Start with what the Abarth T140 is: a car with 5,982 , built from 1967, in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Mario Colucci, / Luchino Fochi (engine).
How it came about
The Abarth T-140 was a stillborn conceptual 6-liter, mid-engined Group 6 prototype sports car designed by Abarth in the late 1960's, but never produced. This was due to a change in the rules and regulations for 1967 imposed by the CSI, limiting the capacity of the large Group 6 sport-prototype cars to 3 liters, in an attempt to curtail and control the growing speed and power.
The hardware
The engine is 5,982 . On the scales it comes to 1110 kg. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine sits behind the driver and ahead of the rear axle, which puts the mass in the middle of the car and is why mid-engined cars change direction the way they do. The wheelbase is 2450 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Pontiac Firebird, the Dodge Charger, the Peugeot 504. Its Abarth stablemates include the Abarth 1000 GT Coupé and the Abarth 124 Rally.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Abarth T140 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.