{"id":3322,"date":"2012-05-07T22:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T05:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2012-05-07T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T05:59:28","slug":"fiat-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2012\/05\/fiat-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiat 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s right, I now drive a Fiat 500 Sport. And yes, I sold the BMW<\/a>. Before you cast me off as a nutcase, give me a moment to explain. I always like to defend my own actions and elaborate on what my thought processes are. Relating back to the subject matter touched upon in this post<\/a>, I began to question my reasoning for owning the BMW. It wasn’t considered a very high-end or expensive car (of the caliber of M3’s, for example), nor was it cheap. It was positioned in that awkward middle ground. As nice as the BMW was, I honestly couldn’t care less what kind of status, if any, it brought me. <\/p>\n

Since I couldn’t quite justify owning the BMW, I decided I had my fun and ended up selling it. My intent was to embrace the philosophy of less being more, and “downsized” to a Fiat 500. This was my first time shopping for a brand new car. I checked out a few other makes, but in the end, the quirkiness and practicality of the Fiat won me over. Granted it’s a tiny car and severely underpowered, but at least it’s still stick shift and surprisingly fun to drive. A great get-in-and-go car and I’m enjoying it. Having a car with a big engine is only enablement to drive like a total asshole. Which can be a good thing, but is mostly bad. This little Fiat gets 30\/38 MPG… versus the 19-20 MPG I was averaging with the BMW. <\/p>\n

Another change is the fact that I’m locked in with this car… I’m on a 36 month lease with it so I’ll have to hold my habit of changing cars all the time. In the past 6 or so years, I’ve been through 9 cars. This will be a welcomed change of pace. <\/p>\n

How small is small with this car? Well, I now wish I didn’t get a Sunroof because my head is literally at the ceiling even with the seat all the way down. You can still cram in 2 people in the rear, albeit uncomfortably. This 2+2 seating arrangement comes at the sacrifice of luggage space, which is just big enough to fit a 330mm Nardi Steering wheel.<\/p>\n

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In case you’re suspecting, I’m not quite as shameless as you think… I didn’t step down to this Fiat without also taking a step up somewhere else. What’s lurking in the garage is my surprise.<\/p>\n

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That’s right, I now drive a Fiat 500 Sport. And yes, I sold the BMW. Before you cast me off as a nutcase, give me a moment to explain. I always like to defend my own actions and elaborate on what my thought processes are. Relating back to the subject matter touched upon in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}