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Fiat 500 Forum : US Fiat 500 Cinquecento Forums And over 10,000 would disagree here: Fiat 500 USA Forum PS: We might as well sign up for memberships on these forums now and beat the crowd. ![]() ![]()
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![]() BTW Todd I belong to that forum LOL
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Ah hah! I knew it.
![]() But here's a more serious if sort of off-subject question. Do you think the time of the current tuner/hot rod trend is ending? It seems that different generations have very different ideals about performance and car modifications. My own son and his buddies sometimes talks about fast cars, but they don't seem that interested in modding them like guys maybe five or six years older than them did. It seems like the whole Fast and Furious thing has just about run it's course. I mean, Vin Diesel is just about my age and I'm now considered an old guy. I say this because cars continue to get harder to mod and they are becoming more and more disposable. While I'm sure some guys and a few gals will always build hot rods in their garages, I wonder if this experience is fading more and more from the general public. I can easily see young people my kids age just buying little cars like the Fiat, driving them and then eventually buying something else without ever opening the hood themselves.
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![]() ![]() First off most off the showroom muscle cars are just scary powerful and fast completely stock. ![]() SEMA has had record attendance with vendors in the last few years. This shows that the market is not lagging but GROWING for high end performance equipment. To use a platform I am familiar with the BMW/MINI my products are still activity selling worldwide and they have not seen a tapering off yet. The car is setting track records both road and 1/4 and at shows they seem to do well. Not to mention many NAHR, IHRA and NASCAR event have reported some of the highest attendance in the last ten years. WAKE UP it a brave new world and the cars are amazing pieces of high tech machinery that have a lot to untapped potential as a DIY. If you know how and what you are doing! What is changing is that tomorrows modder for performance upgrades is going to need to be better educated and trained. No more DIY sefl taught modders. You will need good basic understanding of EFI/ECU operation and more mechanical aptitude in diagnostic abilities. I belong to dozens of vehicle forums. I only participate actively on the ones that I am currently hobby or playing with the platform of interest. The PT may hold my interest for a year or so more? ![]()
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But maybe the internet is keeping that at bay for now. With the free flow of information, guys working in their driveway can at least know what can and should be done as well as anyone even if they don't have the tools to do it. Maybe that will continue at least for a while. To me, the PT Cruiser and most of the same era Chryslers seem very simple to work on. I just finished the head on my son's Mazda and that was much more complicated than anything the PT could offer. So maybe that's a plus in the PT's favor. They remain fairly easy to work on.
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Forget the lame 500L, I will take the new Jeep Renegade. All models get AWD. 160hp Turbo and 6 speed manual available that should get well north of 30mpg or the 2.4 Tigershark with 184hp and 9spd auto.
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