Friday 6th March 2015

Fiat confirms 124 Spider for its MX-5

The Mazda-Fiat-Alfa-Abarth spider saga reaches a conclusion

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At last! It was back in May 2012 when the news of a Mazda-Fiat collaboration on the MX-5 first emerged. Since then we've had various top quality PH renderings of an Alfa Spider, the switch to a Fiat, then to an Abarth and finally the launch of the MX-5 with no real mention of the Italian alternative.

Ah, the days before Photoshop

Now Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne has confirmed its version of the Mk4 MX-5 will be a 124 Spider. The original 124 Spider was a Fiat and then later an Abarth for competition. So a regular Fiat version and then a faster Abarth maybe? And an MPS MX-5? OK, perhaps we're getting a little carried away...

The Fiat/Abarth is expected 12 months after the Mazda which would puts its on-sale date as summer 2016. Appropriately enough that would be 50 years after the first 124 Spider was seen. If it's as good as the MX-5-with-Italian-flair premise would suggest, it could be a corker.

[Source: Autocar]

 

[smaybury]

Doesn't have nearly enough power, IMO.

[/pistonheads]