And yet the only thing people give a shit about both when it comes to this and the GT is the lack of a manual gearbox. Strange.

NP, I wouldn't let mine go for that. OK, mine's only just clicked over to 100K on the odometer, but still, that's not bad money. As long as the service book has more stamps than a philatelist's bedroom then you're laughing all the way to the bank.

Metcalfe

Can't wait for the deluge of WHY NO MANUAL???

I'd say it's shit. But I don't have your way with words...

I already have a pair, just got new lenses too! Say what you want, the rear view, particularly three quarters on is saying something Italian.

Given the continuous twenty year rape the Lancia brand has undergone, I think the time has come to let that particular vine wither and die.

Hate to say it, but it looks Ferrari-ish.

Base Panda 1.2 starts at €11460 list. Base 500 1.2 starts at €12700. Your extra €1240 gets you two fewer doors and less luggage space. OK it's not a fortune's worth of money. But I think that in non-Abarth form it's an utterly useless device.

Nothing wrong with Abarths. I just don't like the standard one, it's a Panda with a lot less room for a lot more money.

You literally cannot turn a corner without bumping into one. Unfortunately.

Boo frickin hoo. They were horrible lumps of marketing-driven uselessness. In Italy I am yet to see a single solitary Roadster or Coupe in the wild. I did see a Paceman once and very nearly shat a kitten laughing at it.

Two ultimately crap cars, one is about right on price, the other is criminally overvalued with the added stigma of being French.

Whenever asking questions about car names, the answer is, and always will be, Mazda Bongo Friendee.

I don't think that's why personally.

550 Maranello. Weighs as much as a small moon but when you floor it magic happens.

I just don't get it. Why not give us new cars (458 Speciale, LaFerrari and so forth) instead of these design studies?

Just one of the many idiotic new laws that prove the government is anti-car. Fucking communists.

Synchromesh on second can also be delicate.

How long had he been waiting to tell someone that he'd "plowed the daylights out of" someone?