2025 Abarth 600e Scorpionissima unleashed

Fiat’s in-house performance brand has unwrapped its most powerful car in its 75-year history in the form of the 207kW 2025 Abarth 600e Scorpionissima.

Available to order in Europe from next month, neither the Scorpionissima nor the standard Abarth 600e has been confirmed for Australia at the time of writing, but it’s though that could change in the coming months as Fiat Australia looks to flesh out its local portfolio.

While its donor car pushes out a respectable 175kW/300Nm, the Scorpionissima ditches the regular car’s e-motor for an all-new more powerful unit that ups the ante to 207kW/345Nm.

Those outputs are enough for a 0-100km/h time of just 5.9 seconds – the same as the latest VW Golf GTI – while top speed is limited to 200km/h, up from 6.2 seconds and 180km/h respectively.

Sustaining the uprated drive system is the same 54kWh battery pack as the lesser model, providing a WLTP-verified range of up to 354km.

Like the regular version, the new performance flagship has different driving modes designed to alter the character of the angry compact SUV.

The most aggressive Scorpion Track mode is said to sharpen the throttle, select a ‘sport+’ setting for the steering and backing off the stability control.

Scorpion Street mode meantime trims the kilowatt count to 170kW but provides access to the full 343Nm for sporty road driving. The top speed is also capped at 180km/h.

Turismo mode waters things down further to 140kW/300Nm.

All the extra grunt is supported by a Torsen limited-slip differential, a more aggressive chassis set-up (wider tracks, beefier anti-roll bars), Alcon big brake kit and a more efficient cooling system

Standard equipment highlights include an Alcantara and leather-wrapped steering wheel, Scorpionissima-specific Sabelt bucket seats, aluminium pedals, neon green stitching and bespoke graphics for the 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster and 10.25-inch infotainment system.

Like the smaller Abarth 500e, the new flagship 600e also bags Abarth’s sound generator that uses a speaker under the rear bumper to replicate the noise of one of its out-going combustion powered vehicles.

Said to emit a deeper sound than before, there’s now a shortcut on the touchscreen to switch it off if you prefer silence, something you have to navigate sub-menus on the 500e to achieve.

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