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Lets just get this out of the way first, Romeo Ferraris is not a car club with playboy members who drive Ferrari’s but rather its an Italian tuning firm and race car builder and it has announced its participation in the 6 Hours of Vallelunga endurance race in Italy on November 22. And their weapon of choice is a Fiat 500 Abarth.

This is not just any Fiat 500 Abarth but it’s a hardcore competition model with a full carbon-fiber body and a heavily modified 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine
that produces a stonking 360 horsepower. Now we have seen some pretty hardcore 500’s but not even the 695 Tributo Ferrari and R3T rally machine comes close to this.

Obviously the tiny 1.4-liter turbocharged engine has been heavily worked on to produce such massive power, in fact, the racer boasts 257hp per-liter and that’s not to mention the super lightweight diet program that the car has been subjected to. The gigantic rear wing looks big enough to help a jumbo jet get up to its flight path but it really is to help the 500 stick to its race route.

Drivers Aldo Cerruti, Michela Cerruti and Mario Ferraris will be taking turns behind the wheel at the upcoming 6 Hours of Vallelunga endurance race on November 22 and we’ll be bringing you more of the race and how the car performed.

The Fiat Group'has confirmed that Fiat S.p.A will make a 'non-binding offer' for Italian automotive design and contract manufacturing firm, Carrozeria Bertone that could be sold as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.

Other companies interested in buying Bertone are said to include Chinese automaker FAW, an unnamed Spanish consortium and Italian entrepreneurs Gianmario Rossignolo and Domenico Reviglio.

Aside from the Carrozeria Bertone's design and engineering capability for specialty vehicles and concept cars, the firm also has a manufacturing plant in Turin. According to the coachbuilder's official site, the Grugliasco factory covers a total area of 310,000 sq.m. and has a potential output of around 70,000 vehicles per year.

Abarth firm has released a special edition version of the Abarth 500 bearing the Competizione moniker. The model is special in the sense that only 10 will be built with a price tag of €24,995 - that's about $34,800 ahem, ahem... So what will those lucky Dutch buyers get for €3,000 over the price of a standard Abarth 500?

For the exterior, the Competizione's features include a black roof top, unique 17-inch alloy wheels finished in black and graphics above the side skirts. Inside, the package adds a set of leather sport seats embossed with the Competizione logo while the standard equipment list now includes a navigation system, climate control, and an upgraded audio system.

In standard form, the 500 Abarth is powered by a 135HP 1.4-liter turbocharged four while Fiat also offers the Essesse kit which boosts output to 160HP.

You knew it was coming - a pinked out Barbie version of Fiat's 500 mini. Created by a partnership between the Fiat Centro Stile and Mattel, the customized Barbie 500 is a show car dedicated to famous doll for her 50th birthday and it will appear in public for the first time on Monday 9 March, when it will race through the streets of Milan's fashion district with 'Barbie' on the passenger seat and Ken behind the steering wheel.

Here are the first official photos of the new Fiat 500C, a rag-top convertible version of Fiat's highly successful retro-mini that will make if world debut at the at the Geneva Motor Show. The 500C is said to pay homage to the open-top 1957 model, which translates to a sliding back canvas rooftop that stretches out to the rear hatch window. The car is available in three colors (ivory, red and black), the soft top will be matched with several body colors, two of which have been designed specifically for the 500C in a Pearl Red and a Warm Grey.

The new 500C is exactly the same size as the basic model (3.55 m x 1.65 m x 1.49 m).The car will be offered with the the same three powerplants: 1.3-litre 75HP MultiJet Turbodiesel coupled to a 5-speed manual transmission, and the two 1.2-litre 69HP and 1.4-litre 100HP petrol engines, available with either manual or robotised Dualogic transmission.