Officine 83: New Abarth HQ leaves room for small-run specialty cars

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Officine 83: New Abarth HQ leaves room for small-run specialty cars

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Fiat has been putting a lot of money and energy into the rejuvenation of the Abarth brand as its own in-house racing and tuning division. Now preparing to unveil its second model, the Fiat 500 Abarth, at the fast-approaching Geneva show, Abarth also cut the ribbon on its new headquarters. Called Officine 83, Abarth has set up shop in the old Mirafiori engineering plant, adjacent to Fiat's design, experimental construction and engineering departments.

The facility houses the racing team, the competition vehicles department and the road car unit, with the technical and design offices next to the workshops and the business offices upstairs. The interesting part, however, is not what Officine 83 includes, but rather space they left empty, earmarked for a future workshop to produce small runs of specialty vehicles. Of course any inference over what could be built there would be nothing more than pure speculation at this point, but the presence of that open space lends credit to previous reports that Abarth could get its own unique models. With sister-brand Alfa Romeo – now operated by the same chief executive – readying a 500-car run of the sumptuous 8C Spider, and Lancia rumored to get its own version, the idea of a limited-run halo model for Abarth is about as tantalizing as it gets.
 

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Might go over there on a visit / hoiliday and nick one :devil:
Why not. The Italians are usually pretty receptive to visitors. Just bear in mind the Italian system of justice is different from ours and their prisons are a bit, how can I put this, Victorian; and they take people nicking their national treasures quite seriously.
 
looks fancier than ferraris current front of house stuff! well, that WAS fancy, in 1986 :cool::rolleyes:


That garage ain't huge, but it is minty fresh clean! Bit like ford Msport, only everything there is white and grey! not an oil stain or nothing :D I would give limbs to work in there!
 
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