for those of you been long subscribers of the channel will know that I have a
lot of love for this car this is Ben's car this is the Abarth 500 GTO this car was the
car at abarth day everybody kind of fell in love with and Ben has traveled
all the way down from Newcastle and it just happened to be that our diaries
have coincided and he's here right now today filming with me so I'm gonna give
you guys my reaction to this car and apparently it revs to over 7,000 rpm so
I'm excited to drive this welcome to the world's only about 500 GTO
tuned and modified by tuning art UK and HRE together they have created a 254 bhp
car that revs that seven thousand three hundred rpm and runs a max boost of one
point five seven bar the turbo itself is a hybrid garrett 1446 with a
billet wheel it also runs a HRE intake HRE intercooler full exhaust
three inch straight through all the way back to a back box but what is it
that makes this Abarth 500 GTO so special and unique the car has been
custom painted in Ferrari Rosso Corsa with a wrapped grey satin roof to match
that of the 599 GTO it's running 18-inch UltraLeggera wheels which are finished
in a custom matte bronze finish car also runs a jrz pro 2 suspension kit DNA
racing adjustable front drop links so much carbon fiber included a 300 front
splitter auto plus side skirts carbon rear wing and a beautiful carbon rear
diffuser by fiftyGO the interiors as good as the rest of the car the original
seats replaced by bride bucket seats and a short shifter GTO Carbon dash
trim custom trim steering wheel and much more the full list of modifications is listed
in the description HRE tuning provide lots of opportunity for
Abarth modifications in the UK they are also official above partners for OZ
racing and bonalume UK distributors now this abarth 500 GTO is a
beautiful beautiful car so much time has gone into the build it's absolutely
stunning I'm very excited to see how it drives
parking mode disabled and that's actually something so cool by the way
guys is Ben's obviously got screen radio which is cool but the rear view mirror
you'll see it now when I overlay it how cool does that look and this is a
product you offer is it yeah it's a product we offer and it's makes it look
stock
instinctively you want to shift earlier because you're used to the sound
but this just likes to sit at 5000 rpm and go.
you can hold it in a second gear third gear and just hold it 5000's to 7300 rpm
and it'll just keep on going thats what I like to hear
and this is gonna be interesting as well because obviously for you guys well know
I've got my own 250 bhp abarth and with a different kind of power
delivery to this it still has a lot of top end
you know what.. that feels fast that feels wicked it feels a bit alien to me to
hold it past seven it is alien for everyone that felt so weird it's almost
like the red line just kept going
I really like the delivery
you know before we go to because we're going to a meet after this I think I
need to take you out in mine.
yeah
it's very adjustable
the thing that I like about it being a very progressive
delivery is that you can still get some good traction on it yes that's one of
the big issues with big torque low end torque yes that you might get wheel spin
but you don't really wheel spin in this you can actually turn TCC
on you can give it a bit more beans
that's insane
the funny thing is mine and your cars
are running pretty similar power but it's the way they deliver the power that
gives you that sensation of speed it completely change the driving experience
it certainly does I mean that's why
you shift when it hits seven plus then you get the full extent of the
acceleration I think you've done a really good job with this car and it's
a credit to you because to find such a clean abarth from a aesthetics and a
visual but also then to talk about with the performance it's you build a rounded
car thank you very much it didn't always come like this when I bought it was the
cheapest crappiest Abarth I could find in Hong Kong at a time
it was just a 500 Abarth relatively high mileage for Hong Kong
yeah it was just full of door dents and
everything we knew that nothing was going to stay standard
7300 is addictive! yes
people wonder why they do
so much power the revs is where you get the long legs
all that high-end power it just makes this car so good it's very
good when we mapped the car we spent four
days on the dyno we mapped the car for 99 octane
what's the suspension setup is obviously it feels
sturdy in suspension yeah so we were over at dinner
in Hong Kong we kind of said to the company hey can you make something for the
Abarth they said never done it but we can so we commissioned them to do it so we had
two systems made for myself and this is one area and then people tried it we've
made a lot more since then they're not cheap because in order to get the car to
sit low on the back you have to have have the travel as well so what they had to do was
to move some internal valving and all the fluids
quick shift feels very good as well
it just feels like a nice place to be in this abarth
you've got constant power as well wherever you are within the rev range
you've got that power yeah all right let's
get this home and then summarize wait because I'll always I'll be here revving to 7300
all day long in this I do!
so we're back home and what a car the Abarth 500 GTO is
it's absolutely awesome it and it just puts things into perspective for me I
think a lot of people aim for that 250 bhp figure but you've gotta aim for 250
bhp with a drivable power delivery and that thing there from a linear power
delivery it's absolutely insane that feels very OEM plus shout-out to Ben
for coming down all the way from new cars obviously he didn't come and down
here specifically for me but he's made the time it's a copter to pop down and
see me and obviously make this video I leave all of
his links and all the links to any of his websites in the description
below make sure to check all of that stuff out guys my name stef and
you guys of course have been awesome I hope you enjoyed my reaction to this car
and I'm gonna see you all very soon on the next one thank you very much for
watching bye bye