Funny you should mention this as I had a phone call from Fiat in relation to an enquiry I made about the "By Diesel" 500. After asking if I had had a test drive yet I said that as my wife didn't like the colours we would now wait until 2010 and go for the 500 two cylinder turbo Multi Air in BNW if it hadn't been discontinued, LOL.
He replied that this engine would not be released in the 500 because he hadn't been informed and he would know before anyone else.
I also mentioned the 95bhp diesel that someone had posted info about which I said I had heard was being released in the 500C and he said that there wasn't such an animal and the most powerful engine you would be able to get in the 500C would be the Abarth esseesse.
That's from the horses mouth (or another orifice), .......you decide.
What a tool...... not you of course, but the Fiat person.