Geneva 2010: Abarth 500C blows its top
 

<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/" rel="tag">Convertible</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag">Performance</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/geneva-motor-show/" rel="tag">Geneva Motor Show</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/fiat/" rel="tag">Fiat</a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><small><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/geneva-2010-fiat-500c-abarth/"><img hspace="0" vspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/03/01-fiat-500c-abarthopt.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><small> </small><strong><em><small> Abarth 500C - Click above for high-res image gallery</small></em></strong></div>
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For every car, there's a prospective customer. And for a car like the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/fiat">Fiat</a> 500C, a cutesy retro mini with a pseudo-cabrio sliding canvas roof, we hardly need to point out who that target demographic is. But as if to highlight what a difference the little things can make, the <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/24/abarth-500c-punto-evo-geneva-preview/">Abarth version</a> is another beast entirely.<br />
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By "little things", here we mean stuff like a 140-horsepower, 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, a five-speed sequential paddle-shift transmission and a badass two-tone paint job. All that may not sound like much, but when applied to a little thing like the 500C, it represents the difference between the stock Fiat's potential customer and the car nut who takes her out for an evening on the town. <br />
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If the collaborative minds at Fiat and <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/chrysler">Chrysler</a> deem us worthy, we'd enthusiastically count ourselves among the Abarth 500C's potential customers. But for now we'll just have to enjoy admiring it on the show floor here in <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/geneva-motor-show/">Geneva</a> where it's just been unveiled, and we have the photos to prove it along with more details in the press release after the jump.<br />
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<div class="postgallery"><p><s trong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/geneva-2010-fiat-500c-abarth/low/">Geneva 2010: Fiat 500C Abarth</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/geneva-2010-fiat-500c-abarth/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/03/01-fiat-500c-abarth_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/geneva-2010-fiat-500c-abarth/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/03/02-fiat-500c-abarth_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/geneva-2010-fiat-500c-abarth/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/03/03-fiat-500c-abarth_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/geneva-2010-fiat-500c-abarth/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/03/04-fiat-500c-abarth_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/geneva-2010-fiat-500c-abarth/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/03/05-fiat-500c-abarth_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><br />
<div class="postgallery"><p><s trong>Gallery: <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/abarth-500c-0/low/">Abarth 500C</a></strong></p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/abarth-500c-0/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/100224ab500c01_thumbnail. jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/abarth-500c-0/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/100224ab500c02_thumbnail. jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/abarth-500c-0/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/100224ab500c03_thumbnail. jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/abarth-500c-0/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/100224ab500c04_thumbnail. jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/abarth-500c-0/low/"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/02/100224ab500c05_thumbnail. jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><br />
<em><strong><small>Phot os by Noah Joseph / </small></strong></em><em><strong><small>Cop yright (C)2010</small></strong></em><em><strong><small> Weblogs, Inc.</small></strong></em><p><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/03/geneva-2010-abarth-500c-blows-its-top/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Geneva 2010: Abarth 500C blows its top</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/03/geneva-2010-abarth-500c-blows-its-top/">Geneva 2010: Abarth 500C blows its top</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:37:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/03/geneva-2010-abarth-500c-blows-its-top/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19380802/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/03/geneva-2010-abarth-500c-blows-its-top/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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