Originally Posted By: Bladecutter
Wow, there's a whole slew of garbage posts in this thread.
A certain someone just seems to absolutely hate Fiat as a company, and won't get past the fact that every single car company has improved in product quality since 1977, and Fiat is among that list.
First off, the engines are built in Michigan, by hard working American workers. The automatic transmission is built in Japan, by hard working Japanese workers. The manual transmission is built in Italy, by a whole bunch of hard working Italian workers. The car is assembled in Mexico, by hard working Mexican workers. All the other components are a mish-mash of North American and South American parts.
I'm guessing that since you hate Fiat so much, you either owned one, and it left you penniless, and stuck on the side of the road, or you lost a past love to someone who owned a Fiat. I can't see you being so Anti-Fiat without one of those two experiences.
I actually have one of these fine cars parked in my driveway every single night, as it belongs to my gf. In fact, I drove it the 25 miles to work on the highway today. It clicked 4500 miles during the drive, too.
I'm going to share a secret with you that you just can't comprehend:
I thank Fiat very much that the 500 ISN'T a Corolla, a Yaris, or an Echo every time I get to drive it, or ride in it.
The car has personality, which is something that not only does every single vehicle in the Toyota lineup seriously lacking, but a good portion of the owners of said Toyota's also seem to lack.
An Italian car, just like Italian vehicles, are designed to bring out emotions in the owner and operator of the vehicle. If you can't understand this, just don't buy, rent, or test drive one, ever.
Its a fun little drivers car, and who cares if it doesn't offer the same space and utility as a Toyota RAV 4? Not me, and certainly not my gf.
If you think it looks like a thimble, good for you.
At least it doesn't look like every other compact car that's running around loose in this country.
If it doesn't sell in the tens of thousand every month because all the lemmings just want an appliance to get to and from work, that's even better, as you can't put a true price on being unique in a world surrounded by brain dead lemmings driving down the road spending more time looking at their iPhone than concentrating on what's around them in traffic.
Oh, and a quick note to end this whole thing:
Our car gets well over 38 mph on the highway here in Colorado.
Have a nice boring life.
BC.
I hate Fiat because they have made a lot of cars really, really badly. If bypassing that [censored] for a Japanese makes me a lemming, then I plead guilty. I'd rather be a lemming and drive the most dependable cars ever made (Toyota/Honda) than to be a Monkey that ignores history, ignores reliability issues, and calls inferior design and performance "soul", "style", and "character". The so called emotion that is most often evoked by Fiat drivers is that of contempt, for having paid so much for a car exceedingly inferior to many other makes. I see too, that you ride a Ducati...how can you stand all that vibration? I drive a better and faster bike, a Honda 1000R, which is smooth as silk and shifts smoother too. You see, I prefer refinement, reliability, durability, longevity, economy over "soul", "style", and "character"...laughable terms, to be sure.
Wow, there's a whole slew of garbage posts in this thread.
A certain someone just seems to absolutely hate Fiat as a company, and won't get past the fact that every single car company has improved in product quality since 1977, and Fiat is among that list.
First off, the engines are built in Michigan, by hard working American workers. The automatic transmission is built in Japan, by hard working Japanese workers. The manual transmission is built in Italy, by a whole bunch of hard working Italian workers. The car is assembled in Mexico, by hard working Mexican workers. All the other components are a mish-mash of North American and South American parts.
I'm guessing that since you hate Fiat so much, you either owned one, and it left you penniless, and stuck on the side of the road, or you lost a past love to someone who owned a Fiat. I can't see you being so Anti-Fiat without one of those two experiences.
I actually have one of these fine cars parked in my driveway every single night, as it belongs to my gf. In fact, I drove it the 25 miles to work on the highway today. It clicked 4500 miles during the drive, too.
I'm going to share a secret with you that you just can't comprehend:
I thank Fiat very much that the 500 ISN'T a Corolla, a Yaris, or an Echo every time I get to drive it, or ride in it.
The car has personality, which is something that not only does every single vehicle in the Toyota lineup seriously lacking, but a good portion of the owners of said Toyota's also seem to lack.
An Italian car, just like Italian vehicles, are designed to bring out emotions in the owner and operator of the vehicle. If you can't understand this, just don't buy, rent, or test drive one, ever.
Its a fun little drivers car, and who cares if it doesn't offer the same space and utility as a Toyota RAV 4? Not me, and certainly not my gf.
If you think it looks like a thimble, good for you.
At least it doesn't look like every other compact car that's running around loose in this country.
If it doesn't sell in the tens of thousand every month because all the lemmings just want an appliance to get to and from work, that's even better, as you can't put a true price on being unique in a world surrounded by brain dead lemmings driving down the road spending more time looking at their iPhone than concentrating on what's around them in traffic.
Oh, and a quick note to end this whole thing:
Our car gets well over 38 mph on the highway here in Colorado.
Have a nice boring life.
BC.
I hate Fiat because they have made a lot of cars really, really badly. If bypassing that [censored] for a Japanese makes me a lemming, then I plead guilty. I'd rather be a lemming and drive the most dependable cars ever made (Toyota/Honda) than to be a Monkey that ignores history, ignores reliability issues, and calls inferior design and performance "soul", "style", and "character". The so called emotion that is most often evoked by Fiat drivers is that of contempt, for having paid so much for a car exceedingly inferior to many other makes. I see too, that you ride a Ducati...how can you stand all that vibration? I drive a better and faster bike, a Honda 1000R, which is smooth as silk and shifts smoother too. You see, I prefer refinement, reliability, durability, longevity, economy over "soul", "style", and "character"...laughable terms, to be sure.
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