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By Jonathan Crouch

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The Abarth 600e gate-crashes the growing EV hot hatch segment with an Alfa Junior Veloce-derived electric powertrain and striking looks. This small Latin shopping rocket shows the electric era might be rather fun after all.

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The most powerful Abarth ever isn't some kind of junior supercar but an electric version of a fairly humble Fiat family hatch. Driving excitement is still in prospect though from this car, the Abarth 600e. We've had Abarth models of this size before - the rare Abarth Punto - but the brand is mainly known for citycar-shaped pocket rockets. In 2022 with the launch of the Abarth 500e, those started to turn electric and this fast 600e continues that trend, borrowing much of its engineering from the fastest Veloce version of Alfa Romeo's Junior Elettrica. The wild look is very much of a Fiat 600e on steroids, but the differences between the two cars are more than skin and spoiler-deep, thanks to this Abarth model's performance-orientated Perfo e-CMP platform.