Looks like a PT Cruiser and a VW Bug had an Ugly kid.

 

WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT

 

I think I read Fiat will be selling some in California.

 

Specification of Fiat 500 Abarth SS
1366 cc, 4 valve, 4 cylinder Turbo T-Jet Engine
Max Power: 160 bhp @ 5750 rpm
Max Torque: 206 Nm @ 3000 rpm
IHI RHF3 fixed geometry turbocharger
C150 5 Speed gearbox
Abarth air filter “powered by BMC”
Electric power steering with ’sport mode’
Mc Pherson front setup with roll bar
Front Brake: Perforated, ventilated front disc brake (284mm dia x 22 mm)
Rear Brake: Perforated, ventilated rear disc brake (240mm dia x 11 mm)
High perfomance front hand brake pads
Abarth esseesse 7″ x 17″ ET35 alloy wheels (paint white or titanium)
Tyres: 205/40 ZR 17 Pirelli Pzero Tyres
Tyre pressure sensors
Top speed: 211 km/hr
0 – 100 kmph in 7.4 seconds

And they weigh a little under 2000 pounds...

 

No Abarth SS, no care.

 

...And the ugliest car ever made. Next to that ******* garbage toyota called scion.




Considering the other garbage cars manufactures are putting out, I actually like this one... Kind of a cool ad, too.

 

Did someone say herrafrush??!!?!

 

1. gymkhana just another name for drifting.
2. That is NOTHING like a Group B car.
3. Ken Block sucks at WRC. I'll give him some credit. He has scored some decent victories in lower level rally races, but hes only ever scored 2 points in WRC in almost 4 seasons. I'm not saying hes a bad driver, but hes WAY over-hyped in the US.

 

Interesting setup, however is he not just changing wheels, coil overs, and loading a new map? Beyond headlights and radiator location, I can't see the interesting part about that car and it's "modes"

 

Apparently these aging videos are popular, I never found that out until tonight.

 

holy chit mang:

 

Anyone else sick of the Ken Block hype? There are a lot of "good" drivers out there that if they had the money Block does, could do the same ****...if not better. So the guy is popular with the kids because he has some videos on YouTube ******* around in airports with a high HP car. I'm also stick of seeing every douchbag out there with various "M" logos plasterd all over their cars and clothing. Monster products suck.

 

Holy effing Christ @ that turbo Atom!

 

Ken Block is a dumbass and no one who gobbles up the **** he's pushing knows anything about motorsport. lol @ his new car being designed to win, perhaps they didn't get the memo.

 

+1

We have a not-so-active member here that could out drive him any day.

FLYNMX5

 

Amen to that

 

Skip to 0:54

 

Ah, yes. Here we are.

In this riveting tale, Patrick Rothfuss is recalling days past, when he wrote an advice column for a college newspaper. Here, he responds to a young woman who wrote in, bummed about the fact that she is not allowed to keep pets (except fish) in the dorm. Mr. Rothfuss recounts his own struggle with that rule, and his creative solution to it.

The whole damn audience was just dying. (I wish the video had his intro, that was good too, and sort of segued into this bit.)

 

For the first ~40 seconds of this video I was thinking, "This thing doesn't seem that quick for a turbo atom." THEN he hit boost....

****. That. Thing.

(Wonder how it'd stack up against the V8 Atom...)

 

What road is that? I feel like I've seen a similar system of roads in a Miata video.