Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is giving its Fiat 500 a little more punch across the lineup. The Italian-American automaker is making the 1.4-liter MultiAir Turbo standard on all its 2018 Fiat 500 models.

In U.S. guise, the 1.4 engine will produce 100 hp and 95 lb-ft of torque for use in the standard Fiat 500. Later, a turbocharged version will arrive and will presumably see duty in future Abarth ...

The turbocharged 1.4-liter MultiAir engine provides the Fiat 500 Abarth models with 157 horsepower and 183 lb.-ft. of torque. OTHER VOICES: What’s not to love about the Fiat 500 Abarth?

When dropped in the Fiat 500, the new engine performs better than the company’s existing 1.2-liter mill and on par with its 1.4-liter while offering a 30-percent reduction in fuel consumption.

Europeans fans of the Fiat 500 will soon be able to opt for what the automaker is claiming to be the world's most fuel-efficient gasoline engine, a tiny two-cylinder engine displacing just 0.9 ...

Fiat is expected to offer the hybrid for sale in the U.S., but not immediately. It's also not clear whether the hybrid transmission would be mated to the TwinAir engine, or to the larger 1.4-liter ...

Fiat has yet to confirm which engine will be offered in the U.S.-market; the 2015 Fiat 500 has a 101-hp, 1.4-liter inline-four as its base engine.

The goal of the project was to fit an entire Hellcat engine and drivetrain combination into a Fiat 500. As you can imagine, the unit was placed behind the driver, and a new firewall had to be made.

Fiat says a 500 minicar with the engine and an automated manual transmission has CO2 emissions of 92 grams per kilometer and gets 57.4 mpg (4.1 liters of gasoline per 100km).