Car and Driver: 2017 Abarth 124 Spider: Setting the Turbocharged Roadster’s Dial to “Veloce”

As a general exercise, Fiat’s new 124 Spider is at its core a retro effort. The original 124 Spider first went on sale in the late 1960s and enjoyed a relatively successful production run that lasted over a decade. The new 124 Spider apes many of the old car’s styling cues, wrapping the Italianate look around the fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata’s basic structure, albeit with a turbocharged Fiat engine under the hood. So it should come as no surprise that, when it came time to design a higher-performance Abarth 124, Fiat once again mined its history for inspiration. READ MORE ››

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