Auto Italia’s Design Consultant Chris Hrabalek Discusses the Finer Points of Automotive Design.
Abarth’s new 124 Spider, launched at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show and based on Fiat’s 124 Spider, is a very straightforward move, to continue growing the Abarth brand, in creating a portfolio of attractive and, above all, largely affordable products desirable to a young and determined audience. Long gone are the days when the badge was degraded to bodykit and accessory-level status of the visually polished Fiats of the early ’90s; today’s Abarths are the real deal.
This story is from the February 2017 edition of Auto Italia.
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