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 continue for the forseeable future.
Related:
The Scorpion Returns: Fiat's Abarth-Tuned Puntos Coming to Geneva [internal]