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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 8:52:06 GMT
I'm not buying it. Alfasud 1.5 Ti is The Greatest Car Ever Made. You must be mistaken.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 22, 2019 8:58:27 GMT
Alfasud 1.5 Ti is The Greatest Car Ever Made. ...particularly in rust-brown.... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 20:16:13 GMT
A great car drive in the 1980s, but within four years it was a pile of rust.
After the Cortina went I bought an Uno 70. I liked it very much but it let water into cabin, so after a year I got my money back and bought a Golf.
The Uno was bought after a heart wrenching choice with a Peugeot 205 XS. Should have bought the Pug.... it was more in the spiritual mold of the Alfa.
The Fiat was slow. A courtesy car I had once was an Uno 45 and was faster than mine..
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Post by lygonos on Aug 22, 2019 22:40:46 GMT
Alfasud 1.5Ti is definitely not the greatest car ever made - what about....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2019 8:51:58 GMT
Meh.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 23, 2019 19:02:56 GMT
After the Cortina went I bought an Uno 70. ...first new car I had was a metallic dark blue Uno 70. I liked it very much, and SWMBO and I bowled around quite a bit of Europe in it. It was shortly after it was released, though, and pre-galvanisation, so it caught tin-worm fairly quickly. (ISTR replacing the metal bands holding the fuel tank, as they had nearly rotted through  ). It still found a ready buyer when we moved it on, though. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2019 22:39:49 GMT
They were ground breaking in their own way. Spacious and with a great dash design which combined common sense with Citroen's wacko satellite design.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 8:17:25 GMT
I expect dorks such as us all know this, but I'm given to understand that the Mk 1 Nissan Micra was a rejected design for the FIAT Uno.
Never had an Uno, but I did have a 127 Sport...
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Post by WDB on Aug 27, 2019 10:10:16 GMT
Drove an Uno once. It rained. The one windscreen wiper didn’t sweep the bit I needed to see through. I got my right foot on the accelerator only by resting my knee against the door and my heel somewhere under the brake pedal. By the end my ankle was so sore I could barely stand on it to get out.
So I’m sure it was great. But it was also rubbish.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 27, 2019 13:06:46 GMT
...did you take it to an hotel...... |
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Post by Humph on Aug 27, 2019 14:31:50 GMT
An Italian company I used to do some work for had a small fleet of Unos as pool cars. The most basic spec available with some form of Diesel engine. I'd borrow one occasionally if required. Fairly underwhelming in truth.
Edit - but an Alfa 75 I managed to blag from them once ( might have been a 3 litre come to think ) biggish petrol anyway, was quite whelming.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 27, 2019 14:44:10 GMT
The most basic spec available with some form of Diesel engine. I'd borrow one occasionally if required. Fairly underwhelming in truth. ...TBH, I don't think any small italian car with a diesel engine has been anything but underwhelming. Hardly designed to be driven con brio. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 15:01:32 GMT
I once (18 years ago?) rented a Fiat Doblo with an unturbocharged diesel engine. Four of us for two weeks. It was painfully slow and not that economical.
However after I had ring it's neck and given it daily Italian tune ups it was noticeably faster and more economical.
It not always the car...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2019 15:04:06 GMT
I expect dorks such as us all know this, but I'm given to understand that the Mk 1 Nissan Micra was a rejected design for the FIAT Uno. Never had an Uno, but I did have a 127 Sport... I'm so glad it was rejected. The actual Uno was a master of packaging for those us under 6ft.... |
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Post by WDB on Aug 27, 2019 17:27:46 GMT
...did you take it to an hotel...... Would you have had me park it next to a Volks-waggon? Or a Lahn-seeya? |
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). It still found a ready buyer when we moved it on, though. 
