---
title: "Drive Wire: Fiat Hints at an Abarth Version of the 124 Spider"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-12-02"
modified: "2015-12-02"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/1087/drive-wire-fiat-hints-at-an-abarth-version-of-the-124-spider"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "fiat"
---

# Drive Wire: Fiat Hints at an Abarth Version of the 124 Spider

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We previously reported that Fiat was making a new 124 Spider based on the Mazda Miata. Now Fiat says there may be an Abarth version, meaning a higher-performance model, that could actually have the engine from the Alfa Romeo 4c. That would mean a Miata platform car would have over 200 horsepower for the first time, and make sounds only Roman gods could replicate. Let’s absolutely hope Fiat does this.

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