Fiat turns 2017 Fiat 124 Spider into an Abarth 124 Spider having 170 horsepower

The 124 Rally, a purpose-built race vehicle that Fiat and its Abarth performance arm will start offering to racers quickly after the 2016 Geneva car show finishes.

The Abarth 124 Rally is the successor to the vehicle of the very same name that Fiat/Abarth marketed from 1972 to 1975 particularly for rally competitors. Like that vehicle, the brand-new design looks extraordinary with its variety of complementary driving lights dotting the front end, totally race-prepped interior, and power bump over regular Fiat 124 Spiders. Make that an enormous power bump– the 124 Rally spits out 300 horse power from a 1.8-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine, fairly a jump over the 170 horse power Abarth extracts from the pedestrian 124’s 1.4-liter turbo 4. The engine, unlike the MultiAir four-cylinder shared by the 124 Spider and the Fiat 500 Abarth, utilizes direct fuel injection, in addition to its bigger displacement and most likely substantial tuning task to produce another 130 horse power.

The engine powers the rear wheels through a six-speed sequential-shift gearbox and a mechanically sealing rear differential.

Abarth 124 Rally is reported to be coming next year.