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Last Auto account – Wraps appear off new Abarth duo Punto Evo and 500C become latest Fiat models to get the Abarth treatment

Has Abarth absent its head? Fiat’s achievement analysis has appear a harder and faster adaptation of the drop-top 500C, and these are the aboriginal official photos advanced of the car’s admission at the Geneva Motor Show.

It sports the aforementioned retractable bolt sunroof as the accepted 500C, but the Abarth cabriolet is anon recognisable acknowledgment to its abolitionist two-tone paintjob. Customers can specify the roof in either atramentous or grey, while the bonnet, pillars and accept band will be accomplished in the aforementioned colour. An continued roof spoiler, bodykit and 17-inch admixture auto accomplishment off the exoteric makeover.

Under the beanie is the aforementioned 1.4-litre Turbo T-Jet engine as in the accepted Abarth 500, which makes 138bhp and 206Nm. The big change is the addition of a five-speed auto. Paddles on the caster let drivers yield ascendancy manually, while a abounding self-shifting approach is available, too.

An Abarth adaptation of the Punto Evo will aswell yield a bow at the Geneva expo. It’s the backup for the accepted Abarth Grande Punto, and the newcomer maintains the achievement of the approachable model, but puts the focus durably on efficiency.

It uses a turbocharged adaptation of Fiat’s new 1.4-litre MultiAir engine including stop-start. The assemblage produces 161bhp, yet allotment 47mpg and emits 142g/km of CO2. These are improvements of 6.1mpg and 20g/km respectively, even admitting it offers 6bhp more.

Both models are appointed to go on auction aboriginal in the summer, with prices starting from about £17,000 for the Abarth 500C and £15,000 for the Abarth Punto Evo.