My Abarth, has been very reliable in its first year of ownership, nothing has gone wrong with it and its fuel economy is decent, considering its increased performance over a standard 500. Times have changed, though. The cars are both bigger, they’re both safer, they’re both more reliable and they’re both faster, a lot faster. The Fiat 500 now comes in a venomous 595 package from Abarth, this model uses a juiced-up 1.4 litre turbocharged petrol engine to take the car from 0-60mph in just 7.6 seconds. It’s almost more economical to look into buying a new (used) Abarth. This however is also a tricky situation as selling a car with a broken roof that costs $4,000-$6,000 to repair (let alone finding someone to take the repair on) is equally problematic. But it’s such a fun car to blast around in.. BIindsight. 2015 manual abarth bought used, been using it for about eight months as a daily driver and so far I've only had one issue fixed completely under warranty. I had the turbo completely go out, no clear reason, dealer couldn't even tell me why it happened, just that it failed, CEL didn't even come on, but four days of a loaner and $0 later it's In the all-important realm of resale and reliability, the 2016 Fiat 500 has yet to surpass more established cars like the Honda Fit and Mini Cooper. the Fiat 500 Abarth offers aggressively Fiat has been improving on the 500's durability continuously since its inception, with the 2019 model scoring three out of five in predicted reliability by J.D. Power, making it marginally more Drankino ‘15 Fiat 500 Abarth • Additional comment actions I was thinking about getting the venom tune recently but after reading everyone that has actually owned an abarth saying tunes and mods are the real reliability issue I’ve decided against it. In 2019 we purchased a 2017 Abarth (lease return) with ~25,000 miles. Always perform oil/filter changes within 5,000 mile intervals, but less is better (like 3,000 mile intervals). Every 30,000 miles you want to change the spark plugs, replace MultiAir filter, clean the injectors and clean the throttle body (and again, less is better like An automatic transmission is now available for the more powerful 500 Turbo and Abarth, while all 2015 Fiat 500 models (except the base Pop trim) get an upgraded instrument cluster. Here are a few data points that highlight the 500’s reliability: RepairPal gave the Fiat 500 an above average reliability rating of 3.5/5 and ranks it in 18th place amongst 21 other subcompact cars. Its average annual maintenance and repair cost of $522 is only slightly higher than the average for the subcompact class which stands at $456. TMhw.