ABARTH 500E
Hot hatch’s precious electrons should be enjoyed, not eked out
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WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT This hi-vis EV could be the future of hot hatches. Should we be excited?
You can always tell how far a long-term test car has burrowed under your skin if you spend some time apart from it – you will always either dread being reunited or greet it warmly, like an old mate.
Whoops. I’ve committed the cardinal sin of anthropomorphism there, but look at it –how could you not? Anyway, the point is that I was recently deprived of the flying bogey for a couple of weeks and couldn’t wait to get back in it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, of course, but then so does a fraught few minutes spent cramming a 5.1-metrelong Land Rover Defender into a space at my local supermarket.