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TANYA FYNN TAKES THE ABARTH 595 FOR A SPIN

You first notice it when you stop at a red traffic light. The gushing gazes, the appreciative nods from fellow female drivers and the curious expressions from male drivers. These reactions never stop, they only intensify at shopping malls, at the gym or when you park outside a trendy coffee shop. You quickly discover why. It’s the eye-catching Abarth that you are driving. The roar of its engine, its cute drop-top that makes this cabin feel much bigger than it is, and its modern trendy trim turns heads wherever it goes.

I was driving the neon green Abarth 595 from Fiat Chrysler Hillcrest recently, and boy-oh-boy what a thrill. At the swing of the key its powerful engine roars to life as a nod to this car’s sporting roots. Inside, its trendy cabin – there are no gear levers, just push-buttons – oozes sophistication.

As a professional woman who is constantly on the move for work, home-life and leisure, a car becomes an extension of you. It is more than just a vehicle that gets you from one point to another. It is a symbol of your personality – very much like your shoe collection or that favourite lipstick.

The Abarth exudes personality and is perfect in every sense for the modern go-getter female professional. It has the power and speed to take on all boy-racers on the road (not that we need to prove any point to them), is nippy enough to navigate peak-hour traffic through uMhlanga, and is the perfect size to make parallel parking easy-peasy.

The Abarth from Fiat Chrysler Hillcrest is everything and more a female professional wanting to make a statement and own her space in the world, would want in a car.