Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Lancia Delta (III)

There will be elaborate celebrations for the first birthday of the Fiat 500 on July 5th: From Italy to Japan, from France to South Africa, all those who own and those who can’t wait to get one will be the guests of honour of the 500 PICNIC

Probably the most fascinating car to take to the track at the weekend's SpaItalia extravaganza was the ultra-rare Lamborghini Diablo Pregunta concept supercar built by Heuliez and which was first shown in 1998 at the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Lamborghini Diablo Pregunta (II)

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Lamborghini Diablo Pregunta (I)

"I'll arrive with a positive approach at Silverstone, because I know that I should have won in France," says Kimi Raikkonen ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix, "I'll use a new engine because the Team doesn't want to risk anything"

Each year the SpaItalia organisers' choose an Italian marque as the focus of the event held at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, and this year it was the turn of Lamborghini to be honoured, with an array of its historic cars taking centre stage

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Featured Marque, Lamborghini

The British Grand Prix always has a special significance for the Scuderia as it was here in 1951 that a Ferrari driven by Froilan Gonzalez took the first of its 206 F1 victories and further fourteen winner's trophies have come at Silverstone

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Lancia Delta (II)

Fiat Group suffered a sharp 16.48 pct drop in its Italian sales right across the brands last month although it managed to outperform its domestic market which plunged by 19.5 pct to raise its total market share from 31.56 to 32.75 pct

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Alfa 8C Competizione (II)

"To win we have to be humble and keep our feet on the ground, we have to work concentrated and with great attention for detail," says Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali, "If we can manage that, we can add another good result"

Specialists who calculate future used car prices for the motor trade in the UK have upgraded their predictions on what they reckon the new Fiat 500 supermini will be worth in three years’ time from 42 to 46 pct of list price for some models

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Risi Competizione/Maserati of Houston Maserati GranSport Light GT

The Prancing Horse stamped its mark on the weekend with the F430 GT competing at Albacete in the Spanish GT Championship, at Valencia for the Italian GT Championship and at Thruxton for the fifth round of the British GT series

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Alfa 8C Competizione (I)

Two hundred and forty Alfa Romeo cars of all shapes, sizes and ages took to the Kyalami race track in South Africa on Sunday in a parade lap in a successful attempt to set a Guinness record for the largest ever gathering of Alfa Romeos

Photo Gallery: Alfa Romeo Day, Kyalami, South Africa

Alfa Romeo’s eagerly anticipated sporty compact, the Alfa MiTo, which was officially launched in Milan last week, will make its UK public debut at this year’s British International Motor Show in the ExCeL London, from 23 July – 3 August

Photo Gallery: SpaItalia 2008 - Lancia Delta (I)

The Fiat 500 1.3 JTD achieves a remarkable figure of 4.2 litres per 100 km and this places the Fiat ahead of every other car sold in Australia, bar none, and including a host of cars that place fuel economy as the primary purchase motive

Abarth's Intercontinental Rally Challenge title bid suffered a major setback in Belgium at the weekend as Giandomenico Basso's sixth place made him the only runner in the Italian S2000 machine to finish in the points paying positions

Photo Gallery: Intercontinental Rally Challenge, Rd 3 - Ypres Rally

Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo took sixth place in the 60th Dutch TT on Saturday while his team-mate Valentino Rossi made an uncharacteristic mistake and crashed out on the first lap, although he was able to remount and finish in eleventh place