I took the A500 Esseesse out today just for a burn whilst I was collecting my new wheel from Abarth, and was extremely pleased to see it was running on Michelin Exaltos and the grip, even in today's miserable rain, was a marked improvement on the Pirelli's. I even took the abarth sales man out straight afterwards in out abarth and took it round the same roundabout and he agreed there was considerable sliding compared to the other tyres, even at very low speeds.

I am pleased and can't wait to get my new tyres on - just need to decide which wheels to run on (picking up the multi-spokes tomorrow! ) and stick the new tyres on them...