Fresh on the heels of its announcement as the auction house of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, RM Auctions has revealed an early star attraction for its Lake Como debut: a rare 1955 Ferrari 375 MM Berlinetta by Pinin Farina

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - This week's special North American International Auto Show edition includes the debut of the facelifted Chrysler 300 and Jeep Compass and a caravan of Dodge Durangos headed for dealerships

The Fiat Group ended the year with a dismal December sales were down 19.1 percent year-on-year which meant that the Italian carmaker finished 2010 with 1,041,287 sales, down more than two hundred thousand units on the previous year

For the first time the Jeep brand was represented at Ferrari's traditional Wrooom Press Ski meeting with a Wrangler taking part in a photoshoot with the Scuderia drivers', Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, getting behind the wheel

Less than three months after the Ferrari World theme park opened, Aldar Properties has been forced to unload it onto the government of Abu Dhabi as it ditches chunks of its property portfolio in an effort to raise cash to pay down due debts

Lamborghini is representing the Italian automotive industry at the exhibition Il Falso Non Ha Senso (“Fakes Don't Make Sense”): Made in Italy, genuineness and fakes; this is the first Italian exhibition to address the fake market

'Red' dominated the evening in Shanghai with the illumination of the landmark Oriental Pearl Tower as Ferrari celebrated the 999th Chinese customer since the brand came to China with a multimedia show on the Pu Jiang river

Fiat has narrowly won a vote over future of the Mirafiori factory, with workers voting 54.1 percent in favour of new contracts which will strip away a string of rights but which Fiat believes are necessary to make the plant competitive

ItaliaspeedTV: The festivities to celebrate the 999th Ferrari sold in China started in the afternoon with a show of more than 15 Ferraris in front of the Oriental Pearl Tower and ended with a gala dinner, in the company of CEO Amedeo Felisa

Fernando Alonso won both the traditional "ice" races but the final day's highlight, and getting the racing programme of Wrooom underway on the frozen lake at Madonna di Campiglio, was the sound of an F60 driven by Luca Badoer

ItaliaspeedTV: The Dodge brand saw some product momentum at last at the MGM Grand Hotel in Detroit as Dodge dealers, some from as far away as Kentucky, picked up the keys to drive away nearly 200 new Durango SUVs

Fiat has agreed a deal to purchase half of Italian diesel specialist manufacturer VM Motori from Penske Corporation just as the company gears up to produce its V6 for installation in high-end Fiat and Chrysler Group products

ItaliaspeedTV: Views from Wrooom 2011, Scuderia Ferrari's traditional season opening press ski meeting at Madonna di Campiglio in the Alps including Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella on the slopes

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: First look at the Chrysler 200 Convertible which follows the format of the refreshment meted out to the Sebring sedan and which has been confirmed is set to be sold in Europe badged as a Lancia 

At Wrooom Stefano Domenicali comments on this year’s F1 technical and rule changes, from the return of KERS to the arrival of Pirelli as tyre supplier, from the abolition of the double diffuser to the adjustable rear wing

Lancia has confirmed that it will rebadge Chrysler’s unloved Sebring sedan and convertible, known as the 200 since its recent makeover, adding it to the continental European range, and most likely reviving the historic Flavia name

Dressed in "Ducati red" for the first time, at Wrooom 2011 Valentino Rossi announced his motivation for the new season and that the Italian Tricolore will decorate the Ducati bikes during this year’s celebration of 150 years of Italian unity

Just after announcing that it had achieved record sales results in China for last year, Ferrari has now revealed that preliminary figures for the North American market show that 2010 was a record year for the sports car maker

ItaliaspeedTV: The entire Scuderia driver line-up arrived in the mountains of Madonna di Campiglio to take part in the twenty first edition of Wrooom, the media event that kick off Ferrari and Ducati's new season in Formula 1 and Moto GP

Sergio Marchionne's right hand man Alfredo Altavilla is elected Chairman of ACEA's Commerical Vehicle Board while rumours go wild over a Fiat Industrial acquisition of VW's commercial vehicle interests in MAN and Scania

Chrysler Group completed its roll out of refreshed models at opening of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, its key reveals being facelifted versions of the Chrysler 300 full-size sedan and Jeep Compass compact SUV

Fiat Automobiles' sharply deteriorating sales performance in the UK continued unabated during the final month of the year as sales once again almost halved year-on-year although Alfa Romeo went the other way, up 80 percent

ItaliaspeedTV: Chrysler CEO Olivier François introduces the facelifted 300 in Detroit; the U.S. carmaker hopes that new front and rear clips, a new interior and suspension changes will rejuvenate sales of the full size sedan

Fiat has raised its ownership of the Chrysler Group by 5 percent to 25 percent after completing the first of three incremental steps laid down under the U.S. and Canadian governments' bailout of the carmaker in 2009

ItaliaspeedTV: Jeep unveils the facelifted 2011 Compass which it hopes can now compete for attention in the important compact SUV segment after being reworked particularly to address criticism of its lack of off road ability