I have a manual Abarth, much better than my old automatic pop and those are usually the rentals. The seats are awful, I’ll give you that. I was utterly shattered after doing five hours in it last fall.

I’m too in love with the car to ditch it, so I’ve made it work. It surprisingly turned out pretty easy and it will be even easier once her car seat is a bit smaller and permanent. I grew up in the back of small cars, it’s no big deal.

With the C, it really is small, but I have an Abarth as well as a husband and child. I only recently had to stop using it for Costco runs when I had a roll bar welded in and lost the ability to drop the back seats. But the kiddo and her car seat still fit fine. Generally, if all 3 of us are going somewhere, we take…

I’d honestly rather use gaffers tape most of the time, but it’s so expensive.

It’s really NOT too small though, a 500 has more usable space than a Mini Cooper. The trick is just getting people to give Fiat a chance. If you can get a buyer to just give it a test, usually they will buy it.

I recently procured a harness of similar design. I feel a strange need to recreate this photo. Except nobody wants to see my fat, heavily tattooed, naked torso.

This is why I love FCA in spite of everything. They are scrappy lunatics who ran out of fucks to give a long time ago.

Dodge doesn’t need a small car. If you want a small car with a 1.4l Multiair, just walk next door to the Fiat studio.

I have one, learned long ago that if you feel it coming around, you’re most likely already boned.

Another similar band you might try is Blaqk Audio. They’re actually a side project of AFI but nothing like them. Little bit faster and sparklier. This one is also on my pre-race playlist as well.

Well, when it was stock, it was a moderately feisty kick in the pants to drive and had a surprising amount of utility. Since then it has undergone lowering, stiffening, a few power mods, and gained a welded in roll bar. Now it’s kinda like having a psychotic little person slap you with raw meat while threatening you…

Both, actually.

Yes please?

Never thought I’d find another VNV Nation fan on Jalopnik, haha. I think we can fairly say Illusion is not a driving song though.

Hey, at least everyone I race with knows I have an endless supply of sunscreen, gotta keep nice and pale!

More or less.

So true, haha! I have Everything and Retaliate on my pre-race playlist.

While I can respect Led Zep from a historical perspective, it’s not so much my game. I’m much more of a glam girl if we’re working in that era.

I think you’re confusing EBM with industrial, easy mistake to make. EBM traces it’s origins to later era Kraftwerk. While there can be a certain amount of rock influence, it is most definitely a dance music genre. I don’t find them weird to drive to at all, but then I’m also the girl in all black with a black helmet…

I’ll take the tattoos. I have plenty of ink already so I know I can handle it. I actually would go straight to my local Fiat studio and pick up another Abarth. Or might get an Alfa 4C, they’re in the same building anyway. It takes a certain brand of lunacy to want either and it’s roughly the same kind of lunacy that…