G. David Felt

Please you must have your head in a vice grip to not see the squeezed tall head of an ugly small car that will tip over easily in a high wind. Yet, as they say, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Enjoy your love of the car as I think there are far better sub compacts than this ugly basterd of a car. You do release that those trucks and SUVs you love so much have a much higher center of gravity than any car does and therefore are much more prone to rollover right? The Abarth has a top speed of 131 mph which is nothing to sneeze at. Styling is subjective but as far as small cars go I think its great looking and full of personality. Much more so than the Spark. It's also selling quite well for a new brand to America with a comparatively small dealer network and in spite of poor advertising. True, Trucks and Suv's do have a much higher center of gravity unless you have tuned them to be better performance handling. My Suburban is a perfect example which has had the suspension replaced from the normal 1/2 ton to a 2.5 ton Kodiak suspension. It rides hard but almost no body roll when I take our clover leaf on and off ramp at 80+ So the Arbath might have a 131 MPH top speed, but I know my Trailblazer SS goes faster as does my tuned Subruban and Escalade. Will stick with my comfy roomy large SUV's. Now back to our program of this Subjective Ugly little car. I actually like the spark Personality far better than this car. It looks like a sad little jelly bean that has sat so long it has become fat around the base with a pointed head. Their POP, SPORT, Lounge, Lounge Cabrio just does nothing for me or anyone else I have asked around here.

See here I again disagree with you as the Fiat has a Hot Wheels look to it. In regards to how people think about Fiat, around Seattle they hear that name and what comes to mind is an OLD SOCIALIST GARBAGE Making car company. Fiat had lousy cars last time they were here in the states and still do not make that great of cars based on experiance of being in them over in Europe. I would take many other car companies over Fiat if I was in Europe. Fiat has returned after 27 years and for young teen and 20's it might be considered a new company, but for those of us who have been around a bit longer, they are bottom of the bucket garbage cars that we remember when they were here back in 1985. Now with the state average income much higher than other states, the Fiats are not selling here. People are buying American, German and then Asian. The few that have sold seems to be to people that have moved here from out side this state. They might be selling better in other states, but they are just piling up on the couple dealership lots here. In fact the Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler Dealership called Rairdon also opened the Fiat and they have moved the Jeeps, Dodges and Chrysler products to the front street line row since the Fiats are not selling. http://www.rairdon.com/ They have 110 sitting on their lots and they are collecting dust bunnies. They offer $500 rebates and 0% financing up to 72 months and they still cannot sell them.

For sure the Chevy Spark is far better looking, even the Mini is better looking than this car. Hyndia's, Kia, they all have better looking subcompacts than this IMO.

Some cars should just be scrapped and left to the history books. Here is a perfect example. Love the It ran when parked 18 years ago. Jeers, ready for the recycle pile.

I think that most companies if they focused the Hybrid on fancy ultra cool luxury versions first, they would get the price of the technology down faster. I truly believe that with Caddy getting their own totally Rock On Cool Version of the Volt, it will help GM get this technology into far more auto's. This will then help them exceed the new corp standards. Does anyone else think that they Hybrid should have been focused on the luxury divisions first to recoop the R&D costs over going with a Chevy version that required a big GOV tax break?

Black Lab

Your just way too funny!!! The Verano is also a great vehicle for us big folks, Me being 6'6" tall if we wanted a small CUV, then this is great. But it is still a small auto.

Interesting you should bring up Fiat's wacky American dealer network. Here in Kentucky, the two nearest Fiat dealerships to me are in Florence, a town 12 miles south of Cincinnati, and Louisville. Both are around 100 miles away from me. I understand Louisville because its one of Kentucky's largest cities, but Florence? There's a Fiat dealership in Cincinnati proper, so why can't folks in Florence drive a mere 12 miles up the road to buy and service their 500s? I also don't see, you know, tons of people in Florence driving 500s, either. Lexington is Kentucky's other large metropolitan area besides Louisville and I think a Fiat showroom there would attract more buyers and general interest than one in Florence, considering one of the largest colleges in the state is there. I totally agree with this that having a dearship hundereds of miles from a customer is not going to win over someone to buy their product and setting one up only 12 miles away from a major town in a small town is just stupid. Here the dealership is close to seattle and the next major one is almost 100 miles away but at least you have the ability to cover a nice wide area, but then the hilly Seattle area is all about the SUV and the dealerships here are over loaded with these small ugly cars. Maybe if they did some newspaper and Television advertising would help to bring in potential buyers. Yet the crowd I think this is focused at are also the same people that preferre the share a ride which is huge in the seattle area. Just pay your monthly fee and then also a basic cost when you need a car. This works out better for those that live in the big cities.

Please you must have your head in a vice grip to not see the squeezed tall head of an ugly small car that will tip over easily in a high wind. Yet, as they say, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Enjoy your love of the car as I think there are far better sub compacts than this ugly basterd of a car.

That was Rock on for a Communicate nothing show. Yea they hit the few talking head points, they should have allowed him to point out some things the Gov and the car business should be doing to really rock us forward. Still great to see he is kicking hard. Awesome dude.

Sweet Post Balthazar, that is really cool, I had no idea the headlamps followed you as you turned the steering wheel.

Over all, take a Nice mid 80's Monte Carlo with a Ramjet 350 or 502 or even a modern LS3 or LS9 under the hood to anything that is a current selling product and I would kick their ass on a Red light Run. Sleeper baby!!!

Sweet Red Ferrari and a Black Menacing Lambo in Seattle this morning. Gotta love sport cars.

There is room for limited production run of RWD V8 cars. This can be a profitable niche that will please people and act as a halo car to other auto's that Chevy sells.

WOW, Hope everyone is truly OK and no long lasting scars or bodily dammage done.

We could say the same thing about why did GM not use Pontiac for limited edition runs of modern versions of old performance cars. This is a beauty and I think there is a market for limited production runs of select desirable cars.

Yea just put the terrorist in front of the Rubicon and smash the Gas Pedal!!!

WOW, I loved the 928 GTS, that car rocked!!! Color sucks though.

First start by dropping off the cliff the ugly GT-R and bring back a real Skyline. In regards to the other two, I know some people really like the Z and SX cars, but I will pass on them.

H'mmmmm So at first I was thinking HELL NO WAY on this!!! Yet the more I ponder this, the more I realize this will not only make the roads safer for those of us that love to drive, but it will keep the lemmings, Yes you bozo's that want to play with your phones, makeup, etc anything other than be a responsible driver in line so I can quickly drive around you all. Give us the choice, either full automatic driving or full hell yea I am responsible for my kick ass driving skills.

WOW, Just more ways to take an ugly non selling car and have plenty of production sheet metal sitting around for the birds to poop on. Even the last few months show it still is not selling here in the states. Hello anyone at the helm of Fiat???? Do you not realize you have the wrong cars for the wrong market???? Wonder how many millions more will be spent before they pull the plug again and flee or finally wake up to realizing the tastes of this car are not liked here.

Sweet, Gotta love the room under the hood to work on the baby. It just does not come any easier than this for working on the car. Love that big ol wood siding. Funny how I hate this on most vehicles, but the Olds Station wagon and the Fords actually looked pretty good this way.

I totally agree, if you had a torque monster 4 banger that got you in the low to mid 20's in a full size pickup so you could still haul a days work of material and tools, I think it would work out really well. Especially if the interior was designed to be hosed out so you would not have to worry about mud, etc. I think Chevy could do this in their full size truck using the 2.8L Duramax Diesel engine. That would totally rock.

I feel that it would be good to KILL OFF, Yes I said it, KILL OFF Lincoln and then decide what REAL products they want in a luxury division versus we will sell this under FORD.

So when Toyota decides to stop investing in the ugly prius due to lack of demand for the product, they will get their own large negative movie titled: "DEATH of the Hybrid, How Toyota killed what should have saved the world!" Some how I do not think we will ever see they vilified the way GM has been. So much Double standard BS from the Politicians and idiot americans. The biggest villian has been Consumer reports which has totally lost their way in unbiased judgement of who is good and who is bad.