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Nate, your so right, "Rust bucket" they still maybe that, LOL.
This SUV thing drives me crazy, every morning zipping down the highway @70mph with one person aboard, Geez

 

I think that MINI needs some good healthy competition to keep BMW/MINI from becoming (even more) arogant. I agree with Dave that the success of the Fiat and other small cars can only be a good thing. I just hope that people (like my wife) aren't attracted to a 500 simply because it looks cute. It has to have some fundamentals in the marketplace (quality, dealer support, long-standing company commitment, etc) to sustain it, beyond the facination of the first year. If the 500 or any other small car has that going for it, can succeed and that will be a good thing for the whole industry, including MINI.

 

But the manufacturers are also risk adverse (for good reason because of the large amount of money involved) and they want to see actual positive evidence that small cars are in demand before they commit. The Fiat 500 isn't helping with that whether or not it is the fault of something else besides the actual vehicle.

 

Maybe barreling down the highway would have been a better choice.

Never saw a Fiat that rust didn't like.:wink:

 

Personally, I think the Scion IQ holds a lot of market potential in the micro-car category. It should be reasonably reliable (being a Toyota), it's got good dealership, and it looks pretty good (IMHO).

 

Fiat allegedly working on a Countryman competitor for the 500 line based on the Panda.



Full story over at AutoExpress

 

Wow. Could they make those door moldings a little bigger?:frown2:

 

My guess, it is a photochopped Countryguy...

 

advertised as a Chick Car.

All of the advertisements I have seen they regard the 500 as a car for the modern day successful business woman.

They just don't have a good agent that would advertise the 500 as a very good economy car for all of America.

You can't sell anything with crappy ad's.

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Fiat 500 Abarth and some Hotness...

 

He looks a little heavy for most gals taste

 

They look very happy together....