TALES OF THE SCORPION

Auto Express heads to Milan, Italy, to join the party as thousands of fans celebrate the 70th birthday of sports car and tuning company Abarth

Hugo Griffiths

Hugo_Griffiths@dennis.co.uk @hugo_griffiths “I fell in love with Abarth straight away. The noise, the performance, the handling”BERTIE BRYANT UK Owners Club COMPANY founders can be relied on to produce memorable quotes. Take W.O. Bentley’s desire to build “a fast car, a good car, the best in its class”; Enzo Ferrari’s proclamation that “aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines”; or Henry Ford’s recollection in his autobiography that “any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” To these might be added a line from Karl Abarth, founder of the sports car and tuning firm that has borne his name for 70 years. Karl – or Carlo, as the Austrian became known after he moved to Italy in 1934 – once declared that there is “a…

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