Electric car fires.....how much water!!

Let us know what the abarth is like fella.
I like the 695 biposto, especially with the optional dog box.

Not with a dog box, plastic windows and no rear seats you don't, mate.

Just arrived up North after 400kms non stop in the buzz-box. I guess it could be fun for a short while on some twist roads, the steering, suspension and brakes feel pretty good and up to the job. The engine isn't bad, better than the A3 S Line I had a few months ago. Try any hard acceleration though and the front wheel drive scabbles for grip.
But man is it basic with a capital basic.
The seats aren't adjustable for angle or height, only sliding adjustment and back rest. Being immitation buckets, the headrest is fixed too. And they are way too high for the type of car it is trying to be.

Worst gripe is that the accelerator pedal has a really weak spring, so just the weight of your foot pushes it to the floor so you have to hold your foot up to avoid constatntly accelerating. I'm going to be walking with a limp for week.

Gearbox is automatic or paddle shift, but it is too slow to change, accelerating hard makes each change a neck jerker.

In short, it might be fun for a day, or two in the countryside, but I'm damn glad its not mine. And yes I think it has altered my chromosone composition.

I hired one a few years back, the seat position was too high and felt like I was driving a van..noisy as fuck too. Like you say great fun zipping around the country but not for distance. 

I hear you, Los Panteras, and I fully acknowledge that Cruise Control is legit and not just a trinket like so many other modes, especially in average speed camera areas. I also know that it's me and not the rest of the squad that's out of step on this, but I can't help it.
I wear my motorway services hobble with pride.

I tittered at that Spendthrift 😊
I remember our old race van Merc 508, our cruise control was a fuck off slab of concrete to maintain the flat out speed of 61 mph and power steering was a massive steering wheel for maximum leverage. It was a work out doing a 3 point turn in that fucker.

Statisacly selv driving will be safer than us balding ayaton senna wanabees and pretty much anyone behind the wheel. The problem atm is the transisional peroid. Just enough aids and distractions, but no good enough for real world traffic problems.

The thing the scares mes is hacking of these cars. Elon has has some seminars and asking hackers to try and fool the systems. A drone with a projector showing lanes going off the road and the car went there. Electronic billboards managing to send code to the lidar and on to the computer to controll the car.

Anyway, would be good to live another 50-70 years and tell kids "In my day, we drove and contolled the car" "Even filled it up with highly flamable liquid to produce the explotions inside a block of aluminium"