Unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show and delivered from 2010, the 695 Tributo Ferrari was Abarth's officially co-badged tribute to Ferrari, sold only through selected Ferrari and Abarth dealers as a numbered limited edition. It paired the 500-based Abarth bodyshell with a 1.4-litre T-Jet turbocharged four-cylinder rated at 180 bhp, an Abarth Competizione MTA five-speed paddle-shift automated manual and a Record Monza dual-mode exhaust developed with Magneti Marelli.
Specification borrowed visibly from Maranello: Rosso Corsa or Grigio Titanio paintwork with matt-black side stripes, Scorpion badging over a Ferrari-yellow shield, 17-inch Modular alloys behind cross-drilled Brembo brakes, carbon-fibre-shelled sports seats trimmed in leather and Alcantara, an F1-style LED-arc tachometer and a numbered plaque on the dashboard. Handling was sharpened with a lowered ride height, a stiffened Koni suspension package and a shorter final drive.
Production totals require care. Three figures are cited by credible primary sources, and all three appear to be genuine rather than typographical. Abarth originally announced **1,696 units** at €42,007 (the planned run). German Wikipedia, citing Abarth directly ("laut Abarth"), gives **1,649 built** worldwide as the final audited figure — corroborated by Bonhams' Bonmont 2024 catalogue ("one of only 1,649 examples") and by a separate French-market car offered on Benzin.fr plaqued N°424/1649. Yet a substantial number of individually plaqued cars — and the catalogue copy of at least two major auction houses — state a worldwide total of **1,199**: RM Sotheby's Monaco 2024 lot 159 (chassis ZFA31200000584672, plaque 0190/1199) states "numbered 190 of only 1,199 produced," and Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed 2025 lot 159 (a UK RHD car) states "car number 571 of just 1,199 examples built worldwide," and additionally notes "one of 152 right-hand-drive cars." Stellantis Heritage's own retrospective describes the model as produced "in a numbered limited edition of just over a thousand cars."
The most coherent reading — presented here as a working hypothesis rather than a documented fact — is that 1,199 refers to a first, officially-numbered production phase whose cars carry "XXXX/1199" dashboard plaques, and 1,649 is Abarth's final worldwide production including subsequent extended-market allocations (the Bonhams Bonmont car, for example, was Gulf Cooperation Council specification). Both plaquing conventions exist on real cars — a definitive Abarth factory statement reconciling the two has not been located.
The 695 Tributo Ferrari is the only Abarth model sold with Ferrari co-branding through Ferrari's own dealer network, and it remains the most exclusive of the modern 500-based Abarths: a numbered, homologated special that used Ferrari's brand identity in a production road car — something Maranello has otherwise reserved for its own cars. Alongside the later 695 Biposto, it defines the collectible end of the modern Abarth 500 lineage.
