Fiat Abarth 500 receives Top Gear’s “Best Hot Hatch” award
The much awaited Abarth 500 is already gaining peak industry honors and it’s not yet even on sale in the UK. The Best Hot Hatch award from Top Gear magazine was recently bestowed on the 135 bhp turbocharged supermini. The Abarth is scheduled to be available in the UK outlet network in February, the powerful Fiat 500 variant has already caused great exhilaration among British buyers, while 200 units of the vehicle which were reserved for internet sale only have all been allocated, several months way...

Fiat unveils another special little Panda
You might think that Mercedes and McLaren have been busy churning out new editions of the SLR supercar like madmen you know, aside from winning the world championship, but they're just taking a page out of the Fiat playbook. The Italian automaker has once again unveiled a new version of its diminutive Panda. Called the Glam Edition, the special version starts with the Panda 4x4 and updates it with a new pearl white paint job complimented by aluminum roof rails and a new set of 15" alloys, but the Panda...

Great Wall Motors’ Fiat clone banned from Europe
The Chinese clone cars aren’t faring well of late, with the Shuanghuan CEO getting booted out of Germany and now the Great Wall Motors GWPeri minicar receiving a Europe-wide ban from a Turin court. The news is no doubt welcomed by the major manufacturers that have been prosecuting the copy-cat designs for several years, but it’s also a setback for the nascent Chinese car industry’s effort to break into the European market. Great Wall’s ban comes alongside a 15,000 fine for the...

Fiat 500 Abarth
             Just as we where getting ready to call it a day, a reader of ours dropped us an e-mail that included the first official images of the all-new Fiat 500 Abarth that’s set to be unveiled in Geneva next month. If you liked the standard 500’s appearance then you’re definitely going to fall in love with the 500 Abarth. The sport version of Fiat’s hugely popular minicar has been fitted with an aggressive...

The Eco-Friendly Fiat Bravo
Fiat has previously released the electric Topolino model, which basically has no emissions, but now they are still trying to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions with the new Bravo Eco model.[source]

HAMANN tunes the Fiat 500
HAMANN has released its tuning package for the mini Fiat 500, called the HAMANN sportivo. To give it a little HAMANN touch on the outside, the German tuner first fitted the car with striking 17-inch black matt vanish rims and a strong sound of HAMANN’s sport exhaust system for the 1.4 liter petrol version.Performance wise HAMANN put its engineers to work on the 1.3 liter Multijet 16V Fiat 500 diesel model, After re-programming the integrated control unit, the HAMANN Fiat 500 produces...Click through...

Fiat 500 Abarth Assetto Corse
Italian automaker is happy to present a new version of 500 Abarth. The little car has shown itself from the best point on the racing tracks since 1963. This year Fiat plans to make only 49 of the cars like this. 500 Abarth has 1.4-liter turbocharged engine with 4 cylinders and reaches up to 200 horsepower and 221 pound-feet of torque. The sport features, which allow the auto to be good at racings, are special suspension and very strong brakes. Its’ weight is just a little bit over 2,000 pound and it...

Fiat 500 Abarth Asetto Corse revealed at Mille Miglia
Click above for high-res gallery of the Fiat 500 Abarth Asetto CorseFiat is in attendance this week at the famous Mille Miglia in Brescia, Italy and it brought with it a whopper of a small car to impress the crowd. On hand is the Fiat 500 Abarth Asetto Corse, a full race version of the little iconic car that sports a screaming 200-hp turbocharged 1.4L four-cylinder that also produces 220 pound-feet of torque. Power is routed through a six-speed gearbox on its way to a set of 17-inch track white...

Fiat 500 named Best Small Diesel Car of the year
The stunning new Fiat 500 , the current Car of the Year 2008, has just been crowned Best Small Car in the annual What Diesel Car Of The Year awards. This latest industry recognition is yet another top honor to be collected by the popular city car, which was launched in the UK in January. Up against impressive opposition, the victorious 500 impressed What Diesel’s panel of judges with its blend of style, quality and modern diesel engine technology.[source]

Fiat expects to sell petrol and diesel hybrids by 2011
While Japanese and U.S. carmakers have laid the ground-work for the sale of petrol-electric hybrid vehicles, European carmakers are taking a slightly different route by developing diesel-electric powertrains. BMW, PSA Peugeot-Citroen and Mercedes-Benz have all unveiled diesel-electric hybrid concept vehicles with the intention the cars will eventually enter production, and now Fiat has joined the list by announcing it will develop a range of petrol-electric and diesel-electric engines by 2011. The...