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General what colour is ur cinq
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General what colour is ur cinq
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Its Up There Now Mate
Mine be black apparently when u use something called a sponge?!?
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i wonder what that could be then?
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ps ... sorry if this has been done b4
all about the imola blue! 
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imola rules and at the mo its only us two i know theres some more all they have to do is come forward
To be honest i think Yellow will win this contest!
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we'll have to see
i think black have a good chance
i think black have a good chance
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The Sporting was originally available in just two paint colours... Yellow and Red after a short time Black was added and then later in production the two metallics (Silver/Grey and Blue) were also added.
Broom Yellow This must be by far the most popular colour for Sportings in the U.K. and by far the most popular colour to 'be seen in' as it is statistically proven by insurance companies to be the safest colour to have a car in and thus avoid accidents with. One thing I have noticed about this colour on early (pre '96) sportings is the fact that if uncared for, the paint will fade and oxidise heavily which I would guess makes re-sprays and accident damage hard to match.
Sporting/Starter Red The second most popular colour for sporting's and of course the ideal shade for an Italian car creating that miniature Ferarri persona. Quite why Fiat chose Sporting Red as the colour that early Sportings were painted and then Starter Red from '96 for later cars is a bit of a mystery, also the darker Racing Red (as available on standard 900cc Cinq's) is a richer red and has been applied to many sporty Fiats over the years, perhaps they wanted to separate the standard and sporty versions visibly but they still went ahead and produced a black version in both versions discounting that theory, so maybe its an insurance thing and they were trying to minimise the Sporting's insurance rating by not combining the 'Sporting' name and 'Racing' red, who knows ! This colour also suffers from the severest of fading and in the worst of cases the car takes on a 'matt pink' look, once again the later cars have better paint which seems to resist this, so much so that early and late cars can be told apart very easily, even from a distance.
Black There do not seem to be as many cars around in this ('Henry Ford's favorite') colour as the other two, quite why I don't know perhaps it was the light red (or later orange) bumper inserts that this car had or maybe the time old problem of black always looking dirty even when just washed. Black is of course the only colour for re-creating that 'mafia staff car' look with and of course a boot which is just the right size for transporting and delivering the preverbial horses heads in !!!
Trend Grey Metallic Available from late '95 onwards as a 'cost option' this colour was for me the best shade to have a Sporting in at that time, making the car look rather like a scaled down Uno-turbo as the car even had narrower versions of the wheels the Uno mk2 wore in those days. As with most optional colours the Grey cars were available only in limited numbers and as such seem to be more sought after on the second-hand market.
Imola Blue Metallic Available from the '96 model year onwards again as a 'cost option' this colour is the scarcest of all, there seem to be very few cars on the road painted in this shade and once again they seem very hard to find on the second-hand market and always fetching a premium when one does come up for sale. This car also had the orange bumper inserts of the black cars but rather suiting the blue better than the black perhaps.
Broom Yellow This must be by far the most popular colour for Sportings in the U.K. and by far the most popular colour to 'be seen in' as it is statistically proven by insurance companies to be the safest colour to have a car in and thus avoid accidents with. One thing I have noticed about this colour on early (pre '96) sportings is the fact that if uncared for, the paint will fade and oxidise heavily which I would guess makes re-sprays and accident damage hard to match.
Sporting/Starter Red The second most popular colour for sporting's and of course the ideal shade for an Italian car creating that miniature Ferarri persona. Quite why Fiat chose Sporting Red as the colour that early Sportings were painted and then Starter Red from '96 for later cars is a bit of a mystery, also the darker Racing Red (as available on standard 900cc Cinq's) is a richer red and has been applied to many sporty Fiats over the years, perhaps they wanted to separate the standard and sporty versions visibly but they still went ahead and produced a black version in both versions discounting that theory, so maybe its an insurance thing and they were trying to minimise the Sporting's insurance rating by not combining the 'Sporting' name and 'Racing' red, who knows ! This colour also suffers from the severest of fading and in the worst of cases the car takes on a 'matt pink' look, once again the later cars have better paint which seems to resist this, so much so that early and late cars can be told apart very easily, even from a distance.
Black There do not seem to be as many cars around in this ('Henry Ford's favorite') colour as the other two, quite why I don't know perhaps it was the light red (or later orange) bumper inserts that this car had or maybe the time old problem of black always looking dirty even when just washed. Black is of course the only colour for re-creating that 'mafia staff car' look with and of course a boot which is just the right size for transporting and delivering the preverbial horses heads in !!!
Trend Grey Metallic Available from late '95 onwards as a 'cost option' this colour was for me the best shade to have a Sporting in at that time, making the car look rather like a scaled down Uno-turbo as the car even had narrower versions of the wheels the Uno mk2 wore in those days. As with most optional colours the Grey cars were available only in limited numbers and as such seem to be more sought after on the second-hand market.
Imola Blue Metallic Available from the '96 model year onwards again as a 'cost option' this colour is the scarcest of all, there seem to be very few cars on the road painted in this shade and once again they seem very hard to find on the second-hand market and always fetching a premium when one does come up for sale. This car also had the orange bumper inserts of the black cars but rather suiting the blue better than the black perhaps.
cool post.... but IMO the imola ones look sooo much better with imola blue inserts and door handlesimola_fowkes said:
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thats not my work mate i pinched from the cinq sporting page
yea thought i had seen it before.... it was just well placed then hehe.
by the way, how did u do your rear lights?
by the way, how did u do your rear lights?
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i baught them like that of someone on here... he found them in a scrappy
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Sporting/Starter Red .... ...once again the later cars have better paint which seems to resist this, so much so that early and late cars can be told apart very easily, even from a distance.
because the later cars arnt the same red
because the later cars arnt the same red
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Cheaky Yellow all the way
Go the Imola!
Have to admit having a fondness for the silver too though.
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Have to admit having a fondness for the silver too though.
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hang on hang on.... only 3 imolas on this whole site?
wow i feel all proud! hehe
wow i feel all proud! hehe
