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  • keethrax

    April 13, 2011 3:51 p.m. keethrax Reader

    carguy123 wrote:

    Your head rubs the headliner? Man, how tall are you? I'm 6' and had massive amounts of head room.

    Maybe the seat raises up and it was at it's highest level?

    It probably drives like crap and the plain model is, well, plain, but I've got to see and drive the Abarth version.

    My father-in-law hits his head in damn near everything. And he's not much over 6'. He just has tons of torso and stumpy legs like a gorilla.

    He worked for GM, and eventually got a note from his Dr so that GM would stop giving him cars to drive around when they needed miles put on them because he didn't fit in basically any of them.

  • DeadSkunk

    April 13, 2011 6:24 p.m. DeadSkunk HalfDork

    The one I sat in at the Detroit auto show had an adjuster on the driver's seat only. IIRC you pump the handle up or down just like the one in my MINI Cooper.With the seat down I fit in the Fiat.

  • rob_lewis

    April 13, 2011 8:37 p.m. rob_lewis Dork

    The Austin dealer had an open showroom Sunday. (Store was open, but no salesmen around. Sadly, no test drives, either.).

    My son and I got to climb in and out of several of them, although all were automatics. I'd like to have seen where the clutch pedal would have been as the footwell seemed small. I'm not a small guy (5'11"/275) and fit just fine. Scary thing was, with the seat adjusted all the way up and forward, my 9-year old fit, too....

    Yeah, he bugs my wife and I every day to buy one..... :)

    I'm waiting for the Abarth.

    -Rob

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