OK so it’s not the greatest name for a car ever thought of but Vauxhall are very proud of their new city car. The car firm hopes that it will beat the likes of the MINI and the Fiat 500 […]
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07, 2012
Tag Archives: fiat
11
07, 2012
New Car? Get It Before 2020!
Cars. Enjoy ‘em while they last. The European Commission will soon take all the fun out of them. From 2020 onward, any newly produced car is allowed to release a maximum of 95 grams per kilometre, equal to 152 grams […]
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07, 2012
Retro Concepts: The New Renault 4
I’m not 100% sure if they were the first, but at the back end of the nineties, VW came up with a new incarnation of a (very) old model: the New Beetle. Since then, many carmakers have followed suit. Mini […]
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07, 2012
The Fiat 500: Let’s Milk It!
It’s spiritual ancestor, the Multipla, ranked somewhere in between a warthog and a sea cow in terms of aesthetic qualities. The only people to buy it were car-haters. Still, it sold quite well in my country – though I’m not […]
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06, 2012
Lazarus 500
I would never buy a Fiat 500. They’re just not manly enough. Oh wait, scrap all of that! In the news today: the Fiat 500 that I would gladly drive, although it’s not officially called 500, but 550 Italia. That […]
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06, 2012
There are 100,000 Fiat 500s in the UK
OK so it has cute styling and pretty decent handling but it’s expensive for what it is (especially at the entry level models) but the Fiat 500 has racked up 100,000 sales. So obviously price isn’t a factor for most […]
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06, 2012
Fill Her Up!
Alright, I’m going to sell my Bimmer, move to Italy and buy a Fiat. Why? Because in Italy, when you buy a new Fiat before the end of July, you’ll get your fuel for just €1 a litre, against a […]
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05, 2012
Jaguar tops vehicle ownership study
I don’t know who is more surprised by this announcement – me or Jaguar. But the best car to own is the Jaguar which claims the top spot in the J.D. Power/What Car? 2012 UK Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study. The […]
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05, 2012
Adam Opel’s Adam
Did I just win the 2012 competition for blog title of the year because I made it into a palindrome? Or was it anagram? Some of you may know that Opel – which is basically mainland-European for Vauxhall – is […]
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05, 2012
A New Set of Tyres
When yours truly found employment with his current employer he was offered the option to drive a company lease car. As the stretch home-to-office covers about 30 miles one way, that was an attractive option. I drove a VW Polo […]
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05, 2012
Carmakers’ Hope in Troubled Times: the UK
Analysts globally think it’s interesting to dig up total sales figures of the world’s automotive markets and publish about it. They’re right, it is interesting! I see a little report fly by every single month, by which I can judge […]
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05, 2012
REVIEW Fiat 500: Fun mini drives back into the bestseller list
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s blog about Ford dominating new car sales, comes news that a cheeky Italian motor is heading up the hit parade. The Fiat 500 is a ‘fun’ mini which was launched in 2007 and is […]
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04, 2012
Fuel economy: Real-world miles per gallon information now available
We’ve all done – got to the end of a long journey and wondered where the fuel has gone. And no you probably haven’t made a miscalculation because the published fuel economy figures which you use for the trip are […]
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04, 2012
The Italian Job in Surrey
If you are a fan of Italian car design then you don’t want to go to Milan, Rome or even Naples. No, you really want to get yourself down to Surrey. The 5th of May is the big day for […]