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So, some of you know I had a deposit in on a Slingshot. I was told that it would be a terrible purchase, I was an idiot, my kids are ugly, etc. Well, I didn't care. I wanted a small, open, absurd little car to gently caress around with on the weekends. So I bought a Fiat 500 Abarth Cabrio. We already have a 500 pop, and it's a stupid amount of fun. This Abarth is.. jesus. It's loud, the ride is terrible, and it tracks all over the place. I love it so very much. 
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May 15, 2015 14:59
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Finally pulled the other 500 out of the garage so the wife could drive it. It's sat for the last 6 months, unloved.
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Jun 2, 2015 04:45
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I'm buying the 124 the moment it's on sale Installing a set of custom stripes on the red 500 today. I have a set of white abarth 16s coming for it next week, and will be painting the mirror caps white. These things are stupid fun, and the backseat of the cabrio is actually not bad at all.
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Aug 2, 2015 15:46
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Nohearum posted:Can you explain why one would buy two of the same car? They are different models of the 500, but it still baffles me that you would want two of the same vehicle. They are as much the same car as an evo is a Lancer. One is a turbocharged cabrio, the other is a lazy little hatchback. The Pop is my wife's, the Abarth cabrio is mine. Though she never drives it, really. I think it's moved twice in the last year.
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Aug 3, 2015 04:25
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Ether Frenzy posted:Number of burnouts in the last 300 posts: 0 YOUR MOVE, SHITLORD
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Aug 4, 2015 04:32
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I wish Subaru would sell the old 2.5rs with a modern drivetrain. It's too bad Subaru doesn't have any modern drivetrains to put in them.
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Aug 16, 2015 18:47
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Ehud posted:hello this is my car Hey there, Abarth buddy. Still loving my 13 abarth cabrio.
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Aug 22, 2015 20:47
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Ehud posted:
Ive done a roadrace ultimate 3 ecu piggyback, sila concepts cai, madness go pedal, and madness short shifter. The go pedal and short shifter made the biggest difference in driving fun, even though they add zero power. The roadrace piggyback added a fuckload of power, but I really suggest go pedal first and foremost. You'll wonder why the hell the car didn't come like that from the factory.
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Aug 23, 2015 02:38
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kimbo305 posted:Can you option 500s to not have body-color dash panels? Nope. I stole the red panel out of my wife's 500 to put in my abarth, and covered my grey panel in fake carbon fiber to put inside hers. I did the same with her red mirror caps.
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Aug 23, 2015 03:08
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Took my hot hatch* music festival camping last weekend. *do quasi-convertibles count? 
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Oct 21, 2015 22:56
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PCOS Bill posted:If you live in a state where you have to it's kind of a thing you have to do I live in California and own... uh.... a lot of cars. None of them have front plates
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Nov 7, 2015 04:58
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kimbo305 posted:Yeah, but you don't even have to run plates in Cali. Sorry, what?
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Nov 7, 2015 05:06
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Powershift posted:It's that perfect temperature and humidity where the frost sticks to the vinyl top, but not the body of the car, so the roof looks super sparkly and the metal is still jet black. Yeah, it's been 30f or so overnight here in San Diego, leaving a nice layer of frost on the soft top of the Abarth. Looks good. No photo, so here's my rear badge with frost on it. 
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Jan 3, 2016 18:58
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Bojanglesworth posted:Thanks so much! Luckily I took my other wheels off before we started getting snow, because the tires were so bad. Haha. Jesus Christ.
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Jan 21, 2016 23:08
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We love our Flex so very very much. We have a burgendy 2014 with the appearance package, black and satin 20" wheels, blacked out trim ad smoked lights. It looks so loving great.
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Mar 26, 2016 22:00
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FCKGW posted:We had the burgundy 2009 before it got totaled. Tried to talk the wife into a killer deal on the top of the line 2011 but the red/black paint job was a deal breaker. Yep. When I go from driving my Abarth during the week to the Flex on the weekends..... Holy poo poo.
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Mar 27, 2016 06:42
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The flex is the best car I've ever owned, and I've owned a lot of cars. I choose it over our A7 most of the time.
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Mar 29, 2016 04:52
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Powershift posted:For the love of god, don't run into anything This is honestly what I think whenever I see this generation of F150
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May 8, 2016 07:16
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clutchpuck posted:I don't get it but I don't make a habit of running into things. https://youtu.be/6Wb66PzljP8
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May 8, 2016 07:26
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I had a 2007 s60 T5 with a 6speed spaceball MT. Second best car I've owned, after the abarth.
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Aug 1, 2016 00:42
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Re: Post a photo that includes your house
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Aug 2, 2016 06:55
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blk posted:I love what I can see of your house. Any more pics? It's ... interesting. You can't really tell from these photos, but about 1/3 of the house is glass from floor to ceiling, including the living room, which has a 12' W x 12' H sliding glass door-thing that allows the entire room to open up. 1.5 Acres was not easy to come by in North County San Diego. That being said, the construction quality is terrible and it's a loving greenhouse in the summer, so I get to enjoy $1,000 electricity bills. I really need to jump on the solar bandwagon. Note the hilarious cottage on my hill next to the jacuzzi/patio.    
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Aug 3, 2016 19:34
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Elwood P. Dowd posted:Man, depending on the inside, this is a maaaaaybe $300k house where I live. If the interior isn't covered in unicorn jizz, then it's a 200k house. Granted, you don't get the views or the privilege of living near an active fault line, and there's no way your state might actually end up going to Trump, but property values and such continue to amaze me in this, the Age of the Internet. 200k. Hilarity. It's worth about 950k. I own and rent out a much nicer, newer house in the Palm Springs area. It's worth about 350k, which is still less than I paid for it in 2007. eyebeem fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Aug 4, 2016 |
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Aug 4, 2016 02:02
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MiniFoo posted:wooosh I guess so. Let me just reiterate that the house is a pile of garbage and we cant wait to move. It was built by an idiot and needs to be torn down.
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Aug 4, 2016 04:52
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Welp. Just made the most boring car purchase of my life.  The wife and I now each have an energi and a Fiat 500. At lease my 500 is an abarth and a different color than hers. Realtalk, the energi is actually really nice to drive. It's like a small version of our flex, with better low end torque. Really roomy inside, and much more engaging than the Prius's I've owned in the past.
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Oct 30, 2016 17:17
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GentlemanofLeisure posted:You can do what you wanna, but why do you and your wife both need a Fiat 500 and an Energi? You've got 5 vehicles in total and 4 of them are 2 sets of doubles. I don't get it. Our Flex is a lease and is being returned next month. Her Fiat is a base model Pop, was her commuter car, and is now for sale. She bought it before we had kids, and it's no longer practical now that we take two kids to daycare every day. My fiat is an abarth cabrio, and was my commuter, but is now my weekend "fun" car. Our old system was to drive the Flex when we needed to take a kid somewhere or drive somewhere as a family. Now we both have cars that we can all fit in.
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Nov 1, 2016 18:14
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PenisMonkey posted:I took the Micro Machine out for some on-ramps. I just moved to probably the most pretentious loving neighborhood in south Orange County, California. You drive the way most idiots in my neighborhood with cars like yours drive. Everyone has a car like yours. You drive like everyone in my neighborhood. This is not a good thing. *edit* One of my cars is also a total fart machine, but it's an Abarth, and a stick, so it's way cooler than yours despite being worth as much as one of your calipers. eyebeem fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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Jan 11, 2017 21:11
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Darchangel posted:"These are simple farmers Darchangel posted:"These are simple farmers Come on, man.
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Jan 14, 2017 01:33
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savesthedayrocks posted:I've always wanted to get a clean 90 or 91, and swap an H22 in. I had a 92 Prelude Si w/ 4 wheel steering. Blew the motor and had a questionable shop do an H22 swap. Never quite got the VTEC to KICKINRIGHTYO, and wiring in the 4WS was a major pain in the rear end. It ended up getting stolen pretty soon after.
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Jan 18, 2017 18:57
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I cracked two intake manifolds on my p71. Also, enjoy waking up to a passenger footwell full of coolant once the heater core detonates. Or, rather, every time the heater core detonates. Still miss that car.
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Jan 26, 2017 04:38
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tehk posted:Uh here is my weekendly. It is a 454 sleeved and stroked LS3, right now twin 69mm forged turbos, and lots of fab work. I guess I'll stop posting my cars, then.
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Feb 14, 2017 05:59
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I feel like we are getting the other side of the "bought my wife a bowling ball for Christmas, but she doesn't bowl  " tropeI can see myself convincing the wife she needs a 996T but... oh no... you don't drive stick well and it's super expensive to fix! I drive stick... you know.... gotta keep those fluids moving...
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Apr 16, 2017 15:38
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My dad used to work for Nintendo but now he works at GM and he said the next Corvette will be mid engine with 708hp.
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Apr 22, 2017 20:57
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Nice Prius but there's some boxy old car in the way in your photos.
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May 6, 2017 06:57
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I love when people "fix" photos by making them looks hilariously bad.
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May 15, 2017 19:09
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The Geo storm post makes me a little sad that I grew up in and still am in the SoCal burbs.
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Jun 2, 2017 03:33
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Eh. If I don't charge at all, and drive 80mph to work and back, 90 miles of freeway per day, I average 33mpg in my cmax energi
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Jun 23, 2017 15:39
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I should take a picture of my Abarth gauges when I get home. I think my trip 2 is currently at 2,000ish miles and 15-16mpg Out of a 1.4L VROOOOOOOM PSSSSHHHHH POP POP VROOOOOOOOOM PSSSSHHHH POP POP
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Jul 25, 2017 16:05
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BraveUlysses posted:they look like old kitchen cabinets re-purposed for the garage I did this at my last house. My grandfather was throwing out some old cabinets from his house and i snatched them right up and used them for 7 years in my garage. They were garbage quality, and I beat them to poo poo, but they worked. Free cabinets + about $40 in lumber and plywood = a decent enough workshop.
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Sep 8, 2017 16:42
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THE BLACK NINJA posted:Insanity =/= Disruptive Retardation. Especially for the apparent reason of "gently caress everyone and the babies sleeping in their cars." You're going to lose this one, buddy.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:31
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