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Special thanks to KevinB who originally posted these images on our New Fiat 500 forums.

The photographs, taken by a super sleuth based in Poland, show the recently revealed Abarth version of the popular Fiat 500 strutting its stuff on the streets among everyday traffic.

While these images in themselves reveal nothing new about the forthcoming hot hatch version of the Fiat 500, it is always nice to see future models mixing it on the street, apparently in the latter stages of development and testing. The only visible disguise here is the clever(?!) covering of the Abarth badges, which may fool some, but it wasn’t fooling Kevin’s spotter, or us for that matter, nice try Fiat.

[Disclaimer: We may have added the NF500.com stickers shown in the windows ourselves]

Auto Express, among others, are running some mock-ups produced by future vehicle imagineer extraordinaire Poblete.

Not much we can add really, as it’s pure speculation, but see what their scribe managed to twin with the images on the Auto Express website.

This time it’s Auto Express who have a collection of images of the forthcoming Fiat 500 Abarth, under disguise and in testing.

The photos show front, side and back profiles.  Through the heavy black cladding it is possible to make out panel modifications and intakes that may or may not make the final production version of the hot 500.

In the article Auto Express claim the vehicle in the photos to be the 500 Abarth SS and that we can expect “at least 180 hp” from the 1.4 litre engine.  We’ll have to wait and see on that front.  You can see all the photos and read the full article over at the Auto Express website.

Since we got back from IAA at Frankfurt and added our photos from the motor show to the NF500 Flickr Group, there are now over 500 images of the Fiat 500 for you to enjoy in our gallery slide show here at NF500 and over at Flickr in their full glory!

Hope everyone enjoys the Fiat 500 eye candy, and a huge thank you to everyone who has contributed images to the NF500 Flickr group.

A little free gift for our readers this week.

In our downloads section here at NF500 you’ll find two copies of a retro desktop image we’ve created for you.   A widescreen version is available, as well as a more traditional 4:3 aspect ratio, they’re high resolution but should “shrink to fit” lower resolution screens quite nicely.

The above image is just a little preview, get the full size images in the downloads section.  Enjoy!

We plan to offer more free downloads, wallpapers and such, over the coming months.  Indeed, if you’re the creative type and feel you’ve created a masterpiece you wish to share with the Fiat 500 community, then let us know and we’ll see if we can’t host it for you here at NF500.

Special thanks to 12monthsOFwinter for the wallpaper pattern.

CWW Cardesign, who specialise in creating imaginative Photoshop interpretations of rumoured, planned and fantasy future vehicles have conjured up these images of a new Fiat 500 Giardinetta Station Wagon.

The images have been created from Fiat’s official photos of the new 500, and show a stretched wheel base Station Wagon concept.  Which is not so far fetched considering it is rumoured that Fiat will decide by the end of 2007 if they will pursue Station Wagon and SUV derivatives of the new 500, most likely based on the Panda’s AWD platform.

More photographs of the forthcoming Fiat 500 Abarth testing at the Nurburgring have hit the web.

These latest images show the new 500 Abarth testing alongside its bigger relative, the Grande Punto Abarth. Once again the test vehicle in question is red with a splashing of black camouflage tape and various bits and pieces taped on or taped up.

It really looks like those working on the development the hot new Fiat have gone at this example with a Dremel, with quite severe frontal work including two air intakes cut into the bonnet. It appears options for effective cooling of the tuned engine(s) that will be shoehorned into the new 500s comparatively diminutive shell was the subject of the day.

Photo gallery and related article can be found on WorldCarFans.com