It was bright carpeted floors that inspired this post.

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    11 days ago

    I’m not sure how common they are in the US. But check if you can get your hands on a fiat panda/punto/500. Anything but the very latest models have manual options with at most an lcd for the radio. And that’s it. And outside of italy there shouldn’t be all the problems that accompany a model of car being that common.

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      I don’t know how recent you’re considering recent, but the Fiat 500 only came to the US in December 2010 and was the first new Fiat sold in the US since the early 1980s. The last model year sold for the normal 500 was 2019, although the L and X are still sold according to Wikipedia (I think the X is sold rebadged as a Jeep, though).

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        Thing is. I have no clue how or if they reached america. I’m italian so i’m just going off of my experience with them. And how easily i found spare parts on the web for them. Not their availability in America.

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          While they were not sold in America, you could theoretically import a first gen model under the older than 25 years rule without too much trouble. Thanks to the internet getting parts wouldn’t be too hard, though you’d want some form of backup transportation as you may have to wait a bit for them to arrive.