Abarth 595 Competizione
Why 8.1: 180 hp, a Record Monza dual-mode exhaust, Koni FSD dampers and Brembo brakes as standard — the top trim of Abarth's regular-production 595 range, still built and sold new, still cheap enough that nobody's speculating on one. Used prices sit in the $15,000-$20,000 range, which is exactly what a car meant to be driven, not collected, should cost.
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Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €25k (2016) → €13k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Two ISOFIX positions on the outer rear seats, the outer pair being the ones the standard covers.
The rear anchors are the supported route — the manual points child seats there, and front-passenger ISOFIX is the exception rather than the rule. A belt-mounted seat up front needs the airbag off, and cars with a rear row don't always fit a deactivation switch, precisely because the rear seats exist.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
The 595 Competizione is what happens when Abarth stops treating the top trim as a marketing exercise and actually specs it like a small track car: a Garrett-turbocharged 1.4-liter four making 180 hp, a Record Monza exhaust with a valve that opens into genuinely antisocial territory, Koni's frequency-selective dampers standard rather than optional, oversized Brembo four-piston front brakes, and Sabelt-built 'Corsa' shell seats holding the driver in place through it all. None of that is limited-edition theater — this has been a regular catalog trim since 2016, still ordered new today, which means unlike the numbered specials elsewhere on this shelf there's no artificial scarcity pushing the market. Depreciation has followed the pattern of every affordable, mass-produced hot hatch on this site: steep in the first few years, then a long flat tail, with clean used examples now available for $15,000-$20,000 — genuinely inexpensive money for 180 hp, a proper limited-slip-adjacent chassis tune and a Brembo brake package. That combination of real hardware and low buy-in is the same trick that made the base 500 Abarth and the SEAT Ibiza Cupra work on this Index: cheap enough that nobody's protecting it as an investment, good enough that owners actually use what they paid for.