Thanks for that Alex.  According to John's original pricing of the first 200 as £14850 it looks like a saving of a tenner.  Great!!  Every little helps! 

Whats disconcerting is where John gets his information.  My dealer has no official prices or dates, just ball park figures.  At the start of this thread it states "confirmed prices"

No disrespect John, are you privvy to certain information before any other dealers or are you keeping us keen?!

Just miffed that other dealers know very little or are they just not being very pro-active?

See your point olopboy.  I think Alex was referring to actual FIAT prices, Abarth i'm sure will inherit these prices too.

Guess your dealer is the same as mine, sitting and waiting for official confirmation of dates etc.

I'm keen to know as i'm off to IRAQ in March so hope to get my hands on one of the first 200 if they're released as 'predicted' in Feb.

sorry opopboy, reply for max....

Thanks Dazza

Nothing against you personally!

Just seems strange why one dealer blurts out official this and that and you guys, the other dealers keep quiet.  Kind of don't blame you - why get peoples hopes up when there is no substance to back it up.

Sorry guys for appearing negative!  Being new to this forum and reading through peoples comments, we are all looking forward to the 500A including me.  Some people are taking this forum as gospel - its great sharing experiences and pics, just think its a bit unfair telling people this and that has been released when it clearly hasn't.  This leads to some of us ringing our dealers saying things have been confirmed, only to be asked "have they?" 

Personally we all need to sit tight and wait for our dealers to contact us with official details. 

Sorry for ranting - won't happen again - i think i speak on behalf of a few!

The information in this thread was given to me verbally by my zone rep. When asked as to whether we should wait for it in writing or to start telling people I was told the info was correct so not to hold back.

Personally I can't understand why people are prepared to put down money on a car months in advance, which they haven't even seen, let alone driven and for which there is no guaranteed delivery date. It's not the second coming.

Personally I can't understand why people are prepared to put down money on a car months in advance, which they haven't even seen, let alone driven and for which there is no guaranteed delivery date. It's not the second coming.

Plenty of people do though...

I know it's not in the same league, but when I was working for BMW people regularly used to put huge deposits on new models (M3 and X5 being the ones that spring to mind first) sometimes 12 months or more before they were released.

i supose its part of owning the car, the build up to actually getting it and excitement?

Exactly.

I sold a Fiat 500 today to a chap that had the first MINI Cooper S John Cooper Works in the country, and one of the first Ferrari 612 Scaglietti in the country, both of which he ordered well over a year before they were released for that very reason.