LAST AUTO NEWS – ABARTH TURNS UP THE HEAT ON 500C!
Last Auto account – Abarth turns up the calefaction on 500C! Achievement arm works abracadabra on awakening cabrio, targets MINI Cooper Convertible
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Meet the scorpion-badged drop-top with a absolute bite in its tail! Auto Express has abstruse that Fiat is planning to barrage a hot adaptation of its bold 500 Convertible to chase in the footsteps of the Abarth 500.
The newcomer will battling the MINI Cooper, Cooper S and even JCW Convertibles with a aggregate of affronted pace, head-turning acceptable looks and a accurate cycle aback roof – for a amount that’s acceptable to attenuate the British models by a continued way.
High-ranking Fiat sources accept fabricated no abstruse of the actuality that a achievement 500C is in the artefact plan – prototypes accept already started testing at the company’s Balocco track. And with the success of MINI’s drop-top range, the Abarth 500C is inching afterpiece to showrooms.
Power will appear from the aforementioned 1.4-litre turbocharged T-JET four-cylinder petrol engine as in the approved Abarth 500. This delivers 135bhp, although a 160bhp adaptation will be offered in the top-of-the-range Esseesse model.
Desirability is guaranteed, while the administration promises to be thrilling, too. While MINI engineers had to affected a accident in bodyshell acerbity if they removed the roof, Abarth will accept no such problems.
As the 500C appearance a simpler roll-back accessible roof, it retains its roof balustrade and pillars, and appropriately maintains about as abundant acerbity as the hard-top. This architecture aswell agency the Abarth 500 will not be abundant added than the tin-top achievement version.
The entry-level 135bhp car has 15bhp added than a Cooper Convertible – giving 0-60mph in about eight abnormal and a top acceleration of 130mph. Plus, barter will be offered a advanced ambit of personalisation options, so the Abarth 500C should be addition sales
smash hit.
Prices for the entry-level archetypal are set to bang off from about £16,000. The dealer-fit Esseesse appropriate – which should dart from 0-60mph in 7.4 abnormal – is acceptable to command a amount exceptional of about £2,500. Sales of both models are appointed to alpha in the spring.
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