How Italians Test Cars

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[Solo MAN’S WisdomParticipant]

Nice one. I think the caveat to that is that no straight guy would EVER buy one of those FIATs.

When women lead, destruction is the destination. -- Me.

[Anonymous 42]

Remember these: 1978 fiat spider, I owned one I got REEEEEL CHEEEEEAP! It had a burned wiring harness that I meticulously replaced throughout the entire car, including all the burned upper engine parts from the resulting fire.

Got it running real good with it’s dual points ignition and overhead cams, had that brumm brumm sound, so I took off up the hill at a friends shop to go through all 5 gears under load at high rpm, all of a sudden it started knocking at the same time I smelled burning wires. I was able to get it turned around in neutral and coast back down the hill to his shop where I rolled in smoking from a new electrical fire. I sold the car the very next day for $50 bucks.

At least The Prince of Darkness (Brittan’s Lucas Electric) only left you in the dark, or at best lights dim, and dynamo dead.

Not like the Italians, they kept things nice and bright, as their cars were engulfed in flames!

Don’t even get me going on the French S~~~box Renault! Only Yugo surpassed them in all-time-s~~~box manufacturers award! And those were based on a 1050’s Fiat design! Yugo/Larda, all soviet failures repackaged for Western dumbf~~~ consumers!
Buy a s~~~box, their cheaper and safer, much safer! Because never f~~~ing run!

[Solo MAN’S WisdomParticipant]

Now that’s a FIAT worth owning.

When women lead, destruction is the destination. -- Me.

[Anonymous 54]

The prince of darkness visited me one dark nigh on a pitch black country road.Rideing my old Triumph…all the sudden..NO HEAD LIGHT! 60 MPH in the pitch black. Thank you lucus!!

[AttonParticipant]

Ever woman should own a fiat by law.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[RennieParticipant]

Atton wrote:

Ever woman should own a fiat by law.

Or one of those plastic kiddie cars with the power pack.

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

Anonymous wrote:

1978 fiat spider, I owned one I got REEEEEL CHEEEEEAP! It had a burned wiring harness that I meticulously replaced throughout the entire car, including all the burned upper engine parts from the resulting fire.

Yeah, never, ever, replace a wiring harness without first finding out the exact reason why the previous one burned out.

Of course in this case the reason it burned was because it was in a f~~~ing fiat.

And now I hear they have a battery powered model: the 500e. Think about that for a moment, an all electric fiat. Good luck with that.

I’ve driven and ridden some dodgy s~~~ in my time, but you could not pay me to take on a fiat. Saw a 2015 500 in a carmax lot a few months back going for $7k. From an MSRP of $25k. In one year. That has to be a record for depreciation.

Why didn’t America learn its lesson with fiat the last time?

[KillmandrillParticipant 497]

sidecar wrote:

it was in a f~~~ing fiat.

In Germany we got a saying that FIAT stands for: Fehler In Allen Teilen transl: :”Faults in all parts”. They used to build nice cars, but they´ve been always faulty in a way. I used to hate working on either Italian or French cars…. they were nice to look at but messy to work with, not to speak of the build quality. I am appraising used FIAT´s for a living, not only though, so I have a comparison to other brands and models…and their build quality, parts prices, work units.. etc.

Yet some FIAT´s at least look nice……

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. Friedrich Nietzsche

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

Killmandrill wrote:

I used to hate working on either Italian or French cars…. they were nice to look at but messy to work with, not to speak of the build quality.

And then there’s the 2CV. No build quality. No performance. No style. No f~~~s given. If anything can possibly break, don’t put it under the hood. It just f~~~ing runs, and that’s all it has to do. It’s the most un-French French car ever.

[KillmandrillParticipant 497]

sidecar wrote:

And then there’s the 2CV.

With a little modification like a BMW motorcycle engine, even a 2CV is a sleeper. It sort of was the French counterpart to the VW Beetle even more reduced to no nonsense. Had to adjust the points on one, not a fun job when your are used to Japanese cars and their easy to maintain approach.

The R4 from Renault was the counterpart to the 2 CV, a bit faster more powerful, strictly speaking mid engine (engine behind front axle), though if you have to replace the clutch it turns out messy too > remove front fascia to gather access to the gearbox (time consuming). Always see cars out of the view of a mechanic. Owned a Renault Rapid Diesel 43 US MPG, econonomic and registered as a truck (cheap insurance/tax). Renault was one of the first car manufacturers to use Torx screws… so I had to buy some extra tools to maintain my car… sucks ($).

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. Friedrich Nietzsche

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