but Fiat employs a turbocharged, 1.4-liter engine – the one from the 500 Abarth. That means there's more power on tap in the 124 Spider, and if our time in the scorpion-badged 500 is anything to ...

You see, Fiat's scorpion-branded tuning house has laid its hands on a host of models over in Europe, and now that we're finally seeing the performance fruits of the Chrysler-Fiat merger.

The FIAT 124 Spider has a base price of just below $25,000. For that money, there are very few convertibles available and fewer still that claim to be actual sports cars. In fact, the only two ...