10 ways the Fiat 500C Abarth is America’s most Italian car: Motoramic TV

Normally, “sport” buttons don’t do much. You press “sport” and maybe the steering gets a little firmer, the throttle tip-in gets tipsier. But the Fiat 500C Abarth has a sport button that actually does something. In the Abarth, sport mode raises torque from 150 lb-ft to 170 lb-ft—a difference that you can definitely feel. That pile of torque (and the accompanying 160 hp) is pretty righteous for a 1.4-liter motor bolted into a car that only weighs 2,545 pounds.