Enjoy building your Abarth 500!

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cheers mate, have my deposit down with an Abarth dealer, let the fun begin!

Nice one so whats the price in italy? Isit around 13.5k like the AGP Im no good @ converting lol

Skitz said:

Nice one so whats the price in italy? Isit around 13.5k like the AGP Im no good @ converting lol

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It's €18500 which is €400 more than the AGP. I think they'll tag it to the price of the AGP here as that's what they've done in other European countries.

The Mini Cooper that people keep (IMO) unfairly comparing it to is £13325, so they may just undercut that, although with essential chilli pack makes it much more expensive.

Excellent! I'll play around with that for bit now...thing is, I'm liking it in Black now, it looks quite 'stealth-y' and 'mean'

OT: I've hit 500 posts in the 500 section lol

i had a play - by the time you add on the options that you WILL need, you're gonna be looking at £14,500-£15,000!!!

you can pick up a corsa vxr or clio 197 for a grand or so LESS than that, cars that would easily run rings around the stock abarth lol

so a lot of the buyers will shell out a couple grand MORE for the essesse kit! but i doubt that even with that its gonna really compete.


fiat are doing a job on anyone that buys one of these at these prices for sure - a shame after their sensible pricing on the standard 500's.

not only that, they're logically putting themselves between a rock and a hard place - pricing out the people that want a decent affordable hot hatch, but not offering anywhere near the performance of the real fast ones that they apparently will be at pricing parity with.

still, if people will pay...go fiat!


after all, it's an abarth isnt it

gib1970 said:

i had a play - by the time you add on the options that you WILL need, you're gonna be looking at £14,500-£15,000!!!

you can pick up a corsa vxr or clio 197 for a grand or so LESS than that, cars that would easily run rings around the stock abarth lol

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As with everything, price can be fairly subjective, the statement that 'fiat are doing a job on anyone who buys one' remains to be seen. If it sells, then its priced right, but at this point its too early too tell. What your saying is that YOU think its expensive. Thats a different thing.

On the Clio 197 and Corsa VXR, both impressive cars for different reasons, but you fail to mention their list prices, The 197 lists at what, around £15,995 and the VXR about £15,500. Depending on who you believe that puts the Abarth at around 2-2.5k less. Of course, thats list price, factoring the discounts on cars that have been out for 2-1.5 years they both come out less than that, but again its unfair to compare a car thats yet to launch as we have no idea what discounts, if any, will materialize over the newer cars life. Plus, both those cars, possibly less so the Corsa as it does come stocked with kit, can be loaded on with options. A very well specced 197 will come out at around £17k, possibly more.

I have to say, I think the Abarth version of the 500 is well priced, doesn't seem all that expensive to me, except when you consider that the Twingo 133 is listing at £11,500, or £600 odd more with the Cup pack fitted.

I notice you've made the same comment about the Abarth Punto, if anything thats an even better buy than the 500, with more power and space.

Whilst i love their cars, Fiat's websites have gone backwards. There too Flash based and over complicated and that configurator is way too slow for modern web browsing.

My two pence worth.

mrunderhill said:

Whilst i love their cars, Fiat's websites have gone backwards. There too Flash based and over complicated and that configurator is way too slow for modern web browsing.

My two pence worth.

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It's fine for me, runs quickly and loads quickly too.