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I think it’s pretty funny that the guy who asked “who is Carlo Abarth?” Is the same guy who worked for Chrysler/FCA/whatever when they were building and selling the Fiat 500 Abarth and Fiat 124 Spider Abarth. I realize that he probably didn’t have a TV then, and therefore didn’t see the various 500 Abarth commercials and such, but…Catrinel Menghia is really something!
As someone who also worked there at that time, you couldn’t escape those commercials, they were played on all the in-house screens throughout the Tech Center and IT Building.
Apropos of nothing, and I haven;t been there in like 4 years now, but the Chrysler Tech Center as late as 2020 had a couple dozen old CRT TVs just tucked into the walls all over the place, as the old video system. I asked someone about them who had ties to facilities, and they were too heavy and big to easily remove, and there was nowhere to put them; so they just decided to leave them littered around the pace to catch dust.
You guys nailed the Abarth Apple diet just right to get met to click it, btw. I didn’t know Abarth’s first name, and Apple-and-Steak would have given me enough info to pass on clicking.
Ok so I’m kind of a layperson when it comes to Abarth as I only know it as a trim level for the Fiat 500s, but I’ve at least heard the name/trim level. A regular non-car person probably never heard of it so get that point. But I love how the discussion of the title has almost more word count than the article.
Some Genius Tortured Herself With Italy’s Weirdest Diet (and Also Car)!
This is probably the only time I’ve ever been called a genius
Lol, no
I admit, I thought specifically of you when I said that. 🙂 One of the hard parts about writing headlines is that, in general, we try to write headlines for a broad audience even if our content is decidedly nerdy.
Hope Carlo doesn’t mind I’m borrowing from him 🙂
I think that approach makes sense. We could probably think of car nerds as being a subset of nerds in general, but there is going to be overlap among the groups. If article A focuses on a certain demographic, in a few minutes article B will be posted and will focus on one or more completely different demos.
David keeps using the term “layperson” as if the site isn’t aimed squarely at car nerds.
It’s kinda surreal to see how much my headline was debated while I sit here eating my leftover lunch of definitely not apples and pressed beef lunch meat. I also had to take a second to remember that not everyone knows Carlo Abarth as just a regular ol household name as common as say, Enzo Ferrari or Henry Ford. Apparently my house is weird…
LOL!
Yes, but that’s what we come here for!
I imagine that’s the case for most Autopian households. 🙂 The names “Nicolas Hayek,” “Erik Buell,” and “Clyde Cessna” have been spoken in my apartment far more than the average home.