1998 Fiat Punto 60 SX from UK and Ireland - Comments

Rear wiper.

Horn (twice)

Heater (no temperature control - it's either on very cold or very hot).

Nippy enough below 40, but as soon as you get to 5th gear things begin to slow down. This is understandable for a 1.2 engine.

I would have given the car a higher grade except for the little things that continually went wrong.

The dealer was great before I signed the cheque. After that, they didn't care if I was going to be a repeat customer or not.

Crap resale value.

Hey... all Fiats are budget cars... I think they are the very best economical car that money can buy... so if you want some thing that is going to last get a German or Japanese built car...

OK, so they are cheap, you should still expect them to be of merchantable quality, my wife's Punto 60SX dropped a valve into the cylinder head at 5000 miles, rear wiper only works in the dry, she's done 20000 miles now and it has had more sets of brake disks and front suspension components than I care to remember... and the dealers aren't interested as soon as you've got the keys, they know only a fool would buy a Fiat after owning one... and it's a dog to drive, and worth a third of what we paid for it after less than 2 years.

Yes they are cheap cars. I bought one 60s and I have done 46000 miles. I have flogged the 1.2 engine to death and all I have had to replace is a new injector, for some reason it packed in. I have owned it for 2 years now and I'm well happy with it. Cheap motoring! Cheap car! You can't go wrong!

I have been driving my Punto 60S for nearly two years now, I have done about 30000 miles in it and its still going strong.

Mu recent MOT showed nothing wrong with it and I am yet to replace anything other than the tyres.

I own the 85SX 16V version- so far so good.