Welcome to Stef AB TV and welcome to the brand spanking new 2020 abarth
695
70th anniversary. Oh, and I'm going to tell you everything that you need to know about the cars behind me. What's new?
What's different? So if you like that stay tuned, okay
So I think I'm gonna start with the fact that I think for some this car may be a little bit Marmite
I think you're gonna either love it or you're gonna hate it and I want to know what camp you sit in
So let me know in the comments below. But before you do, let me show you absolutely everything first it for me
it's almost like Aniceto courser and a bit pasto kind of donated organs and
Create this which is the 70th anniversary six nine five now. Abarth are only making
1949 models to align with the
70 years of a bath which for me is a good thing because this means that these will more than likely
hold value
Let's start with the color a new color to grace the modern day a bath called green monza
1958 now at a first glance you may not like the color but there's actually history behind it in
1958 a series of record cars designed by Pininfarina that were powered by a bath engine broke speed and endurance
Records and the Monza racing circuit then in the same year the Fiat Abarth 500
Berlina record was lost in the same color. The green ones a 1958 color is in fact the hero color for the new 695
70th anniversary
But if you really can't get past this color you have to trust for a few more
You can go for the pista gray the gara white
scorpion black or podium blue
So we get a brand new color for this car we get the Monza green 1958, but what else do we get with it?
We get the flare plate arches that we're familiar with but for me
there's one thing in particular that I am very very excited about and
Listening
This is the Isetta variable adjustable rear wing. I
Absolutely love it. And it's the first adjustable wing that we've seen on a modern era abbath
It can be manually adjusted from 0 to 60 degrees in 12 different positions each giving different amounts of downforce
when the wing is fully raised it gives up to 42 kilograms of aerodynamic downforce on the entire car at a speed of
124 miles per hour
Okay, so we know there's some history behind this car, which is absolutely awesome
But what else do you get with the brand new ab r 6 9 v we've already touched on this epic epic spoiler
I really really like this
I think this looks absolutely superb and as mentioned obviously you can tilt this up to 60 degrees which will give you about
42 kilos of extra downforce up to 124 miles per hour. Now. What about the engine?
well
The engine for me unfortunately has to be the biggest disappointment and I'll tell you why it is still running
180 horsepower and it has the new Garrett one four four six turbo which produces 180 horsepower around 185
Foot-pounds of torque however for me this was their chance to go over 200 bhp
And they didn't now from an interior perspective you get these beautiful tricky Laurie say about seats now
I do think they lives amazing
You've got obviously the Italian flag up there and you've got this lovely kind of bronzed line that goes straight through the seat
But ultimately I'll say belt seats and if you don't like say bolts and you find a bit more difficult to sit in then well
There won't be anything different with these but for me, they actually look really really nice. Really
nice, obviously
You get the UConnect system as well with apple carplay in this as standard you get Alcantara steering wheel and you get an hour
Kintaro - as well, you also get the
695 specific
Floor mats, which is a it's a nice addition
I guess that does look nice but the bit that I really really like and I think it's a really nice touch is to use
The Heritage logo celebrating 70 years. We've got a heritage logo on the steering wheel which does look very very cool. Obviously
These are Italian models. So you've got a boost gauge on the Left UK models. We'll have it up there
we do get the record monser exhaust which is a valved exhaust which obviously now in the new models works with the sport button now,
for me
There's an argument to say maybe they should have gone out crow povich on a 695
But I've always been a fan of the modern ones or it's also really I'm not complaining that much
I do think that these arches however, they do look very very nice
But for me, I would have liked to have seen these kind of color-coded
I just can't go over this wing and I think there's gonna be so much popularity for this rear wing
We do get the Brembo brakes as standard
These are the 305 discs on the front and I believe it is being 205's here on the back
So you get the Super Sport wheels as well on this car and as a whole package, of course, you've got the Green Monza
1958 color but you can also get it in gora White's podium blue and scorpion black now
This is a bit of a rush video guys, because these are all going to be taken out
There are loads and loads of press people here
So I do apologize for my speed now it so excited about this car being 180 horsepower with the Garrett one 446 turbo you also
Get the BMC intake in this car and from a suspension perspective. You are running the cony FS DS
From the front here you can see it's a little bit lower
You have got the cony suspension on this car as well from an exterior design perspective
You get the xenon headlights with the DRL rings with the halo lamps
Obviously we talked about the color already, which is the hero color
This is the one that they are launching in you also get the Abarth scorpion
Imprinted into the front of the bonnet now on the top of the roof
you'll see I don't know if you can see you've got the checkered platinum pattern which is
imprinted on the top
I believe you can peel that off if that's not something you fancy which then leads all the way back to for me
Which is what this car is all about. I touched about the vintage logo on the steering wheel
You've also got the Abarth vintage logo here on the back the side and right here on the front as well
Which is a very very nice touch as someone revs the car
Significantly next to me. So what about performance I've talked about the fact that it's a 180
Bhp, Garrett turbo which means they will do a 0 to 60 time in
6.7 seconds
Which isn't bad but it's not groundbreaking when you compare this to the bit pasto the old 695 which is running 190
Bhp, and it was doing 5.7 seconds to 60 granted
The biposto was 2 seats and granted that didn't have any AC, but for me, I'm finding it
I'm finding it difficult from a performance element to really kind of get excited about the car. I haven't driven it yet
I will be driving it very soon. But why can't we from an aesthetics respect for my looks perspective?
I really like it. Look my own issues with performance aside. I think this looks really nice
I have to admit the green ones a 1958 new color
I get the idea they're bringing history into the new world. And I think they've done a really good job with it
I actually think that this color will probably be the one that will hold its value the most because it is the hero colour although
I'm not sure maybe Agoura white car would look good because it's kind of it'll just blend the arches in a bit more
Let me know let me know what you think about that. Now. The next thing is that I really want to drive it
I want to see what this is all about now
We're here at the a bath day at the exhibition centre here in Malaya
Now obviously I talked about the fact that you could twist this up to sixty to sixty degrees to give you much more downforce
I don't know whether I'll be able to get it up to the speeds that will actually show
Whether or not it makes a difference, but believe me
I used to have a road race motorsport rear wing on the back of my Abarth five nine five
And I promise you that did make a difference
and in fact
it probably
Angled up as high as that and you could almost feel that the car really does squat down and it will squat the whole car
Down as well
So from the first impressions
They literally just unveiled about 20 minutes ago the new about five six nine five
70th anniversary or I hope you guys enjoyed this video make sure to stay tuned because I will be driving this very shortly in fact
I'm going to do a few laps of this place now - except you guys have been awesome
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