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Pogea Racing Fiat 500 Abarth

July 3rd, 2010 by arman

This must be one of hottest Fiat 500s out there. This is a creation of Pogea Racing based on the Fiat 500 FERRARI DEALERS EDITION.

The standard car has 165 PS and 230 Nm of torque, but Pogea’s car, mainly thanks to their new fancy turbochargers, makes 268 PS and 330 Nm of torque. And to cope, they’ve fitted the car with 4-piston OEM Brake system and sport suspension.

Pogea Racing Fiat 500 Abarth Fiat 500 Ferrari 2

Since this is a Ferrari Edition Fiat 500, Pogea also gave it a Ferrari,or Scuderia to be precise, theme. Apart from the badges, red paint, and stripes, it also features some carbon aero parts for the body and special wheels.

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275hp Fiat 500 Abarth by Hamann

February 24th, 2010 by arman

German tuner has picked up where Abarth left tuning the Fiat 500! And they have completed their work by giving the car a whole lot more power.

For the Abarth 500 and Esseesse, They offer different stages of performance upgrade which starts with a sensible 160 hp package and then 180 hp, 210, 240 hp and finally 275 hp.

275hp Fiat 500 Abarth by Hamann hamann 500 abarth 1

That much power in such a tiny front-wheel-drive car is a recipe for chaos! So to keep it in check they’ve given it a self-locking differential which allows a locking capacity of up to 50 percent and therefore significantly increases the traction, lower, firmer suspension and 18-inch Largo wheels.

There’s also an ugly bodykit on the car with a new grille, revised bumpers, front and rear spoilers and a huge diffuser.

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Five Things You May Not Know About Fiat

December 12th, 2008 by Shenron

Cars made by the Fiat Group have been popular in Europe since long before the second World War. The company started in 1899 and was consistently producing well accepted cars by the early 1900’s. The company would grow to produce automobiles all around the world and would eventually be very popular in South America and other Latin American countries. Like most European automobile makers, when World War II did come along they converted to producing military vehicles. A great deal of information is known about the Fiat company, but here are five things you may not know.

Fiat Babe

  1. Second to Italy, where the Fiat company is headquartered, the country where the next most Fiat automobiles are sold is Brazil.
  2. 1908 was the year that the first Fiat automobile was exported from Italy to the United States of America.
  3. When Fiats were first sold in America they were considered a luxury car. It cost at least five times as much money for a buyer to purchase a Fiat than it did for a buyer to purchase a Ford Model T.
  4. For many years the Fiat company was also the owner of the Sestriere skiing resort and other facilities located in the village of the same name in the Alps.
  5. Shortly after World War I, Fiat began producing tractors that became quite popular.

With it’s long history of being one of the more popular car manufacturers in both Italy and the rest of Europe, there appears to be nothing to stop the company from continuing it’s long run of success. Fiat has gone from making popular cars, to making trucks, to making tractors, to making military vehicles, and then back to concentrating on cars again. It has been a long road that Fiat has traveled and they deserve all the success they have achieved.

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Fiat

April 30th, 2008 by Shenron

Giovanni Agnelli was the father of Fiat, having brought it to life in 1899 with a few investors, and led the company until he died in 1945; the other big name in the company was Vittorio Valletta who was basically the manager of all the company, being the man on the ground if you will.

Fiat Logo - 2007 edition

Within a decade Fiat had become the largest automotive manufacturer in all of Italy and has maintained that exact claim ever since, the company turns 110 in two years. By the 20’s Fiats share of the market in Italy was almost 80% if not more, and it seemed nothing could stop the company. However Agnelli quit in 1921 after 1921, when workers held a revolutionary type demonstration by taking over all the plants and waving red communist flags over them – he told the workers they could run the company themselves. Within a year over three thousand of them came to Agnelli and begged him to return, which after much consideration he did so. The workers did not fare well running the company Agnelli founded.

Sexy Girl standing next to an orange Fiat Punto

In 1923 the largest car manufacturing plant in Europe was opened for Fiat, and it employed thousands, and also was the first European plant to use assembly lines rather than craftsmanship on each and every car. Unfortunately the company was commandeered by the Italian military in the Second World War to make war machines, and then later after the war they removed Agnelli and his family from Fiat because of the Fascist government control tainting him. Agnelli passed away soon after, and his grandson was not allowed to be a part of the company until some nearly twenty years later in 1966.

Old Fiat 500

His grandson Gianni Agnelli completely reorganized the company and made it decentralized in management rather than centralized as it once was, thus allowing it to respond more effectively. Fiat started acquiring other automotive manufacturers in the 90’s, these included Alfa Romeo, Maserati and a few others.

New Fiat 500 on a beautiful blue background

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New Fiat 500

April 7th, 2008 by Shenron

Since the Italian brand (Fiat) announced the new Fiat 500, everyone is expecting something different, something that matched the youth style, colourful yet sober, a new concept of a car that turned into a myth.

Here are the pictures of the new Fiat 500. The following beautiful photos tell us a bit about the car. Feel free to put them as your wallpaper, print them, send them to your friends, whatever!

Beautiful car this is… :)

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