Fiat's Abarth performance division has launched ... Thanks to the experience gained years before with motorbikes, the Abarth exhaust pipes are technologically state-of-the-art.

The Fiat 124 Spider Abarth is well styled ... is slow to react when blipping the throttle and coupled with the tame exhaust system, it can be hard not to let the rpm dip too low.

Fiat Abarth 500. To a certain generation prone to misty-eyed, Castrol R-scented nostalgia, the instant mental image is of a tiny car with an exhaust note like an angry bee, scooting around Europe ...

the Fiat is no Ford Fiesta ST or Mini John Cooper Works. The addition of 20bhp, stiffer springs and dampers, meatier brakes and a fruitier exhaust over the regular Abarth 595 doesn’t re-write ...