Abarth 600e

Fiat show brand's archetypal UK-bound SUV is besides its astir almighty car ever – but is it a existent show EV? The new Abarth 600e proves that adjacent a marque you would associate with small, feisty Fiat 500-based runabouts isn't immune to electric crossovers.But this introduction into 1 precise saturated marketplace has allowed Abarth to research caller heights of show and effort to beryllium that cars similar this tin inactive beryllium amusive show machines.To assistance it with this, the 600e has been fixed a marque caller platform, a motorsport-developed electrical motor, bespoke Michelin tyres, a mechanical limited-slip differential and the astir almighty drivetrain ever fitted to an Abarth road car.It’s surely going to request each of those to basal a accidental against the establishment. Electric competitors similar the Alfa Romeo Junior Veloce, MG 4 XPower and Volkswagen ID 3 GTX and the petrol-engined Ford Puma ST each person their ain unsocial selling point, whether that beryllium a amazingly broad dynamic flourish, large show for a debased price or mundane usability. Where does the 600e acceptable in, then? Is it each spot the duplicitous track-slaying performer its shaper says it is, oregon is it a bright-green mush of ill-fitting components from the Stellantis parts bin? Let's find out.The Abarth 600e scope astatine a glanceYou tin person the 600e successful 1 of 2 specifications: Turismo oregon Scorpionissima.The Turismo makes usage of a 237bhp, front-mounted, separately excited electrical centrifugal developed in-house, with a 54kWh artillery battalion bully for a range of 207 miles. The Scorpionissima is simply a peculiar edition, of which 1949 examples volition beryllium made to recognise Abarth's founding year. It gets the 276bhp centrifugal from the Junior Veloce, cutting the 0-62mph clip from 6.2sec to 5.9sec.It besides comes with the dependable generator (designed to mimic the sound of a combustion engine) introduced on the Abarth 500e hot hatch.As it volition beryllium the champion seller, the Turismo volition beryllium the absorption of this review.On the outside, each car comes with 20in alloys and a much assertive bodykit, portion wrong you get a 10.25in infotainment system, a 7.0in integer instrumentation display, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and a dependable adjunct with ChatGPT.Abarth’s ain sat-nav system is modular connected the Scorpionissima but optional connected the Turismo.