…and at 42,188 miles on the clock it’s only done 1,800 miles in the year.
Now that we have the Focus ST for family visits and longer distance stuff (like our trip to the Champagne region in June) we only use the Abarth when it’s local journeys and especially when we want to go topless, so to speak.
So now it leads a rather pampered life as a “future classic”…
We’ve recently celebrated eight years of ownership with another dealer service and MoT, this time with Stellantis & You at Guildford as it’s a short drive from where we now live.
And it passed with no problem at 40,374 miles, up 5,451 miles on last year.
I expect the mileage will go down even more now, as we’ve bought a Ford Focus ST Estate for the longer drives where we need to carry stuff and/or other people.
Well as it’s the 124’s third birthday – already! – it was off to the dealer for a pretty expensive service and its first MoT test.
Unsurprisingly it passed despite its equally unsurprising rusty rear discs (given it had effectively been parked for three months thanks to the motorbike collision).
So there we are: 19,864 miles of smiles. Now do I keep it until it gives up the ghost or do I trade it in towards a sensible Alfa Romeo Gillian Quadrifoglio?