Abarth 600e
Why 5.9: Abarth's most powerful car ever, and its first EV crossover: 280 hp, a synthesized soundtrack piped through an external speaker, and a 1,949-unit Scorpionissima launch edition finished in a purple exclusive to the car. Reviewers call it a genuine hot hatch on stilts; at 1,640 kg it's also the heaviest thing wearing a scorpion badge, and it's too new to know if buyers will actually drive it that way.
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Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €43k (2024) → €34k (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 600e picks up exactly where the 500e left off — no exhaust, so no real Abarth noise, so Abarth wired in a speaker and committed fully to a synthesized soundtrack rather than pretend it doesn't matter. What's different this time is the hardware underneath: a 207 kW (280 hp) motor, the most power any Abarth has ever put to the road, launching the 1,640 kg crossover to 100 km/h in 5.85 seconds, with evo and Autocar both landing on some version of 'more character than it has any right to.' The launch-edition Scorpionissima — 1,949 units worldwide, a nod to the year Carlo Abarth founded the company, finished in an exclusive purple — arrived at roughly £41,000, a genuinely steep number for a Fiat-based crossover, with the wider 600e range starting nearer £37,000. It's simply too new for any real ownership data: no depreciation curve worth trusting yet, no sense of whether buyers who paid a premium for a limited edition will actually rack up miles in it or park it as the newest, priciest scorpion badge available. The chassis tuning and the instant torque are real; whether this becomes a driven car or a collected one is still an open question the market hasn't answered.