The Fiat 124 is an exciting car to drive — responsive, light, fun, and clearly engineered around the driver. In Canada, the 124 may displace the 500 as Fiat’s best-selling car — despite the presence of the Mazda Miata, which shares most of its chassis, but has a different powertrain. When...

Allpar’s Patrick Rall was in California recently to test drive the Fiat 124 , taking a base model through the highways and byways for hours, then switching over to an Abarth for racing on the track. In our full story, Patrick talks about acceleration and power (“When you get out of those...