ABARTH Introduction

When it comes to the famous tuning factory Abarth and the famous Abarth model, we have to mention the founder of the company.

Karl Abarth was born on November 15, 1908 in Vienna, Austria. At the age of 17, Abarth became an apprentice at the Castagna Automotive Design Studio in Italy, where he mainly learned to design motorcycles and bicycle bases. By 1927, he returned to Austria and began working at a motorcycle factory called Thun. This was also the beginning of his very successful racing career. So Carl started racing motorcycles, and he started winning. He has been awarded the title of European Champion five times and has also achieved considerable success in other arenas.

Beginning in 1934, both Germany and Austria felt the pressure of the Great Depression and were also anxious about the brewing World War II. At this time, Carl decided to immigrate to Italy to continue pursuing his motorcycle racing career. In Italy, however, he became famous not as Carl Abbas but as Carlo Abbas. But during a race in Yugoslavia, Carlo had an accident and had to recuperate for more than a year. Later, he cooperated with a private car studio to modify the car-converting the car into a racing car.

After World War II, Carlo returned to Monano, Italy, and began to cooperate with a private car company called Rodolfo Hruska.

Ferdinand Porsche was the founder of the Porsche Car Company, and his son Ferry Porsche followed in his father's footsteps. The Porsche family has been a good friend of the Abbas family for a long time, so Ferry Porsche provided Abbas with a job opportunity to help organize and manage the Porsche Car Company. With this job opportunity, Abbas got in touch with many famous car manufacturers. Among them, during the process of rescuing Porsche founder Ferdinand Porsche from prison, Porsche established a cooperative relationship with Cistialia Automobile Manufacturing Company, and Abbas served as Cistialia Automobile Company's technical and racing design instructor.

But soon the founder of Cistialia ran into trouble and immigrated elsewhere in 1949, and Cistialia Automobile Company also closed down. But this experience of cooperation with Cistialia opened the door for Abarth to enter the field of automobile manufacturing.

Abarth then established his own company in Italy, and its trademark is the shape of a scorpion. At the beginning, *** had 35 employees. Among them, Armando Scagliarini was a racing driver for Cisitalia Automobile Company, and he fully helped Abbas manage some affairs of the newly established company. At this time they began to produce automobile accessories, such as exhaust pipes, exhaust manifolds, valve springs, valves and transmissions, etc. are only part of the accessories produced by Abarth Motor Company.

From the early to mid-1950s, Abarth Motor Company began to modify mass-produced models, mainly Fiat models. These relatively low-priced Fiat models, after performance tuning and modification by Abarth Automobile Company, are often able to explode with invincible power and often win big victories in the competitions they participate in.

In 1955, Fiat launched the Fiat 600. Abarth developed it to its maximum potential, and as a result, the engine displacement of this model was increased to 0.75 liters, which greatly improved the overall performance of the car.

Abarth can not only improve the performance of the engine, but also the models tuned by Abarth show better aerodynamics and the body becomes lighter. These characteristics are the main reason why Abarth-tuned cars are able to win in world-class competitions. In addition, these Abarth/Fiat models are not as expensive as Ferrari or Bugatti, but they can perform impressive results on the track.

After the Fiat 600, there will be the 850 series. At this time, Fiat Automobile Company directly shipped the incompletely configured cars to Abarth Company for supplementary accessories and performance tuning. This cooperation continued until Fiat's Fiat 1000, and then to the 595 and 695, which were all products of the cooperation between Fiat and Abarth. These Fiat-Abarth models have won many victories in domestic and international car races.

But Abarth did not immerse itself in these impressive results. Instead, it continued to work hard and set the production of a complete Abarth model as its goal, so Abarth began to design and produce Formula 1 racing cars. Compared with the sports car, the engine displacement has been increased from 1 liter to 2 liters. This can be said to be another aspect of Abarth's success, and Abarth's own designed racing cars have achieved many victories in a large number of races.

In 1971, Fiat Automobiles acquired Abarth Automobile Company. But Abarth's equipment and construction remain the same. At the same time many Fiat models continued to be produced under the Abarth banner, and often these models were known for their sporty exteriors or high performance.