The news that Egypt's state-owned El Nasr carmaker is to be shut down will see the end of assembly in the country of the venerable Fiat 131 that has since been facelifted by Fiat's JV partner Tofaş as well as the even-older long-running Fiat 128

Chrysler LLC has announced that C. Robert Kidder, former Chairman of Duracell International and Borden Chemical, will succeed Bob Nardelli and become Chairman of Chrysler Group LLC, once it completes a global alliance with Fiat

Fiat Group has this evening announced that it has met a German government deadline of today and submitted a proposal to merge GM Europe's Opel and Vauxhall with Fiat's own car manufacturing operations and its stake in Chrysler

Ferrari has reacted swiftly to the decision of the Tribunal de Grande Instance this morning saying in a statement that it is now considering further legal action and that if the budget cap is introduced it will stick to its decision to withdraw

In its bitter fight to overturn the FIA's budget cap proposals Ferrari has seen the court hearing it brought before the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris where it argued that it had a right to veto technical changes thrown out this morning

Maserati GB has announced that the 1000th Quattroporte has just been registered in the UK since its debut on UK roads in 2004 with the 1000th car being a Sport GTS version of the luxury sedan in Blu Oceano and with Sabbia leather interior

"It’s always a very special week," says Kimi Raikkonen. "It’s a unique track where the qualifying is more important than on the other tracks and we have to try to implement it in the best possible way, learning from the lesson we were taught recently"

After Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne met with Opel's IG Metall union yesterday, it has been revealed that Fiat won't be injecting any of its own capital into Opel if a deal is agreed and instead the restructuring will be reliant on government state aid

The first "Italian Motor Village" in France will be inaugurated on June 4th, the second stage of an on-going project that started three years ago with the Mirafiori Motor Village in Turin which was the first Fiat Group all-purpose centre in the world

Since the F1 World Championship started in 1950 Scuderia Ferrari cannot consider the annual trip to the streets of Monte Carlo a truly profitable one, as the last victory for a Prancing Horse car dates back to Michael Schumacher’s win in 2001

It was a busy weekend for the Ferrari F430 GT entered in three major international GT series, and claiming multiple podium appearances in the FIA GT Championship, the American Le Mans Series and the Spanish Open GT Championship

Chrysler has welcomed Obama's announcement today of a framework for a single approach for fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards which will end years of wrangling between carmakers, the government and the state of California

A new seat "Abarth Corse by Sabelt" has been introduced for the 500 and Grande Punto: a technologically evolved product which is the result of the cooperation between the two brands, sharing the same sportsmanship and technological values

Black & Decker, partnered with Fiat South Africa and ran a national promotion across South Africa in all Game, Makro, Builders Warehouse and Builders Express stores where the first prize was a brand new Fiat 500 1.2 POP

The newest Ferrari Store on the Italian market has been officially opened on the chic Via degli Strozzi 4R with the ribbon-cutting ceremony performed by Scuderia Ferrari driver Felipe Massa and followed by a cocktail party for Ferrari clients

Following eleven months of design and development work, Bavarian design house Unique Sportcars has completed its first design concept: the Ferrari F430 "Calavera" realised in collaboration with Novitec Rosso and airbrush artist Knud Tiroch

Photo Gallery: Ferrari F430 "Calavera" [Unique Sportscars]

With Fiat's plan for an Opel merger expected to be submitted to the German government tomorrow and as concern continues to grow for the future of the Lancia brand, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has met with GM Europe' top executives

The forthcoming auction of the Cinema Against AIDS Gala in favour of AmFAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research) will include one unique lot, a special Fiat "500C by DIESEL", the result of the joint effort of Fiat and DIESEL

Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo took a stunning second win of the season in Le Mans yesterday, negotiating varying track conditions and a change of bikes to lead from the first lap to the flag and take the MotoGP championship lead

Grand Falls, Michigan-based specialist automotive die manufacturer MBTech Autodie is set to complete an unexpected return to the Fiat fold just three years after the Italian carmaker sold the unit to Mercedes-Benz' MBTech division

Italian race team Petri Corse secured three victories at the inaugural race weekend of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series at Adria International Raceway, Italy, over the weekend as fifteen Super Trofeo race cars took to the track

History was made in Maranello yesterday as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR sold for 9,020,000 euros at the third annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record for the most expensive motor car ever to be sold at auction

The third round of the Trofeo Abarth 500 took place this weekend at on Imola's newly renovated "Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari" with a total of 26 drivers all challenging for honours at the wheel of the Abarth 500 Assetto Corse racer

Maserati has won the second round of the FIA GT Championship, the gruelling night race at Adria which lifts the Maserati MC12 drivers' Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini in to the lead in the 2009 Drivers’ championship title fight