You'll hate my new car :)

[TW]Fox;28709294 said:
Seems like a reasonable alternative to a brand new Fiat Panda 0.8.

Not.
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Come off it fox.

Its a dilemma faced daily by buyers of new Fiat Pandas.

Do you buy a new Fiat Panda 0.8, or a 1990s mini with a hyabusa engine. Difficult one to call ........
 
Right everything now makes sense to me.

1. Didn't even know you could get 0.8L engines.
2. 85 ish BHP is surely dangerous?
3. Now I know why people speed up at a snails pace when you're trying to barge them out of your lane or even on the slip road. I genuinely thought these type of folks were taking the ****!
 
pepsilol said:
Right everything now makes sense to me.

1. Didn't even know you could get 0.8L engines.
2. 85 ish BHP is surely dangerous?
3. Now I know why people speed up at a snails pace when you're trying to barge them out of your lane or even on the slip road. I genuinely thought these type of folks were taking the ****!
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No, people see you coming and want to wind you up, rightfully so i think.
 
Why would 85bhp be dangerous exactly? Sure it's not exactly fast but it's adequate. A few years ago I had a 100bhp 1.6 Focus and it was fine for what I used it for (mainly motorway journeys). Sure, I got something faster when I changed car, but I never thought 100bhp was dangerous so I can't see why 85bhp would be so bad.

Now if you were talking around 60bhp, that'd be a painful but 85, meh, don't see the problem there for the type of cars that have these engines. Also don't these engines have a turbo on them? Or is that just the 0.9 twinair?
 
TBH, it's just a car... and it does a job. Quite frankly at least it's different compared to the same old dross you see. It stands out... and doesn't blend in like all the Audi's and BMW's around boring the pants of me on the motorway everyday. Would I have one, no, but you know what it's funky!
 
Phemo said:
Why would 85bhp be dangerous exactly? Sure it's not exactly fast but it's adequate. A few years ago I had a 100bhp 1.6 Focus and it was fine for what I used it for (mainly motorway journeys). Sure, I got something faster when I changed car, but I never thought 100bhp was dangerous so I can't see why 85bhp would be so bad.

Now if you were talking around 60bhp, that'd be a painful but 85, meh, don't see the problem there for the type of cars that have these engines. Also don't these engines have a turbo on them? Or is that just the 0.9 twinair?
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Around 60bhp was quite common 10~15yrs ago, things like NA Diesel Golfs, 1.4 Petrol Golfs were 60~75bhp. A K11 Micra is 53bhp. Golf GTI 8V M2k is 118bhp, Mrk 16-16i Honda CRX was 130bhp, 1.0 Polo was 60bhp. Some of these felt slow, but dangerous?

As for the Panda, I don't hate, it but I don't love it either. I much preferred the old one. Especially the 100bhp one.
http://www.picautos.com/278-fiat-panda-100-hp.html.
 
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Exactly my point. I just said 60bhp would be painful but it certainly isn't dangerous so I don't see how 85bhp could be classed as dangerous either.
 
pugheaven said:
TBH, it's just a car... and it does a job. Quite frankly at least it's different compared to the same old dross you see. It stands out... and doesn't blend in like all the Audi's and BMW's around boring the pants of me on the motorway everyday. Would I have one, no, but you know what it's funky!
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That's exactly what I think
 
Phemo said:
Now if you were talking around 60bhp, that'd be a painful but 85, meh, don't see the problem there for the type of cars that have these engines. Also don't these engines have a turbo on them? Or is that just the 0.9 twinair?
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My 1.4Tdi had 75bhp
 
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