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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 8:21:47 GMT
I love these too. No real danger of affording or being able to use one until the children are out of school. By which time I'll need the money for a motorhome...
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Post by WDB on Jun 8, 2020 8:23:47 GMT
...or a shotgun, a pitchfork and a basement full of tinned food.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 8:26:35 GMT
I've always been of the mind that such an approach is too likely to attract unwanted attention from the ill-prepared, and would thereby turn out to have been counter-productive. Catch 22.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 8:37:22 GMT
Anyway. FIAT 124s. I like the red ones with matt black bonnets and boots. I'd look a proper Charlie in one of them.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 8, 2020 10:35:21 GMT
Fiat 850 Spider?
Somehow I just love the idea of little, revvy Italians or maybe... Suzuki Cappucino??
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Post by Humph on Jun 8, 2020 10:50:24 GMT
... I'd look a proper Charlie in one of them. And there is of course the rub, any bloke of a certain age, looks like a bit of a bell end in a convertible. Even if he's not. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 11:38:29 GMT
Face mask, dark glasses, baseball cap (right way round). No problem.
Either that or DNGAF.
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Post by WDB on Jun 8, 2020 12:06:47 GMT
Do Not Get a Fiat?
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Post by Humph on Jun 8, 2020 12:11:06 GMT
In truth, I really WNGAF. When driving a Westfield it's quite easy to look a bit of a knob, but you're having so much fun you just don't care.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 14:59:18 GMT
FIAT 124 convertible has never looked like a finished article to my eye when compared to an Alfa. It's something about the side view and around the rear wheelarch.
I'm not sure a 1.4 would cut it. I get you don't need megapower to enjoy it, though imagine it with the V6 Bi-turbo from an Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio, but these cars are no lightweights. 250hp might be the sweet spot and fun.
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Post by Rob on Jun 8, 2020 18:59:47 GMT
Until they fitted a modified 2.0l engine to the current MX-5 all reviewers said the one to go for was the 1.5. Plenty of power for the car and it had a lighter front end*. And therefore I'd have thought a 1.4T FIAt engine would work well.
* I always thought the Audi A3 and Skoda Superb I have with a 1.4TSI engine felt better than with a heavy diesel block up front too.
I prefer the FIAT 124 to the MX-5 for sure. I'd get into trouble if I went to buy one tomorrow :-)
I mentioned today I would get a Range Rover Evoque or Land Rover Discovery Sport as my next company car. Somehow there's quite a few models on the car scheme which says to me they are not selling which I sort of knew. Before the pandemic the market in China was struggling for premium cars. So I could get a fairly top end XC40 PHEV vs. a lower end Evoque. Difference per month in take home pay probably £300 all down to BIK and taxation. I could also spec up a non PHEV XC40 for less than the Evoque and get all the options but pay a lot in tax.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 21:33:46 GMT
The difference between the 1.5 and two litre is c.20kgs there isn't a direct comparison model for model on the Mazda website. The 2.0 has 17" wheels vs 16" wheels on the 1.5.
Given a litre of petrol weights between 715g and 775g per litre depending on hydrocarbon make up the people who notice the difference in handling between 1.5 and two litre must really be "on it" all the time and really hate filling up the tank or giving anyone a lift. The handling must go all to shit with all that extra weight in the passenger seat or with all that fuel on board.
I suspect those people must send their luggage on ahead to the airport rather than risk 23kgs in the boot. Don't want to go through a hedge backwards leaving an MX5 shaped hole in a hedge.
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Post by Rob on Jun 13, 2020 0:18:48 GMT
Just regurgitating what reviewers have said :-)
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