Yeah... if I granny all my shifts and don’t goose the throttle, I’ve gotten 30 in all city driving. Best score was low 40s in almost all highway driving, chilling in the right lane going 55-60
AH YEAH!!! Cabrio was a great choice. I absolutely love mine. Same boat, it was a dream car since I first test drove one back in 2012/2013.
Welcome to the Abarth club! Not sure how much research you did, but good choice on the ‘14 model and the newer style dash
Congratulations! That’s so awesome. I got my car I’d longed for for years exactly one year ago this month. It’s a good feeling.
The abarth is extremely easy to learn stick on. I taught my 15 year old to drive stick in like 8 minutes with that car.
Is it bad that I saw “life long goal” and a neon and the first thing I thought of was how in the hell you fit a viper engine in there?
Wow, does the itch come at 29 or something? I just bought a $500 Saturn SL2 5 speed to learn myself. I turn 30 on December 21. Got to do a bunch of work to do to get it safetied, but I’m super excited to learn.
The Mrs had a 97 5 speed, ran like a champ until electrical gremlins did it in. The gear box was rock solid the only thing we had to do to it was redo some ends on some of the cables, we discovered that when it started dropping out of third. Like shifter popping back to neutral while down through road, that was only a…
Nice find. These can be really fun with small mods like you said. My dad had a Dodge version like that for 150,000 miles of mediocre bliss.
