Scuderia Ferrari's winter testing programme ended in torrential rain yesterday: the weather at the Catalunya circuit in Spain was atrocious from the early hours of Saturday morning and stayed that way into the early afternoon

ItaliaspeedTV: Amongst the biggest exhibits at Automotoretro this year Iveco's Light Multirole Vehicle (LMV) was also one of the most impressive, imposing its huge stance on a display that tracked past-to-present Italian military vehicles

Shreyans Group has been appointed as the official importer for Ferrari in India ending a long search by the Maranello sports car maker for an India distributor; the first dealership will open its doors in New Delhi in the spring

ItaliaspeedTV: The Iveco stand at the Samoter show will be exhibiting the Trakker model, a truck designed to work on all types of terrain, with one of the four being the example which took part in the Overland 12 expedition

Today saw the third and penultimate day of Formula 1 testing for Scuderia Ferrari at the Catalunya circuit in Spain, this time with Fernando Alonso taking over from team mate Felipe Massa at the wheel of the 150° Italia

After months of delays Fiat North America has finally begun delivering the first Fiat 500 Prima Edizione models to customers throughout the United States this week marking the return of the brand after more than a quarter of a century

ItaliaspeedTV: The first customers have now started collecting the Fiat 500 Prima Edizione, the specially customised opening edition of the supermini which has been limited to 500 units, from dealers in the U.S.

Pininfarina has announced that its electric urban car is to finally get the green light with the confirmation of production of 4,000 units destined for a Paris car sharing scheme in a deal that will see Cecomp leasing the project infrastructure

Magneti Marelli's know-how has been applied to many models being previewed at the 81st Geneva Motor Show this month with the both Ferrari's new FF and Lancia's new Ypsilon bristling with the Italian company's latest cutting-edge technology

ItaliaspeedTV: One of the many novelties at Automotoretro this year was a Formula Alfa Boxer, the "grassroots" one make single seater racer from the 1980s which was fitted with wings and the 1.7 16V IE engine from the road-going 33

Fiat Professional UK will be exhibiting its broad range of commercial vehicles - led out by the International Van of the Year award winning Doblò Cargo - at this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham’s NEC next month

ItaliaspeedTV: Two Ferrari FF four-seaters have been airlifted by a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to the top of Plan De Corones in the Dolomites at 2,350 metres where a special ice and snow track has been prepared for the media launch

Alfa Romeo's Giulietta and Ferrari's 458 Italia are both through to the final shortlist of three for 2011 World Car Design of the Year while the Maranello machine is also through to the last stage of 2011 World Performance Car of the Year

The Dodge Cargo Van is being reborn with the Ram badge and is now based around the refreshed version of the former's Grand Caravan mininvan that was introduced recently featuring changes to the rear load area and the suspension

ItaliaspeedTV: Abarth's successful Grande Punto S2000 rally car in dynamic action in thick snow in the Alps in a promotional video that celebrates the new co-branding between the Scorpion marque and Snowboard manufacturer Nitro

With the first two shipments of the Abarth 500 destined for Australia and New Zealand sold out before deliveries had even started, the powerful Scorpion-badged version of the Fiat 500 has now finally arrived in these two distant markets

With the first full year's production of the new Aventador LP700-4 supercar already sold out, Lamborghini says that it is now optimistic that it can end its two year deep sales decline and also turn the corner on the road to profitability

ItaliaspeedTV: Video takes a look back at the dramatic Maserati MC12s in action in the final and once again highly successful title wining season of top level sports car racing in the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship

Together with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, Fiat and Chrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne finally was able to celebrate the launch of the Fiat 500 at Los Pinos, the official residence and office of the Mexican President

The UK market's slide eased to a fall of 7.66 percent year-on-year last month, however while there was no respite for Fiat which lost just under a quarter of its sales there was better news for Alfa Romeo which gained just over a quarter

The biggest draw on the Fiat Automobiles stand at the Geneva Motor Show is undoubtedly the Mefistofele, a stunning Fiat SB4 Corsa based land speed record car that shattered the record in 1924 in the hands of Sir Ernest Eldridge

Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore attracted 38,000 fans in the biggest pre-season party ever organised by the motorcycle manufacturer, a spectacular send-off for the Ducati MotoGP Team and factory riders, Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden

Fiat Automóveis led the Brazilian new car market last month with 60,738 units sold and it was up 24.7 percent year-on-year meaning its performance mirrored the overall market which bounced back after a more difficult January

ItaliaspeedTV: Alfa Romeo CEO Harald J Wester introduces the brand during last week's press conference at the 81st Geneva Motor Show which includes the reveal of the headline-grabbing 4C Concept sports car (III)