500 Abarth UK prices confirmed

[.Lefteris.]

The UK prices for the 500 Abarth have finally been announced!
500 Abarth to start from £13,500

The 500 Abarth will start from £13,500. Deliveries of the first fixed-spec cars will start from late February 2009, although obviously most people will opt to wait until March 1st for the new ‘09′ plate.
These cars will all be white, with red leather interior, red stripe and mirror kit, upgraded 17″ alloy wheels, and climate control, and will be priced around the £14,800 mark after factoring in the options.

[carolos]

Lefteri,
do you thing i can optain one from the uk,its the same specs as in cyprus and with the euro against sterlin with is very strong now i would save a lot of money.what is your opinion?do you have any access to any authorised dealer in the uk?
Please let me know , as i am interested in buying one of the first ones lauched in the uk.

Thanks

[.Lefteris.]

Hello Carole and :welcomeon500:

Sure you can get one from UK, I dont have any access to any authorised dealer at this time but I'll give it a try and ask for a help from a friend of mine!
I'll let you know asap! :)

[carolos]

thanks a lot it would be of a great help!!!

[carolos]

lefteri,
I contacted a fiat dealer in the UK and told me to deposit 500 pounds in order to get one of the first 200 tha will arrive in feb.
I shall place my order most probably by the end of the week .I will let you know what happens.
:)

[.Lefteris.]

Super! :icon_thumleft:

[VilleV]

Oh man I´m pissed off! Abarth for a less than 1.2 lounge here! I don´t feel like EU citizens are so equal after all!!! I really hate finnish taxes!:mad:

[.Lefteris.]

Oh man I´m pissed off! Abarth for a less than 1.2 lounge here! I don´t feel like EU citizens are so equal after all!!! I really hate finnish taxes!:mad:

Say that again... my 911 turbo cost here 228.000 euros when in Germany cost less then 140.000 euros with the same options.....
All EU countries use the EU rules only where they suits them......

[VilleV]

This is just bullsh*t! I think all EU citizens should have equal opportunities! Or at least I should be able to buy my car from wherever I want without having to pay huge amounts of taxes if I want to register my car where I live.

Btw, basic Porsche 911 turbo costs 248000e here, but I can´t find a price for Ruf.

[.Lefteris.]

This is just bullsh*t! I think all EU citizens should have equal opportunities! Or at least I should be able to buy my car from wherever I want without having to pay huge amounts of taxes if I want to register my car where I live.

Btw, basic Porsche 911 turbo costs 248000e here, but I can´t find a price for Ruf.

I've got my other Porsche (the 928) in Germany, I cant keep it with the Geman plates in Greece (German export rules) and when I bring the car here they ask me 46.000 euros in taxes in order to have Greek number plates.... (from one EU country to an other...) so I say :sex_: them, I send the car to UK and got UK numbers for 700 euros only...

BTW the RUF kit I have on my 911 turbo cost 35.000 euros in Germany ...:icon_rolleyes:

[ewandougie]

That tax is absurd!! The UK is an interesting choice thougth, wont u have to pay Road Tax on it which for a porche would be a lot!! Alot of people with fast cars over here regester theirs in Poland now apparantly.

[VilleV]

I send the car to UK and got UK numbers for 700 euros only...



That´s the way it should be!

[wreckmaster]

I send the car to UK and got UK numbers for 700 euros


Are you alloved to do this:confused:
Here we cant even drive a car with foreign licence plates. If we are caught driving a for instance swedish car in Norway the customs can make us pay import and registration taxes for it even if I`ve just borrowed the car:eek:

This is because the customs dont want us to buy cars in Sweden where cars are much cheaper than here.......

[.Lefteris.]

I send the car to UK and got UK numbers for 700 euros


Are you alloved to do this:confused:
Here we cant even drive a car with foreign licence plates. If we are caught driving a for instance swedish car in Norway the customs can make us pay import and registration taxes for it even if I`ve just borrowed the car:eek:

This is because the customs dont want us to buy cars in Sweden where cars are much cheaper than here.......

The same here, but you can drive it for 6 months only and then you have to go out of the county, the funny thing is that if you come back the day after , you can drive it here for 6 months again..... and so on for ever! :D

[VilleV]

Well that´s kinda handy!lol I think the law makers haven´t really tought this trough! Is it easy to pop in to Macedonia or Bulgaria just for a day? Or are there some formalities that make it difficult?

[.Lefteris.]

Well that´s kinda handy!lol I think the law makers haven´t really tought this trough! Is it easy to pop in to Macedonia or Bulgaria just for a day? Or are there some formalities that make it difficult?

what about 5 minutes only.... ;) :D 23:57 to 00:02 ... :D

[wreckmaster]

The same here, but you can drive it for 6 months only and then you have to go out of the county, the funny thing is that if you come back the day after , you can drive it here for 6 months again..... and so on for ever! :D

Here you cant do that....:mad: We are not allowed to drive foreign cars at all in Norway( unless you`ve got a registred adress in the country the car belong to. You have to live there).

[.Lefteris.]

Here you cant do that....:mad: We are not allowed to drive foreign cars at all in Norway( unless you`ve got a registred adress in the country the car belong to. You have to live there).

Oh sorry, the same here, you have to got an address in the country the car belong to... and that is no problem for me, I have family members in UK for many many years, so...

[Cadbury]

If you want a dealers number.... Glyn Hopkins +44727818068 and ask for Andy.

It is unfair how prices differ but that is all down to each country's government don't you think. Here, in the UK, we are tax heavily on petrol/diesel. For every tanker of fuel.... one third equals tax.

[VilleV]

How much is a litre of gasoline in Britain? At the moment here it´s about 1,15 euros (1,08£) per litre, of wich ~60% is tax. If I´m right that equals to about 4,91£ per gallon at current currency rates.

[wreckmaster]

How much is a litre of gasoline in Britain? At the moment here it´s about 1,15 euros (1,08£) per litre, of wich ~60% is tax. If I´m right that equals to about 4,91£ per gallon at current currency rates.


Thats about the same price as here...About 11kr.:)

[Cadbury]

Unleaded is £0.85
Diesel £0.99
LPG £0.50

Prices vary considerably and supermarkets tend to be cheaper. However, supermarkets do not have the additives that the large petrol companies use.

[VilleV]

Diesel price is pretty much the same as here, but you can get petrol much much cheaper!!