Lil Fiats

I don't know what age the OP's sister happens to be, but I personally found TFTP was the only way to go for a sub-£500 car. Especially when you consider the unfortunate fact it's the insurance company who decide in the end the max they will give you for your old banger :-)

I would ignore ebay personally unless you have the time to go visiting different car owners. It's much easier to use local autotrader, car auctions, and private sales. That's not to say ebay isn't good value now and again, but for a first - very cheap - car, i would stik to the simple routes.

I've been checking all of them - there's been a few half decent things go through ebay, a few decent things in the local stuff, but not as many cars as when I looked a while back :( the good thing about ebay is that you can get a weeks free insurance which will give me time to get it home give it a service and drop it up to her!

"Tony Bond \(UncleFista\)" wrote in news:2enlg.88311$ snipped-for-privacy@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:

Can't be, doesn't mention Peter at all. :-)

Cinqs by now are well past their sell by date. The gearboxes will be knackered and the headgasket on its way out. And the fuel tank probably leaks. They're fun to drive when they're working though. Puntos based on the same mechanicals will be worse thanks to the extra weight they have to lug around. I've noticed a huge drop in the number of people representing Cinquecentos at Clubcento meets of late. Because the cars died and they couldn't find a good replacement Cinq.

Got to be a K10 Micra for a first car.

Just what he said. Though cinq sportings are great when in good fettle, they really were designed as throwaway cars, just don't last long term. Just another sign of modern ethos which is thrown at us constantly: "There's no need for a car to last, new is better" I particularly love the twisted environmental view that 's pushed so hard. Conveniently forgetting the wasted materials and energy used when a car is scrapped. Of course it has nothing to do with the persuasive powers of the manufacturers. Had a company 'new Focus' last week, very nice drive but will be totally shot in 6/7 yrs!

Not sure about the mk2 punto but the facelift mk3 I've bought for the girlfriend to drive around in is galvanised so at least the body should be in one piece in a few years

Obviously not as dedicated as classic car owners then.

Missus has the Sciecento Sporting, the build quality is crap, the handling is crap, the acceleration is crap, interior space is crap, totally embarrasing to drive.

On the whole, a great little car :-)

Well what did you expect of a car that doesn't exist?

-- "For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

BX 1.9 TD

I'm sure Rob could make one exist.

-- "For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

You are quite right it appears to be a Sceicento Sporting, not a Sciecento Sporting,

Or even a Seicento.

Doh ;)

Pete, seriously, get out more, you're becoming tiresome.

Getting?

-- "For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

No, becoming :-D

LOL - d'oh. Well, I'm one step behind what I thought I already was, so that's a bonus.

-- "For want of the price of tea and a slice, the old man died."

Stuck with what I know - got a 1991 Pug 205 GR 1.4 :)

Good call :-)