I have a soft spot for everything Fiat,
especially the Fiat 131 Mirafiori. This was because the car was one
which I had my earliest motoring memories. My father owned one
of these and we travelled distances throughout the Malaysian
Peninsular before the days of the North-South Highways. I was a good
car to own, but it had the dreaded Italian car rust problem of the
1970s. Made from cheap Russian steel they rusted even before leaving
the factory in Italy. But today, rust aside, we're talking about the special version - the Fiat 131 Abarth.
