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Walker
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Fiat dealership opens on east side; 1st in Central Ohio
Business First - by Dan Eaton
Date: Friday, April 1, 2011

Fiats are for sale. The Italian-made subcompact is now available in the Columbus marketplace. The Bob-Boyd dealership group opened the doors on the areaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s first Fiat dealership (Ã¢â‚¬Å“studioÃ¢â‚¬Â in Fiat parlance) on Friday at 5665 Scarborough Blvd. on the cityÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s east side.

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Posted 1 year ago #
Antonio

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All the garbage cars are coming back.

FIAT - LOL

Now Fiat plans on bringing back Alfa Romeo to the states.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/is-alfa-romeo-still-coming-to-america-in-2012/

If the Italians can do it...the French will bring back Renault and Puegot.

Have your toolboxes ready if you buy these things.

Posted 1 year ago #
paktinat
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Yes, the Fiat 500, what a crappy car.

er,
CAR Magazine: Car of the Year 2007
Fifth Gear: Best Small Car 2007
Top Gear: Best 'City Car' 2007
Auto Express: "Best City Car" 2008

Posted 1 year ago #
Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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Very cool addition to the Mini/Smart car market. The price point seems right on point as well, for an import with a little more sport handling than a Toyota Aveo.

http://www.fiatusa.com/en/index.html

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Antonio

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paktinat wrote >>
Yes, the Fiat 500, what a crappy car.
er,
CAR Magazine: Car of the Year 2007
Fifth Gear: Best Small Car 2007
Top Gear: Best 'City Car' 2007
Auto Express: "Best City Car" 2008

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10253731-48.html

Posted 1 year ago #
Antonio

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Twixlen wrote >>
Very cool addition to the Mini/Smart car market. The price point seems right on point as well, for an import with a little more sport handling than a Toyota Aveo.
http://www.fiatusa.com/en/index.html

Toyota Aveo ?

Posted 1 year ago #
Snarf
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Antonio wrote >>

paktinat wrote >>
Yes, the Fiat 500, what a crappy car.
er,
CAR Magazine: Car of the Year 2007
Fifth Gear: Best Small Car 2007
Top Gear: Best 'City Car' 2007
Auto Express: "Best City Car" 2008

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10253731-48.html

it's okay to admit if you're wrong sometimes ;)

Posted 1 year ago #
Antonio

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Snarf wrote >>

Antonio wrote >>

paktinat wrote >>
Yes, the Fiat 500, what a crappy car.
er,
CAR Magazine: Car of the Year 2007
Fifth Gear: Best Small Car 2007
Top Gear: Best 'City Car' 2007
Auto Express: "Best City Car" 2008

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10253731-48.html

it's okay to admit if you're wrong sometimes ;)

Read this from Europe...

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10253731-48.html

The Chevy Vega was the car of the year once too, how'd that work out ?

So was the AMC Alliance - where is AMC ?

Posted 1 year ago #
chaptal
West Side
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1978 called, it wants its joke back.

Car & Driver review

Posted 1 year ago #
Antonio

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Cars of the years...worst mistakes

http://www.cargurus.com/blog/2009/01/27/the-chevy-vega-motor-trend%E2%80%99s-car-of-the-year

http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/846/dishonorable-mention-the-10-most-embarrassing-award-winners-in-automotive-history

Posted 1 year ago #
paktinat
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Antonio wrote >>
Read this...

Did you read it?

"We find that many of these reports, customer satisfaction reports, tend to be about four to five years behind the curve. In fact, in a lot of these reports, they are talking about Fiat models that we no longer manufacture."

So you argument is that because 4-5 years ago (this from a 2 year old article, so really 7 years ago) Fiat's cars gave them a low JD power rating that the current 500 model (which has won accolades nearly every year since it was re-introduced) is terrible?
5 years ago nearly every car Ford produced was terrible. Now I and many others think they are producing some of the most innovative cars we've seen in recent history. But I guess by your logic all their cars are shit because 5 years ago all the cars were shit.

Or maybe your argument is simply that you can't secede that you've been proven wrong once again by the very links you post without reading.

Posted 1 year ago #
aaminian
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I'm sure they're making solid cars nowadays, but I still remember the old joke:

"What does 'Fiat' stand for?"

"I don't know, what?"

"(F)ix (I)t (A)gain, (T)ony!"

Posted 1 year ago #
hugh59
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Antonio wrote >>

Twixlen wrote >>
Very cool addition to the Mini/Smart car market. The price point seems right on point as well, for an import with a little more sport handling than a Toyota Aveo.
http://www.fiatusa.com/en/index.html

Toyota Aveo ?

Toyota's are great. I owned one for 14 years. Though if you want one, make sure you get a model that has working brakes.

Posted 1 year ago #
Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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Antonio wrote >>

Twixlen wrote >>
Very cool addition to the Mini/Smart car market. The price point seems right on point as well, for an import with a little more sport handling than a Toyota Aveo.
http://www.fiatusa.com/en/index.html

Toyota Aveo ?

You know, the blending of the baby Chevy hatchback & the Toyota Yaris hatchback? (I actually confused them, but it's funnier the other way.)

Posted 1 year ago #
Lakee911
Clintonville (South)
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aaminian wrote >>
I'm sure they're making solid cars nowadays, but I still remember the old joke:
"What does 'Fiat' stand for?"
"I don't know, what?"
"(F)ix (I)t (A)gain, (T)ony!"

Most brands have something like that ...

(F)ound (O)n (R)oad (D)ead
(A)wful, (C)rappy, (U)nreliable, (R)usty (A)utomobile (Probably my next vehicle...lol)
(B)ig (M)oney (W)aster (Reminds me of a joke, what is the difference between porcupines and BMWs? ....)
(H)ow (O)dd, (N)o (D)amn (A)cceleration (My current ride)
(J)unk (E)letrical & (E)missions (P)arts (My other vehicle)
(S)wedish (A)utomobile: (A)lways (B)roken (Girlfriends car, damn true too!)

Posted 1 year ago #
Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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We had a late 70s fiat growing up. My father must have replaced the exaust manifold 3 times. The floor pans all had rust holes. It was hard to find a car in that price range that didn't rust in those days.

Posted 1 year ago #
jeff_r

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I had my first Columbus Fiat 500 siting this morning. It was going south on Summit around 8:30. Lipstick red and temporary tags; I thought it looked good.

I'm wary of calling cars like this subcompacts though. They might be among the smallest cars available in the U.S, but they're really not that small. They're certainly not small in the same way that the original Rabbit, Civic, Chevette, Yugo, Sprint, Fiat 500, or Mini Coopers were.

Posted 1 year ago #
rus

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Lakee911 wrote >>

aaminian wrote >>
I'm sure they're making solid cars nowadays, but I still remember the old joke:
"What does 'Fiat' stand for?"
"I don't know, what?"
"(F)ix (I)t (A)gain, (T)ony!"

Most brands have something like that ...
(F)ound (O)n (R)oad (D)ead
(A)wful, (C)rappy, (U)nreliable, (R)usty (A)utomobile (Probably my next vehicle...lol)
(B)ig (M)oney (W)aster (Reminds me of a joke, what is the difference between porcupines and BMWs? ....)
(H)ow (O)dd, (N)o (D)amn (A)cceleration (My current ride)
(J)unk (E)letrical & (E)missions (P)arts (My other vehicle)
(S)wedish (A)utomobile: (A)lways (B)roken (Girlfriends car, damn true too!)

(B)reak (M)y (W)indows...

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Twixlen
Westgate, Columbus
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jeff_r wrote >>
I had my first Columbus Fiat 500 siting this morning. It was going south on Summit around 8:30. Lipstick red and temporary tags; I thought it looked good.
I'm wary of calling cars like this subcompacts though. They might be among the smallest cars available in the U.S, but they're really not that small. They're certainly not small in the same way that the original Rabbit, Civic, Chevette, Yugo, Sprint, Fiat 500, or Mini Coopers were.

They aren't small? Huh, now I need to see one... It definitely had that Smart Car scale look to me, but it's so hard to judge in just seeing a picture.

And, I have to wonder if those uber teeny cars are a thing of the past, simply because of the safety innovations that are packed into even the smallest vehicles.

I remember my Mom's bug green 1980 Accord Hatchback - as the "large" entry for Honda in those days, it was probably about the size of their Fit now. My brother's Rabbit was a thin tin can filled with seats on wheels. I don't know that he had that thing running more than 36 hours consecutively.

Posted 1 year ago #
jeff_r

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Twixlen wrote >>

jeff_r wrote >>
I had my first Columbus Fiat 500 siting this morning. It was going south on Summit around 8:30. Lipstick red and temporary tags; I thought it looked good.
I'm wary of calling cars like this subcompacts though. They might be among the smallest cars available in the U.S, but they're really not that small. They're certainly not small in the same way that the original Rabbit, Civic, Chevette, Yugo, Sprint, Fiat 500, or Mini Coopers were.

They aren't small? Huh, now I need to see one... It definitely had that Smart Car scale look to me, but it's so hard to judge in just seeing a picture.

They're about the same height and width as a Smart Car (approx. 5 ft both directions), but they're almost a full three feet longer (11.5 ft vs 8.8 ft). They strike me as closer in scale to the redesigned Mini Coopers, though I haven't seen them side by side.

Posted 1 year ago #