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ABARTH 124 SPIDER IS AN AFFORDABLE ITALIAN SPORTSCAR

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The Abarth 124 Spider is an affordable Italian sportscar with lots of racing, rallying and sporting heritage behind it. Its shape is cleverly based on that of the early 1970s Abarth 124 Rally. Best of all, it’s cheap as chips. The cost of the little hotshot has been kept down by teaming with Mazda which builds the world’s biggest selling open-top car, the MX-5. An odd situation? Yes, but one that’s increasingly common these days, with many unlikely bedfellows – BMW and Toyota, Nissan and Mercedes, and many more. The… Read more

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ABARTH 124 SPIDER IS ONE ITS WAY.

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Abarth is to Fiat what HSV is to Holden and AMG to Mercedes; an organisation that takes standard cars and turns them into hot sports and/or racing machines. The latest one to come to Australia, the Abarth 124 Spider, is now on a ship downunder and goes on sale on Friday, October 7th. Carlo Abarth already had a strong background of building racing cars before he set up is own company in Bologna, Italy in 1949. His star sign was Scorpio and he chose a scorpion based badge for his… Read more

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ABARTH 595 GETS ‘FERRARI’ ENGINE!

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The old and the new, an excellent shot of the latest Abarth 595 meeting its hot ancestor from 1963.

Abarth, the high-performance division of Fiat, has produced a limited edition version of its hot Abarth 595 and the really big news is the installation of a Ferrari engine! Well, it’s not a Ferrari engines as in the megabuck supercar, but the one from the Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari. The Abarth 595 ‘50th Anniversary’ celebrates the introduction of the original Fiat 500 Abarth 595 in 1963. Following on Fiat Australia’s sellout success with the limited edition Fiat 500 by Gucci, the company’s Australia chief, Veronica Johns, says she is proud… Read more