Posted By: Trappy
Fiat Coupé vs...... - 07/04/2017 11:44
It’s been a while since I posted one of these up. Years in fact since the section was removed - but this one is worth a mention. Looking back over the years, I’ve had many slip-road dust-ups with all manner of opposition. Modified hatches, super saloons, even some pretty formidable exotica from time to time, and yet the old Coop has always been in the running, that magical third gear always doing its thing.
I recently started a new job and I was a little dubious about driving the Coupé at first. It’s covered less than 5,000 miles a year for the past six years so the prospect of doing 300 miles a week was quite worrying. Plans to pick up a cheap runabout were scuppered when my landlord informed me that they were selling my house and so I needed to move on, getting a deposit together at short notice along with the usual expense of a house move. I was fully expecting the Coop to have failed me by now. Six months’ worth of mileage in six weeks was bound to knock her senseless…
I’ve been driving the Coupé to work for seven weeks today and it hasn’t missed a beat. The drive is mostly bumper to bumper traffic with the occasional foray up to national limits, the average speed over the 28 miles each way regularly dipping under 25mh… and yet the coop is still going strong. It starts every time, it gets me home every time and nothing has gone wrong. Sure, it’s throwing all kinds of fluids out from every orifice but ‘they all do that’ and it still keeps on hammering along.
I on the other hand, have taken a pasting
My back is killing me from sitting in the unsupportive seats daily and my left foot is a mess from working that Helix organic. The tendons feel bruised and I can barely put weight on it towards the end of the week. I’m tired after every journey and I now dread getting in the thing, avoiding driving it after work if possible.
So I just wanted to say that, after 12 years of ownership, I feel I finally know what it’s like coming up against a heavily modified Fiat Coupé 20vT… and it isn’t much fun!
Coupé 1-0 Trappy
I recently started a new job and I was a little dubious about driving the Coupé at first. It’s covered less than 5,000 miles a year for the past six years so the prospect of doing 300 miles a week was quite worrying. Plans to pick up a cheap runabout were scuppered when my landlord informed me that they were selling my house and so I needed to move on, getting a deposit together at short notice along with the usual expense of a house move. I was fully expecting the Coop to have failed me by now. Six months’ worth of mileage in six weeks was bound to knock her senseless…
I’ve been driving the Coupé to work for seven weeks today and it hasn’t missed a beat. The drive is mostly bumper to bumper traffic with the occasional foray up to national limits, the average speed over the 28 miles each way regularly dipping under 25mh… and yet the coop is still going strong. It starts every time, it gets me home every time and nothing has gone wrong. Sure, it’s throwing all kinds of fluids out from every orifice but ‘they all do that’ and it still keeps on hammering along.
I on the other hand, have taken a pasting
My back is killing me from sitting in the unsupportive seats daily and my left foot is a mess from working that Helix organic. The tendons feel bruised and I can barely put weight on it towards the end of the week. I’m tired after every journey and I now dread getting in the thing, avoiding driving it after work if possible.
So I just wanted to say that, after 12 years of ownership, I feel I finally know what it’s like coming up against a heavily modified Fiat Coupé 20vT… and it isn’t much fun!
Coupé 1-0 Trappy