Scorpionissima has got a sting in its tail

RACING GERT Abarth Scorpionissima is a powerhouse performer dripping with hi-tech gizmos

- BY MAGGIE BARRY

MY CAR is Acid Green. Stands out in the crowd? This car is yelling to be noticed.

And if you don't like that your other option is Hypnotic Purple. Oh yes. This is a car that loves the limelight and with good reason.

It is the Abarth 600e in Scorpionissima dressing - a match made in heaven, or hell, depending on your view of piping hot, hot hatches.

Abarth is the performance division inside Fiat.

Its job, more or less, is to take a sweet little cars and turn them into racing demons, and it has its own badge - the Scorpion, which as we all know is not a cuddly little creature.

The Scorpionissima version of the 600e is Abarth's most powerful car to date with 280hp, a top speed of 124mph and the capacity to make 62mph in just under six seconds.

Those are the stats but the look of this car just screams mean machine.