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Had the luxury of a most of the day test drive, courtesy of the wife as her brand new 595 Turismo had to go in for some snag rectification they missed in PDI (cracked windscreen :?) .
Car was one of the salesmans company car and had just over 4.3K miles on it.
Roads were very greasy and covered in lots of crap as is usual for this time of year locally, temps were below 8 deg C but sunny.
Had a right hoot and even the car seemed to enjoy it as its tail wagged regularly
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The abarth seemed keen to rev more so than one I had a brief test in a couple of months back which had 2K miles on its bores so maybe the Multijet gets better with miles, that said it doesn't feel as free as er'indoors 1.4 T-jet fitted to her new 595 which has next to no miles on it.
Suspension wise I was impressed at how composed the damping is , the roads I drove are anything but smooth so often create bumpstop engagment on most cars that traverse them at pace. I feel the ARBs could be a touch stiffer as it was easy to introduce a bit of lurch influenced oversteer on roundabouts but spring rates for road use seemed well set up.
Car was one of the salesmans company car and had just over 4.3K miles on it.
Roads were very greasy and covered in lots of crap as is usual for this time of year locally, temps were below 8 deg C but sunny.
Had a right hoot and even the car seemed to enjoy it as its tail wagged regularly
The abarth seemed keen to rev more so than one I had a brief test in a couple of months back which had 2K miles on its bores so maybe the Multijet gets better with miles, that said it doesn't feel as free as er'indoors 1.4 T-jet fitted to her new 595 which has next to no miles on it.
Suspension wise I was impressed at how composed the damping is , the roads I drove are anything but smooth so often create bumpstop engagment on most cars that traverse them at pace. I feel the ARBs could be a touch stiffer as it was easy to introduce a bit of lurch influenced oversteer on roundabouts but spring rates for road use seemed well set up.
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