Fiat Uno Turbo Review

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Fiat Uno Turbo
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Ruud King's Review of Fiat Uno Turbo

19th Jul 2005

Overall Rating

5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Length of ownership
    3
  • Performance
    5 stars
  • Reliability
    5 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    1988
  • Doors
    2
  • Practicality
    5 stars
Good Points

Poormans Ferrari, handling after lowering excelent, Brakes after replacing them with OMP discs Stomping, Power to weight is very good.
No spoilers/wings/stickers just "HARDCORE" tunning, the perfect wolf in sheepsclothes.


Bad Points

As all Fiat Uno's In the hole world "god we RUST!"
Standard brakes feel wooden, so are standard shocks, just toss them away and replace


General Comments

I have had my Fiat Uno Turbo Mk1 now for 3 years, it has been completly rebuilt and resprayed in Vdub Blue incl. wheelarces & bumpers, koni adj.shocks (yellow),OMP Drilled/grooved discs. braided brakehoses also OMP, soft brakepads, OMP strutbrache front, Sebering exaust 103 mm, 4 harness OMP seatbelts, Abarth black leather steeringwheel and gearshift. Mk 2 Interior, Digi dash (very rare), Raised turbopress up to 1.5 Bar (home made elec.switch) Forge dumpvalve, K&N airfilter, Alfa 33 electric window switches (glow in the dark!, just plug & play thats all) Gearbox from 1.5 Uno with longer 5th gear. Standard rims (two-tone grey) polished with Toyo's 175/60-13
Car is very fast 0-100 km/h can be done in the 7 sec range (wheelspin in third gear doing around 100 Km/h in the wet is not amusing!), topspeed over 235Km/h (and still pulling, ran out of road!)
I owned a few Uno's (about 8 of them) and I'm the founder/chairman of the Ducht Fiat Uno Ownersclub, visit our site at www.fiatunoclubholland.nl
They have to kill me first before I buy another car!
Projects (still under construction) are 1.3T Mk1 engine with Turbo from Volvo T5 and NOS injection Kit! and water/nitro injectionkit on intercooler and an Uno with Lancia Delta Turbo 1.6 engine with 2Ltr Turbo and manifold!
Everybody thinks the Turbo sign on the back of the Uno is a joke, they stop laughing when you pull away from them doing 200 Km/h.
Last question "would I recommend this to a friend?" Hell NO, in the hands of an inexperienced driver it's a widowmaker!

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  • Ruud King Rank: Lance Corporal on 21st Jul 2005

    One thing i forgot to mention,i replaced the standard 1.3 lump with a 1.4 engine, it's much more powerful and is stronger than an 1.3T