FIAT - Chrystler

[redxblack]

I thought I posted this back in March, but maybe not. I test drove a 500 sport and liked it pretty well, but it had a MASSIVE driver's side blind spot. The visibility in the car was shockingly bad. But driving a new car is usually pleasant. I'd like to test drive one with 60k + mi on it to see how they drive after they've been around a while.

I ended up buying the cooper. I'm not at all regretting it.

[ducatiz]

I ended up buying the cooper. I'm not at all regretting it.

wearing the goatee and turtleneck full time?

[redxblack]

it's the six speed S model, so the only real change is I'm often wearing a huge grin.

[ducatiz]

for the love of mike, please remove the "t" from "Chrysler" in the title of this thread...

[Speedbag]

Mike??

[lethe]

Mike??

everyone loves me

[koko64]

both..  Check out the QA on Ducatis in the 70s.  It would be charitable to say it was "shit."  Beautiful design, great engine, not so great execution.

FIAT had the same problems, plus they didn't start using galvanized steel in their car bodies until the late 70s (I want to say 81 or so???)  ..  Stories I heard was they also couldn't get parts suppliers to produce sufficiently identical items for a given run of parts even -- this was before ISO 900x certification, I guess!

Lackadaisical Mediterranean assembly + inferior parts + rust prone body.. you get the idea.

What do you mean "lackadasical mediterranean assembly"?
I'm currently having an extended lunch of souvlaki in the sunshine..

[pennyrobber]

for the love of mike, please remove the "t" from "Chrysler" in the title of this thread...

Maybe it's a religious thing. Like Jew-guar or Muslim-rati.  

[Bladecutter]

I brought my gf's 500 Sport into work today.
I still like the thing, quite a lot.

Gets way better gas mileage than any of our other cars (way, way better than my RX-8).
Fun to drive, even in the snow. Plenty of that in the past couple of days, and snow tires makes the car into a road gripping beast.

Way bigger feeling on the inside, compared to how you think it looks on the outside.
Car is taller than just about anything else in its price range.

Plus, dealers are starting to blow them out for cheaper, now that they realized that there's no way in heck they are selling 50k of them a year.

BC.

[Speedbag]

Plus, dealers are starting to blow them out for cheaper, now that they realized that there's no way in heck they are selling 50k of them a year.

And thus ends Fiat's grandiose resurgence in the United States...

[zooom]

http://www.kilometermagazine.com/artman2/publish/automotive/Alfa_Giulietta_Coming_Stateside_as_Dodge_Dart.html

[ducatiz]

http://www.kilometermagazine.com/artman2/publish/automotive/Alfa_Giulietta_Coming_Stateside_as_Dodge_Dart.html

That's either brilliant or stupid.

I wouldn't have it as a Dodge tho.  No thanks.

Part of what I like about the current Fiat look is the front grille.  The dodge grille nowadays?  meh.

[cokey]

Man i hope they make the dodge demon..  im opposite,  i love my big open dodge grill..

[lethe]

Man i hope they make the dodge demon..  im opposite,  i love my big open dodge grill..

SRT-4 drivetrain perhaps?

[Howie]

That's either brilliant or stupid.

I wouldn't have it as a Dodge tho.  No thanks.

Part of what I like about the current Fiat look is the front grille.  The dodge grille nowadays?  meh.

Have no fear, Chrysler will find a way to turn it into a Dodge Dart.  A touch of not so hot fit and finish, smaller brakes and suspension from Sears Roebuck should do it.  Oh, a cheesy grill to