ItaliaspeedTV: Fiat Qubo

For the third year running Lancia has kicked off Riccione Vyp – No Stress Zone initiative at the busy resort town of Riccione and this year the main protagonist will be the Ypsilon ECOCHIC with a fleet of sixty of this new model on hand

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Riccione Vyp – No Stress Zone, Riccione, Italy

With two consecutive positive months of sales increases behind it in Brazil the Fiat Linea, now in the showrooms in mildly revised MY2010 specification, is finally starting to establish itself on the local market following a slow first year

Rapid Czech driver Jaromir Tarabus is to get full factory Abarth support on the next round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, the 39th Barum Czech Rally Zlín, as the Scorpion seeks to continue its newly-found winning momentum

ItaliaspeedTV: Fiat 500C (IV)

As Michel Schumacher continues with his intensive physical training preparations for his F1 comeback in just two weeks time in Valencia the former seven times world champion undertook two days of karting at Lonato in Italy last week

The latest yacht to carry the name Alfa Romeo has made a stunning debut in the Copa del Ray regatta in Spain, dominating the event and winning the regatta with a comfortable nine point margin after winning six of the event’s ten races

Fiat has just been honoured with another award for its innovative eco:Drive technology which is designed to save fuel and reduce exhaust emissions – picking up Auto Express’s Special Award at the magazine’s New Car Awards 2009 this week

Fiat and Alfa Romeo were both big winners in the UK during July as the market finally turned positive after 15 months of falling sales, and although the total market gained 2.4 percent Fiat was up 24.16 percent and Alfa Romeo 45.79 percent

A new initiative set in Milan's via Montenapoleone, the heart of the city's fashion district, this week has seen the arrival of 20 eye-catching art installations of the Fiat 500C cementing the fashionable new car into the centre of Italy's style capital

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat 500C per fare un albero - via Montenapoleone, Milan

For the second year in succession, the Fiat 500 has just been crowned Best City Car in the Auto Express awards continuing a run of dominance for Fiat in the category as, before the arrival of the 500, the Panda won for four consecutive years

Chrysler Canada has announced total sales across its brands of 15,958 units for July which equates to a year-on-year shrinkage of almost 2,000 units, however it does represent an increase of 73 percent compared with the previous month

The sale of Carrozzeria Bertone to the Fiat Group has been authorised by the Italian government it was confirmed this afternoon with the carmaker's proposed investment superior to rivals offers from Italian, Spanish and Chinese bidders

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat 500C (UK - 3/3)

Two of rallying's most iconic winning machines, the Lancia 037 Rally and Delta S4, are being honoured in a dazzling exhibition of the Group B era that Audi is presenting at its Ingolstadt headquarters' museum as part of its centenary celebrations

ItaliaspeedTV: Fiat 500 Barbie

Hot on the heels of the Lancia di Lancia project comes news that Abarth is also teaming up with SACS Marine and designer Christian Grande, this time to create a unique Scorpion craft that will instead use three Yamaha V8 outboard engines

Fiat Group Automobiles wasn't able to carry the sales success it saw in Italy and Germany last month forward into France and although Alfa Romeo was up 5.1 percent, Fiat (-17.1 percent) and Lancia (-28 percent) both lost quite a lot of ground

ItaliaspeedTV: Fiat 500 - production in Tychy, Poland

Felipe Massa has been cleared by doctors in São Paulo, Brazil, to continue his convalescence at home just a week and a half after his dramatic accident at the Hungaroring, following an examination at the Albert Einstein hospital

Fiat Group Automobiles has continued its strong sales surge in Germany through July with Fiat (+94.9 pct), Alfa Romeo (+60.0 pct) and Lancia (+45.3 pct) all significantly outperforming the overall market which surged by 29.5 percent year-on-year

New Zealand Mini Maxi racing yacht Alfa Romeo has maintained its perfect score on the second day of the Copa del Ray Regatta in Spain, adding another two race wins to her score and putting Alfa Romeo ten points ahead of her nearest rival

Fiat's resurgence in India is rapidly gaining ground with the Italian manufacturer selling an impressive 2,690 cars in the country during July which equates to six and a half times the numbers it managed to shift during the same month last year