After months of speculation and spy photography Ducati has released a first image and information about its newest bike, the Diavel, which will make its first public appearance next month at the EICMA Motorcycle Show in Milan

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: From Lancia's Stratos, 037 Rally, Delta S4 and Integrale to Alfa Romeo's Alfetta GTV, Fiat's 131 Abarth and Autobianchi's A112, Italian rally metal that has defined the sport was in action at Rally Legend (III)

ItaliaspeedTV: The new Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale has made its on-track debut at the Mugello circuit in the hands of Johnny Herbert one of the most famous and successful drivers in recent motor sport history

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: From Lancia's Stratos, 037 Rally, Delta S4 and Integrale to Alfa Romeo's Alfetta GTV, Fiat's 131 Abarth and Autobianchi's A112, Italian rally metal that has defined the sport was in action at Rally Legend (II)

Fiat has suffered embarrassment after BSM, the UK’s most popular driving school, announced that it is dumping its contract with Fiat to provide its 500 for its learner fleet after barely a year after it started using the supermini

Fresh from his return to winning ways with victory #46 at Sepang last Sunday afternoon, Valentino Rossi, and his newly crowned team mate Jorge Lorenzo, now travel to Australia for the next MotoGP round at Phillip Island this weekend

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: From Lancia's Stratos, 037 Rally, Delta S4 and Integrale to Alfa Romeo's Alfetta GTV, Fiat's 131 Abarth and Autobianchi's A112, Italian rally metal that has defined the sport was in action at Rally Legend (I)

If one car could sum up Lancia's DNA it would be the amazing ECV1 and two and a half decades after it s appearance shocked the world this rally 'laboratory' prototype finally hit the stages in anger over the weekend in San Marino

The Italian actor-director Terence Hill, best known as Mario Girotti for his films with Bud Spencer and, over the last decade, for the television series Don Matteo, is behind the wheel of Iveco's imposing LMV for a new TV series storyline

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: There was only one machine the massive crowds at Rally Legend 2010 came to marvel at: Lancia's iconic 600 bhp 'Triflux' twin-turbo ECV1 which took to the stages in the hands of Miki Biasion

Alfredo Altavilla is to be appointed CEO of Iveco replacing Paolo Monferino a position that puts him right into pole position to take charge of the new Fiat Industrial entity which will be formed when the Fiat Group is split up

There was no respite in the UK for Fiat Group Automobiles' Europe-wide sales slowdown as both Fiat and Alfa Romeo lost more than a fifth of their sales last month meaning their declines were more than double the overall market's slowdown

Another podium finish for Fernando Alonso who was third this afternoon at Suzuka and that sees him hold onto second place in the championship standings but no points for Felipe Massa who went out at the start of the opening lap

Fiat India Automobiles launched the Linea in January last year and it went on to achieve sales success; today the 1.4 T-Jet version has been launched in India to push the sedan upwards toward the top end of the segment

Sebastien Buemi raced to a tenth place finish in the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka this afternoon to collect the final world championship point on offer and break Toro Rosso's point scoring duck that had extended to six races

Valentino Rossi resumed 'normal service' this afternoon in Sepang as he notched up victory number '46' for Yamaha while his Spanish team mate Jorge Lorenzo's third place gave him enough points to seal the MotoGP title

It’s just been named International Van of the Year 2011 and now the new Fiat Doblò Cargo has been recognised again, this time taking top honours in the UK's Fleet Van of the Year awards held in London yesterday

The Ferrari Driver Academy has just added a sixth young driver to its roster: Sergio Perez, a twenty year old driver from Guadalajara in Mexico, who is set to make his F1 debut next year with Ferrari-powered at the Sauber team

Eurostar, the high-speed passenger train operator between the UK and mainland Europe, has just announced its plans for a £700 million capital investment in its fleet that will see Pininfarina picking up key design work

With rain likely for tomorrow the F1 action got underway at Suzuka today and after the two free sessions the Ferrari drivers' were fourth and fifth quickest with the in-form Fernando Alonso leading out team mate Felipe Massa

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - The top stories from Chrysler Group this week include a first look at the new Dodge Charger, the Txt U L8r mobile app, new Mopar accessories for Jeep and Dodge Vipers gather at Salt Lake

Scuderia Toro Rosso drivers' Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari showed little turn of competitive speed in free practice at Suzuka today as they got to grips with the Japanese race track in the Ferrari V8-powered STR5

Fiat Group Automobiles continued to suffer crumbling sales in Germany through September: the Fiat brand was the big loser in volume terms losing almost half its sales while Alfa Romeo and Lancia both gave up much ground

RM Auctions will lift the gavel on the Lamborghini Islero GTS, one the the brand's rarest cars, from the Roger Moore movie The Man Who Haunted Himself, when its Automobiles of London sale returns to the UK on October 27

ItaliaspeedTV: Ferrari's Head of Track Operations Diego Ioverno discusses the challenges posed by the series of flyaway rounds which don't allow the team the luxury of returning its equipment to Maranello in between races