The new Fiat 500 Cinquecento

Too cute, too hipster.

I'm not sure about the specs of the car at all, but based purely on looks I would choose it over any tiny car I've ever seen. To my eye its a really well designed car. I rarely find cars that small good looking, but this one is. I saw a few driving around Rome a week or so ago, and if I was in the market for a small car it would definitely be on the top of my list.

Does it come equipped with a pussy magnet?

I do believe the original is superior if only for the chrome, and the fact that it is a certified icon.

I once saw a family of three driving in a white vintage 500, trotting along on the freeways.

Borat: I want to have a car that attract a woman with shave down below.
Car Dealership owner: Well that would be a Corvette. Or a Hummer.
[starts showing Borat cars]
Car Dealership owner: We'll try to help you out here.
Borat: A man yesterday, tell me if I buy a car I must buy one with a pussy magnet.
Car Dealership owner: He means a car that women like.
Borat: Yes, but where do you keep this magnet?
Car Dealership owner: [interrupts] No. There's no magnet he just means the vehicle. Women love the Hummers.
Borat: Do this have a pussy magnet?
Car Dealership owner: No. The vehicle itself would be a magnet.
Borat: If I give you good price, will you please put in pussy magnet?
Car Dealership owner: Yeah but there's no-there's no such thing in this country as a-as a magnet.
Borat: If this car drive into a group of gypsies, will there be any damage to the car?
Car Dealership owner: It depends on how hard you hit them and all that.
Borat: *Hard*
Car Dealership owner: You might-if somebody rolls on the windshield, they could crack your windshield.
Borat: How fast do I need to go to guarantee I kill them?
Car Dealership owner: Uh-let me tell you something with this vehicle here probably doing 35-45 miles per hour will do it.
Borat: Great! When I uh, buy my wife, at the start she was uh, cook good, her vazhïn work well, and she strong on plow. But after three years when she was fifteen, then she become weak, her voice become deep: BORAT BORAT, eh, she receive hair on chest, and vazhïn hang like sleeve of wizard.
Car Dealership owner: Huh-Jesus...
Borat: How do I know that this will not happen with the car?
Car Dealership owner: Chevrolette guarantees you that with a warranty.
Borat: I like-a very much buy this Hummers, how much is it?
Car Dealership owner: Fifty-two thousand.
Borat: I am looking for something between um, six-hundred to uh... six-hundred and fifty dollars.
Car Dealership owner: We don't have any cars for six-fifty that you can buy. I might be able to sell you a wholesale car, a car with a lot of miles for seven-hundred with no warranty.

I think I would probably choose it over the (BMW) Mini if I were in the market. Especially if the Abarth version ends up being the lunacy it would appear to be on paper

Definitely the mini for me.

I wouldnt even consider the fiat.

You should find a dealer and try it on the road, I'm pretty shure you'll love it!!!!
And quality is better than average FIAT too, it's built in Tychy plant, finalist in the EFQM award.