Spy Shots: Fiat Abarth duo
Abarth is returning to the scene with force. The historic Italian tuning house, long a part of the Fiat group, has been hard at work turning Fiat's models into hot hatches worthy of the scorpion badge's revival. At Geneva we saw the production preview of the Grande Punto Abarth, and the Abarth version of the newly-launched 500 retromobile is expected at Tokyo. With their work cut out for them, the Fiat Abarth team is pounding the test track developing the dynamic duo.
Both cars are anticipated to benefit from tightened-up suspensions, beefed-up brakes, revised bodywork, trim and badging, and two high-performance four-cylinder engines: one producing 150 horsepower, and an even more powerful version with output in the neighborhood of 180-200hp. With these kinds of hot hatches looming on the horizon, and a Bravo Abarth expected to follow shortly thereafter, the future is looking good.
[Source: World Car Fans]
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Bart 6:41PM (7/12/2007)
To be truly deserving of the name Abarth, they're going to have to be real performance cars.
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naggs 10:27PM (7/12/2007)
if a car that small has 180 to 200 hp, it will be a real performance car. this thing is going to weight like 500 lbs less than a mini!
Chris G. 7:36AM (7/13/2007)
I think that only the 200 hp motor would make it into the Grande Punto, the B-Class car. It would be utterly rediculous, but fun nonetheless, to put 200 hp in a little Cincquecento.
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