Neville Crichton’s 100 foot yacht Alfa Romeo has sounded the warning bell for this year’s upcoming Rolex Sydney Hobart, capitalising on a costly mistake aboard rival Wild Oats XI to take a resounding victory in today's SOLAS Big Boat Challenge

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: 26th Thailand International Motor Expo 2009, Bangkok - Fiat

Motor Trend has named the 2010 Model Year Ram 2500/3500 Heavy Duty pickups as its 2010 Truck of the Year after evaluating six criteria, which includes design advancement, engineering excellence, intended function, efficiency, safety and value

ItaliaspeedTV: Views of the Fiat stand at the 26th Bangkok Motor Expo 2009 which features the new 500C and limited-edition 500 by Diesel on their Thai debuts alongside two examples of the 500 1.4 and an historic Nuova 500

ItaliaspeedTV: Interview with Brazilian Scuderia driver Felipe Massa and official test driver Marc Gene during the Ferrari Christmas party at Maranello

Sunday saw the traditional Christmas lunch for all Scuderia personnel, which again this year was held in the Logistica building, next to Fiorano track; it was also an opportunity for President, Luca di Montezemolo to look back over the past season

ItaliaspeedTV: There were unusual guests yesterday at Fiorano: instead of the Prancing Horse cars, centre stage were the circus performers and animals, brought to Maranello to celebrate Christmas with all the Ferrari employees and their families

During the traditional end of year Christmas festivities held at Maranello yesterday Felipe Massa revealed that he is to get behind the wheel of a Ferrari F2007 single-seater fitted with demonstration tyres for a private test session at Mugello this week

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Scuderia Ferrari Christmas Party, Maranello

Fiat India, which has been boosted this year by the reception two key new models, the Linea and Grande Punto, has revealed that it expects to end the year with around 23,000 sales and next year it is ambitiously targeting doubling this number

At the Bologna Motor Show the wraps have come off a new Abarth-branded single-seater, fitted with Fiat Powertrain's 180 bhp 1.4 turbo, that will push forward the careers of young driving talent in the ACI-CSAI promoted formula series through to 2014

Abarth is currently making a decision on whether to continue in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge next year, having recently replaced outgoing Team Principal Nic Gullino with Gabrielle Palmitesta, with a decision expected within the next few days

The first shake-down has taken place at Fiorano of Ferrari's latest one-off client coachbuilding project; this new convertible sports car, which is based on the Ferrari 599 GTB and is dubbed the P540 Superfast Aperta, has been built for an American customer

Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo and Brunico's mayor Christian Tschurtschenthaler have lit up a 14-metre high Christmas tree covered with 10,000 lights that consumes just 1,400 watts; it has been donated by the city of Brunico to Ferrari

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari's Christmas tree inauguration in front of guests including Luca di Montezemolo, Felisa Amedeo, Christian Tschurtschenthaler, Matthias Prugger, Walter Niedermair, Andrea Del Frari, Mario Mairano and Sebastiano Rio

Abarth has announced the dates for the inaugural Trofeo Abarth 500 Rally championship which will comprise of six rounds, four of which will be part of the Italian Rally Championship, kicking off with the Rally Mille Miglia on 23/24 April 2010

L’Automobile Magazine has assigned the 2009 Trophée du Design to Pininfarina for having confirmed its supremacy in the automotive design field by creating two of the most appreciated cars of this year: the Ferrari 458 Italia and the Maserati GranCabrio

Race Retro, the international historic motorsport show, in 2010 will be celebrating all things Alfa Romeo on its centenary year with a stunning display of vehicles and some of its leading drivers appearing including Italian racing legend Bruno Giacomelli

The Alfa Romeo 8C Spider supercar has been officially named as the Most Beautiful Car of the Year by Top Gear magazine; judged by a panel consisting of TV, magazine and online teams, the awards recognise cars launched over the past 12 months

Dodge today pulled the cover off the newest special-edition model of the 2010 Viper SRT10 lineup; the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X is a turn-key, non-street legal race car that is slated to make its on-track debut in the summer of 2010 in a new race series

ItaliaspeedTV: The 2010 Dodge Viper ACR-X is a new race car; Dodge Car Brand President and CEO Ralph Gilles and Viper Program Manager Mike Shinedling discuss the Viper ACR-X along with running footage of its shakedown at Laguna Seca

edo competition has created the Gallardo LP600-4, improving the Lamborghini sports car's performance by increasing power output to 600 horsepower and peak torque to 572 Nm as well as changes to the suspension and new wheels and exhaust system

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Lamborghini Gallardo LP600-4 [edo competition]

Piaggio Veicoli Commerciali sales and market share in Italy increased once again in November with deliveries totaling 470 vehicles, up 4.2 percent year-on-year, while with 4,917 vehicles shipped from January to November it is up 5.7 percent for this period

Nicola Larini, the last Italian to step onto an F1 podium wearing the colours of Scuderia Ferrari, has made a return to the Maranello brand's racers fifteen years later to win the second round of the Sportscar Winter Series at the wheel of a Ferrari F430 GT