One day after the big Park Street Auto Show
Warning: This Car May Contain Air Scoops
What you see here is a rally car run by Fiat’s factory racing team in 1975 with great success. It’s called the Fiat Abarth 131/031 Mirafiori 3500 Bertone.
Fiat 500 Abarth SS Gives Mini Cooper S Italian Job
If the rumors are true and Fiat does bring the Fiat 500
Say Goodbye To Workplace Productivity: The 1965 Targa Florio Endurance …
If you liked the vintage documentary about the 1958 Alpine Cup
The Action Never Stops In This Town: Italian Machinery Invades Alameda
October is generally the warmest month here by the Bay, so that's when you get the big car shows on the island. On Saturday, Park Street was taken over by hundreds of chromium-dipped chariots
Ecurie Ecrappe Alfa Makes Big Splash At Concorso Italiano, Some Shiny…
An Italian car with a glorious racing history should be given the red-carpet treatment at the Concorso Italiano DOTS-O-Rama Sunday: Fiat 500 Abarth
We're going to leave Anaheim and head a few additional miles behind the Orange Curtain... to Costa Mesa, as we continue our special Down On The California Street DOTS-O-Rama. Costa Mesa, as you may recall, gets a Thomas Pynchon shout-out in Vineland, with the Great South Coast Plaza Eyeshadow Raid sequence taking place …
Fiat 500 Abarth Revealed: Still Small, Now With Added "Wicked"
While we feel as if we're no stranger to the new Abarth-tuned Fiat 500
Project Car Hell: Abarth A112 or Carrera Panamericana Citroen?
It looks like the Jalopnik readership did some agonized soul-searching and decided to go with the 308/Esprit combo over the somewhat imcomplete 365 at a 7-to-3 ratio in yesterday's Cheap Ferrari Edition Choose Your Eternity poll.
Fiat's Big Abarth Kickoff
Fiat's not kidding around with the launch of its Abarth tuning marque. Following an initial launch at the Geneva auto show earlier this year
Jalopnik Choice Award: 1959 Fiat Abarth Zagato 750
With the old fashioneds well emptied and the hoopla surrounding the Pebble Beach Concours moving into forgotten, it is now time to present the never prestigious Jalopnik Choice Award. This 1959 Fiat 600-based Abarth Zagato 750 is part of the San Diego Collection, and on the block for a 125K. The Karl "Carlo" Abarth…
Spy Photos: Fiat 500 Abarth on the 'Ring
Judging from the satisfying exhaust burble that surfaces near the end of this clip, the return of the Abarth Cinquecento will be a watershed moment for the modern Fiat brand. It could even elevate the 500's revival to the pinnacle among retro plays, a trend that appeared to be fading out with each passing Mini…
Fiat 500 Abarth Coming to the US?
That sound you just heard was our heart doing a triple gainer off our sternocleidomastoid muscle. Apparently, Automotive News Europe reports Fiat is considering the sale of an Abarth-tuned Fiat 500 in the US. Such rumors have been ripping through the car-o-sphere since word first came down about the revived…
Geneva Showcase: Abarth Fiats Make us Giddy
Maybe it's all the stripes and fat tires against the Fiat Grande Punto's hot hatchness, but both the Abarth Rally2000 racer and Punto Grande win our Wish We Had It Here prize for 2007. And by here, we mean the US, where the new Abarth tuners will join other Fiats in being entirely absent. Word is, this lack will…
The Scorpion Returns: Fiat's Abarth-Tuned Puntos Coming to Geneva
The return of Abarth is near. If you'll recall, the motorsports firm of Carlo Abarth spent the 1950s and 1960s building race-winning cars sports cars that showed up many a big name. It also built tuning kits for Fiats, and was eventually taken into the bosom of the Agnelli dynasty. Now, Fiat's reviving the name for a…
Hotten Up the Hatches: Fiat's Abarth-tuned Punto on the Way
Quick history: Before Fiat bought Abarth in 1971 as an in-house tuning shop, the motorsports firm that bore the name of Viennese car tweaker Karl "Carlo" Abarth, began transforming modest Fiat 600s into racing legends as far back as the 1950s. Now, as we gleaned from Fiat Group's product plan
Sketches Emerge of New Fiat 500
Fans of race-bred Fiats of old will be pleased to see the Abarth badge associated with the Fiat Trepiuno concept, which is said to be a harbinger of a new, retro-styled Fiat 500 on the way. Eurocar Blog located some sketches that depict the Trepiuno in the red-and-white livery of legendary motorsports tweaker, Abarth, …
