@GrahamL - "The car's never seen any driving like this before.."
What do you reckon?
Haha, well all I can say is that the car was driven 100% harder in the first 5 mins of Jamie's test drive than it was during my entire ownership, certainly as far as braking and cornering.
To be fair I was never interested in track days etc., accelerating fast in a straight line was always good enough for me. Track days seemed to me to be no more than unnecessary stress on the car and driver and not what I'd call fun... I preferred to stick on some music and take a fast country drive, with the drive being more an enhancement to the music than anything else.
The gearbox and clutch on my Punto are now buggered (loud knocking in 4th and hard to get into 1st) so it seems I did indeed get rid of the wrong Fiat!