Loud, mostly. Despite the bight yellow paintwork, black stripes and bulbous bumpers, it the noise that’s most obvious about the new Abarth 595 Competizione. The new, facelifted 595 Competizione ...

However, the decision to ditch a manual gearbox in favour of what Abarth calls a ‘Competizione’ semi-auto transmission with paddle-shift is almost as dubious, though not nearly as funny ...