what do people think of these cars?? im looking for a second car and for around 4k it seems you can pick up a reasonable one of these cars. I did test drive a few of them on my journey from bog standard 1.2punto to jdm sti where i am now, but its looking like i might have to commute a good few miles ed to work so i dont want to use the scooby.

Anyway seems they are only 130bhp but they are only pretty light i would imagine, the abarth one i drove seemed quite fast at that time. I am happy with reliability of fiat i drove a basic punto for years with not a problem in 200k miles. And the hgt to me seems nice, small and has a bit of go in it, but doesnt seem that much for 1.8 twin cam only 130hp?? anyone had one of these? anything good or bad to say about them??

I read up a little, seems you can chip them to 150, but not sure i would want to bother really, maybe extract a little more power out of it.

tia
JAson

 

Why not go for the GT? 1.4 Turbo same power.

 

because they are only in the old shape and look somewhat dated and old

 

I had a good look at the HGT & test drove some but they just ain't that fast & are left well behind by the competition in terms of performance & handling.
If you are gonna get a Punto get the Sporting. Not that fast but with the lighter engine it can be a hoot to drive.

 

Got one of these as a second car a while back having owned various Fiats before including a GT3 before the Impreza and as you the Fiats have never let me down. Put some eibachs and 16 inch OZ Chrono's on it and a K+N induction kit, I would say it is comparable on performance to a std GT (you just have to keep the revs high cos of the variable valve timing) handling is excellent and you get plenty of toys including sat nav! I had it pushing a modded Saxo VTR down the motorway yesterday - he was not impressed! It would get bladdered by a VTS though but it is much more solid and better built than a VTS (used to have one - it fell apart daily). There are a few forums for mk2 Puntos with info on them (think the 130bhp as std is more like 135-140bhp as std and 160bhp is easy to get with the right mods) - BMC do carbon fibre induction kits for them and I think Supersprint have the best choice of exhausts for them.

 

yeah was lookin at supersprint exhaust systems, thanks for that ayde, what bhp is a vts?? personally i think citroen ar sh1te compared to a punto, but i guess thats just my opinion, and yeah you do get alot of extra toys

 

where are the forums for punto hgts then??