Gah, why do I keep looking at this advert?

I'm not even sure that I'd fit the car (supposedly you'll only fit into this if you're up to 175cm tall, I'm two inches taller) plus it'll be a PITA to import first into the UK and then into the US a few months later:

http://home.mobile.de/home/showDetails.html?id=119010023&__lp=2&scopeId=AV&sortOption.sortBy=makeModelDescriptionSortField&sortOption.sortOrder=ASCENDING&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=false&siteId=GERMANY&damageUnrepaired=ALSO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&export=ALSO_EXPORT&grossPrice=true&customerIdsAsString=2071393&lang=de&pageNumber=1&partnerHead=true&showZip=false&showModels=false&hideVehicleType=false

Oh, and it's not that fast either, it just looks fast.

There you go mate ... the perfect car for those nasty Chicago winters!

Boxhead Tim Once you get over here you are going to have to remember we use different units of measure. ie we don't measure our bodies in centimeters or weigh them in stones. People may look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. Especially down South.

BTW, I love that car too!

My apologies, supposedly only drivers up to about 5'9" can get comfortable in that car and I'm 5'11" .

And yes, it'll be perfect for a Chicago winter, as long as it's tucked up in a nice garage...

I'm still tempted to pay the company a visit if I can find the time, I should be able to make there and back in a day.

hey, that looks a lot like a little FIAT Abarth coupe that races in my club (VRG).

Neat little car but the (green) colour is a bit over-the-top. See picture below.

You can actually see me following it (and a similar-looking SAAB) at around the 1:30 mark in - This Video-

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Those are indeed cool little cars, and variants have shown up in the magazine. I even started a thread about them a while back because they caught my eye and I had never heard of them before.

http://classicmotorsports.net/forum/classic-cars/interesting-abarth-coincidence-in-issue-135/3059/page1/

Thanks for the link to the video, that was very cool. It seems that the (non-Abarth) Lombardi Grand Prix is a rather rare thing this days and I have a hankering for very rare Italian stuff.

Someone talk me out of this pronto, please!