Comments on: Car of the Year 2008 - Who voted how… http://nf500.com/2007/11/19/car-of-the-year-2008-who-voted-how/ The Independent Site for the New Fiat 500 Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:42:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: kevinb http://nf500.com/2007/11/19/car-of-the-year-2008-who-voted-how/#comment-87 kevinb Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:46:24 +0000 http://nf500.com/2007/11/19/car-of-the-year-2008-who-voted-how/#comment-87 The lucky British journalists had the chance to try ALL the cars back-to-back at Silverstone so they could make up their minds and award the points. Does anyone have a picture of the line-up of the cars at Silverstone, or have any of the British journalists said which 500 model they were given to try....whichever one it was, it seems some of them didn't find it very comfortable. JUDGE RAY HUTTON SAID: " On the by-ways of Britain the ride is shocking and the noise of the 100 bhp 1.4 is wearing on a long journey. Better to choose the 1.2 and stay in town." ANDREW ENGLISH SAID IN DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER: "...bumpy roads showed up woeful inadequacies in the chassis...I'd need a Papal edict on compulsory days off for chiropractor." Was it a 500 Popular, Lounge or Sport they drove I wonder? __________________________________________________ The lucky British journalists had the chance to try ALL the cars back-to-back at Silverstone so they could make up their minds and award the points.

Does anyone have a picture of the line-up of the cars at Silverstone, or have any of the British journalists said which 500 model they were given to try….whichever one it was, it seems some of them didn’t find it very comfortable.

JUDGE RAY HUTTON SAID:
” On the by-ways of Britain the ride is shocking and the noise of the 100 bhp 1.4 is wearing on a long journey. Better to choose the 1.2 and stay in town.”

ANDREW ENGLISH SAID IN DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER:
“…bumpy roads showed up woeful inadequacies in the chassis…I’d need a Papal edict on compulsory days off for chiropractor.”

Was it a 500 Popular, Lounge or Sport they drove I wonder?
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