New 124 Spider

[frogspawn]

Any thoughts on the new 124 Spider, sat in this one in Rapallo and very impressed.

[v12v8]

Italian MX5? Should sell well.

[Vitorio]

Id have an MX5 instead

The MX5 all comes with NA engines AFAIK, and is slightly cheaper, and i just cant imagine a small 4 cylinder turbo feeling right in a car like that. The Fiat is .8 of a second quicker to 60, but costs €4K extra over here..

[irocfan]

far prefer the look of this to the MX5

[Rapid rental]

Only available in the anniversary edition in the UK at launch and its £23295. I was waiting for a new Alfa Spider to come out but may get one of these instead. I wonder if its possible to get anything off list for the launch model?

[frogspawn]

Only 124 anniversary cars in the uk so expect the standard car to be available soon after launch.

[frogspawn]

[frogspawn]

[mattf93]

I rather fancy one of these

As per the deal they offer is with a bit of a 'large' deposit (to me anyway) to get for £299 a month you have to put down around 6.7k

[irocfan]

great looking car but £6700 AND £300pm? That does sound quite pricey

[hornetrider]

It's horrific. Looks like a bad American pastiche. Not pretty in the slightest. Shame, such a missed opportunity.

[Stuart J]

Personally I think it will sell Ok

Not sure on the styling, for me the fronts a bit to angry, could have been a bit more Italian, It reminds me a bit of a Mini version of my Wifes AMG SLK

I think as with many mass produced cars its designed to appeal to many markets including the US so design is always a compromise of compromises

[Iva Barchetta]

I didn't see any whilst in Italy between 19th and 26th May,maybe I should have stopped by the local

Fiat emporium.

I like them but actually saw more original 124s and Bertones.

[irocfan]

a good (unintentional?) advert for the 124...



pride of place outside the playboy mansion

[audidoody]

I'm going to pull the trigger on one of these in January for delivery in Spring to replace our 1998 MX5 Mk2.

Just don't like the new MX5 design and prefer a torquey turbo for London driving

Just got to decide blue or white!

Edited by audidoody on Monday 27th June 11:17

[sad61t]

If you've sat in one then you're probably a step ahead of most people here in the UK. From what I've seen (online video reviews), FIAT have done a good job giving an Italian flavour. The standard roadster has a slightly softer ride than the MX5, while the turbo engine has some mid-range grunt. I'm guessing a more relaxing, dare I say gentlemanly, driving experience.

The Abarth is a genuine step up, though at £30K you could undoubtedly get a 2.0 MX5 and a kit to be faster for less money. But for a turnkey experience it looks interesting.

[pixelpimp]

Quite liked it, it's only 1050kg so very chuckable.
Very colour sensitive and a bit clunky in its design from the side.
It seems much bigger than the MX5 but is better looking overall.

[ziontrain]

Am I right in thinking the normal and abarth versions both have the same engine, and therefore you could remap the normal one to 170hp?

[pixelpimp]

ziontrain said:

Am I right in thinking the normal and abarth versions both have the same engine, and therefore you could remap the normal one to 170hp?

yes there's nothing stopping you tweaking the 1.4tb to 230 really, I imagine the Mazda gearbox will be strong enough.

[Vitorio]

ziontrain said:

Am I right in thinking the normal and abarth versions both have the same engine, and therefore you could remap the normal one to 170hp?

And there is probably more in it with some small hardware mods, a dutch alfa dealer did a special version of the 155 horse mito which had been upgraded to 200hp, and that was before all the fancy multi-air tech came up.