Driving without doors. I had a Wrangler for 9 years and almost never had doors on the thing. Now I’ve got a sportier car, but if I could take the doors off and it A) Not look completely stupid and B) not affect the handling, I would do that in a HEARTBEAT. I would die from it eventually but it’s just such a great…

I work at a Fiat dealer that is now a Maserati, Alfa Romeo, and Fiat store. The Maserati part JUST opened s

Well this is easy. The 2014 GQ Edition Fiat. It’s an Abarth convertible minus most of the things that make the Abarth cool... Softer suspension, normal Fiat 500 seats, and worst of all, they put a muffler on it so you lose that Abarth exhaust note! Let’s face it, that sound is about 75% of the reason you buy an Abarth…

Can you give a more detailed example of the discount? The Chrysler Friends and Family discount is 1% below invoice in addition to any rebates and incentives so unless it’s a car that has no factory incentives, you’ll still get more than that off. At the Fiat studio where I work, we’ve talked our rep into giving us his…

I’m a pretty creative sales person (okay at drawing, some graphic and web design, enjoy photography etc) but I’m not sure how to just come up with a social for someone that’s not a past customer? I’m all for sending that salesperson to jail, personally. It’s beyond being a scumbag to run credit on someone without…

Yep, Sergio has even said a while back that he wishes people would stop buying so many 500e's because they're costing FCA so much money

This topic fascinates me. Who ever thought that in America, people would be demanding big, international companies be given the chance to put locally owned companies out of business so that we can all pay full retail prices for goods we normally are able to negotiate huge discounts on? None of this is about Tesla,…

Looks good but I'll be waiting for the supposed-to-be 200HP Abarth

yep, just pair your phone, hit the source button once and done

Minor point but all the 2015 Fiats do have bluetooth audio streaming without any kind of app. Also, the biggest and most important change they made to the 2015 Abarth, way above and beyond the transmission or digital dash, REAL CUPHOLDERS that actually hold drinks! The mickey mouse ones in the 2012-2014 were great…

That dealer is shady and definitely deserves to be shut down. However, it's worth pointing out that the entire survey system is beyond screwed up. I work at a Fiat studio, where it's not as crucial as most dealers. A 9 or 10 survey gets me like $20 as a bonus in February. Not exactly huge. The problem is that…

The answer to #1 is Abarth. Hatchback room, still good fuel economy, pretty inexpensive to buy new, and obviously stupidly fun to drive every day.

Fiat's come with a quick user guide that has all the important stuff in it, how things work, fuse box locations, what to do in case of... all that good stuff and like most manufacturers they have an app that explains most things. You can get the giant paper manual if you want but it doesn't come with every car since…

Wow, this is interesting. I don't lease cars personally, but I do work at a Fiat studio so I know a little bit about leasing. Effectively, you're just financing the difference between what the car costs new and what it will be worth as a used car once the lease term is up. So, if you buy a new car every few years…

They're not trying to build a business on 4C sales, they're trying to stir up lust for the brand as a whole by offering up a car that is highly sought after but not quite attainable, even if you have the money for it. If all they did was launch the brand with a new mass market car, there would be massively less brand…

That is all well and good and an excellent theory, but as someone that works at a Fiat dealer, I can tell you demand for this car outweighs supply significantly. Yes it is a lightweight sportscar and so is the Elise. The appeal for a car that marks the resurrection of Alfa Romeo has a much wider appeal, though. …

If you pay over MSRP for a Kia Soul, that's getting bent over the table. For a rare and hard to get numbered launch edition that marks the return of a legendary Italian brand, I think it's just part of it. Anything over say $15k over MSRP is too much IMO but otherwise, it's the price of getting the LE. If all you…

You do realize that debuting doesn't mean the car is on sale immediately right? It will be at least, oh idk 6 months or so before it gets to any dealers which would be in the.....

The LE is $71,895 MSRP with the options I think all of them came with. If a dealer wouldn't tell you a price, it's because they hadn't decided how much they were marking it up. It sucks but it's an insanely sought after car so some dealers are marking them way up. Either way, not telling you a price isn't an Alfa…

I disagree entirely. They were pretty upfront that the 4C would be exclusive and hard to get. We've known for over a year that most Alfa dealers would only get a couple or maybe a few cars over the first year of production, some people just aren't accepting that. The Fiat studio I work for hasn't been selected for…