At the fourth attempt, Fernando Alonso secured his and Ferrari’s first podium of the year, after the Spaniard finished third in yesterday's Turkish Grand Prix behind the Red Bull Racing one-two of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber

Fiat and Alfa Romeo both comfortably outperformed the relatively flat German new car market last month, up 8.2 and 35.1 percent year-on-year respectively, while Lancia went the opposite way as it fades away on this market

ItaliaspeedTV: The 10th of Scuderia Ferrari Racing News focuses on preparations for today's Turkish GP and includes interviews with Felipe Massa as well as design and engine chiefs, respectively Nikolas Tombazis and Luca Marmorini

Following the contract for the supply of the amphibious armoured personnel carriers that it is developing jointly with the Brazilian Army, Iveco will now create a dedicated Defence Vehicle unit in Brazil, Iveco Veículos de Defesa

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - This week's edition includes Chrysler Group reporting first post-Chapter 11 profit, April sales data, TAWA honours the Fiat 500 and Dodge Journey and Ram Long-Hauler concept revealed

Fiat Automóveis' innovative online user-generated "Mio" concept car project, devised by Brazilian advertising agency AgênciaClick Isobar, has been honoured by the The Bee Awards, in its International Social Media Marketing Awards

The grid for tomorrow’s seventh running of the Turkish Grand Prix will see one Ferrari on the third row and the other on the fifth: Alonso set the fifth fastest time in Q3 while Massa is credited with tenth having aborted his only run in the final session

Following its launch at the Milan Fashion Week and the Geneva International Motor Show, Fiat and Gucci have now presented the Fiat 500 by Gucci in Paris at the MotorVillage Rond-Point des Champs Elysées

Scuderia Toro Rosso didn't translate any potential weekend pace into this afternoon's qualifying sessions in Istanbul and Sebastien Buemi ended up edging out team mate Jaime Alguersuari by three tenths as they brought up the tail end of Q2

Maserati has expanded its presence in Sweden with the opening of a new state-of-the-art showroom in Malmö; in Sweden since 1984, Maserati was already present in this market with a first showroom in Malmö and a second one in Stockholm

Maserati's GranTurismo coupé is the subject of a new product placement in Hollywood thriller movie from Universal Studios, Limitless, which went on release this spring featuring Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Bradley Cooper

The Ferrari engineers had a clear plan of action for today’s two free practice sessions: carry out the usual tyre comparisons and work on set-up, as well as trying out the several new aero components introduced on the 150º Italia

The dramatic Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione has won many admirers especially for its retro styling, however the former "Stig", British racing driver Ben Collins, has disagreed: he proclaims it to be the worst supercar he has ever driven

The annual Latvian Alfa Romeo owners meeting took place last Sunday in Šlokenbeka Manor near the capital city Riga where almost forty Alfa Romeo cars gathered in the manor park, the event star of course was the Giulietta

Magneti Marelli's development of the first intelligent all-LED headlight with adaptive light functions, created for the Mercedes CLS, has been awarded with the red dot award: product design 2011 and the Daimler Special Award Innovation

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: Latvian Alfa Romeo owners gathered at Šlokenbeka Manor with cars on show including several generations of Spider, the 33, 90, 147, 155, 156, 159, 145, GTV6, MiTo and headlined by the new Giulietta

Another coachbuilt Ferrari model will be presented at this month's Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este: the Ferrari Super America 45 which has been hinted at for the first time in a somewhat ambiguous press release by event sponsor BMW

Half a decade after it was launched, the fifth-generation Fiat Ducato van, which is built as part of a joint venture with PSA Peugeot-Citroën, is getting under-the-skin upgrades focused on its powerplant line up as well as cabin improvements

Members of the Texas Auto Writers Association have voted the Fiat 500 as Best Value and Best New Design at the 2011 TAWA Spring Roundup hosted at the Texas Motor Speedway; the 500 received two of the competition's eight awards

The Agnelli family's investment company, EXOR, has announced that it is teaming up with News Corporation to explore the possibility of creating a consortium that could lead to the eventual purchase of F1 from current owners CVC

ItaliaspeedTV: David Baldi dominated the opening round of the Trofeo Maserati GranTurismo MC held last weekend at Imola circuit, winning two races out of two, as the new season of the popular one-maker series got underway

Fiat has comprehensively won a vote by workers at the idled former Carrozzeria Bertone plant at Grugliasco in Turin to accept new working practices which will kick off a 500 million euro investment to assemble a new E-segment Maserati

ItaliaspeedTV: Scuderia Ferrari's Felipe Massa and engine chief Luca Marmorini look forward to this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix where the team hopes to turn the corner in its attempts to make back to the front of the pack

The new Ferrari FF - one of the main protagonists at Auto Shanghai 2011 which closed its doors a couple of days ago – claimed two awards during the show from Chinese news outlets, Car&Driver and Oriental TV

Driven by a 65 percent rise in sales for the Jeep brand, the Chrysler Group has reported U.S. sales of 117,225 units for April, a market-beating 22 percent year-on-year increase and its best sales for the month since 2008