Israeli-born Yoav Sadan launched his road trip called Escape Plan 500C on September 20 and has so far visited 18 major cities in 10 countries, including Milan, Paris, Lausanne, Munich, Copenhagen, Brussels and Berlin

The F1 season is now reaching its climax with only four races remaining and it is not just the fight for both titles, balanced on a knife edge, which makes it such a tense time as the teams prepare to tackle the Japanese Grand Prix

Ducati has unveiled its 2011 range upgrades this morning at INTERMOT in Cologne led out by the new 1198SP superbike which gets improvements including new suspension, light weight components and an alloy fuel tank

Chrysler Group has released the first images of the new Dodge Charger which has been significantly restyled and the fundamental changes also come thick and fast under the skin with a reworked platform and the new Pentastar V6

Almost a quarter of a century after its creation, the Lancia ECV1, which shattered even the huge technological advances being made at the climax of the Group B era, will finally make its rallying debut at the weekend

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat's stand at the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile including the new 500 TwinAir and Blackjack as well as the unique 500 Thousandth showcar, Bravo MY and new brand CEO Andrea Formica (3/3)

Quallion, a developer of customised Lithium Ion batteries, and Centro Ricerche Fiat will together unveil the Fiat Panda Hybrid Fuel Cell/Battery powered prototype vehicle today at The Battery Show, in San Jose, California

Fiat is once again tearing up its future model introduction plans and pushing back the arrival of a string of important new Fiat and Lancia cars including the former's long-awaited next-generation Panda and the latter's new Ypsilon

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari realises extra engine potential due to unrestricted lubricant development allowed in F1; video with insight from key team members including Chris Dyer, the Scuderia's Head of Race Engineering

Eight days after its team leader Max Biagi wrapped up the World Superbike riders' title, at Magny-Cours on Sunday the Aprilia factory outfit collected the remaining points required to seal its ascent to the top with the manufacturers' title

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat's stand at the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile including the new 500 TwinAir and Blackjack as well as the unique 500 Thousandth showcar, Bravo MY and new brand CEO Andrea Formica (2/3)

ItaliaspeedTV: Former Formula 1 and current World Touring Car Championship driver Tiago Monteiro seen in action fine-tuning the chassis of the New Lancia Stratos at the Fiat Group's Balocco test track in Italy

The Alfa Romeo 156 refuses to grow old gracefully and the legendary tin top racer was back at the front over the weekend sweeping to pole and victory in the final round of the highly competitive Swedish Touring Car Championship

ItaliaspeedTV: The New Lancia Stratos prototype is seen during its final session in the wind tunnel at Pininfarina in Turin on 13 September as the dramatic new supercar counts down to its public debut at Paul Ricard next month

Yesterday was emotionally charged day for Ducati Corse at Magny-Cours as the Italian factory team signed off from the World Superbike Championship after more than two decades of unrivalled success with a podium for Fabrizio

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat's stand at the Paris Mondial de l'Automobile including the new 500 TwinAir and Blackjack as well as the unique 500 Thousandth showcar, Bravo MY and new brand CEO Andrea Formica (1/3)

Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo put on a brilliant show for the Japanese fans at Motegi today, fighting it out for the final podium position in a battle that went down to the wire with the Italian prevailing over his team-mate to take third

Fiat is set to invest US$205 million in its factory at Córdoba in Argentina to add in a second model as it copes with soaring demand for new cars in neighbouring Brazil and production output could reach capacity in 2 years

ItaliaspeedTV: Maserati CEO Harald J Wester introduces the Modenese brand at its official press conference in Paris, launches the new GranTurismo MC Stradale and reveals the Trident strong sales for the year so far

The 2010 American Le Mans Series (ALMS) season finale has taken place this weekend at Road Atlanta and during the meeting it has been announced that the Lamborghini name is set to return to the championship next year

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - The top stories from Chrysler Group this week include an impressive 61 percent year-on-year rise in U.S. sales and Jeep looks global as it showcases its range at the Paris Motor Show

Chrysler Group has today reported U.S. sales of 100,077 units last month, a 61 percent increase compared with sales in September 2009 (62,197 units) which made it the best performer amongst its peer group for the month

Fiat Group sales slumped once again in Italy last month as customers continued to shun its products in a sharply falling market; it lost more than a quarter of sales year-on-year and saw market share slump to 28.64 percent

Japanese electronics giant Toshiba Corporation is set to team up with the Fiat Group in a project to jointly develop next-generation rapid-charge lithium ion batteries destined for hybrid vehicles, working closely with Turin R&D unit CRF

ItaliaspeedTV: Jeep President & CEO Mike Manly discusses the "off road" brand's presence in Paris which has seen the European reveal of the new Grand Cherokee and new engines for this market across selected models