A little background: Recently I bought a Honda City 2012 V-AT for a sweet deal, a story about can be found here
Almira: Honda City 2012 V-AT - Story Of a Gift (Miha)
Having said that, with the plans I have for setting up the finance aspects, I literally just immediately missed the Fiat Palio, but I had a 1.1 SLX and not the famed 1.6 rockets. So, on the same note, I made a point to myself that I would again get an exciting car to drive, not that the Honda City isn't exciting, but come on, 25 yo and Automatic doesn't really go hand in hand. So, I was on the lookout for a Fiat Palio 1.6 itself, to buy sometime in the next year or so. But, I knew about the Fiat spares scarcity and I want this car to be an experimental car, through which I can learn mechanical and electrical aspects. Hence, I came across a need for a car which is exciting, not too expensive to maintain and spares and aftermarket parts should be available aplenty, of course robust build quality and safety features were second top of the list.
By chance, came across this thread, and I was smitten, I spent the whole of last night going through your thread, but I want you all to help me deciding if this is a good decision, to own two sedans, where City would be my go-to car for family drives, and the other would be only for me, and my experiments and fun. I am technically very novice yet, because before the City came home, I have only ever driven the Fiat Palio and nothing else. Hence, would I get different experience from the Honda City from the Ford? Because even City has the 1.5L 114 bhp motor, which is fairly fun, but again, we can never be satisfied can we?
If I get a go ahead then this car would seriously be considered in the list of cars, that I would like to own, albeit how financially stable I am in a year. Don't want to have two cars and then leave them unused.