Dude, a spare tire kit for a Fiat is $300 even from aftermarket companies.

It's gotten really common across almost all manufacturers unfortunately. I don't love it but it's getting to be the standard.

Yikes, we do pretty good about keeping them in stock. We did have a minor issue last week, where we found out they changed the way the spare tire mounts on cars built after April or so and they didn't happen to mention this to any of us so we had to back up and regroup. Turns out there is a different way of ordering…

Wow, that's pretty sad...

That's fantastic, but it completely ignores the mechanism to mount it to the car and all of the parts involved, even down to the plastic cover that hides the crank inside the trunk, the jack, shipping of all the parts, installation by an actual trained mechanic, etc... Like I said, if you just want a donut to throw…

Technically, those are not new parts prices. Those are what you wish new parts prices were. They might be ebay prices but they aren't retail prices.

Dude, it's a factory kit installed by a professional mechanic at a dealership; it's not going to be junkyard price. That's like complaining about the food at a restaurant costing more than it would cost for you to make it yourself. Yeah, that's how that works. That's how businesses work, how our economy runs, and…

Nope, at least not as a spare tire kit, just because there isn't room for a full size spare on a Fiat 500. The spare kit mounts underneath the car, if you had a full size, you'd have ground clearance issues and the mounts wouldn't work. We can get a factory wheel and a tire if somebody wants but then you have to…

A few things... First of all, if by "make a buck at the customer's expense" you mean making a tiny profit on an item while saving the customer $200, then sure, that's what I'm saying.

They're definitely getting away from including a spare tire standard but you can almost always get one as an option. I work at a Fiat dealership and we're owned by a large Chrysler dealer and I can say that it's often cheaper to buy a car without a spare and have the dealer install one as part of the deal. You'll…

The Art of Racing in the Rain is an incredible novel, especially for the automotive enthusiast! I've read it twice, at least, and it's just awesome!

Now put the new one between the two.... Bloated.

Ahh but the Fiat is not continually getting bigger. A modern car can't be as small as the original Mini and 500, that's just not a thing that would pass any safety regs in the US. The point is that Minis are getting bigger and bigger. Which makes sense, it's just becoming more of a small BMW as time goes on and…

The 500L didn't replace the 500, it's a Fiat built crossover.... I'm not calling out the bigger Mini models for being bigger because that's what they're for, I'm talking about making the regular mini bigger and bigger and bigger....

The L is a good car for what it's for, a family hauler that's inexpensive and small but with lots of room inside. And if you get the manual, it's actually pretty fun (again, for what it is).

FTW.

I had a Jeep for 9 years and it was awesome in bad conditions... The things are so predictable in the rain, the easiest car to slide controllably that I've ever driven. Strong winds can get a little crazy but I had to drive mine through a hurricane in Daytona once and it did fine.

This one's easy. The Dodge Avenger.
Has there ever been a less vengeful looking car? I think not.

I prefer the marky mark version just because, and everyone seems to forget this, in the original version, they were stealing money from Fiat... I've always said Mini(bmw) owners can be real douchebags sometimes :P

The one you posted is a Trekking and it doesn't have much chrome. The side piece is brushed, as are the door handles and the front "mustache." The Pop and Easy models don't have those trim pieces and they have some pretty funky interiors that do generally offend the elderly.