Fiat Marylebone, Fiat UK’s flagship dealer, has been helping one of London’s best-known and longest-established Italian restaurants, Zia Theresa in Knightsbridge, celebrate its golden anniversary with the loan of two sign-written Fiat 500 city cars

Sporty styling add-ons, a custom-tailored tyre/wheel combination with diameters of 21 and 22 inches, suspension modifications, more power and exclusive interior options all mean that Novitec Rosso has upgraded the new Ferrari California

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Ferrari California [Novitec Rosso]

Chrysler Group has indicated that it will extend the life of the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant into 2011, after originally slating it for closure next year; the Michigan factory builds two sister models: Chrysler's Sebring and Dodge's Avenger

The editors of Four Wheeler magazine have named the Model Year 2010 Ram 2500 Power Wagon pickup as the magazine’s 2010 Pickup Truck of the Year after it saw off competition from Ford's SVT F-150 Raptor and Toyota's Tundra

ItaliaspeedTV: Bangsaen Thailand Speed Festival 2009 - Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Polski-Fiat and Ferrari in the Classic Car Parade

In a media interview Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has turned the screw further on the futures of Fiat Group Automobiles' two niche brands, Lancia and Alfa Romeo, emphasizing that their futures are no longer assured

Italian classic cars from Alfa Romeo, Fiat and Ferrari took centre stage as more than a hundred historic machines paraded around the temporary sea side race track as Thailand's annual street racing extravaganza kicked off in Bangsaen

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Bangsaen Thailand Speed Festival 2009 - Classic Car Parade

Highlight of the Bologna Motor Show at the weekend was Luca Badoer's appearance in the F60 for a pit stop simulation and a long series of hot laps to the delight the fans on the grandstands despite the harsh weather conditions

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari in action in the Motorsport Arena at the Bologna Motor Show, including laps and pitstops with Luca Badoer in the F60, F430 Challenge racing action and demonstration runs by the FXX

The Fiat brand has turned in an excellent November’s sales performance in Germany, up 33.5 percent year-on-year to comfortably outperform the overall market which rose up 19.7 percent; Alfa Romeo also climbed year-on-year

Over the weekend at the special track laid out for motor sports events at the 34th Bologna Motor Show the world of Ferrari was on show with a busy programme of F430 Challenge races and demonstrations by the FXX and F60

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: 34th Bologna Motor Show, Arena - Ferrari F430 Challenge [races], FXX [untimed demonstration] and F60 [pit stop demonstration with Luca Badoer]

Fiat was one of the biggest winners in the UK last month as the market saw overall sales surge 57.6 percent year-on-year, with the Italian carmaker up an impressive 134.37 percent after recording 6,014 registrations for the month

ItaliaspeedTV: 34th Bologna Motor Show, Ferrari stand - including the new prototype 599 XX, F60 single-seater, production 430 Scuderia, and two F430 GTs from Risi Competizione and AF Corse

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - The top stories from Chrysler for the week including: November sales, Kelley Blue Book residual value study, Four Wheeler pickup truck of the year, Viper sets record and a call for freedom

It’s been a difficult week for Italian automotive enthusiasts who have firstly seen Alfa Romeo’s future direction questioned and now reports that the Lancia’s proposed revival could be scrapped in favour of rolling out the Chrysler name globally

Giancarlo Fisichella was guest at the Ferrari stand at the Bologna Motor Show during the opening day where the Scuderia driver signed numerous autographs for the vast number of young fans alongside the F60 he drove in five races this year

Two of the Lancias road tested by Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond for a special edition of BBC Top Gear that aired last weekend, the Fulvia Coupe and Delta HF Inegrale, were provided by members of Club Lancia Sport

The 2010 rerun of the Mille Miglia road race, one of the top historic motor racing events worldwide, will have an even more spectacular start than usual as 120 Ferrari cars from 1958 to today will precede the 360 classic cars

Olivier Francois, CEO of the Chrysler and Lancia brands and marketing chief for both Fiat and Chrysler has hit back at the storm of controversy that the tribute film to Aung san Suu Kyi has caused in the U.S. since it aired late last week

ItaliaspeedTV: Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram and Mopar kick-off the U.S. auto show season in Los Angeles with highlights including the debut of the Ram brand and a line-up of historic and upcoming Dodge Vipers

At the opening of a new boutique in Los Angeles Lamborghini President Stephan Winkelmann said the sports car brand's sales will be down by more than a third this year as customers continue to hold back on luxury purchases