so, after i got back from greece and a week of driving an aygo i thought it was pretty crap, but wasn't expecting much more, numb nuts managed to tear a chunk out of the sidewall on the rococo's tyre, after a few phone calls and nowhere either having the huge 19inch tyres or being willing to fit new ones on a saturday afternoon i had to borrow my mother's car to get home.
If anyone has a fiat punto evo and loves it you may want to stop reading about now...
it is the nastiest cheapest little pile of crap i have ever had the misfortune to sit in, the seats are like giant cushions which initially you think is great they are comfy, but they have no support and if you manage to get around a tight bend with the soggy suspension and steering that feels like its held together with rubber bands you will have to climb back into your seat before you put your foot down only to find that you have half a mile of travel before the pedal hits the plastic carpet, the engine makes a bit of noise and the stupid little speedometer starts to wobble a bit rather than steadily climbing upwards.
And woe betide you if you by some miracle make it above 70mph, the whole car starts to feel unstable and wobbles about like a push bike in a hurricane. So you slow down and use the trip computer to see what mpg you're getting, the screen is orange which looks crap and the chunky letters and numbers which could look so good are nasty and unclear, iv had better screens on pound shop calculators.
the dashboard looks like the designer only had charcoal pencils and a pvc fetish, and the steering wheel and gear knob feel like something the early learning centre would market as chunky, unbreakable and perfect for teething toddlers, except for the odd sharp mould line.
And after all that it doesn't even come with alloy wheels as standard.
The italians are not well known for good every day cars i know but they have made some truly great machines, why do they have to let themselves down so badly every time they come close to doing something right?
If anyone has a fiat punto evo and loves it you may want to stop reading about now...
it is the nastiest cheapest little pile of crap i have ever had the misfortune to sit in, the seats are like giant cushions which initially you think is great they are comfy, but they have no support and if you manage to get around a tight bend with the soggy suspension and steering that feels like its held together with rubber bands you will have to climb back into your seat before you put your foot down only to find that you have half a mile of travel before the pedal hits the plastic carpet, the engine makes a bit of noise and the stupid little speedometer starts to wobble a bit rather than steadily climbing upwards.
And woe betide you if you by some miracle make it above 70mph, the whole car starts to feel unstable and wobbles about like a push bike in a hurricane. So you slow down and use the trip computer to see what mpg you're getting, the screen is orange which looks crap and the chunky letters and numbers which could look so good are nasty and unclear, iv had better screens on pound shop calculators.
the dashboard looks like the designer only had charcoal pencils and a pvc fetish, and the steering wheel and gear knob feel like something the early learning centre would market as chunky, unbreakable and perfect for teething toddlers, except for the odd sharp mould line.
And after all that it doesn't even come with alloy wheels as standard.
The italians are not well known for good every day cars i know but they have made some truly great machines, why do they have to let themselves down so badly every time they come close to doing something right?
