On way to Dentist this morning - Fiat

BaD_81

7,377 posts · Joined 2019

#2 · Sep 17, 2024

They have some special Abarth editions and probably feel …faster, but who knows.

 

Avel Du

63,865 posts · Joined 2015

#3 · Sep 17, 2024

Get a lot doing high rev and initial speed.
Some do that to see how you react.

Oddly, tends to be in built up zones.

I let them go.

If plod sees there is only one car they target.
They like merc as owners can pay fines.

 

RNVSLK

735 posts · Joined 2016

#4 · Sep 17, 2024

My youngest has an Abarth, loves it. Their "cute" little cars with lot's of spunk but no comparison to an SLK especially an AMG.

 

Windinmyhair

6,880 posts · Joined 2017

#5 · Sep 17, 2024

Probably a 'Jet' engine but tiny by comparison to the 55AMG
https://www.ultimatespecs.com/car-specs/Abarth/M5776/500

 

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efair

10,064 posts · Joined 2010

#6 · Sep 17, 2024

Ya gotta admire the chutzpah!

 

jbanks15 Discussion starter

137,220 posts · Joined 2006

#7 · Sep 17, 2024

Chutzpah

Arrogance, impudence; a Talmudic word that made its way into Yiddish from which it was adopted into American slang and has now entered the English language and is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as an English word. It comes from a root meaning ‘to peel’ and hence ‘to be bare’; chutzpah means barefacedness, sheer cheek. The classical definition of chutzpah is given in the story of the boy who killed his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he was an orphan.

 

Robbie4T

1,204 posts · Joined 2016

#8 · Sep 18, 2024

Jeff, you need a rear facing camera, the forward facing one is no use at all.....and never will be I guess.

 

rossmon

607 posts · Joined 2019

#9 · Sep 19, 2024

I had a couple of female customers that had the 124 sports car, 40 years ago. I hope the newer ones are built better!
The motors would typically need a valve job at 30,000 and the electrics were terrible with common faults shutting down all the lights at inopportune times. Once on a road test for me😲
My first real mechanics job was for a shop called Enzo’s Continental Auto Repair in San Francisco. The building was like working in a cave! However, Enzo was a former factory Ferrari mechanic in Italy, so I learned a lot by working on many of the V-12 red motors and a few of the V-8’s that helped me later on when I had a room full of Ferrari’s to maintain...

 

ERW300ZX

168 posts · Joined 2022

#10 · Sep 20, 2024

At about 20 seconds into the video when the Fiat revs you can hear end of Ringo Starr's "I'm the Greatest" play for about 10 seconds.