Some cool automobile upkeep images:
Welcome to my blog,This weblog is about- Auto Covers .Not’s about ideal model trains blog! . .
Great automobile maintenance:
Näin se käy
Image by xmacex
Stunning:
Did Suzuki See This Design?
Image by Hugo90
From a 1992 brochure displaying several idea autos based mostly on the Fiat Cinquecento. Appears just like Suzuki’s Swift convertible, sold in the USA as the Geo Metro by Chevrolet.
For the past two decades plus, Fiat vehicles and trucks have not been sold in the USA. Their reliability and corrosion troubles gave them a quite poor reputation. Numerous of the troubles may possibly have been due to the lengthy distance highway driving that Americans do, and our habits of getting much less attentive to upkeep.
But, Fiat nonetheless created cars we never saw, and sold them all above, even North Korea! Since they will soon be obtainable again, I believed I would scan some advertising for Fiat models in no way noticed in North America. Most of these are tiny autos that filled the marketplace niche that the latest 500 does.
Amazing car maintenance:
When pinheads attack
Image by Don Nunn
Apartment upkeep guys utilizing shovels and a pickax to break up hardened soil in some planters on the ground floor. They’re throwing the soil chunks into the bushes on the east side of the house, but a single chunk got away and invaded southbound Aurora Avenue. They rushed down to remove the three-foot chunk before any cars hit it.
No – FIATs problems with rust had nothing to do with your driving habits and everything to do with buying steel cheaply and not treating it properly. I had a FIAT Strada (known as Ritmo in Europe) that rusted outward from the inside and needed all the doors reskinned after just three years. I was attracted by the design – and the 0% financing – but put off buying another from the same company.
In either case, they were not up to the standards of their competition and Americans quit buying them. I thought the Strada was an interesting car back then, but Fiat already had a bad reputation, so I bought a Datsun. That car did not disappoint me and was faultless for years.
I had never heard that poor car maintenance was a reason for Fiat’s poor reputation. I’m skeptical. I recall listening to one of the former Fiat dealers this past summer, and said that one big problem he had selling Fiats is that they were often priced very high.
I do recall seeing a Consumer Reports magazine from the 70′s or 80′s where CR’s testing gave a Fiat sedan (124?) very high initial ratings. I think that they had listed it as Recommended, but several months (maybe a year?) later, CR had to retract their recommendation as they soon discovered from the field that the Fiat was indeed very unreliable.
(Since then, CR has been MUCH more careful about recommendations due to their gaff with the Fiat.)
When did Iveco trucks withdraw from the US market? I have seen those trucks around quite a bit–and I think I still do see them.
Looks like the Swift convertible…
But looks even more like late 80′s Dutch-built MAX Roadster…
Picture by Skitmeister