Filed under: Car Buying , Performance , Hatchback , Fiat Fiat has announced that the 2012 500 Abarth will be priced from $22,000, *not including destination charges. That’s a healthy jump from the tiny Italian’s $15,500 base MSRP and higher still than the open-air 500C that starts at $19,500. For all that extra lira, buyers get Fiat’s turbocharged 1.4-liter MultiAir engine producing 160 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque.
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Official: 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth priced from $22,000*
Filed under: Performance , Hatchback , Fiat Just as it has for years with the European-market Fiat 500 , Abarth has gotten its hands on the version made in Toluca, Mexico for the North American market, taking what is rapidly emerging as a popular choice for style-conscious American drivers and turning it into a proper pocket rocket. Being introduced today at the LA Auto Show , the US-market Fiat 500 Abarth is about as jam-packed with performance goodies as they come. The standard Fiat 500 has been turbocharged and intercooled up to 160 horsepower.
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Official: 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth brings accessible Italian performance to American shores
Filed under: LA Auto Show , Convertible , Performance , Hatchback , Fiat One of the benefits of the strengthening ties between Fiat and Chrysler is a mutual expansion of their joint product portfolio. The shared leadership of the two auto groups has seen Fiats arrive in North American showrooms and Chryslers proliferating overseas. Which is all well and good, but where’s the excitement? Where are the performance models for which the Italian auto industry is so deeply loved
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Official: Fiat 500 Abarth finally lands in the U.S. [w/video]
Filed under: Podcasts , Cadillac , GM , Hyundai , Infiniti , Fiat With Autoline Detroit’s John McElroy Episode #242 of the Autoblog Podcast is here. This week, Chris and Dan are joined by John McElroy, long-time host of Autoline Detroit , Autoblog columnist and a fixture to listeners of WWJ. We start by getting our supercar fix, mulling the Pagani Huyara and its eventual move to the U.S. market
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Autoblog Podcast #242
Filed under: Concept Cars , Government/Legal , Hatchback , Design/Style , Fiat If you scoped out Scagliarini’s take on the Fiat 500 the other day and thought it looked a little familiar, you’re not alone. Never mind that the company’s name sounds suspiciously similar to the panel-beating department at Ferrari after which the 612 was named. No, the design appeared to rather unabashedly pilfer from the Fiat 500 Zagato Coupe unveiled in Geneva earlier this year.
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Official: Zagato going after Scagliarini over Fiat 500 design knockoff
The Fiat 500 is just beginning to pop up on roads all over the country. It’s available in hardtop and cabriolet forms, and the hotted-up Abarth version is just around the corner. Some can’t wait to modify the car, and Boulder, Colorado-based Scagliarini Motorsports is ready to offer a slew of aftermarket accessories.
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Official: America’s Scagliarini Motorsports presents its Fiat 500 Coupè Zagato Elaborata