2015 Automatic ABARTH... It's 10 times better!!!!

[BayshoreBuddy]

Thank you BidDaddySRT, while I was shopping for my new 2016 Abarth I had occasion to drive manuals and automatics. Fortunately I read you posting during the process and your review helped me choose the 6-speed for the many reasons you mentioned. Thanks again!

[BayshoreBuddy]

Thank you BidDaddySRT, while I was shopping for my new 2016 Abarth I had occasion to drive manuals and automatics. Fortunately I read you posting during the process and your review helped me choose the 6-speed for the many reasons you mentioned. Thanks again!

After searching locally and across the US, I am now the proud owner of a 2017 FIAT 500 Abarth, Black with Bk/Red leather, popular package, and a 5-speed transmission. Yup, missed out on the Auto-6-speed, I tried but the deals went south when the seller jacked up the price by $999. Another seller wanted to use a "Conditional Delivery Agreement" so they could jack up the price after I took the car.

After searching the nation, I found my Abarth at a FIAT Dealership 35 minutes from my home with 11,000 miles on the odometer and still under factory warranty = SOLD !! Drove it home yesterday and scored my first Sunday drive on the local twists and turns.

[BayshoreBuddy]

Previously owned 2008 VW R, 2005 GTI, 2015 GTI - all with DSG transmissions, a recent drive in a 2015 Abarth auto revealed that the Aisin auto is better and convinced me to search for a 2016 Abarth auto with new dash & entertainment centers. Will advise of progress. Thanks to the many postings describing their experiences with the Abarth auto - great info!

Much later 08/28/2022, my search wound up with a 2017 Abarth 5-speed, 12,000 miles still under warranty daily driver. I was impressed by the automatic but found the 5-speed to be more fun funning up and down the gears. 2.5 years later, miles and miles of smiles, running the Tail of the Dragon, etc. confirmed my choice to go for a stick.

[Sgarner107]

Fell in love with the Abarth in 2014 after seeing a used 2012 red one at a local dealer...I walked over and looked inside and saw it was a stick and asked the guy if they came in auto, he said no...then he started it up and said take a ride. Damn!!! I was in LOVE!!!! couple years later I find a brand new 2015 grey now with automatic BEAUTY with this new LCD dash color COOOOOL...I bought it and never quite felt it... I thought the total boredom of just pressing the pedal and the paddle shifting? lol right I think it even shifts for you if you over rev in manual mode...anyways after a year I got rid of it.

I bought it for 23k sold it a year later for 16k over the years I still love them and admire them ... and last year a 2012 RED Manual 25k miles pops up in front of my screen while I was searching for boobies....it was fate!!! Now I am a proud owner of a red manual baby... and I LOVE IT SOOOOO MUCH short shifting wahhh....wahhhhhhhh, wahhhhhhh OMG!!!!!!!!!! I blush zipping through the canyons... now I am not saying the auto is lame.. I am saying I owned 2 completely different vehicles... My 2015 auto daily car so auto kind of was a must. Also I traveled very long trips in it. I made it more comfortable, sound deadened the panels, better stereo etc.. But this 2012 red beauty, mods, cracks and pops from the exhaust, a tune, some coil overs and stiffen front and rear... etc what pure Fing Joy before i die!