I've got a hankering for a Fiat Stilo... not the fast little hatchback Stilo, but the bigger people carrier MPV Stilo.
Why? well, it just looks sexy. That's it.
My experience of this car is from someone I knew who had one for a while. It blew it's head gasket and got scrapped, which I didn't like at all.
Was the head gasket failure due to lack of maintenance or Fiat not giving enough fucks to engineer the engine properly?
At first I though lack of maintenance, but as it turns out, it was Fiat's fault. The car was built in a certain year at a certain factory in which they managed to fuck everything up on every car they rolled out. This Stilo wasn't of a good *wine year*
I didn't care. If it was mine, I would've fallen into that Fiat trap of fixing the thing, and I would've discovered more problems, and more... and when I'd fixed them all, it would've broken again.
Call me a masochist, but I still want that car. It had lovely lines. The light clusters on the front, and the back as well, where nice to look at, as was the front grill. The alloy wheels too, with low profile tyres... Disc brakes easily seen through the alloys. Lovely.
And the wheel arches... Those arches. The Fiat had sexy hips, just like it's owner.
I've heard of someone getting stuck with a little Fiat 124, which was an evil thing that repeatedly broke down, all the time. This guy couldn't get rid of it though, because it was too cute.
The Fiat trap.
His only option was to take out the engine and replace it with a superbike engine.
I can't think of any Fiat, ever, that didn't look nice. Have they ever made an ugly car? Or a plain car?
I think it must be that sexy Italian styling that allows them to get away with selling such complete and utter crap.
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Car Madness
Non-FictionMy opinions on cars. Might be a bit of a rant book... I'm gonna be rambling about new cars and old, and the people who drive them. I'm British by the way, so I'm focused on cars here in eggland. Although I am a big fan of American muscle cars... And...
