Launched onto the Brazilian market less than three months ago, the C-segment Fiat Bravo can now be specified with a more sporty visual appearance with two new kits that are now available for ordering at Brazilian dealerships

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - This week's highlights include first images of the Chrysler 200 [Sebring] Convertible, Windsor Assembly Plant celebrations and the Chrysler Group enters into a partnership with the EPA

In the UK the Fiat brand lost more than a third of its sales year-on-year during January although Alfa Romeo went the other way, up by nearly two thirds, against a market that started the new year off slipping by just over 11 percent

ItaliaspeedTV: New Realities in a New Automotive World address by Chrysler Group and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne at the J.D. Power and Associates International Automotive Roundtable at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco (1/3)

The Italian government appears to be backing away from a confrontation with Fiat over its proposals to merge with Chrysler Group and to shift its headquarters from Turin to Detroit in comments made by Minister Maurizio Sacconi

ItaliaspeedTV: Chrysler has rolled out its first advert for the new 200 (Sebring facelift) to coincide with the occasion of the Super Bowl yesterday; using the new tag line "Imported from Detroit" the spot features artist Eminem

Maserati Thailand has come up with a unique offer to galvanise local interest in the Italian brand: with every Trident model purchased during an offer period the buyer will receive for free an example of the limited edition Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: 'Year of the Rabbit' party at Bangkok's Siam Paragon shopping mall: Maserati's key models were shown alongside the Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari as the Thailand importer presented a special offer

Lancia will be a partner of the German Federal Television and Cinema Directors Association (BVR) and, for the first time, also of the Federal Casting Association at Berlinale 2011, one of the most renown film festivals in the world

ItaliaspeedTV: The fourth edition of Scuderia Ferrari Racing News is all about the development and building of the new F150, the 57th single-seater constructed in Maranello, set to participate in the 2011 F1 World Championship (II)

The escalating fears that Fiat could abandon Turin as its historical headquarters gained further momentum this morning with Italian newspaper reports quoting Sergio Marchionne and John Elkann that didn't appear to dampen any of the flames

ItaliaspeedTV: The fourth edition of Scuderia Ferrari Racing News is all about the development and building of the new F150, the 57th single-seater constructed in Maranello, set to participate in the 2011 F1 World Championship (I)

Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has been forced to apologise for comments he made following a speech at the JD Power Automotive Roundtable conference when he described U.S. and Canadian government loans, as "shyster" loans

Italy's latest dramatic sports cars, Ferrari's 458 Italia and Lamborghini's Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera, have joined the final shortlist of exotic machines bidding to become the World Performance Car of the Year 2011

The future of Fiat has taken another twist today with comments reportedly from CEO Sergio Marchionne that a merger with Chrysler Group could happen with "the next two or three years" and that the new entity could be U.S. headquartered

ItaliaspeedTV: Dodge pokes fun at the current 'apocalyptic' weather forecasts in a new TV advert that goes out across the U.S. on Monday which will highlight the all-wheel-drive capability of its Charger, Durango and Journey models

Alfa Romeo UK is celebrating its continued support of UK Athletics with a new special edition across the MiTo range, which comes in three colours and offers improved levels of equipment as standard, dubbed the MiTo Sprint

Ferrari says that due to the outstanding interest created by the radical new FF and the numerous requests to see the car in dynamic action, it has decided to issue five further photographs of the new four-seater in cold weather testing action

Following its deep slump last year the German new car market enjoyed a second positive month in January, up 16.5 percent year-on-year and that helped Fiat trim its losses (-6.8 percent) while Alfa Romeo surged forward (+67.1 percent)

Alfa Romeo's Giulietta and Ferrari's 458 Italia are both on the final shortlist of eight cars vying for the 2011 World Car Design of the Year award which will be announced at the New York International Auto Show on Thursday, April 21

For a second consecutive season the Sauber team will be using Ferrari's 2.4 V8 in the back of its single-seater making it three teams on the F1 grid once again be propelled by Prancing Horse engines alongside Ferrari and Toro Rosso

ItaliaspeedTV: "Arrive in Style" is a promotion video just released by Chrysler that offers a look at its three newly facelifted products - the 200 [Sebring], 300 and Town & Country - which seeks to tie them into the brand's traditions

Today saw third and final day of testing for Scuderia Ferrari, working again today along with eleven other teams in the first test F1 of the year, at the Cheste circuit, near Valencia, with Felipe Massa in action in his first taste of the new F150

Alfa Romeo is stealing the limelight at Rétromobile in Paris as legendary Argentine racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio is being honoured and two fabulous racing cars that brought him success, the 159 and 3000 CM, are being showcased

"We know that we have a good basis on which to work on the mechanical side," said Ferrari Technical Director Aldo Costa in Valencia, "while when it comes to aerodynamics, we will not see the final version of the F150 until we get to Bahrain"