Fiat 500 Abarth testing at the Ring video

Watching a Fiat 500 belt around the Nurburgring would be enough to put hardened car fans to sleep but this little red freight-train is the Fiat 500 Abarth and the 'Abarth' bit makes all the difference.

The raunchy exhaust note is believed to be compliments of a 150kW 1.6-litre turbo-charged engine...

Will the little Fiat giant killer make it to Australia? We don't know at this point in time but Europe is first in line when production begins. Australian Fiat aficionados will just have to keep their fingers crossed ...

Sources : AutoBlog and YouTube