2012 Fiat 500 Abarth US Pricing: $22,000
11 Jan 2012, 16:56 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Remember the Abarth 500 seduction commercial? Of course you do. Well, Catrinel Menghia didn’t impersonate a mistress just for the fun of it. She was promoting the little car and now Fiat has a...
French Car Market Down 17.8% in December 2011
3 Jan 2012, 18:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The global economy has had its ups and downs, with the latest large market expected to take a dip being Europe. The decrease in confidence and spending has severely affected sales in France, which i...
Fiat Project L-Zero / Ellezero Will Debut in Geneva
3 Jan 2012, 13:15 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Probably the most significant new Fiat launched since the 500, the new small five-door compact crossover / MPV will reportedly be codenamed the Ellezero and should officially bow at the 2012 Geneva ...
2011 Auto Industry Wrap Up
30 Dec 2011, 21:21 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We’ll be taking a look back at the best and the worst the automotive industry had to offer. It’s going to be hard to sum it up in just a few words, but I’d say that from an actual ...
Automotive Flops of 2011: Chevy Volt, Fiat 500
29 Dec 2011, 09:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With only a coupe of days in the year, it’s now time to look at the bad and the worst for 2011. 24/7 Wall Street is being quoted as saying by Yahoo Finance that the two biggest underwhelmers o...
Fiat Italy Labor Deal: Shorter Breaks, Longer Shifts
14 Dec 2011, 16:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Automotive News today reports that a new labor agreement has been reached between Fiat Group and its 86,000 Italian employees. The new contracts meant to provide a reform of sorts to the car industr...
Fiat 500 Only Earns Three-Star NHTSA Safety Rating
9 Dec 2011, 09:22 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Fiat 500 has failed to meet sales expectations in the US, with the company blaming the advertising, not the car for this. However, it seem that the tiny 500 is now facing new difficulties, as th...
Fiat Closing Lancia Plant in Sicily
2 Dec 2011, 16:31 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The reality of the economic slowdown is hitting the European automotive industry hard with a fifth year of sales decline, Bloomberg reports today. One very serious consequence is that Fiat Group is ...
500 Abarth US Commercial: How It's Made Video
24 Nov 2011, 14:58 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ever wondered how a Fiat 500 becomes an Abarth? The answer is not as simple as it might, but, fortunately, the adjacent video shows it all. This is a commercial for the US version of the 500 Abar...
Alfa Giulietta-Based Dodge Compact Sedan Coming in 2012
22 Nov 2011, 16:47 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Despite the little Fiat 500 not doing so well, Chrysler Group managed to stay well ahead of the sales increases for the general US market this year, but its model lineup has been lacking something. ...
Ram Considering Passenger Van Derivative for US Version of Fiat Doblo
21 Nov 2011, 23:34 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We previously reported that the Fiat Doblo light commercial vehicle will be brought to the US as a Ram vehicle, but it seems that the American brand has even bigger plans, as the company is currentl...
Laura Soave and Fiat US Part Ways
21 Nov 2011, 22:33 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Laura Soave had a took on a great challenge when she got behind the wheel of Fiat's US market comeback and this weight has now crushed her - Chrysler has issued an official statement explaining...
Fiat 500 Nation Edition Celebrating US Launch
21 Nov 2011, 22:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The aforementioned piece of news comes to bring a potential reason for which the Fiat 500 sales in the US are falling behind expectations - Fiat is concentrating its efforts in the wrong directions....
Abarth 595 Turismo Revealed ahead of Bologna Debut
21 Nov 2011, 15:09 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We though we were done with the Fiat 500 Abarth a long time ago, but it looks like the little pocket rocket just won’t stay silent. The 160 horsepower version has made its North American debut...
Abarth 595 Competizione to Bow in Bologna
21 Nov 2011, 15:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Abarth, the Fiat in-house tuning division, is using the 2011 Bologna Motor Show to show a number of exciting new products under their “A World of performance since 1949″ banner. We&rs...
Abarth 695 Assetto Corse to Debut in Bologna
21 Nov 2011, 15:04 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / To celebrate the success of the re-born Abarth brand and the hotter version of the little 500 in particular, Fiat has gone all hardcore with a racing version of the car. Called the Abarth 695 Ass...
US-Spec 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth Gets 160 HP, Goes to LA
16 Nov 2011, 13:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In Europe, the little Fiat 500 Abarth had a few competitors to worry about, so it grew some extra muscle to become the 500 Abarth esseesse. Now, North American consumers will also get a chance to to...
Superchips Takes Abarth 500 to the Next Level
8 Nov 2011, 13:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you don’t know what an Abarth is and what it does to your regular Fiat 500, you might want to look away, because this isn’t really about city cars and TwinAir engines. UK specialis...
Second Generation 2012 Fiat Palio Unveiled
6 Nov 2011, 11:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Fiat Palio badged was first introduced in 1977 when it was just a trim designation, but in 1997 it became a very successful hatch after its debut on the Brazilian market, where 2.5 million units...
Fiat Sedici Gets Updated for 2012
4 Nov 2011, 17:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We aren’t big fans of the Fiat Sedici, and neither is the rest of the market, because you rarely see one outside of Italy. So to squeeze a bit of appeal into the compact crossover, Fiat has de...