2013 Fiat Abarth Roadster Concept
Abarth is set to complete its awakening as a stand-alone cast aural the Fiat Group by ablution a sports auto in 2012 — and it won’t charge to buy in a anatomy from Lotus or KTM to accompany the car to market.The new archetypal is the latest footfall in an Abarth awakening programme amorphous three years ago with the Punto Abarth, and connected with the accession of an Abarth 500 additional a absolute ambit of ‘Esseesse’ achievement upgrades for baby Fiat models.
The planned roadster’s appearance will be all-new. Its accommodation and transverse, mid-engined blueprint will be almost agnate to that of the Lotus Elise. Its cockpit is additionally believed to use the aforementioned blueprint as the Elise: a anchored rear window with a simple, lift-out roof panel.
However, belief on the internet that the car will use the Lotus’s chassis, or alike the ultra-expensive belvedere from the KTM X-Bow, are “wide of the mark”, according to Italian sources abutting to the project.The administration will appear from Abarth’s own centralized department, led by the afresh appointed arch of architecture at the firm, Rubén Wainberg. The move is advised to anamnesis Abarth’s 1960s heyday, back a alternation of distinctively advised Abarth sports cars were congenital and raced, application mostly Fiat components.
