We picked the car up from the dealer Thursday evening, a process that was simple and friendly. After sorting out the insurance, which is coming from Fiat themselves, we got a ‘tour’ of the car by a member of staff. He knew the 100hp well and walked us through all of the features both inside [...]
Archive for March, 2007
The call has come, the Panda is ready to be collected! At 16:30 today, we will visit the showroom to get the keys to our car!
More later….
Two days of fiddling around at Immigration and I am there! Perhaps I should complain about the fact that we are all supposed to be EU citizens, one super-state or whatever, and why should I have to do all this just to register a car under my name, but I won’t. The reason is that, [...]
Visited our dealer today to give the deposit and sort out the insurance. The car is still at customs, but provided all is well with the paperwork it should be ready within seven working days. I say all is well with the paperwork, but we have one final hurdle to jump. As I am British [...]
After chasing up my dealer as to the whereabouts of the Panda, he called back to say that the price of my car had been adjusted and for once, it had gone down! The reason for this miraculous turn of events is that he had decided to give me the MP3 player upgrade I had [...]
After spending two weeks in the UK, I was hoping to return home to find news that the Panda was at the dealer ready for collection. Although this was a little too optimistic, the dealer confirmed that the car had completed the first stage of its journey and was sitting at customs awaiting clearance.
Time to [...]
This is my first brand new car, and my first Italian car, and this blog will act as a record of my ownership experience. For anyone not familiar with the Fiat Panda 100hp, then I suggest looking at the Panda links to the right and reading some of the reviews available online. Evo magazine described [...]