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The Tempest and the Teapot: Putting cheap Italian speed on the boil.
Elon Musk merely dreamed of building rockets and electric cars, the front-passenger air bag wasn't yet mandatory, and the euro currency didn't exist when Americans last had Italian speed on the cheap. Long past its Graduate-fueled prime, the Alfa Romeo Spider bowed out in 1994, and that was it for reasonably accessible Italian driving pleasure. Fiat had made an ambivalent effort to vend its wares before abandoning these shores a decade earlier, and the truth was that its cars hardly kept up with the Alfas even when modified by exhaust systems and other speed parts from the Abarth performance division.
Photo Gallery: Ducati Streetfighter 848 vs. Fiat 500 Abarth - Automobile Magazine
Photo Gallery: Ducati Streetfighter 848 vs. Fiat 500 Abarth - Automobile Magazine