Photo Gallery: Palm Springs Desert Classic Concours d'Elegance

RM Auctions will be adding into the inventory at the upcoming Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event on May 17 in Maranello, the important private collection of Prancing Horse cars that has been collected together by Edgar Schermerhorn

Giandomenico Basso collected Abarth's first podium of the season with third place on the 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba yesterday afternoon after a hard-fought rally; team mate Anton Alén retired after rolling out on the final day

Photo Gallery: Intercontinental Rally Challenge, Rd 2 - 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba (II)

With the support of the Alfa Romeo, Fiat/Lancia, Maserati, DeTomaso and several other Italian car clubs a new event La Dolce Vita-Automobili at Black Horse will be held Friday, August 14 on the Monterey Peninsula in California

Fiat Powertrain Technologies is investing 400 million euro to extend its Bielsko-Biała factory in Poland to produce 500,000 units of the new 900cc SGE petrol engine with the Multiair system annually from the end of next year

It’s taken 30 years, but Neville Crichton, Australia and New Zealand’s leading maxi yacht skipper, is to return to the USA’s most important single yacht race and this time, at the helm of Alfa Romeo, he’s determined to win

International singer/songwriter James Morrison is supporting a unique, online-only marketing event in the UK, designed to promote the new Fiat Qubo; the web campaign is highlighting the new mini-MPV in a number of innovative ways

Ferrari is in Geneva with a full range of its road cars, including the 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE, California and Scuderia Spider 16M, on a luxurious stand that also celebrates the Prancing Horse's 16th F1 title by showing the successful F2008

Photo Gallery: 79th Geneva Motor Show - Ferrari stand

Giugiaro and Vredestein have now been collaborating for a full decade and to commemorate this successful Italian-Dutch partnership the tyre manufacturer is presenting Giuguiaro's VAH.HO concept car on its stand in Geneva this week

It was mixed fortunes on the opening day in Brazil on Friday for the Abarth team with Giandomenico Basso fighting his way into second place on the final stage of the leg, although team mate Anton Alén hit a rock to slow his pace

There are no concerns about the global recession or oil prices at niche Italian high performance SUV maker Fornasari which  is in Geneva showing a mock up of its forthcoming monster, a stretched version of the muscular RR600

Photo Gallery: 79th Geneva Motor Show - Fornasari

Automobili Lamborghini has begun delivery of Gallardo LP 560-4 race cars to drivers in the inaugural Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo which gets underway in 56 days following completion of a gruelling testing programme this week

In Geneva Fioravanti has shown two design projects that its believes are both typically Italian strengths: an F1 car study that looks to lower costs and a research overlap with road cars as well as a small and economical urban car

Photo Gallery: 79th Geneva Motor Show - Fioravanti [LF1 & Tris]

In Geneva this week Pagani Automobili has unleashed the most extreme version of the Zonda supercar range, the track only Zonda R, with the Modena firm presenting the new machine alongside the limited-edition Zonda Cinque

Photo Gallery: 79th Geneva Motor Show - Pagani Zonda R

Photo Gallery: 79th Geneva Motor Show - Pagani Zonda Cinque

Anton Alén and Giandomenico Basso were right on the pace during yesterday's gravel shakedown stage as the factory Abarth team made its final preparations before the start of the 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba this morning

Photo Gallery: Intercontinental Rally Challenge, Rd 2 - 29th Rally Internacional de Curitiba (I) Shakedown

Rinspeed has presented two concepts in Geneva with one being of interest to Italian car enthusiasts, an innovative tuning project that sees the 500 Abarth offered into two guises, one for economical city driving and one for the open roads

Photo Gallery: 79th Geneva Motor Show - Rinspeed E2 [concept]

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne was upbeat about the prospects of forging a meaningful alliance with Chrysler LLC after a face-to-face meeting with the US Treasury's department's automotive task force in Washington this afternoon