokes are funny though?

 

[Jai]

https://www6.lexisnexis.com/publish...d=102236&topicId=127020003&docId=L:1101829404

In 2009, Fiat Auto Poland factory in Tychy manufactured over 600,000 cars, thus confirming its position as the company's biggest production facility in Europe. In comparison to 2008, its production output rose over 20 percent and reached a new all-time high. "Around 50 percent of the cars manufactured in 2009 are Pandas; we also produced around 160,000-170,000 Fiat 500s and over 100,000 Ford Kas, with the remaining part of the manufactured vehicles being Fiat 600s," says Fiat Auto Poland spokesperson Boguslaw Cieslar.

so roughly:

300,000 pandas
100,000 kas
170,000 500s

approx 30,000 600s, which is no small change, must be serious demand somewhere for it, and the profit margin worth the effort. after all the demand for the panda based cars is also strong.

 

[gordysmit]

:bang:

They do, but to be honest by the time they've got in the car, worried about the screeching noise it makes when starting; tried to clear the windscreen with the smeary wipers and broken windscreen washers from the polish climate freezing them; looked down at the dash and wondered what the flashing mileage indication means; heard the clunk from the near side front suspension as they drive it off the train; tried to call their accomplice on blue and me to Say "they're having second thoughts", but not got any further than the nice lady saying "telephone number 2983465788475602##1738*426687#**# is not recognisable nunber"... I find they tend to give up and run for the hills... or the next passing Ford Ka train...:devil:

 

[chrome500]

It was meant as a joke but some major sense of humour failures going on in this thread...

Truth hurts it seems...

 

[Lloyd71]

It was meant as a joke but some major sense of humour failures going on in this thread...

Truth hurts it seems...

You can't expect everyone to agree with you when you've come to 500 section purely to point out all of the faults you experienced! It was quite funny though.

But who's to say the pirates wouldn't get to the Ford Ka train and vomit all over the interior for being so hideously ugly?

 

[nottsfiat07]

since the launch of the 500 they've done a bit of a restyle of the Seicento, properly calling it the 600 and doing some minor cosmetic changes, like giving a it a "moustache" a la the 500. They aren't selling it here though. Just as well. Its like taking a Mazda 121, sticking whitewall tyres on it and calling it the Kia Pride. And no, they weren't winter whitewall tyres, for those of you wondering.

 

[Lloyd71]

Is it still as dangerous in a crash?!

 

[nottsfiat07]

Is it still as dangerous in a crash?!

Well I'm sure the side rubbing strips they've stuck on will add at least one more NCAP star! So that'll be... one then.