This week, Brian Goodwin of Good-Win Racing was given the opportunity to test drive the Fiat 124 Spider, Fiat’s affordable roadster built on Mazda’s MX-5 ND platform. Brian took multiple variants of the 124 around an autocross course to find the limits of the car, and shared his experience with us at DSPORT Magazine. When news broke that There are 11 reviews for the 2019 FIAT 124 Spider, click through to see what your fellow consumers are saying. The Fiat 124 is a great car and an unbelievably good value in a sports car The Fiat 124 Spider. A lot of people think of a sports car as a fast, noisy automobile with a stripe. To Italian car-makers there’s a lot more to it than that. Consider the 124 Spider’s: twin cam engine, four wheel disc brakes, five speed gearbox, radial tires. In the land of Ferrari, Maserati, Lancia, and Fiat that’s how a car gets to be The Fiat 124 Spider is a brilliant sports car: it looks great, is brilliant fun to drive and is great value for money. It rides well, so even very bumpy British roads don’t get in the way of the Quantum Leaps: The ‘17 Fiat 124 Really SHOULD Have Been the New Alfa Spider. When Fiat first merged with Cerberus-owned Chrysler to become FCA, American fans of Italian marques — long ago orphaned by the likes of Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and Lancia — were positively drooling at the possibilities. “We might get the Lancia Delta,” read the Save up to $3,962 on one of 77 used 2018 FIAT 124 Spider Abarths near you. Find your perfect car with Edmunds expert reviews, car comparisons, and pricing tools. good price. 65,046 miles. No To me, the Fiat is a haphazard mashup of random design cues, some taken from the old 124, some just made up. The Miata, for the record, has some big design problems, but at least it's cohesive. Of course, this is, as always, opinion. And I promise not to make fun of anyone for disagreeing. BRAINSPAM. For used Fiat 124 Spider cars, choose Arnold Clark After an absence of more than a decade, the Fiat 124 Spider returned to UK roads in 2016. Based on Mazda’s best-selling MX-5 , it combined the Italian brand’s turbocharged MultiAir engine with a rear-wheel drivetrain. With the ND2 update for the 2019 model year that added a higher redline and thus more horsepower, the Miata has gotten faster than the Fiat 124. zeroto60times.com shows a 0-60 time of 6.4 seconds for the 124 Abarth, and 5.7-5.9 seconds for the various versions of the manual MX-5 Miata. Plus, there's turbo lag. There are a lot of good comparison DUCeditor Posts: 490 Joined: Sun May 23, 2010 7:36 am Your car is a: 1977 FIAT 124 Sport Spider Location: Monadnock Area, New Hampshire USA Contact: 7dM5JS.