RAW........... a new RMW company

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The future of the 500 in the U.S. is still kind of sketchy, they have undersold in a major way. Time will tell, but it's the exact opposite of what happened with the MINI. I don't like the seating position, I thought the MINI was high until I sat in this, but I love where they put the stick. The interior though...Ugh. Has a Yugo feel to it. The Abarth does look fun though--I haven't driven one of those, just the 500. We have a guy around here who bought a 500, basically converted it into an Abarth with parts, and ran the Targa in Canada. I'll never forget when they were tuning it-- he bought a performance header and exhaust, and no matter what they did with it, it made less power than stock. That was like four years ago, I don't know what he's done to it since. I've never seen anyone track one around here though.

The 4C and 8C are drop dead beautiful cars, and my guess is they'll make here as exotics.