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Ok so I apologize for this rant but I had to vent about my experience this week with Fiat in general. So to start this rant off I am not a person who buys new cars I always buy cars and fix them up. But I recently watch the latest episode of Grand Tour and saw Hammon review the Abart 124 Spider. Within that moment I said I must have that exact car I just absolutely loved everything about it. So begins the week, Monday hits I go to the Fiat website and see the exact car on the home page (white with black bonnet and trunk and red mirrors). So I build the car and get everything almost perfect except there is no option to have the red mirrors. So then I use the websites search function. I tried every combinate I could think of for every state zip code as well. No results came up for an edition with the stripes. So Tuesday comes around I call my local Fiat dealership, talk to sales guy give him my speel about wanting the exacta car I tried to build....all I get was crickets, guys like uh yea ill have to call you back. So Wednesday afternoon rolls around still no phone call, so I tell all the guys at work about the car there like you have to get this car its amazing blah blah. So I tell them I can't find the car anywhere and so we proceed to look at everystate via autotrader for the specific edition, no results returned. So Friday rolls around I call Fiat corporate sales division, give the guy my speel and hes like ok i need to transfer you to a specialized dealership in indiana. So finally get ahold of sales guy in indiana and im like ok will you please please help me get this exact car and the guys is like your like the thousand person to call about this edition. So the guy starts off like ok so we are having tons of trouble just getting an abarth base manual edition. I'm like ok can thats great to know, so i ask the guy why is there no edition anywhere that have the look as the Grand Tour edition or on the website, and hes like well let me tell you what corporate told our devision. His exact words "Corporate told us to order a base manual edition and build it in-house. Which mean order the luxury edition headlights, brimbo brakes and monza exhaust. Then they told us if a customer wants the additional racing stripes they must be through a valid shop that does *vinyl wrap not paint". So I am sitting here utterly shocked and i said but on the website it literally lists the stripes option as hand painted and hes like yea what we do here is take money off for that since its a wrap job and its $1000 bucks. So after all this **** headache and my heart broken I have decided to give up.........also on a side note why in the **** would Fiat have this amazing advertisement on Grand Tour of an amazing car that you know **** well everyone wants but they make it utterly vague and impossible to find details let alone get the **** car??????