Geneva 2019: Special show 70 years Abarth
ANNIVERSARY With a special exhibition, the Geneva Motor Show (until March 17) congratulates the legendary Italian brand Abarth on its 70th birthday. This show will not be seen again so soon. Last year, the special exhibition "Le Retour du Futur" was already a great success with the public. In 2019, everything is a bit bigger, more beautiful - on around 700 square meters [...]
Already last year, the special exhibition "Le Retour du Futur" was a great success with the public. In 2019, everything is a bit bigger, more beautiful - on around 700 square meters, the most beautiful vehicles from the history of Abarth are shown in collaboration with the Swiss Car Register.
More than 100 international records
Among them are the little ones, also popular in Switzerland, which were created at the end of the 1950s on the basis of the Fiat 500 and 600 - and which dominated their racing classes until well into the 1970s.
The Abarth brand, which existed from 1949 to 1971 (and was only revitalized by Fiat in recent years), racked up more than 7,000 racing victories, won eight European and six World Championship titles - and secured more than 100 international records. Two of these record-breaking cars will also be on display in Geneva.
Most of the vehicles in the exhibition - you can see some of them in the gallery - come from a private Swiss collection. They are supplemented by loans, for example from the Abarth collection itself.
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TEXT: Peter Ruch
