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  17 November 2009
Title: all in one
a collegue of mine drives a fiat punto royal blue in colour. this year around june she brought me the car to collect circulars.

when it comes to luggage its got a nice boot space where you can put much as you want.

my trip was so nice very...
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  16 November 2009
Title: Panda Then
My story starts way back in 1984. A friend and I had just arrived in the UK. Deciding to do a road trip of the garden of eden, we needed to rent a car. Coming from South Africa, we had never seen a Panda before (as it was not sold in SA at the...
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  13 November 2009
Title: Sleepy
I was driving my Fiat Strada 1.4 bakkie in the klein karoo, I was so tired that I just could not keep my eyes open. I decided to stop along the road and have a nap. It was the best nap i ever had. I love my baby bakkie.
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  05 November 2009
Title: 3 Years but still going strong
Fiat Palio Go, It realy goes. 3 years i said but i'm still driving in style. My baby is wearing her Mag Wheels with her tinted windows, she is black in colour.You take her for service and believe me she doesn't consume much fuel so why would i...
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  05 November 2009
Title: My heart did flutter
I bought a Grande Punto 1.3 JTD Dynamic on its first week after it was launched in SA. Never before had a car spoken to my soul. I chose the model, extras, colour and tinted the windows to perfection. Patiently I waited fourteen weeks for its...
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  25 October 2009
Title: Most reliable car EVER!
My brother got his Fiat Palio 1.2 ED in  it was a 2002 model and never gave him any problems. My brother called it his "baby Ferrari" and is still driving it with no problems what so ever. Now I sold my car and got myself the 1.7 TD Palio ii and...
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  23 October 2009
Title: I just love driving it!
My parents bought them a fiat Panda 1.1 Active... I loved to drive that car as many times as possible!! Then I decided to buy my own one but the 100HP model... WOW!!!!!!! What a great car!!!!!! The first day I got the car I thought I'm going to do...
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  13 October 2009
Title: My Dream
i don't have a car never owned one but dream of having one my car the fiat BRAVO i see myself in a red fiat bravo in da coolest outfit shades and the song diva playing with the windows down my son in the back bouncing to my favorite song. I wish i...
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  08 October 2009
Title: WOW!!!!WHAT A BABY
it was a couple of weeks ago me and a collegue were driving through to pretoria central. there we were chatting about his little uno fire we were driving in. i was never a fan of fiat but on the way back i saw FIAT like never before. i had laid my...
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  06 October 2009
Title: Just bought one
I'VE JUST BOUGHT A SECOND HAND UNO.IT'S MY FIRST CAR SO I'LL LOOK AFTER HER AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ENJOY EACH OTHER'S COMPANY UNLIKE MY FIRST GIRLFRIEND.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO OVERTAKING THOSE VELOCITIS WITH MY TURBO.
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  29 September 2009
Title: uno fiat
THIS IS THE BEST CAR!!!!!
Light on fuel, low maintenance, small (can get easy parking). NEVER LET ME DOWN IN THE TRAFFIC. My baby is always on the run, just fill her up and she go. (I BOUGHT A BLUE ONE.  JUST LIKE THE BLUE BULLS YOU KNOW YOU ARE...
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  23 September 2009
Title: I miss my Fiat...
I bought my car in 2005, have had no problems or issues since then. I was in an accident and have been hunting for parts to get my car fixed...So currently am experiencing life without my Fiat...Very, very dreary existence...I miss my Fiat so...
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  22 September 2009
Title: My Palio
I bought the new Fiat Palio GO in 2007, and i fall in love with it everyday. I use it on a daily basis, it is so reliable i havent exprience a problem at all. my Palio is more of a friend to me dan just a car, less on fuel. i have two small boys...
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  15 September 2009
Title: Best car in the entire world
I dont have a great story, but a great car.
I bought The Fiat Multipla 5 and a half years ago and still - whenever i get into that car I am excited.  I love my car to bits.  It has 120 000 kms on the clock and not even a flat tyre.  It is the most...
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  11 September 2009
Title: pandatjie
Upon the launch of the BEAUTIFUL panda 100hp I went into the dealer in Polokwane,looked,drove and fell in love with the little bear. Sadly I was not in the position to purchase at the time.
Two years later, on the 13th of September 2008,
Centurion...
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  10 September 2009
Title: My Poor Baby!!
I first got my baby several months ago at a vehicle auction - a Palio Active. She rolled up to the platform with bags under her eyes because she had been crying all night. Her previous owner was very abusive. She looked so sad, nobody wanted her....
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  08 September 2009
Title: I MISS my car
In 2006 my husband bought me a brand new blue Panda.I fell deeply in love with this little machine. It was a pleasure to drive, easy to park, and felt strong and solid even though it was so petite. Sadly in 2007 we moved to Australia and I had to...
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  26 August 2009
Title: Saving
In 1982 while doing military service in Pretoria, I persuaded my mom to agree that buying a Fiat 128 s/w on the same basis we used to buy a cricket bat or whatever we wanted: They would give half if we can come up with the other half. Only...
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  20 August 2009
Title: Multipla-cation
With a family of four and a Nonna who sometimes tags along when it came time to get a different car we were looking for something a bit bigger than the usual sedans we had had previously. We checked out all the usual suspects, Citroën Picasso,...
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  18 August 2009
Title: Me and Saartjie
I bought my Palio 2 years ago a goldish brown colour..... I even gave her a name...Saartjie. Since I got her me and Saartjie are travelling the road between JHB and PTA every single day of our lives... and never had any dull moment... never stood...
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  15 August 2009
Title: First impression still lasts
I had, a boyfriend who came down from Miami Florida, he purchased an Uno. We drove all over, to Cape Town and Grahamstown, and it never gave trouble, not even once! One day he took my mom shopping. When she got back, she couldnt stop talking about...
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  11 August 2009
Title: '08 Fiat uno
I got myself a '08 uno and i'm loving it. The fuel i use is so little and the performance is stunning and thanx to my fiat uno i have seen a lot of new places in south africa! thanx Fiat.
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  05 August 2009
Title: Getting old
My father-in-law bought his white fiat 1.1 (Uno) in 2001 in Durban.  In 2005 we bought the car from him which he only had 100 kilometres on.  The fiat became my car.  I know when my car is not right.  It gets immediately attention as she is my...
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  18 July 2009
Title: Hottest car
I have never thought fiat can have such a beautiful car. I am glad to be the lucky one to test drive this car,its a dream come true for a guy like me who is still driving the older models. I still remember the time when a lady at one of your...
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  16 July 2009
Title: Uno Uno Uno
My girlfriend owns a Fiat Uno fire 1.1 and it has (surprisingly) been going for 15 years! She is madly in love with her car and will never give it up, even though it has given her many problems with age. Her little baby has been in 2 accidents and...
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  14 July 2009
Title: Fond farewell to my palio
In 2000 I bought a sexy green little palio 1.6.  Now at 230 000 km's I know it's approaching time for a replacement, but she's provided almost a decade of enjoyable driving. From taking me faithfully between South Peninsula and CT CBD every...
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  13 July 2009
Title: My pride, my best friend
Wild, fast, flirty, cute, show off?  No, I’m not talking about me, that would be the Panda.

To be completely honest, the first time I saw the little Panda, I thought by myself, o, please no, "please dad, don't buy me that car”. I started to grow...
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  13 July 2009
Title: UNO CENTO!
I bought my Uno cento in 1989. I am driving this car all the time, no major problems at all, it has 222000km on the clock, and i must say, for a small car like this, it is wonderful.This is my 2nd car. I am very fond of UNO, i suppose any model...
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  07 July 2009
Title: Sienna Rolls with safety
I have only owned Fiats from my Fiat Uno to my Sienna and now my Fiat Stilo its been a long and interesting road with the beautiful car.

At 6 am I called my wife who was driving to Cape Town, I called to let her know that Michael Jackson had just...
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  04 July 2009
Title: Lucky Charm Uno
I won a Uno Cento 999cc in 1998. I had a baby in that year and a 5 year old. I am still driving the 2 door and there was 2 attempted break ins in my lucky uno but this Uno is strong with a will of its own. My baby is 10 years old and the other...
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  03 July 2009
Title: My old Fiat Uno
Want to tell you about my 1998 FIAT UNO FIRE,  currently it has almost 300 000 km on and still going,  I used it as a 4 x 4 when I go camping. My Fiat Uno will never die thank you for making such a GREAT LITTLE CAR
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  15 June 2009
Title: DRIVING IN STYLE
I bought my car in 2008. After buying the Grande Punto 1.9 everybody in my office was so upset because all the attention was given to my car. One Friday there was a function in a park and i came late intentionally after taking my car for a car...
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  09 June 2009
Title: Nice and Reliable
A couple of years ago I was dating this guy Gift*. We started off as friends and I knew he liked me but I wasn't sure about how I felt about him. He asked me out on a date and I said yes because he was a nice, reliable guy and I wanted a nice,...
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  07 June 2009
Title: Croma - STUNNUNG!
We bought a demo Fiat Croma in 2007.  Colour- Dark Brown with 18" Fiat mags.  What a stunner. Everywhere we go with the car it turns heads and compliments just flows. When you tell people about a Croma, most people do not even know what it looks...
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  03 June 2009
Title: Fiat fantastic
My Fiat Palio is 8 years old now and we have had many happy holiday trips in this car.

Unfortunatly the last trip she overheated and we had to be towed to Fiat Middleburg, my story is not about my car but the service that I received at Fiat...
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  23 May 2009
Title: My Fiat adventure
One day I  took my kids to have a hamburger at McDonalds who were having a special that if your number was drawn you could win a new Fiat Panda.

I still remember thinking to  myself  that seemed the impossible, who could have believed it when I...
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  21 May 2009
Title: fiat
many many years ago, 1992 to be exact, i left my job in brussels for the dolce vita. i needed a car, so i bought an old 1971 500l. on my first outing to show it off in zolder, one of her two spark plugs popped out. i was devastated. luckely at...
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  19 May 2009
Title: Fabulous Fiats
some may think I am really silly to even be considering Fiat for the third time, but I think it's fate. My love for Fiat was something that I inherited  from my dad as he was a Fiat mechanic.My first car was a Fiat Palio that I loved with all my...
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  19 May 2009
Title: Fiat x1/9
My dad bought a 1977 Fiat X1/9 in 1983. Th car was imported from Germany. The car is still in the family and manages to turn heads after 32 years. It still has fairly good performance and incredible handling. It is also the only left hand drive...
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  14 May 2009
Title: The Italian
I just adore anything Italian, even if it only remotely resembles something Italian, balisimo, ti amo¡, baby!

Being a proper South African, I also adore the outdoors and in my Panda 4x4, there have been many memorable trips. From Sudwana to...
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  11 May 2009
Title: MY sister-in-law ADORES IT
Myself and my younger brother run a small marketing company in Lesotho, to basically supplement our meagre incomes from regular salaries. when transportation became a hustle we enlisted the services of Fiat Ducato. Its efficiency is immaculate....
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  07 May 2009
Title: fiat uno 1.2 in india
we have Uno 1.2 and it the best car. This car go any where. it is very spacious and carry lots of things in it.
but i am wanting for new Uno to come in India.
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  04 May 2009
Title: FIAT SAVES DAY FROM FLOOD
Approximately 3 months ago during the rainy season i got a very distraught phone call from my girlfriend traveling on her way back from varsity, informing me that her car had broken down in the rain. I hurried to my Fiat Punto and on my way to her...
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  25 April 2009
Title: the best fuel saver
me & my wife we were car shopping when we came across a tiny & cute fiat bravo car. we said we're taking it. i had a huge surprise when i found out that its got 1.6 engine with 16v. we took a 260km trip and got to the 1st garage but they had no...
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  24 April 2009
Title: dynamite
a friend of mine took me for a spin in her new car and while going towards the car i thought to myself "this car is then small". to my surprise when i got inside and found out the wonderful features that it boasts i was totally taken aback  by the...
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  24 April 2009
Title: My First Fiat & Fun Times
I have a Silver Fiat Palio GO II 1.2 5-dr. I added stripes black & rims. I have some  idiots with their fast 2ltr or V6 & V8 cars trying to take me on not realising what they taking on.

All in All, I love fiat & its a quality car.
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  23 April 2009
Title: My 2005 Fino red baby!
She was born on the 17th March 2005, like real babies I had anticipated her to be black and be born on 30th June 2005, my birthday.

I had expectations and she had always delivered accordingly, never disappointed me. She took me everywhere I...
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  23 April 2009
Title: Steamy Strada
The passion  and the love has always been there for the bakkie. first time i laid my eyes on the strada, everything just changed. I call it my " steamy strada". All that i ever wished for.
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  20 April 2009
Title: envy enticer
I have discovered just how true it is while driving a Fiat Bravo '07 model, that 'in a world of conformity some things are still made for the individual'. To strangers  and admirers alike, they almost always stare gobsmacked at the make and style...
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  15 April 2009
Title: Member of the family
My now ex-husband bought me a UNO  1.1, 1998 MODEL in 2002. It was part of his way of showing remorse. I still drive UNO. It can be trusted, as it doesn't disappoint. My brother bought 3 cars, and all gave him grief BUT not UNO. It has helped...
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  15 April 2009
Title: My Palio Go! Moment
So I was dating this older lady and didn't know she drove, one day she comes to my house to visit and then asks me if i could drive. Not wanting to let go of ten points i said to her "I am not used to driving small cars they are uncomfortable" she...
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  13 April 2009
Title: Moz Trip
My girlfriend drives a Green Palio HL 1.6 2 door, we drove from JHB with 4 people in the car all the way to Tofo in Mozambique on the worst roads imaginable. The "green Mamba" got us there and back with no problems.
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  09 April 2009
Title: Still crying
I use to drive my friends fiat panda 4x4 and it was like i was addicted to the car.  i made my deal for the same car and waited for it to be approved by the bank, i was already touching it ,it was blue in colour but the bank disapproved. I cried...
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  01 April 2009
Title: FIAT UNO AND PANDA
I have been driving UNO for more than five years, later changed to Panda, never had problems. It is now 4 years without any critical problems,  is a fast and speedy car, low fuel cost.
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