They're like mountain goats, very capable cars! A lot of fun to drive and don't cost an arm and a leg to run or fix if they break. I drive the later version panda 4x4.👍
One of your most interesting reviews, a massively impressive little car, never mind the plastic or lack of this and that, concentrate on what the car can do. £3000......an absolute bargain.
Oh yeah, saw a dude on RU-vid yesterday, who's panda was so deep in a river, it was actually floating, until touching the floor and gripping. (He had a major snorkel and gearbox breather mod though.)
Brilliant Tommy I love Fiat Pandas and we own a Fiat 500 Me and my Mate took an old Panda 4x4 over a military training ground and it went over everything except a five foot water obstacle Bear Hull UK
One of the girls I know also drives Fiat Panda, however 2nd gen. And yeah, she probably doesn't want it to do any off-roading. When I save enough, I'll probably do some. Meanwhile you should get yourself a Lada Niva. It'll climb everywhere, so that a towing truck of municipal police wouldn't be able to tow you off, when you park up on a city office roof.
The first, 1980s Panda 4X4, is still the best, super lightweight compared to latest ones. It is still used by local scientists to climb the Vesuvius vulcano.
Poverty spec?! You don't know yer born, you mate . That's cutting edge tech in there! All the dash feedback. It's got a cigarette lighter. My last panda didn't have one at all. Anyways, it doesn't matter, cause they're completely modular, and every section can be taken apart by removing a couple of easy-access screws. The turning circle on the 4x4 is shit compared to the 1.1 eco active. I've got the exact same car as you have there (the 1.3 multijet turbo diesel?). I'm going to convert the rear into a day-van sort of thing, with fold away bench seat out the boot, for getting changed in/out of my wetsuit, tinted windows and flat floor for getting properly changed in privacy and out of the wind and rain. Also chilling and having a brew. Pandas 4 life!
Ik drive a regular panda and when i Tell you i abused this car i am not lying once whe rode like 80 km/h or so with 3 People in the car and jumping on a speedbumb getti'g like 3meters airtime or so done it 6 times only part that's Broken is my left front schockabsorber
These kind of cars are always heavily criticized because small, less luxurious than others, and so on. But Fiat have always made cars and other vehicles like that. In that way. To give you an example, the vast majority of those trucks you see in documentaries about people traveling through the Sahara desert, they are Fiat. Made before or during ww2. And still works nowadays like they are brand new. That is the definition of "reliability".
This is how u know he’s genuine reviewing shit because a fiat was my first car a punto and apparently was a death trap and like he said it should have been road worthy but it passed an mot they’re shit cars tbh but 35” for a year of driving it’s good
