Might as well just get a "SMART CAR" The only reason the Fiat anything gets such great reviews is due to their advertising budget. I really don't think you would enjoy owning one after you have it for a week and the novelty wears off. I'm sure they are good "LITTLE" cute cars and a lot of people will buy them. *************************BUT************************ They are still a very very small car and not even close to the performance of any Mini ever made.( JUSTA or "S" or JCW) I'll just stick with my Mini. :beer
Whatever... Check your eyeglasses. No amount of modding can make an Abarth mean... It looks like a fluffy small vegetarian animal. MINI's can look mean, like mine, OR look cute. However, even bright pink MINI's look more masculine than the "meanest" Abarth.
They seem a little too tall and narrow and short...... I think of this when I see them on the road..... Yep.... The Barbie edition.....
From TFLCar.com Perhaps the car that most closely competes with the 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth is the equally diminutive MINI Cooper S. Both cars are tiny European hot hatches that make driving fun. Both cars are turbo charged and both cars will easily spin their from wheels when you slam down the accelerator. We also think that both cars will appeal to the same car shopper. So which of these two mini-rockets is faster to 60 MPH? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqmF-ycoRok&hd=1]2012 MINI Cooper S versus Fiat 500 Abarth 0-60 MPH Mashup Review - YouTube[/ame]
Wait wait wait... They fade from an LFA powering out of pit lane to the Abarth???? REALLY? Bwaahahahahahah!
Do like the exhaust sound on the Abarth... MINI would do good to give the Coopers a more ballsy sound.
Yep time for an eyeglass check. :crazy: Best check your manhood if you think your MINI is mean. Very nice yes, mean well I don't see it. Could be that eyeglasses thing again.
What was wrong with running 1/4 mile??? Zero to sixty ""DUH"" They needed to run side by side for a quarter mile if they really wanted to know which one was really faster. I see they were not so cramped up almost touching each other in the Mini. They were shoulder to shoulder in the fiat. Of course they did like the sound of the Abarth. ( It does come with the high performance exhaust) Why did they not run the Abarth against a Mini JCW? (both high performance models of the base cars?) They would love the sound of the JCW. I have a friend with a Fiat 500 (NOT ABARTH) and he gets around 21mpg around town if he takes it easy. He usually only gets around 18mpg.. He only can get 28 on the interstate. That is the most he ever got. He wants to trade it in on a Mini but it is not worth as much as he owes on it due to the huge depreciation. They may be cheaper to purchase then a Mini but you get exactly what you paid for. A very tiny little cute car that has a very low resale value. I'm not saying the Fiat is a bad car. I'm just saying that dollar for Dollar I think the Mini is a way better value even if it costs more.
Way too much of a price difference. Besides, they probably had no choice in what was available (they said they only had 20 minutes with the two cars).
Slightly Modified Fiat 500.... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw8mAp3G5b8]ANDREA VELLEI CRONOSCALATA ASCOLI 2010 - YouTube[/ame]
Think they would have gone faster if they would have remembered to close the trunk :lol: That was a bad azz video though!
That looks like it would be a blast to drive! It leaves me wondering, driven at that speed, which would last longer, the engine or a tank of gas? Keeping in mind that race engines need only last to the finish line.:wink:
I wish Fiat all the best I suppose, but I have to admit that Ronnie948 is right, at least in my view. Fiat has ALWAYS been into advertising. :frown2: When I bought my first car in 1976, I paid a WHOPPING $300 (everything I had at the age of 16) for a WHITE, already rusty 1970 Fiat 124 Sport... It was a 4-door sedan, but had this cute little 4 cylinder engine and a 4-speed-on-the-floor! I bought it from a junk yard where there was a sign to make people think it could be mistaken for a "USED CAR LOT". But, that thing looked foreign, sexy (enough) and fast, at least to me. And it was DIFFERENT than every other 16 year old, testosterone-engorged teenage boy my age was driving to school. :cornut: In the world of women, sometimes its best to stand out just a little bit, and any advantage is a good one. :ihih: And this was certainly as close to a Masserati or Porche as I was ever going to get. Or so I thought at the time, anyway. At the time I had never even heard of a Mini, let alone seen one. Why did I buy it then, this foreign odd-ball in a sea of domestic muscle-metal... this, instead of the 1966 Chevy Impala with the automatic but awesome V-8, or the Dodge Coronet with the slant-six and the three-on-the-tree and the flat tire that was sitting just down the row a little ways... but costing a few hundred more? :confused5: Well, budget was one reason, as stated. Another? Advertising. I remember VIVIDLY recalling commercials FIAT had done, where they showed this "famous" French Stuntman madman named "Reme Julien" jumping from one building to another in a FIAT 124, like James Bond would do. It was what they called "His car of choice." At that moment, I heard the Tabernacle Choir in my head singing Handle's Hallujah Chorus, and I saw myself in that car, flying thru the air, jumping from one building to another, just like he did in that commercial; so I bought this very used, pretty rusty one with over 100,000 miles on it, hoping it would teach me to fly someday. Well, I owned it all thru high school. To cover up the lower rust, I hand-painted the bottom half of it RED with rattle-can paint. After a year it was horrible, but a lost cause to any more paint. :frown2: I got a lot of miles more out of it than it had when I started, but it was a maintenance NIGHTMARE. It was one huge matrix of relays (electrically) and they were always causing me electrical problems. I replaced every single 'normal wear-and-tear' item that could be done over the course of three years... Radiator, alternator, clutch, tires, brakes, starter... did all the work myself except for the replacing of the alternator itself... Flying home as fast as I can on a cold winter night, knowing that white smoke coming from my exhaust was the cars life-blood, just hoping that the leaking head-gasket would keep enough boiling fluid inside until I could make it just seven more miles til I could get home. I started to carry gallon jugs of water with me until I got that gasket replaced. I pulled the engine to replace the clutch and that headgasket in my father's unheated BARN, using a come-along tied to the hay loft floor joist in the dead of an Iowa February Winter at -10F. UGH. That was f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-FUN. In retrospect, it was the kind of 'first car' that most kids end up telling their own kids stories about later on, long after they have gotten rid of it, or sent it to the rust-bucket in the sky. But it was NOT the first car I now wish I had gotten. I hope this Fiat is better for these folks than my first Fiat was for me. But life is about choices. If FIAT gets people to buy based on that hot Italian woman seducing them on a street corner.... well... it would not be the first time it's happened to anyone. I know. But I have to say in their defense, I LOVED the SUPERBOWL VERSION of their commercial. It may have had me THINKING about another FIAT. Until clearer heads prevailed. :ihih: See latest car, in signature block.