Cross-over, Electric, Front-Wheel Drive. If you want to keep car Enthusiasts as far away from you as Possible, you are Guaranteed to Succed with these Three Things. However, Abarth and Mini Defy Logic by Delivering a Fun Machine with these ingredients, and one of the two brands turns out to be very good at it.
Enthusiasts can roar all they want: the world wags cross-overs. Just in The Compact Class, SUV-like Models Are Taking over More and More, just to the point Where Certain Hatchbacks-We’re Looking at You, Fiesta-Have Been Scrapped Entirely. What that does for the image makers and fun machines in this category is anyone’s guess. Car Manufacturers Much Prefer to Invest Their Limited Amount of Money In The Development of Yet Another Suv Or A Second High-Legged One Than In The Development of A GTI-Like Car That Is Ultimately Attractive To An Extremely Limited Audience. Yet there is a slight revival going on of the small fun rocket, albeit in fashionable cross-over form. Compact EV SUVS in particular are increasingly available in a lightning-fast variant, but at abarth they think they are going one step further. The Abarth 600 is ‘Just’ a Fiat 600E and Although That Last E Is Missing at Abarth, It is Always an Ev. That is a rather radical choice for a brand that made a name for itsself with its sputtering and rumbling petrol engines, yet abarth claims that this high, electric cross-over has everything to do justice to the abarth brand. We would like to check that, next to an equally promising mini JCW Countryman. We Already Know the Regular Aceman as an Extremely Dynamic Thing and this JCW Version Adds A Lot Of Power and Speechiness. Can’t Go Wrong, Right?
Limited
Both cars look tough and thick, but with the mini it is difficult to distinguish the real jcw from a less powerful one. A Regular Aceman E or So With John Cooper Works Trim Looks Almost the Same On The Outside and Inside, which is a bit of a Shame for Those Who Go For The Real Thing. In any case, that Doesn’tn’t Really Stand Out and the Abarth Certainly Does. The Gigantic 20-inch Wheels Are Standard for Every Abarth 600, As are the enormous roof spoiler, Unique Bumpers and of Course Abarth Logos. The Scorpionissima Version We Drove also Throws in Poison Green Brake Calipers and is only available in ‘Hypnotic Purple’. Do you think that is too flashy? Too Bad, because the only other option for this top version is the even more striking ‘acid green’. The Abarth 600 Scorpionissima also Differs from the € 4000 Cheaper Turismo with 280 Instead of 240 HP and is formally a limited edition, although it will undoubtedly be followed by a 280 hp version with a different name.
Limited Slip Differential
Inside, You Can Recognize The Top Version of the Abarth By The Super Sporty Sabelt Sports Seats, which Cool Your Back With Large Opening in The Backrest (And Invite Children’s Hands) and Clamp Around Your Like Like A Vise. The Abarth Already Feels Special Before We have driven a meter, and that is QUITE A TASK for an Ev. The Alcantara-Covered Steering Wheel Feels Great, The Car Responds Immediately to Commands And The Chassis Does Not Need Speed To Make A Sporty Impression. The car dribbles over the Asphalt in an almost racing car-like manner and is definitely firmly sprung, but not so rock-hard that it becomes really annoying. As long as you are alone anyway, because as a family car we would choose something else. What is Really Impressive About this Abarth, However, Is The Steering Behavior. Every Abarth 600-Including the Cheaper Turismo-Comes Standard with a Torsen Limited-Slip Differential, which mechanical directs the power of the single, Front-Mounted Electric Motor To The Wheel That Still Has Grip. That makes a world of differentence. If understeer threatens when steering in, all you have to do is step on the gas to get the car back on track. A remarkable experience, because with such an ev you can usually expect the opposite reaction. The 600 Bites Into the Inside of the Bend, Shines Even When It Goes Harder And, Partly Due to That Differential, Has A Very Own Character, Actually Unique For An Electric Front-Wheel Drive. This Doessn’t Feel Like A Dead Device, But Like A Living Machine.
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FCA Times
These buttons in the 600 are a legacy from the fca era.
That does not alter the fact that the aceman is also a fun car to be on the road with, but that is simply not in the jcw part. The interior with its its round screens and fabric dashboard upholstery is a true experience, steering is very fun with that thick steering wheeling and direct character and thanks to its es vertical windows and relatively low seat position, the car feels it is it. In Terms of Quality, the Mini also Makes a Better Impression and its Infotainment System is on a Much Higher Level. That round screen is certainly not good for clarity and it will really take you a while to understand everything, but this screen is graphically and in Terms of Speed much more up-to-date than the system we find in the abarth. That is mainly just typical stellantis, although the abarth version of the 600 does come with some fun gimmicks such a lap timer, that fake noise and extra gauges. Material use and finish are less than in the mini, but the atmosphere is great. Matte Black Finish, Glossy Black ‘Abarth’ Letters, Numerous Scorpions and Poison Green Accents also Make It Something Special Here. In contrast to the narrower 500, the 600 was Developed Entirely Under the Stellantis Concern, Yet here and there we still find some buttons from Old FCA Times. For example, the 600 does not have that irritating, poorly responsive switch to determine the driving direction, but a set of buttons that is much more pleasing. There are also some physical buttons for, for example, the interior temperature, which makes the infotainment system less important and therefore less annoying.
Practical
A traditional plus of a ‘hot hatch’ is that driving pleasure is combined with practical ase of use, and that is also the case here to a certain extent. In Terms of Space, The Abarth is of Course Hardly Inferior to the Regular Fiat 600E, which meets That it sacrifices more LugGage Space than the mini. On the back seat, howver, you have a significant disadvantage from those sabelt seats and the knee room is minimal. The Mini Actual Does Better Here and Is Still the Most Suitable for an occasional ride with some extra adults as passengers, for those who find that important. The tested mini looks with its its red accents as if one lone has thrown a lot of personal tastes at it, but that is secretly not too bad bath. Mini HAS Significant Limited the Number of Options and Actually only sacrifices Colors, Roof Colors and A Series of Option Packages On The Aceman JCW. The Test Car Has the Most Expective XL Package, which also immediately contains everything from the Cheaper Packages, and Therefore Costs € 50,890 Including Colors Intead or € 46.990. And Suddenly Just Slightly More Than the Abarth, because it costs € 49.990 AS Scorpionissimo and Then immediately completely finished.
The Ultra-Sporty sabbles Seats Are Not Good News for Legroom in the Back.
Such an aceman is not practical, but it goes.