Exactly, I'm pissed my car had problems, but that's not the issue and not the reason why I'll never touch a Ford. It's how the company responded.

Yeah, I don't know how to advise you on non-EsseEsse model because I don't think I'd want mine with less HP. I drove a 500T which is similar in HP, but not suspension I believe, and it was lacking. Also we get the Garret turbo here, and I think the base Euro Abarth uses an IHI, which I'm not a fan of. Also, since I…

Now our US Abarth is really a different car than the Euro options, as I'm sure you know, but yes it's a car yo just have to drive. Really drive, try and borrow someone's or something get some regular time in it and also ring it out a bit. After that, you'll either want it or you won't. It's a polarizing car.

I point to it and explain to everyone I'm very "comfortable" with myself.

Yes, you hear waste gate flutter, turbo induction noise and the bypass valve venting. Some people say it's louder, I don't think it's louder, just that you can hear all these noises you couldn't before. Personally I don't like the sucking though a straw that is the induction noise of turbo's, but the intake does seem…

Yeah, I love how the rear end is nice and lively! Never drove one with the 17's (thought I think I will when I go to my Abarth Track Day.) Maybe I'll just leave them be, a lower limit is more fun on the street anyway. Nobody I worked with got one, I just get made fun of at work for having a "Par 4" or golf cart.

Yeah, exactly, what you said. I also test-drove a 500T and it just not the same as the Abarth. I think the difference is in the engine tuning that gives the Abarth the extra power, partly the loud, raw exhaust of the Abarth and also it has a whole lot to do with the rear torsion bar which doesn't get put on any of the…

I have the R3T V2 as well, put it on last week. Happy with that as well. Not brave enough to lower it, spent the two months since I got it, listening to all sorts of snow and ice banging on the engine shield and having to carefully "plough" my way down some streets with the front splitter.

No, no problems with more choices in the segment, I was just saying if you wanted an Adam S badly, there is a similar and very good car actually available. I am NOT a Chrysler fan, and the fact the Fiat is really a Chrysler does still bite at the back of my mind, but I have to say it really is a fun car and I'm…

Yeah, I got mine on Jan 2nd, which was the last day of the year according to Fiat. I have the true base though, no roof. I agree that most of the options you get aren't really worth it, I'd have liked to get the auto climate, which I don't have, but the cars on the lot with that also had more options on them. I don't…

Is that a base on base? I thought I was the only cheapskate to buy one with no options including the stripes.

Here is the thing, I understand where you are coming from and I understand your desire for a hot small cars. I'm with you, the hotter and smaller the better, but don't be unhappy about what you can get in America, just go get the Abarth. I know I did and I tell you that you end up having too much fun to care about…

I swear that Mr. E. Musk is starting to look more and more like a Chris Walken villein everyday. (This is not how I feel about him or Tesla.) For example I submit, Max Zorin:

"In color - The Torque Wrench Though The Ages." -Brilliant.

Until you learned the reason why they did that. They couldn't land a major sponsor, even if their life depended on it. So then they sold the team for $1...

Without going into the appearance, which is a matter of personal taste. It also happens to be a matter of terrible. While I believe there has been that much money invested in the car, it is just not worth that much at all. A pity, because while still too much for a proper stock looking car, at least it might have had…

I kid, I kid.

Yeah, want a 130-RS. Bad. I maybe the only person in America?

Not DERP, back then it was regulation to have the speedo stop at 85mph. I think the logic was something along the lines of, if you couldn't see the speed you wouldn't do the speed. Remember this is also the era where we had a nationally mandated highway speed limit. Anyway, since as far as the DOT was concerned, the…

Variations in color hun? http://www.sportscardigest.com/jeff-koons-bmw…