“Difficult” was a word that featured more than once in Friday’s official Scuderia Ferrari team press release after Kimi Raikkonen ended the day only fourteenth fastest with Giancarlo Fisichella two places behind his team-mate

Luca di Montezemolo has received the prestigious Marca Leyenda award that the famous Spanish daily sports newspaper presents to athletes and personalities from the world of sport, from Marca director Edoardo Inda in Madrid

Fiat Professional adds the Fiorino Metano to its range in Italy this week, the efficient and ecologically conscious petrol-methane version being available in van or combi specification to join its wide range of LCV methane powered models

Abarth is introducing its latest racing gem at the Rallye Sanremo today: the new Abarth 500 R3T will lend its name to a promotional rally trophy in 2010, due to join the two track championships planned for the Abarth 500 Assetto Corse

ItaliaspeedTV: Forza Motorsports 3 - This is a movie made in collaboration between Sony PlayStation game "Gran Turismo" and Ferrari that explores the allure of Ferrari's newest V8 Berlinetta, the 458 Italia

With life taking place with a European clock for the only night race on the calendar, at the time when he would usually be leaving the track, Giancarlo Fisichella sat down to meet the media on the eve of the Singapore Grand Prix

After a long period of expectation from the Brazilian public and media, the Fiat 500 is set to bring its diminutive charms to another global market as next week the award-winning supermini will arrive on sale in the Fiat showrooms in Brazil

ItaliaspeedTV: Forza Motorsports 3 - The Ferrari 458 Italia is set to take to the grid in style tackling the twisty curves of the beautiful Amalfi Coast and running wheel to wheel on the sweeping corners of Ferrari’s own Mugello

An unusual lot has popped up on auction site eBay this week, a unique amphibious car that is based around the chassis and engine of the Fiat 850 and is still powered by the original car’s 900cc petrol engine and transmission

Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has shipped in Paolo Ferrero, a top manager from Fiat Powertrain Technologies, to take control of Chrysler's powertrain division with immediate effect where he will report directly to Marchionne

Having bid farewell to the European season with yet another podium at its home race in Monza, Scuderia Ferrari now embarks on this year’s final quartet of races, starting this weekend with the second running of the Singapore Grand Prix

Luca di Montezemolo held a lengthy meeting this week with Bruno Diotti, the Secretary of the Associazione Italiana Vittime del Terrorismo and Mario Scoffone, both of Fiat, who were injured in attacks during the years of terror in Italy

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari Singapore Grand Prix Preview - Looking forward to the challenge posed by this unique street circuit and racing at night plus the unpredictability of the weather and the advantage of KERS

Maserati a sponsor of the Goodwood Revival which welcomed over 100,000 spectators over the course of the weekend and saw a record eighteen classic Maseratis being entered in this year’s competitions including four Maserati 250Fs

The weekend saw exceptional results for the GT2 class Ferrari F430 GT which was a winning protagonist in two new rounds, the FIA GT Championship at Portimao in the Algarve and the International GT Open at Magny-Cours in France

Hot on the heels of its upgrade programme for the Fiat 500, Hamann Motorsport has tweaked another Italian machine, this time though it is a sports car at the other end of the scale as it announces a new package for Ferrari's California

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari California [Hamann Motorsport]

New Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicle owners will soon have room to put gloves in their glove boxes instead of 4-pound owners’ manuals as Chrysler Group has become the first automaker to provide digital owners manuals for its full lineup

ItaliaspeedTV: Chrysler Group LLC is the first automaker to do away with bulky, printed owner's manuals, replacing them with a much smaller printed user's guide and DVD with instructional videos

The Lamborghini Super Trofeo visited the Circuit de Catalunya over the weekend for the penultimate meeting of its inaugural year and two wins for Reiter Engineering’s Peter Kox and Marc A. Hayek sees them closing up in the title chase

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat Punto Evo presentation at Fiat Centro Stile, Turin

The three Maserati MC12s of the Vitaphone team ended yesterday's inaugural FIA GT race in Portugal in the top-six but with Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels only managing fifth place their drivers title chances suffered a setback

Fiat has signed off on a huge US$2 billion components order that will see Hyundai MOBIS supplying front and rear chassis modules for the new Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango which will both go into production next year

Lancia is once again, for the third consecutive time, the sponsor of the Gran Galà del Ghiaccio - Golden Skate Awards which is scheduled to take place on October 10 at the Palavela in Turin where international stars of skating will take part

Twelve years after it quit the South Korea Fiat Group is preparing to return to this important Asian new car market next year with a new importer and distribution network and with both the Fiat Alfa Romeo brands, slated to hit the showrooms