Afternoon all,
I've been a guest reader on this fab forum for the last 3 months so thought it was about time I joined. Wifey and I have had motorbikes for the last 10+ years and never had a need for a car, however after the last 2 terrible winters we decided to call it a day and bought a Fiat 500 with the intention of sharing. We shared it for about a week then I never got a look-in!
We went to MITcar in August and I saw (and heard) these cool little cars called 'Abarths' - "I quite fancy one of those in a few years time" I thought.
About a week later I popped down to Research in Nuneaton, just to have a look of course
Loved the test drive but didn't fancy the 13 week waiting time so a week later I was driving around in my (showroom stock model) Abarth 500:
Campovolo Grey, skydome, red stripe & mirrors, Monza exhaust - I had no intention of buying the exhaust - until I heard it
I've loved driving it on my daily commute to Wolverhampton for the last 3 months and certainly don't miss biking. I'm ashamed/embarrassed to admit I've never looked under the bonnet, although this will change shortly as I'm about to order one of Daron's magic TMC chipboxes. (Quite fancy the sneezy-kitten turbo mod too)
I've only seen 2 other A500s in Brum, a Red one at the Scott Arms and a White one in Witton last week - anybody from here?
Cheers,
Dean
