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Was she ok afterwards?V8Granite wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 12:18 am I sent my 405 into a dyke and afterwards the same down an embankment after making a particularly big mess of some LOO.
Dave!
CheersAlex_ wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:36 am Bad luck Richard, hope you get the finance stuff sorted. I don't see many of them around where I live or work, I'm guessing Fiat are struggling to shift these?
Would you have replaced it with another one, if they still did offer them?Richard wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:23 amCheersAlex_ wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:36 am Bad luck Richard, hope you get the finance stuff sorted. I don't see many of them around where I live or work, I'm guessing Fiat are struggling to shift these?
And they aren’t struggling to sell them anymore, because they’ve been pulled from sale in the U.K.
I wouldn’t have. I was 13 months into a 24 month lease and would have liked to enjoy the last year of the lease though.Marv wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:02 pmWould you have replaced it with another one, if they still did offer them?Richard wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 11:23 amCheersAlex_ wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:36 am Bad luck Richard, hope you get the finance stuff sorted. I don't see many of them around where I live or work, I'm guessing Fiat are struggling to shift these?
And they aren’t struggling to sell them anymore, because they’ve been pulled from sale in the U.K.
It's amazing how long the 500 has lasted, bearing in mind the 2nd gen Ford Ka was a platform-sharer and that died quite a few years ago. Being so reliant on a car which is a decade plus old is both terrible and almost certainly terribly profitable, since the original development costs would have been recouped many years ago.Marv wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:02 pm I get the impression that 99.999999% of Fiat sales in the UK are of the 500 these days. Nothing else gets much of a look in, so a bit of a shame, but not really that much of a surprise.
I'm willing to bet that only the displacement is the same as the 1959 engine.Mito Man wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:43 am I wonder what engine you can currently buy has the oldest roots? The current 1.4 in the Fiat family dates to the mid 80’s I think but that’s nothing when compared to the Bentley 6 3/4 which is from 1959!
You’d lose that bet. The L410 is still very much based on the original 1959 design.Jimmy Choo wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:59 pmI'm willing to bet that only the displacement is the same as the 1959 engine.Mito Man wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:43 am I wonder what engine you can currently buy has the oldest roots? The current 1.4 in the Fiat family dates to the mid 80’s I think but that’s nothing when compared to the Bentley 6 3/4 which is from 1959!
Every day's a school day. I knew they switched to BMW back in the late 90s and had the W8s and W12s but didn't realise they went back to the L series.NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:06 pmYou’d lose that bet. The L410 is still very much based on the original 1959 design.Jimmy Choo wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:59 pmI'm willing to bet that only the displacement is the same as the 1959 engine.Mito Man wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:43 am I wonder what engine you can currently buy has the oldest roots? The current 1.4 in the Fiat family dates to the mid 80’s I think but that’s nothing when compared to the Bentley 6 3/4 which is from 1959!
The big powerplant, like the Chevy small-block V-8 that traces its origins four years further into the past, has undergone significant re-engineering along the way. The bore center spacing is the same as on the original dual-carburetor 6.2-liter version that launched in the 1959 Bentley S2 and Rolls Royce Silver Cloud II, but the block (always aluminum) has undergone redesigns to stiffen the bottom end, the pushrod valvetrain now employs cam phasing to vary the timing of the pushrod-operated valves, there’s cylinder deactivation to shut down four cylinders under light loads, and turbocharging arrived as far back as 1983. With twin turbos and a new cylinder head design, introduced in 2015, today’s port-injected L-series engine boasts 530 horsepower and a locomotive-like 811 lb-ft of torque at only 1750 rpm in the Mulsanne Speed.
Starts a "Have you ever understeered off a corner under braking" thread...ShockDiamonds wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:50 pm Never spun on the public road either. Unlike you reckless feckin lot I DRIVE PROPERLY!
IT WAS VERY SANDY THAT DAY!!! FUCK OFFNotoriousREV wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:51 pmStarts a "Have you ever understeered off a corner under braking" thread...ShockDiamonds wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:50 pm Never spun on the public road either. Unlike you reckless feckin lot I DRIVE PROPERLY!
Nope, you can still but a brand new corsa 'e' which is a facelift of the first punto based one. You can buy the 'brand new' 2019 corsa now too apparently.Jobbo wrote: Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:24 am Surely the Corsa which was based on the Grande Punto platform was killed off ages ago too?