Fiat 131 Abarth rally car test

摘要

We don't rate our prospects of phoning up Volkswagen Motorsport and casually asking to borrow last year's World Rally Championship-winning Polo RWRC for a test drive. The world was a more relaxed place in the late 1970s, though, and Fiat UK was delighted to offer Autocar its 131 Abarth, an example of the car that had won the WRC manufacturers' title in 1977 and, at the time of Autocar's test, was well on course for a repeat success.