Hello,
I'm wondering if anyone on this forum who is very tall has done one of the Vintage Fiat 500 self driving tours from Florence? Was it uncomfortable for you? Would you recommend against it?
My husband is 2.0 m tall (6 foot 7). It looks like a great tour but I am worried that he's going to be too cramped to enjoy it.
Note: we will have an IDP and we do know how to drive a manual car. I've asked the tour company (500 Touring Club) but they aren't able to give me an idea of a maximum height for comfort.
Thank you in advance.
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area (USA)
17830 posts
Over 1,85m (6'1'') is going to be increasingly uncomfortable, but I've had friends at 1,90m (6'3'') driving an old 500 (vintage). Not ideal but doable. I don't think you can be over 1,95 without getting your legs stuck and hitting your head on the roof. But I've never personally known anybody at 2m, no matter what car they drove.
Posted by
London
2514 posts
It does kinda sound a bit like torture at 6'7".
I've never been in an old Fiat 500 but I've been around them at shows. They are really small. How many miles are you intending to do? Doing any sort of milage would be tough for someone that height I think. Really, really uncomfortable, bordering on the dangerous if you were to be really picky about it, but maybe worth putting up with if you really want to do it in an old interesting car. It's probably going to be a pretty scary prospect on the Autostrada with two full size people aboard. You'd be maxing out at about 80km/h, less on hills.
I'm 6'3 and my closest experience is daily driving a 1979 Mini. That gave me a bad back and a bruise on my elbow from knocking on the door card all the time while I was driving it. I also drove a Miata for a couple of years and I'm too tall for it too. My head would be up in the airflow by a couple of inches with the top down, which got pretty chilly on a cold winter's night. I still loved driving it and did it anyway which may be the story with you too. I'm about 6'3", not 6'7" though.