The 500 Abarth has 58 percent more power and 73 percent more torque than the 500 on which it's based, but halfway through my evening with the Abarth, I was not thinking that the car was 58 percent ...

I started with a Fiat 500 Prima Edizione (think Sport) and promptly traded it in for an Abarth once they were available for order. My advice is get the Abarth. It is a completely different machine.

At its core, the Abarth 500 is a cutesy yet angry-looking performance version of the Fiat 500. As an Abarth owner myself, I ...

The Fiat 500 is a funky little urban runabout. The Fiat 500 Abarth is a different car entirely. It’s still full of fun and funk, but it ups the ante with a punchy turbocharged four-cylinder engine, a ...

Unlike the cute but considerably “tamer” Fiat 500 it’s based on, the special-edition Abarth model is a 34-mpg subcompact “whose sole purpose in life is to be fast, loud, and aggressive.” This stripped ...

You will hear people speaking Italian when you are driving the Fiat 500 Abarth. Not the ones in your head, or Romanian supermodels, but the Florentine tourists literally hanging out of the taxi next ...