Fiat Multipla in general

You've all seen them, haven't you? Those weird vehicles, with the bug-eyes! Most people have to look twice, just to ensure their eyes aren't deceiving them. With the Multipla, Fiat have managed to create the most unique car on the road. (Although Renault are beginning to get in on the act with their new creations...) So I'm going to tell you the story of how I came to choose a Multipla, and what I think of it now, after 2 weeks ownership.... are you sitting comfortably....? We're not a big family, really. Just me, the wife, the daughter (aged 2 1/2) and the dog. But we often found the boot of our old Laguna filling up when we went on ...

"urghhh..you can't possibly want THAT monstrosity?" said my partner. "It's so...ugly". I dug my heels in...I liked the fact that it looked so different from most cars. But..."it's so un-aerodynamic..." he finish lamely. Aerodynamic? ... why do men gush over cars with smooth lines and give it lots of "ooh's and aah's" about "aerodynamics"...and then conveniently bypass the fact that it guzzles 4 times as much fuel as 'normal cars'? (Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the whole point of aerodynamics was to decrease wind resistance and thus make the car more economical to run?). Yeah...right! I ...

My dads old Mercedes finally went bang earlier this year, it was 17 years old and drove worse than a scoda. He had just lost his job so we were looking for a cheap car just to get him around. We ended up with a Reno not much better than the Mercedes. He hated it. So for the next two months we went car shopping. I love to shop, just like most women do, but when it comes to cars; I’d rather not shop. We went to Mercedes and test drive a new a class, and hated it. The seats and headrests were terrible so we gave it a miss. We tried a few other cars and then it came to the turn of the mulitpla. The multipla (also know as… most ugly looking ...