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Just back from a month long trip to Italy. Two weeks i Venice, a week in Rome and a week driving around Tuscany. The first three weeks were work related but a lot of fun. At the beginning of the last week we picked up our hire car in Rome and headed north. The car was a new Fiat 500 diesel so I thought I would share my opinions on the whole driving experience. Firstly the car was a blast, nice and small, manual with the stick part of the centre consul. All the switches were easy to operate and very intuitive, the only hard to read instrument was the speedo and rev counter! Small engine probably a 1.2 L but could not find any info. Driving experience was terrific, tight climbing and decending bends in tuscany at 35 ish without any loss of control. Disk breaks all around. Highway, no shakes or rattles at 90 and felt very secure. interestingly it had a switch to change the steering from city to normal, increasing the power assist, very useful.
Driving in Italy was great fun with hardly any stop lights everything moves efficiently.
Cars... saw a few SAABs and an equal number of Volvos and BMW's, saw a lot of Audi's (mostly black!) a whole load of Land rover Defenders and only one Asian car throughout the whole trip. All the other cars were of European manufacture, small and nippy. Of course we saw a few Magnums and Three H3's, they look even more out of place in Rome! Most of the cars looked newish.
Back in New York now...sigh
posted by 24.215.13...
, Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:24:08
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