I forgot about another reason I don’t often use the Sport button…for some reason, it encourages me to drive like a hooligan!
Archive for April, 2007
A good few journey’s over the past few days have seen the 100hp milage close in on 600km. The dealer where we purchased the car recommended 1000km’s run-in, while the dealer where we picked the car up (the main Athens dealer) said 1500km would be needed. An accidental excursion to 4500 revs today to escape [...]
In a regular Panda, there is a button marked ‘city’ which, when pressed, lightens the steering and makes the car easier to move around town in. The 100hp’s image doesn’t really fit with a button of this nature, so Fiat wisely replaced it with one marked ’sport’, which does the opposite to its normal [...]
It made sense for me to use my father-in-laws Hyundai Matrix for a short journey earlier today, an experience that really highlighted the Panda 100hp’s ‘differences’ to other modern cars. I have driven the Matrix on many occassions and when I used to swap from my old Golf to it, I never used to notice [...]
With no particular journey plans and a few days grime covering the Panda’s bodywork, it was time to give it a clean. This was also a good time to closely examine the car for any defects that I may have missed when I collected the car, but luckily, I didn’t find anything.
It looks much better [...]
The weather changed for the better today, with bright sunshine and only a little cloud, so it was time to put some meaningful kilometers under the Panda’s wheels. As we pulled up outside home as the sun was setting, we had racked up another 100 or so km’s, bringing the total close to 200km’s. I [...]