New Zealand super-maxi, ‘Alfa Romeo’ has won its first race in Europe with skipper/owner Neville Crichton bringing her home first in the opening round of the Hublot PalmaVela regatta in Spain

From today Fiat's new highly advanced and efficient EURO4 compliant 95bhp 1.4-litre 16v petrol engine, which has been christened as the 'Starjet', becomes available across the Grande Punto model range

Ferrari are currently evaluating building an F430 Challenge Stradale, a new concept which will follow in the footsteps of the 360CS and take the 'racer for the road' theme to the extreme performance edge

Piaggio Aero has announced that the Mubadala Development, an investment company owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi which also recently bought a minority stake in Ferrari, has acquired 35 pct of the business jet manufacturer

Fiat is the first company to use a new opt-in Bluetooth technology developed by Breeze Tech, a Bluetooth wireless marketing company that provide a fully managed end to end service for marketers

Renown Italian automotive restoration experts Faralli & Mazzanti will today at the Top Marques exhibition in Monaco unveil the Antas V8 GT, a Maserati-engined 'Gran Tourer' handcrafted using all their historic skills

"It will be very important for us to perform well in Imola and we are all aware of that we have done all we can to be as well prepared as possible," says Scuderia Ferrari Sporting Director Stefano Domenicali

The Angelli family's primary investment vehicle, the IFIL Group, will propose Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata as an independent Fiat Group director when the full board meets in Turin on 3rd May

Tomorrow the Fiat Panda Monster, a limited-edition version of the Panda SUV created in partnership with Ducati, becomes available for ordering with interest having to be registered through a new dedicated microsite

Stefan Eriksson, who spectacularly crashed a Ferrari Enzo in February, faced 14 years in jail if convicted after being charged by LA prosecutors with embezzlement, grand theft, being legally drunk and firearms offences

"We have fine tuned our package during the tests and I think that we have a car with which we can compete for victory, I do not believe that the gap to the leaders is too big to close" Michael Schumacher is ready for Imola

At the Villa d'Este Concours d'Elegance on Friday Pininfarina will unveil a specially coachbuilt Ferrari 612 Scaglietti commissioned by renown American Ferrari collector Peter S. Kalikow

Supporting the introduction of a new range of high quality vehicles, Fiat Auto also has interesting plans for a host of new engines which are due to enter production in the very near future

Automotive News have added detail to reports that Bertone is set to self-fund and build a new 'Coupé-Cabriolet' for Lancia with further news of the project as well as comments from the Group's President Lille Bertone

Mirroring their win on Saturday, Chris Niarchos and Tim Mullen yesterday took the victory with the Scuderia Ecosse Ferrari F430GT in race two of the 2006 British GT Championship at Oulton Park

The Australian Production Touring Car Championship's ranks are set to be swelled by the arrival of an Alfa Romeo 147 GTA and 156 GTA when the second round of the series takes place at Wakefield Park next weekend

Zagato has always had close ties with the Villa D’Este Concours d’Elegance, and next weekend will be no different as 10 Zagatos will be taking in the classic and concept categories, headlined by the world première of the 575 GTZ

Computer game heroine Lara Croft will be riding the Ducati Monster S2R and 999 in her new adventure, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend, in a worldwide deal between Eidos Interactive and Ducati

The new Ferrari F430GT took its first win in the UK, and its second major win on successive weekends, as the British GT Championship got off to a cracking start at Oulton Park

Six months after the Alfa 159 arrived in Hungary, last week saw the turn of the 159 Sportwagon to be launched by the importer at a presentation in Göd, a small city located just to the north of Budapest

Photo Gallery: Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon - Official Presentation, Hungary

The Board of Directors of Ducati Motor Holding Spa have met to approve a capital increase which will be directly related to the financing the implementation of the company's new three-year re-launch plan