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Pics from last BMW Club event, got to drive customer car with our full exhaust system and other goodies...it was fun. I will miss the Saturday event this weekend, but plan to be at the SUNDAY BMW CLUB event.

Close up of our Project Fiat 124 showing front/rear brakes.

Brian wrote:Fiat Coupe Coming?

Make it a fastback....give it the 1.8 T...and I will sleep at the dealership's door!

Sadly, I do not expect a fastback because cost to engineer that is so MUCH HIGHER.

Thus, instead of THIS:



What I expect is fixed roof version that keeps the trunk unchanged, something like what you see on the rally car:

It's hard to argue with that fastback - but I'd love to see a Prht.

(Surely they must have been aware of the popularity it had when released for the NC!)

Years ago I had a Nissan 200sx (240 in the U.S I believe), it's not hard to imagine guys my age taking a long look at that fastback as a legitimate replacement for the "ricer" cars we used to blast around in!

Really is sad they didn't do both the fastback & a Prht rather than the soft top - especially so, considering they added the extra weight over the Miata anyway - because it would have given them two legitimate alternatives to the ND; at this point I don't see the soft top being different enough to really draw anyone in that didn't already like the Fiat...

Latest Spy Shot

Brian wrote:Latest Spy Shot

Doesn't fill me with hope that it's a Prht...

Maybe we'll get lucky and someone will produce a fastback conversion like those available for the NA/NB.

Both Mazda and Fiat have said PRHT / RF tech is Mazda only.

So, my working assumption is that we are looking at either a proper coupe....or removeable hardtop.

Brian wrote:Both Mazda and Fiat have said PRHT / RF tech is Mazda only.

So, my working assumption is that we are looking at either a proper coupe....or removeable hardtop.

That's a shame, much like you I'd line up to buy a Prht Abarth.

Very disappointed it's not the fastback "at least", because that's a genuinely pretty car - I'm certain they'd sell enough of those to recoup the costs involved, much more so than a simple coupe version that's for sure!!

Close up...

Great bit of history on how Fiat has been doing fast Roadsters for OVER 100 years!

https://silodrome.com/fiat-s61/

Brian wrote:Close up...

Interesting... Looks like a removable hard top? Any chance it might be cross compatible with the MX5?