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Ciao everyone, here it's Marchettino and today we find out together what are the running costs of my small pocket rocket, the 500 Abarth!

The 500 Abarth is my first car, incredible to say that I own it since 7 years, time really flies!

It's a car that has a great emotional value to me and I don't have plans to sell it.

In all these years I covered a whopping 110.000km, I bought the car second hand with 23.000km.

And yes I can say to know this little box very good and due to popular demand, today we'll find out the running costs.

I would say, let's start with the fuel consumption.

The 500 Abarth has a tiny 1.5L 4cyl turbo engine which is capable to offer great satisfactions,

it's a car that if driven with a light foot, it's able to offer relatively good consumptions, if you have a heavy of obviously it drinks.

Driving on the highway on the speed limits I noticed the average consumption is about 10-11km per litre,

it's a shame this transmission is a 5-speed so at 130kph on the highway the engine is already at 3500rpm,

in the city I noticed my Abarth does about 8km per litre, if you're sporty instead the consumption get pretty high,

it goes to a minimum of 4km per litre!

Guess how I like to drive?

Obviously I think the fuel consumption in the city the Abarth can do better because I want to remind you mine is not stock,

I bought it with 135hp and with the time I pumped it to 215hp,

the difference of power is huge so does also the consumption but the highway and flatout consumption are the same.

I think a defect of this car is the relatively low autonomy, which is given due to the small fuel tank with a capacity of about 36 litres,

so if you drive a lot the pit stops to the gas stations will be frequent!

Talking about the second running cost, let's talk about tires!

The 500 Abarth, even though it's car with the chassis of the Panda it's still a sports and fun car to drive and I think

on this kind of car you need to buy good tires, I think it's a bit of a shame to save on this.

Also because it's a car that with a few mods it can really go fast, anyway

after all these years driving the car mainly on the road and doing trackdays once in a while I noticed that

my average consumption for a set of tires is about 30.000km, once I reached nearly 40.000km but probably it was given to driving mainly on the highway where the tire wear is lower.

and the cost; I have 17" wheels by checking online, the average price for a single tire is about 100€, I think it's a good price.

Let's talk about the brakes!

The topic is the same, with a strict road use and trackdays once in a while,

the wear was about 30.000km for the front pads and about 40.000km for the front disks.

The cost for a set of front pads is about 100€ meanwhile for a set of front disks about 190€.

Concerning the wear of the rear pads and disks, the wear is halved compared to the front and the cost is much lower.

I think in 110.000km I replaced the rear pads and disks only once and they're still good!

Consider that I like to have a sporty driving style so I think the average Abarth owner has a much lower wear of all these components.

If there's something not to underestimate on this car is the maintenance, I'm quite puzzled by the fact Abarth recommends to service the car every 30.000km,

honestly I've always serviced the car every 10.000km and I have to say the maintenance is not very expensive on this car, it has a tiny engine

and going to a Abarth workshop for a classic service with a classic engine oil and filter you spend about 180€.

I've always done the first services at Abarth, then I started to do them at home with the help of a friend

and the cost was much lower, about 1/3.

Another cost you inevitably bump into every year is the car tax,

we can say it's very acceptable for this car.

If you buy the 135hp version of the Abarth you're going to spend about 255€ every year.

In the Abarth line up there are different models that go up to 180hp, let's say on the 170hp version the car tax starts to be a bit annoying!

And obviously after the cat tax here's another cost you bump into every year, the insurance.

I spend aobut 800€, it's not even a full insurance, I'm covered against theft, vandals and fire and this is what I spend every year.

Nowadays you can find a second hand 500 Abarth for even 8000€ and if I have to be honest it's a very fun and thrilling for its price and as I already said

you can really make it fly without spending lots of money!

And her'es a recap of my running costs of the Abarth, it's a very affordable car, especially if bought second hand and it's a very fund car for its price.

There must be a reason if I still own mine after 7 years!

I hope I cleared your mind with this video, make sure to drop a like if you enjoy it, subscribe to my YouTube if you haven't yet and as always thanks for watching, ciao!

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HOW MUCH DOPING Do You Think Is In TRIATHLON - Duration: 7:42.

- Do I think that there are performance enhancing drugs

in triathlon?

Everyone who is trying to be a pro triathlete

is basically putting their entire life

towards this one goal.

And we look at the two options.

The one option is not doping.

(upbeat instrumental music)

Woo hoo, cold, it's very cold.

Morning, trainiacs.

So it has been a very interesting few days

in the endurance sports world.

I don't know if you heard or if you follow main cycling,

as opposed to non main cycling.

Traditional cycling, but Chris Froome,

the previous, I think four time winner

of the Tour de France just recently got popped

for banned substances.

He was found with, now this isn't a proven

performance enhancing drug, but it's a banned substance.

It's celebuterol, which is, like I think,

taken with an inhaler,

but the thing about it is

that if that is combined with two other inhalers,

it's been proven in swimmers to reduce

a second per 100 meters off their swim time,

and at elite swimmers, that's massive, that's huge.

Not so good, Chris Froome.

A few weeks ago I did a video on Lance.

Don't worry, there's cycling shorts underneath.

♪ My eyes ♪

- I did a video on Lance Armstrong,

and it is absolutely blowing up.

The emotion that people have towards Lance,

one way or another, whether it's well give the guy a chance,

you know, everyone was doping,

or get him the hell out of my face for now and forever.

One way or another, the topic of performance enhancing drugs

in sport, obviously as we're seeing

with the recent Netflix documentary, Icarus,

that is also blowing up,

and how we're finding that hundreds and hundreds

of Russian athletes, and I don't think

that other countries can be entirely different.

It's clear that performance enhancing drugs,

banned substances in sports, is a big topic

that we need to consider,

and triathlon is not immune,

so here's the question.

Do I think that performance enhancing drugs

in triathlon is something that is a thing

that we should be concerned about?

Well I'm going to do a bike workout first

and then we'll talk about it.

20 second bike montage, now.

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Very, very good hour.

Very, very sweaty.

Alright, do I think that there are

performance enhancing drugs in triathlon?

Yes, but do I think that it's everywhere

like it was in the Tour de France back in Lance's days,

where he gets pocked for PEDs

and then all of the sudden they start looking

at the rest of the field and you've got to go down

to 17th, 19th place, to find somebody

who has no traces of performance enhancing drugs?

No, I don't think that's where triathlon is,

and I had somebody at IRONMAN, when I was in Kona,

saying that they thought that Daniela Ryf was on the juice.

She's jacked, and she is so dominant.

Do I think that she's on the juice?

I, frankly, I don't know.

I don't have an opinion strong enough,

one way or another about how prevalent it is in the sport.

And you contrast findings, like this year,

where earlier in the year, Beth Gerdes

and Lauren Barnett got dinged,

but had proof that it was likely from

a tainted supplement that they were taking.

Lisa Roberts, who's been on the podium

at Challenge Rock getting dinged,

then Lucas,

something also getting popped

for performance enhancing drugs.

It's clear that it's in the sport,

but like I say, you contrast that with pro triathletes

like Heather Wurtele, that are about as down to earth

and humble and open about their training

as can possibly be, saying that it's not

as prevalent in the sport as a lot of people

unfortunately think.

However, I think that it would be naive to think

that it's not in the sport for one reason.

Just looking at kind of like a grid

of risk, reward, and cost versus benefit,

everyone who is trying to be a pro triathlete

is basically putting their entire life

towards this one goal.

And what ends up happening is unless you are

a complete genetic freak that can just keep progressing

indefinitely, you're going to reach a plateau,

and when you reach that plateau,

it's going to start getting in your head

what can I do when I am trying to be

the top 1% of 1% of 1% of the athletes in the world?

And we look at the two options.

The one option is not doping.

The risk to it is that you are likely out of the sport.

The reward to it, there's no financial reward.

There's intrinsic reward.

You feel good about yourself,

but there's no external motivation

giving you an incentive to not dope.

On the other hand, you have the option

of taking performance enhancing drugs.

The risk is potentially health

and also potentially getting caught,

but just by psychology, we know that those

are potential risks and inherently

we can put them off to the side

and not really think of them as an immediate risk

because it's so far down the future.

Humans aren't wired to actually accept

those kind of risks.

However, the reward is that you keep progressing

and you could potentially be that top 1% of 1%

of the best triathletes in the world,

so the only real good option

is performance enhancing drugs,

but that said, I think that because the rewards

in triathlon aren't nearly as high

as professional sports, where you're getting

multi, multi million dollar contracts,

the reward of making a 20, $30,000 a year salary

out of triathlon is not nearly as strong a motivator

as being a professional football player

or professional basketball player,

a Lance Armstrong on the tour.

It's quite a bit smaller, so do I think

that it's as ingrained in the culture of pro

or even, well let's talk about it,

amateurs are getting caught for doping in triathlon.

I don't think that it's nearly as common

as a lot of other sports for that reason

that the reward isn't as strong.

There we go.

You can sleep at night, I think, believing

that a lot of our IRONMAN and triathlon heroes

are Santa Claus, and they're real.

I imagine this is going to get a bunch of new views

because it goes outside of just triathlon,

so if you are new here and you aren't yet subscribed,

please hit the subscribe button below.

If you are an existing trainiac, thank you,

and if you want to check out that Lance Armstrong video,

check it out right up there.

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Now I'm out for the day.

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We need to run later today.

See you, trainiacs.

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How to Improve your Writing Skills - Duration: 3:04.

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Make sure the conclusion reflects that.

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And, if you want to get better at writing, write.