RE: Zender Abarth 500 Corsa Stradale concept

[Escort3500]

Dreadful Eighties throwback not helped by white finish, but interesting performance.

[andyxxx]

Well I will join the minority.
That looks like a plastic boy racer pile of tat.

[Furyblade_Lee]

Doesn't seem very fast for that power-to-weight ratio? 0-124 seemes pretty poor particularly. There are also quite a few std FWD cars that can crack 0-60 in that time. But I love Fiat 500s, that motor in a less blingy body would be very cool.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Hideous looking thing with more dubious angles than a South African murder trial.

It is visual tat; who cares how it goes, you still have to have to park it outside your house.

[HeWentThatWay]

Small carbon fibre turbo 4 pot made by fiat? Just get the alfa 4c

[soad]

That's a snazzy tampon bucket!

[tomv1to]

Chevykevv said:

The OH's Abarth 595 is pretty quick for a little un, 1.4 but great fun.
They'd have to something about the fuel tank though, the Abarth still only has a 35 litre tank which means every 200 odd miles you're filling up again!!

I had a 500 ss and it was perfectly fast enough for such a small car. The 500 SS is faster than the Punto Evo SS which is a bit embarrassing and I really do think that Fiat needs to address that. The 1.75 is an amazing engine and its a shame Abarth haven't done anything with it yet.

[Fluid]

sexual. No chance of it getting made though.

[172]

What annoys me is that there is no 500 evo model

With the punto you get the running gear of the abarth with the standard look

The abarth 500 in my opinion looks like a slug and loses the classic shape

[Lagerlout]

240 bhp? Pfft. Here's mine:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[172]

What annoys me is that there is no 500 evo model

With the punto you get the running gear of the abarth with the standard look

The abarth 500 in my opinion looks like a slug and loses the classic shape

[Sline]

That really does look awesome!

[ttthilvester]

dlockhart said:

Has the Renault 5 turbo found its successor?

Was thinking the same.;)

However, it's a sad sign of the times that this requires 240-odd BHP to reach 60 in 6.6 secs, whereas the GTT with a paltry 120BHP used to reach 60 in 7.2 secs.

In fact most modern hot hatches seem to require 200BHP to break the 7 second barrier.

General porkiness and an overload of unnecessary electrical doo-dads?

[viggyp]

ttthilvester said:

dlockhart said:

Has the Renault 5 turbo found its successor?

General porkiness and an overload of unnecessary electrical doo-dads?

Without a doubt.

[DeltaEvo2]

True but if you crash in a Renault 5 Turbo...

[Kawasicki]

Short wheelbase, high centre of gravity and fwd.

About as cool as a new Beetle.

[viggyp]

DeltaEvo2 said:

True but if you crash in a Renault 5 Turbo...

Yeah. I remember a bloke in a R5 GTT slating a bloke who had a Punto Turbo because the Punto ran more boost yet was only 10bhp more. He didn't realise that the Punto had to pass certain emission tests during that time.

Plus, the Punto was quite a heavy car.........well, the doors were

[dan vbv]

hill79 said:

A 1.4 putting out 240BHP? I think the keyword here is 'concept'.

actually the 1.4 tjet can handle 256hp on the standard internals and can go to 300+ on forged pistons

i should know i have one my cars current spec

abarth 500
1.4tjet

big turbo
bigger injectors
big inter cooler
decat exhaust
induction kit
lsd
coilovers

the pic is of the cars dyno runs first one i had a exhaust and induction kit on

[Rumblestripe]

Like the interior (even the orange bits), like the numbers but it does look like it ram-raided Halfords.

I'm oot.