The first time we got our lucky mitts around the chubby steering wheel of Fiat’s frenetic 500 Abarth, we were piloting the car through vast expanses of the Nevada desert and on the racetrack. It was a good time. But when it comes right down to it, small hatchbacks like this Fiat, even the rip-snorting Abarth-tuned variety, are likely to spend most of their time closer to the places that human beings tend to live.
