Pity the Fiat Strada Abarth. Launched in 1982, its claim to fame was, for around a year, that it was the fastest hot hatch on the market. Until, that was, the Mk2 Golf GTI came along and eclipsed it.

The Fiat Abarth Strada 130TC was a fascinating entry in the hot hatch wars of the 1980s. It arrived in South Africa in 1985. Willem Pretorius has always wanted to get his hands on this classic car ...

Nata al Salone di Torino 1978, la Fiat Ritmo è stata la modernissima erede della Fiat 128 nel segmento delle medie berline da famiglia; il salto generazionale tra le due, con il passaggio ...

If you started naming eighties hot hatches, how many would you come up with before you mentioned the Strada Abarth? Be honest... At a time when lots of small and small-ish hi-performance hatchbacks ...

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Fiat’s Forgotten Hot Hatch: The Strada 130 TC Abarth ...