The Fiat Punto Evo 1.4 MultiAir review
I’m not saying the night I spent on an Italian aircraft carrier was the worst night’s sleep I’ve ever had. (I’ve slept more poorly in a VW camper van. And then there was that time in a small, double-glazed seaside hotel room with three vomiting children ... ) So, not the worst, then, but right up there.
Nothing to do with the ceaseless pitching of the open ocean. The Italian aircraft carrier in question (the ITS Cavour) was docked at La Spezia in Italy at the time and the ship, being roughly the width of Preston, doesn’t tend to rock.
Nevertheless, I had a plank-style bunk in a tiny cabin that would ordinarily be home to four sailors but which, on this occasion, mercifully, wasn’t. And something about the windowlessness, the recycled air, the powerful hints of prison and hospital in the shiny, disinfected floors, the permanent buzz from the ship’s in-room Tannoy, the periodic hums and clankings, plus the low-level anxiety that it would all kick off internationally overnight and that, come the morning, I would report for breakfast and discover that we were in the Gulf and at war with Dubai — well, all these things combined to make sleep a little complicated.
Why was I sleeping (or rather, not sleeping) on an Italian aircraft carrier? In order to bear important witness to the launch of the Fiat Punto Evo, of course. The connection? Well, according to Fiat, “both the ITS Cavour aircraft carrier and the Punto Evo are symbols of technological excellence and of Italy, representing the culmination of an evolutionary process involving technologies and innovative features”. Fair enough. Mind you, you wouldn’t want to go to war in a Fiat Punto. And neither would you want to pick up your kids from school in the ITS Cavour.
Source: The Fiat Punto Evo 1.4 MultiAir review
Nothing to do with the ceaseless pitching of the open ocean. The Italian aircraft carrier in question (the ITS Cavour) was docked at La Spezia in Italy at the time and the ship, being roughly the width of Preston, doesn’t tend to rock.
Nevertheless, I had a plank-style bunk in a tiny cabin that would ordinarily be home to four sailors but which, on this occasion, mercifully, wasn’t. And something about the windowlessness, the recycled air, the powerful hints of prison and hospital in the shiny, disinfected floors, the permanent buzz from the ship’s in-room Tannoy, the periodic hums and clankings, plus the low-level anxiety that it would all kick off internationally overnight and that, come the morning, I would report for breakfast and discover that we were in the Gulf and at war with Dubai — well, all these things combined to make sleep a little complicated.
Why was I sleeping (or rather, not sleeping) on an Italian aircraft carrier? In order to bear important witness to the launch of the Fiat Punto Evo, of course. The connection? Well, according to Fiat, “both the ITS Cavour aircraft carrier and the Punto Evo are symbols of technological excellence and of Italy, representing the culmination of an evolutionary process involving technologies and innovative features”. Fair enough. Mind you, you wouldn’t want to go to war in a Fiat Punto. And neither would you want to pick up your kids from school in the ITS Cavour.
Source: The Fiat Punto Evo 1.4 MultiAir review
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