My 1998 Fiat Coupe 20v Turbo

Hi everyone

Just joined the forum and club in last few weeks so just trying to get up to speed with everything. Just a introduction message really. Anyway, I've had this coupe in the attached picture file since June 2019 and have enjoyed owning it. Not had many issues with it. Had a oil leak which has been fixed but nothing else except maintenance. Looking forward to discussing more things about the coupe on here. Hope everyone is keeping well. Love my Coupe that I own.

Adam

Hello Adam and welcome.

Thanks for the welcome

Hi Adam and welcome to the forum - a mine of information and (mostly) friendly faces

Hi Adam, nice looking coupe you got there

Hi and welcome

Hi Adam
Welcome from another Portofino owner!

Thanks everyone. Yeah it is a nice tidy example. I've parked it up for winter at moment under a car cover and battery disconnected etc. Not used it this year as much as I would've like for obvious reasons like lockdown etc. Hopefully next year will be able to use it more especially in spring and summer 😁👍

I just wanted to ask. Does anyone know what my fiat coupe colour is called? DVLA says it's light blue in the v5 document. Just wondered if anyone could tell looking at my picture in this discussion. Thanks.

Looks like PORTO.

Portofino.

Porty for short, often

Yes 466/A Azzurro Portofino Met.VR.

Thanks for the help. Didn't get that info when I bought it. Just in case ever needed it for future repairs etc.

I also just realised I had missed the answer from an earlier reply. Doh. My bad. Appreciate the help anyway. It's clarified one thing for me anyway.

I was ridiculed for saying a porto looked light blue! Glad to see the DVLA agree with me.

Good luck with your coop.

Welcome to the Forum Adam!

Of course, we old-timers will always call it 'murple'...

Or portaloo blue

Never heard "portaloo blue" before sounds closer to Sprint Blue isn't it? There's always Lavender too, and of course (for newcomers) murple is a portmanteau

https://youtu.be/nQql1k5v_A0?t=81 is where murple comes from... although https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Murple has a definition or two, only one of which is correct.

Never knew there were so many nickname for the colour of my car 🤣😂

Oh ok, I thought it was mauve + purple, but hey what do I know

You might be right Dave. It's been a long time since that term has been used

Sprint blue is clearly closer to the usual colour of a portaloo rather than our beloved Portofino which looked just like the colour of the sea lapping those Italian shores when I visited there in 2018

And it's such a good colour than Ferrari named one of their cars after it. Or maybe the seaside town of the same name, whatever

Portofino just sounds cool and Italian to me but I'm a newcomer to these terms

It's the colour of the car tested by Autocar in 1996 when the 20VT was first launched and it looks very distinctive on the front cover.
Autocar headlined the new engine as the new Cosworth!

It is still very distinctive 25 years later!

Great sales patter and show of unity from the Porty team!

Indeed, 'twas also prominently featured in the "test drive" CD promotion booklet, if you put the CD on you can just imagine sitting in a Porto Coupe

You learn new things everyday. The portofino colour I really like as it's different and distinctive.

Team Porto

Great coupé..

Thanks. Once everything has calmed down with covid etc, plan to give it a mechanical overhaul with suspension, brakes etc