Fiat Abandons Base 124 Spider In UK Market - Where Next?

Fiat has removed the 124 Spider roadster from sale in the UK after just over two years on the market.

The model, which shares a platform with the Mazda MX-5, was taken off the company's model line-up on its website last week. However the Abarth version, in Spider and hard-top GT form, remains on sale.

Autocar is awaiting comment from a Fiat UK spokesperson, but the car's removal from sale could potentially be due to WLTP emissions regulations. The car's 1.4-litre 'Multiair' turbocharged petrol engine is an older unit that's been in use by various Fiat-Chrysler brands for some years now, and it may not have been cost-effective to upgrade it for the introduction of more stringent emissions tests late last year.

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PUGPROUD - 1/7/2019 3:54:01 PM

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Wherever!

MDarringer - 1/7/2019 6:49:47 PM

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The Fiata needs to die.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 1/7/2019 8:35:11 PM

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PUGPROUD - 1/7/2019 10:06:15 PM

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While I get your point, it was an Alfa Romeo Duetto that Dustin Hoffman drove in the movie not a Fiat.

mini22 - 1/7/2019 11:39:33 PM

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Further the 1.4 multicar turbo engine that is built in America is a decent engine. I've owned 2 Fiat 500 Abarth's. The engines have never given me any issues what's so ever.