One of Britain’s largest driving schools yesterday announced that 3250 of their new Fiat 500 cars are to be scrapped following a series of complaints that the car was far too large for the amount of tiny bodied drivers!
The nippy Fiat 500 car is to be replaced with the Vauxhall Corsa as of March 2011 and the costs incurred will total around £30 million. The Fiat 500, only used for roughly 18 months and replaced by the Vauxhall brand will be no stranger previously used by the driving school for the past 18 years.
Previously recognised as the 'Worlds sexiest car' the Fiat 500 is extremely popular with female drivers yet unpopular with the driving instructors and examiners. For an examiner, they have to take a test every 2-4 years to ensure that they can carry on teaching, in which they have to sit in the rear of a car and observe a following instructor, but unfortunately the backs of the Fiat 500 were proving too small for the examiners, causing the problem.
A spokesperson from BSM was reported as saying they "got a message that the Vauxhall Corsa was the car of preference. We acted on that choice."
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