Ferrari's staff head back to Maranello with their tails between their legs to look for solutions to the lack of pace during the first three races with President Luca di Montezemolo saying: "This cannot and must not be the team’s level"

New tuning upstart Lucarelli Monza has got its self out of the blocks in the most dramatic fashion, creating the completely reworked Abarth 500 "Motore Centrale" which has received its public debut at the Top Marques Monaco show

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Abarth 500 Motore Centrale R230 [Lucarelli Monza] at Top Marques Monaco

As the losses continue to rise Fiat and Tata Motors are both pumping fresh equity into Fiat India Automobiles Ltd ensuring that - at least in the shorter term - that their 50-50 Indian market joint venture will continue to survive

At the Chinese Grand Prix a group of Ferrari owners in China teamed up for a grand charity parade at the Shanghai International Circuit in the first-ever circuit parade by a single brand right before the final race since the inception of the F1 in 1950

Luca Rossetti made the best possible start to his European Rally Championship title defence on the Rally 1000 Miglia, the Italian taking home a maximum points score to open up an 11 point gap to his closest rival with one round completed

Qualifying promise didn't translate into race day points for Toro Rosso as both cars went backwards from the start, Jaime Alguersuari losing a wheel nut following a pit stop while Sebastien Buemi dropped time with an unscheduled front wing change

Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso finished sixth and seventh respectively in the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai this afternoon as Ferrari's problems continued and in fact the team took a step backwards from Malaysia as Mercedes improved

ItaliaspeedTV: The first edition of Ferrari Corse Clienti Racing News covers the track debut of the new 458 Challenge in the 'Trofeo' series at Monza as well as exploring the GT2 and GT3 versions of the 458 Italia

After an average start to the weekend yesterday in Shanghai it all came exactly right for Scuderia Toro Rosso in the qualifying sessions this afternoon as both Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi comfortably made it through to Q3

The two Ferrari 150º Italias will both start the Chinese Grand Prix from the third row of the grid tomorrow, with Fernando Alonso fifth and Felipe Massa sixth after a very busy qualifying session which included a late red flag in Q2

The Fiom union intends to challenge the new contracts that Fiat has pushed on workers at its Mirafiori and Pomigliano d'Arco plants in the courts in Turin as the bitter divide between the carmaker and the union shows no sign of bridging

ItaliaspeedTV: Building on its kitted version of the Dodge Challenger last year, Mopar will launch a limited-edition Dodge Charger outfitted with select high-performance parts and appearance items straight from its parts catalogue

Ferrari continued to lag the front-running teams as the track action kicked off in Shanghai today with Fernando Alonso, who had the new aero updates, finding they made little improvement although he lost track time with a hydraulic problem

ItaliaspeedTV: Alfa Romeo 156 sedan-owning members of Alfa Romeo Club Thailand (A.R.T.) met together at the Palm Street Place shopping mall in Bangkok before travelling across the city to specialist Euromotive

Chrysler Group has released first images and running footage of the North American market specific 500C ahead of its debut at the New York Auto Show next week with the convertible version set to hit the stateside showrooms shortly

ItaliaspeedTV: On-the-road footage of the facelifted Dodge Charger MY2011, which features restyled bodywork, new engines and a reworked interior, all in an effort to connect with consumers; shown in in the range-topping R/T version

The new Montante for Maserati 8CTF bike, limited to 200 individually numbered copies, has been designed to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Wilbur Shaw’s victory of the 500 miles of Indianapolis behind the wheel of a Maserati 8CTF

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Fiat 500 Design is a special exhibition dedicated to the Fiat 500 at Salon Internazionale de Mobile 2011, the world-renown furniture, lighting and workspace exhibition which is taking place in Milan this week

Iveco Defence Vehicles is building on the commercial and operational success of its Light Multirole Vehicle (LMV) to develop a version that has been stripped-down and made more flexible all round dedicated to Special Forces operations

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - This week's highlights include first running footage of the U.S. market-specific Fiat 500 Cabrio, the new agreement between Magneti Marelli and Mopar as well as the Mopar-styled Dodge Charger '11

The Model Year 2011 version of the Alfa Romeo 159 equipped with the new turbodiesel entry-level 2.0 JTDM 136 bhp engine, has gone on sale in the UK this week; the 159 MY2011 received its world debut at the Paris Motor Show last autumn

ItaliaspeedTV: The ninth edition of Scuderia Ferrari Racing News looks forward to the Chinese Grand Prix this weekend with Stefano Domenicali, the secrets of the telemetry with Dieter Gundel and the Shanghai track with Marc Gene

Magneti Marelli and Mopar have announced a new strategic agreement that will give the Mopar dealership network in the U.S. the availability of Magneti Marelli product and service knowledge to fully service all-brand vehicles

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Screenshots and behind-the-scenes images from the Lancia Delta MY2012's upcoming TV advert; the 'Model Year' Delta gets a new grille and the 105 CV 1.6 Multijet to join the 120 CV version in the range