First Italian Car?

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I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Mini yet, plenty around am d so many combo’s to choose from. A good friend of mine bought one for his daughters and they love it. Maybe insurance is an issue in the UK? Have the girls got a say in this? Would be interesting to see what their choice would be.
 
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Hurricane52 said:
I had one just like that - silver over grey plastic with blue velour interior. Great motor and fun with the manual box. Thread drift excused. Thanks for the memories.
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I had a green one with brown leather, 164 Lusso. Sounds **** for colours but was actually ok. Auto, never let me down then it started letting me down every day it seemed, electrical issues so I had to shoot it in the head and finish it off. Got towed off the A75 and never saw it since (I was actually moving house!).
 
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Tallman said:
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Mini yet, plenty around am d so many combo’s to choose from. A good friend of mine bought one for his daughters and they love it. Maybe insurance is an issue in the UK? Have the girls got a say in this? Would be interesting to see what their choice would be.
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I’m pretty sure my daughter won’t be over the moon at my suggestion of a Volvo C30 !

She’d much rather have a mini, but I think the insurance will be a lot more.
 
Hurricane52

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My dearest loves her TwinAir Mito and I like it too. It’s her second and both were good. Must have been lucky? It’s a step up inside from her previous 500 and a tad bigger especially in the rear.

Pre-Brexit, my plan was to find a RHD Lancia Ardea five speed for our two boys to learn how to drive and how to fix things. I think they’re good looking and I fancied an adventure driving one back from Sicily or Italy. Silly me. No Apple Car play and no stickers on the side. Guess they’ll end up with a Twingo or mum’s Mito…
 

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Tallman said:
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Mini yet, plenty around am d so many combo’s to choose from. A good friend of mine bought one for his daughters and they love it. Maybe insurance is an issue in the UK? Have the girls got a say in this? Would be interesting to see what their choice would be.
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My daughter had a Mini Cooper for her first car. Insurance wasn’t too bad considering it’s a 1.6. She changed it for a much newer Citroen C1 because all she does is city traffic to and from work. Costs peanuts to run but she says she has to drive it with her foot flat to the floor:)
 
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Hurricane52 said:
My dearest loves her TwinAir Mito and I like it too. It’s her second and both were good. Must have been lucky? It’s a step up inside from her previous 500 and a tad bigger especially in the rear.

Pre-Brexit, my plan was to find a RHD Lancia Ardea five speed for our two boys to learn how to drive and how to fix things. I think they’re good looking and I fancied an adventure driving one back from Sicily or Italy. Silly me. No Apple Car play and no stickers on the side. Guess they’ll end up with a Twingo or mum’s Mito…
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Ardea is such an under rated car, I have been watching the market for a while and a nice 5 speed is a glorious car. When I was a youngster with Mk1 1300 Escort with Mex stripes and short bumpers a friend had a 1938 Aprilia guess who picked up all the girls ?
 
stikey

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very very lucky lads to get out of that car a tribute to fiat how the centre post held up that roof was on the steering wheel at the front engine snapped off at the mounts
3 x 6ft young rugby players broke the rear seat belt one was warming stopped a meter from tee boneing a large tree trunk
cut and bruised
don't buy the youngsters abarths to short a wheel base for the power they over steer and bingo
buy them a 500 pop
cost me 14k in all can't claim at a young age driver if you do the insurance is through the roof to insure for the next 5 years still that are all here
 
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Second the 500 loved the Diesel by Diesel which is now in NZ not as good on fuel as they claim though.
For Fun and Smiles one of the most Fun little driving cars I have driven here is the Seat Ibiza with the 3 cylinder Turbo motor just loved it.
 
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stikey said:
very very lucky lads to get out of that car a tribute to fiat how the centre post held up that roof was on the steering wheel at the front engine snapped off at the mounts
3 x 6ft young rugby players broke the rear seat belt one was warming stopped a meter from tee boneing a large tree trunk
cut and bruised
don't buy the youngsters abarths to short a wheel base for the power they over steer and bingo
buy them a 500 pop
cost me 14k in all can't claim at a young age driver if you do the insurance is through the roof to insure for the next 5 years still that are all here
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:eek:
and that’s just the punctuation ;)

Thank goodness everyone else was ok in the other horror story.
 
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My advice - get them a soulless and reliable box that you will not care about when they crash it (which they will).

When they are paying they can have something more stylish.

My daughter has got a Toyota Yaris with over 100k on the clock and it is like a swiss watch. She has added a few battle scars and is planning to keep until it expires.

My son started with a 1998 Fiesta automatic that I bought for £300. He duly rolled that, claimed £100 scrap and bought a cheap Suzuki Swift which is also bloody brilliant.
 
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Hawk13 said:
My advice - get them a soulless and reliable box that you will not care about when they crash it (which they will).

When they are paying they can have something more stylish.

My daughter has got a Toyota Yaris with over 100k on the clock and it is like a swiss watch. She has added a few battle scars and is planning to keep until it expires.

My son started with a 1998 Fiesta automatic that I bought for £300. He duly rolled that, claimed £100 scrap and bought a cheap Suzuki Swift which is also bloody brilliant.
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THIS - for sure they will scar it - my first car was Italian - Fiat 127 903cc in Lime Green - put it through a hedge backwards 2 days after I passed my test - it lived for a while longer after that!
 
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my first Italian - 1980 Fiat Panda (total rectangle outside - part deck chair inside)
Daughter's first. Fiat Punto 1.2 sporting
Now? 500 1.2 lounge
 
Tallman

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This is now ripe for a hijack - first crashes - were they with your first car? I drove my Alfasud 1.5ti into our woodshed in anger at my mum telling me to change for the third time on my dad’s 50’th….it was wet, there was grass, there was a corner, there was too much throttle in anger
 
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First crash for me (in a car) was my second one a Holman Imp (race engine) I parked on a tree stump in a farm field having got caught out with no lights and a clock change! I was only 13 mind.

First proper car crash on the road was 18 months ago when I rear ended someone in my van!
 
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2b1ask1 said:
First crash for me (in a car) was my second one a Holman Imp (race engine) I parked on a tree stump in a farm field having got caught out with no lights and a clock change! I was only 13 mind.

First proper car crash on the road was 18 months ago when I rear ended someone in my van!
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someone’s car I hope!
 
fcz360

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Matt, talking of crashes - dont get her a punto, its the worst performing car in crash tests, ever.....
My lad (20) has a Focus, three cylinder 0.9ltr 140bhp which is amazing (40hp more than my Mk1 golf GTI) and cost less to insure than his crappy 53 plate corsa by £200! as its such a small engine.
 
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