• Best Car Under $30,000 (Used or New)

    For those looking to buy a new-to-me (used) car, there are a lot of exciting models to choose from under $30k. I’ve been looking into buying a new car (when am I not?) and with the Abarth still months away, some other cars have come onto my radar. Namely the 370Z, the Evo X, and [...]

  • Fiat Abarth Rides Again

    This is a true story by guest author Leo Maselli. By now, quite a few of you have craned your heads to see a 2011 Fiat 500 zipping around your community or at least heard the news that Fiat is back. If you’re wondering about the people’s perception of such a development here in this country [...]

  • Fiat 500 vs. Abarth Part 4: Powertrain

    Fiat 500 vs. Abarth Part 4: Powertrain

    The differences between the Fiat 500 and its racing-inspired Abarth version are too many to list in a single post. So instead I’m continuing a four part series of posts that focus on the details of each aspect of the car: body, interior, handling, and powertrain. Now that Fiat has unveiled the American version of the Fiat [...]

  • Driving Scenes

    Would you like to spend 6 minutes listening to the Abarth engine and exhaust, watching it slide around in a parking lot, and see the interior up close? Oh did I mention no annoying music or announcers? If that sounds good, well then I have the video for you.

  • Abarth “Seduction” Commercial Reaches 1M Views

    Although many would call the Jennifer Lopez campaign for the Fiat 500 “annoying”, Fiat seems to have started off on the right foot with the Abarth marketing. Their “Seduction” commercial is about a man lusting after an Abarth, to the point of imagining her as angry Italian woman. The model/actress is actually Romanian and her [...]