Advantages: ahead of its time exterior design, confortable and roomy, large enough trunk Disadvantages: rust, showing it's age in terms of fuel-efficiency, handling and safety
The Renault 14, launched in 1976 was ill-fated from the beginning because someone at Renault came up with a disastrous advertising campaign that compared the 14 to the shape of a pear. Renault later attempted to enhance the car's appeal by relaunching it ...
michel88 14.07.2009 ·Read full review
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Review of Renault R14
Advantages: tough, not too expensive Disadvantages: extinct
...take a seat in the time machine, let´s go back to the early 1980s. We bought our first car then, a brand new light mint Fiat 128 with a black stripe along the lower part of the body and dark grey all vinyl seats (sticky in hot Italian summers!). Th ...
MALU 20.12.2005 ·Read full review
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Review of Fiat 128
Advantages: Cheap to run and very nippy Disadvantages: Water soluble, small, utterly unsafe in a crash
I bought my Fiat 128 as an MoT failure in 1982. It was rotten, the wings were rusted through and it was generally due for the scrap heap, which in 1982 wasn't uncommon for a Fiat 128.
However I lived in a rural area where it was possile to drive off ro ...
peteshone 09.05.2005 ·Read full review
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Review of Fiat 128
Advantages: retro, comfortable and spacious Disadvantages: no seatbelts in the back, unreliable and needs a lot of work
By today's standards, in my opinion this is a terrible car. My boyfriend owns one and since he has been driving it there have been multiple problems, including many involving the difficulty to get hold of new parts for it. The carburetor has given us many ...
bttfkat888 13.04.2010 ·Read full review
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Review of Fiat 128
Advantages: Truly Unique – gets lots of attention Disadvantages: Truly Unique – gets lots of (tiresome) attention
If a car shows your age, this is it. It depends when you were born as to what immediately comes to mind when you see one. For my generation, this is the car from the Back to the Future films. For my parents generation, this was the car built by the ‘dr ...
robert_parnham 05.02.2004 ·Read full review
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Review of Delorean DMC 12