A rally hot 'Barth.

Byline: Richard Hammond

OK, it's a rally car but I think it looks so steamy that I just had to slip in a picture of it.

It's the Abarth 500 R3T and it's got 180bhp, a sequential six-speed gearbox and some other very impressive sounding techy bits, like a self-locking differential and twindisc clutch. Fiat is launching a special one-make rally series for the car next year.

But I wonder how long it will be before some enterprising young customiser builds himself a rally replica... Actually, that's just given me an idea!