This year's most dramatic sports car, Lamborghini's Aventador LP700-4 has arrived in Thailand, launched in an extravagant ceremony in the Ballroom of the InterContinental Hotel in Bangkok in front of a guest list that included celebrities and VIPs

Geoff Mortimer and his co-driver, Gerry Gericke, piloting an Alfa Romeo MiTo 1.4 Progression, returned a very impressive fuel consumption of just 6.25 l/100km during the 35th edition of the South Africa's Total Economy Run

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: With a local list price starting at 34 million baht Lamborghini's newest supercar the Aventador LP700-4 dramatically arrived in Bangkok in a sea of dry ice, crashing music and strobe lights at the InterContinental Hotel

Maserati GB has announced the introduction of a new 'Sport Pack' for its best selling model in the UK, the GranTurismo S Automatic, which comprises of the exterior cosmetic trims and gearbox software upgrade from the MC Sport Line options list

Leading a long list of exciting early entries for RM Auctions prestigious Battersea sale in late November are a trio of historic Alfa Romeos, headlined by a very rare, competition-bred 1972 Alfa Romeo 33-3 TT, chassis number AR11572/010

The Fiat brand continued to shed sales in the UK, during July they were down more than a quarter as its market share declined to just 2 percent; Alfa Romeo however went the other way, its sales bounced more than a third for the month

Luca Rossetti extended his European Rally Championship lead to 48 points after a maximum points haul in Madeira following a solid run to third overall which was only blighted by a puncture that stopped dead his bid for overall victory

At Spa the Maserati Quattroporte of Andrea Bertolini cruised to a sensational double International Superstars Series win, the Italian repeating his Donington double two races ago and trimming the gap to the top in standings to just 10 points

ItaliaspeedTV: American performance returning to center stage is the message of new television advertising for the new Dodge Durango; numerous spots will begin airing this week all of which will emphasize that "The SUV is Back"

Unetversity Slough, a new training centre for Fiat Group UK offering high-tech training which leads to certification for each role, has just been officially opened with the promise of greater results for the 6,000 delegates it handles annually

The Lithuanian Alfa Romeo Owners Club expanded its racing stable to two cars for the prestigious Omnitel 1000 Km race, bringing in a specially prepared Alfa GT Coupé which lined up alongside its regular Alfa 155 on the 44 car grid

ItaliaspeedPhotoStream: For Lithuania's Omnitel 1000 Km, the most important endurance race in the Baltic States, Alfa Romeo Klubas took the fight straight to its rivals with a well prepared team running a stunning GT Coupé and 155

Alfa Romeo UK, the official car supplier to UK Athletics, has joined forces with four of the country's top athletes and leading portrait photographer, Fergus Greer, to raise money and awareness for the charity Heart Research UK

Alfa Romeo will bring seven cars to Frankfurt next month; the line-up will be topped once again by the 4C Concept, which is likely to be closer to a production finish than when it debuted as a hurriedly-thrown-together concept at Geneva in the spring

ItaliaspeedTV: Under the Pentastar - This week's edition looks at strong U.S. July sales, new ad campaigns for the Dodge Durango and Fiat 500 and words from Sergio Marchionne on progress the company has made in the past 19 months

Chrysler Group is recalling 300,000 Model Year 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country/Voyager minivans for the second time this year to try to solve an air bag issue that could lead to the bag inadvertently deploying

The Fiat brand continued to underperform the overall German market throughout July; however it was in positive territory in year-on-year terms (+2.2 percent) as were Alfa Romeo (+20.6 percent) and Lancia (+130.7 percent)

ItaliaspeedTV: Straight from its appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last month the Alfa 4C Concept was shipped to the flagship MotorVillage in Paris; this official Alfa Romeo France video traces the showcar's time in the city

The story of the Scagliarini Motorsports Abarth 504 Coupé Zagato Elaborata has boiled over in the last 24 hours with the Italian design house issuing a statement to say it hasn't been involved in the project or approved use of its intellectual property

ItaliaspeedTV: Jeep has been making a big splash at the 19th Indonesian International Motor Show in Jakarta; on a spacious stand it has been showing off the new Grand Cherokee as well as the lightly refreshed Wrangler and Patriot

Fiat Group followed Italian car sales downwards last month, losing 9.2 percent year-on-year as the market dropped 10.69 percent; Fiat (-12.11 percent) and Alfa Romeo (-3.15 percent) were both losers while Lancia (+1.23 percent) was up

ItaliaspeedTV: The facelifted Dodge Journey has arrived in Asia in rapid time: two examples of the minivan in R/T trim and equipped with the WGE engine have been on display at the 19th Indonesian International Motor Show in Jakarta

At the 2011 New Car Awards ceremony held by the UK’s biggest selling weekly car magazine, Auto Express, the Ferrari 458 Italia took the title of Performance Car of the Year 2011 ahead of 20 other performance cars in the running

Although Alfa Romeo is no longer present in Brazil, it had long and fascinating history in this country before it left a quarter of a century ago; this weekend Alfisti will gather in the Caxambu to celebrate their passion for these Italian cars

ItaliaspeedTV: Dynamic driving footage and close-ups of the new Maserati GranCabrio Sport which is more a powerful, faster-shifting, sportier-looking and all-round more hard-edged version of the luxurious GranCabrio convertible