Social => Introduce Yourselves! => Topic started by: jimbro1000 on February 16, 2009, 10:47:00 am
Title: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: jimbro1000 on February 16, 2009, 10:47:00 am
Hi, my names Julian - just found your forum as a link from elsewhere. I'm secretary to the Sporting Fiats Club so please excuse any references.
After months (years?) of waiting I finally got my Abarth 500 on Saturday to accompany my mad Seicento.
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: olopboy on February 16, 2009, 10:50:54 am
:wave:
Welcome, nice collection you've got there. I love the Seicento in that yellow always smile when I see one, don't understand why anyone would want one in another colour or why the A500 isn't available in it either.
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Post by: magicmole on February 16, 2009, 10:59:30 am
Agreed.
It's one of my beefs with Abarth that the colour options are restricted. Yellow, orange, green and blue are required. Bright hues all. The existing choices for both GP and 500 are so boring.
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: jimbro1000 on February 16, 2009, 11:32:21 am
Welcome, nice collection you've got there. I love the Seicento in that yellow always smile when I see one, don't understand why anyone would want one in another colour or why the A500 isn't available in it either.
Sadly that yellow Seicento is my son's and what you can't see in that photo is the mashed in front end... his excuse is I should have bought him a car with ABS, he doesn't understand that it wouldn't have helped him at all (you have to pay attention to what is happening in front of you to avoid the kind of accident he keeps having).
My Seicento is the dirty grey one - with a race-spec engine under the bonnet (I had to make do somehow until the A500 came out).
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: AlexK on February 16, 2009, 11:44:17 am
Welcome! :wave:
(Pic resized for you)
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: olopboy on February 16, 2009, 12:05:43 pm
Sadly that yellow Seicento is my son's and what you can't see in that photo is the mashed in front end... his excuse is I should have bought him a car with ABS, he doesn't understand that it wouldn't have helped him at all (you have to pay attention to what is happening in front of you to avoid the kind of accident he keeps having).
Oops ;D There are too many people who don't realise the point of ABS is to let you steer out of the impact path whilst still reducing speed, EBA is what they are thinking about and that still doesn't help if you are hell bent on going in a straight line.
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: Missing in Action on February 16, 2009, 05:05:37 pm
hi there and welcome! - nice collection of cars :)
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Post by: Joe on February 16, 2009, 06:26:11 pm
Welcome to the forum :wave:
(i'm jealous >:()
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Post by: Jet on February 25, 2009, 08:29:55 pm
Hi & welcome to the family :wave:
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: Blueey on February 25, 2009, 09:10:46 pm
Hi There, like you I have just bought a A500 so we are both new to this forum. :wave: Dont look a bad bunch of guys do they? :thumb:
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: Missing in Action on February 25, 2009, 09:13:29 pm
sadly its my seicento schumacher edition that's finally going after 7 great years to make way for my a500 next week
im sad about it in some ways, but also happy that ive finally found the right car to replace it with! :)
That's a helluva difference between a Sei and an A500!
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: olopboy on February 27, 2009, 09:58:37 am
Excuse my ignorance but is the A500 better or worse, I always heard really good things about the Seicento Schumachers.
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: jimbro1000 on February 27, 2009, 10:44:56 am
Well I can lap a Seicento Abarth (essentially the same as the Schuey Sei) around Brands Hatch Indy circuit faster than most people can lap a modern family sized car with an engine twice the size and probably three times the power but I suspect that has more to do with me than the car. I also hold one of the fastest ever times around the Brands Indy circuit in a Clio Sport Cup car (road spec not race spec) and that was a fair bit quicker than the Sei.
The A500 is quicker than the Clio despite a 40 bhp shortfall and a noticible bit of extra weight. I own a Sei with about the same power as the A500 (not quite the same torque) and it is nothing like as quick - the handling on the A500 is just brilliant, more so on the track than on the road.
I know we like to think that our little toy cars (Seis and Cinqs are quick) but rarely are they anything more than nippy.
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: george38 on February 27, 2009, 10:49:14 am
Excuse my ignorance but is the A500 better or worse, I always heard really good things about the Seicento Schumachers.
well theres obviously no comparison in power, interior etc but it IS great fun to drive - thats why ive kept it so long. it rolls a lot, but once you trust it, you realise it actually grips a lot more than you'd expect so you can really chuck it about!!
i only expected to have it for two or three years at the most, so that says a lot. and despite what some think, its been (for me at least) incredibly reliable.
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: olopboy on February 27, 2009, 10:52:13 am
Tbh fun and nippy are the reasons I've gone for the A500, with today's roads and traffic it should me more fun should be squeezed out of any journey than is possible in a big fast car.
Ta for the heads up and I'm never going in front of jimbro in a convoy, wouldn't want to annoy him with my slow driving ;D
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Post by: Hozepipe on February 27, 2009, 06:45:19 pm
Well I can lap a Seicento Abarth (essentially the same as the Schuey Sei) around Brands Hatch Indy circuit faster than most people can lap a modern family sized car with an engine twice the size and probably three times the power but I suspect that has more to do with me than the car. I also hold of the fastest ever times around the Brands Indy circuit in a Clio Sport Cup car (road spec not race spec) and that was a fair bit quicker than the Sei.
Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking? :whistle:
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: John501 on February 27, 2009, 06:56:02 pm
Well I can lap a Seicento Abarth (essentially the same as the Schuey Sei) around Brands Hatch Indy circuit faster than most people can lap a modern family sized car with an engine twice the size and probably three times the power but I suspect that has more to do with me than the car. I also hold of the fastest ever times around the Brands Indy circuit in a Clio Sport Cup car (road spec not race spec) and that was a fair bit quicker than the Sei.
Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking? :whistle:
Jimbro is the Stig?
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: sikersh on February 27, 2009, 09:43:29 pm
Well I can lap a Seicento Abarth (essentially the same as the Schuey Sei) around Brands Hatch Indy circuit faster than most people can lap a modern family sized car with an engine twice the size and probably three times the power but I suspect that has more to do with me than the car. I also hold of the fastest ever times around the Brands Indy circuit in a Clio Sport Cup car (road spec not race spec) and that was a fair bit quicker than the Sei.
Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking? :whistle:
Jimbro is the Stig?
That's the least likely of the two options I was considering. :-\
Title: Re: Hi, new A500 owner here!
Post by: 1mmortal on March 11, 2009, 07:26:02 pm