Fiat Punto Abarth coming to Oz in 2008

Fiat have released more details on the Fiat Punto Abarth (see our previous item about the Punto Abarth at Frankfurt in the ItalianCar Club section), a car that marks the return of Abarth - one of the industry’s most respected performance badges (see our section on Abarth) and is on sale in Italy this month, with Australian arrival due in mid-2008.

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430 Scuderia announced for Sydney show

The Ferrari 430 Scuderia will make only its second appearance in the world after its unveiling in Frankfurt this month at the Sydney motor show on 11th October. The 430 Scuderia will join the rest of the current Ferrari line-up which includes the 599GTB Fiorano, the standard 430 (hard top and Spider convertible) and the 612 Scaglietti ...more in ItalianCar Club

Maserati win 2007 FIA GT

Here is the race report from Maserati in Brno in the Czech Republic, where Maserati have secured the series with two rounds to spare ...more in ItalianCar Club

GranTurismo puts on a show at Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House was the venue for an exclusive invitation-only preview of the new Maserati GranTurismo (ed - our invitation must have got lost in the post) ...more in ItalianCar Club

New Fiat 500 at London Design Festival

As we know all Italian car manufacturers see their models as works of art, but this has been taken a step further by the inclusion of the new Fiat 500 in the line up at the London Design Festival ...more in ItalianCar Club

Musical chairs at Fiat Group in Italy

Luca De Meo has recently been replaced as Head of the Fiat Brand by Lorenzo Sistino, who in less than a year at sister company CNH has overseen a significant improvement in the performance of the New Holland Agricultural Equipment business ...more in ItalianCar Club

GranTurismo booked for Sydney car show 2007

Maserati have announced that the GranTurismo will be at the Australian International Motor Show this year (11-21 October 2007) ...more in ItalianCar Club

Lamborghini launch a €1M supercar at Frankfurt

Lamborghini have launched the Reventón at the Frankfurt motor show this week - a €1M (AUD$1.65M) supercar inspired by the very latest aeronautics with a production run of just 20 cars.

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Giant 500 dominates Fiat stand at Frankfurt show

Creativity is clearly not lacking at Fiat at the moment with the Frankfurt motor show stand taken over with a huge model of the new car five times the size of the regular version ...more in ItalianCar Club

Michael Schumacher takes the wraps off the car he helped design - the Ferrari 430 Scuderia

Michael Schumacher revealed his role in the development of the 430 Scuderia as he launched Ferrari’s newest model at the Frankfurt motor show earlier this week ...more in ItalianCar Club

Forget the cars - Maserati's making money again!

If you are a fan of Maserati you will be please to know that the historic Italian car-maker - which has had more than its share of ups and downs over the years - is firmly back in the black - largely due to the success of its luxury limo the Quattroporte and more specifically the recent fully automatic version, which has allowed the car to join the 'mainstream' particularly in the US, where manual or 'stick shift' cars are in the minority ...more in ItalianCar Club

New Zealand gets Bravo (Ritmo in Oz) first

The all-new Fiat Bravo has already touched down in New Zealand this week (10 September 2007), a full 5 months ahead of its scheduled launch in Australia in February 2008, where it will go under the name of Ritmo ...more in ItalianCar Club

Maserati in the lead on all fronts

Here is the latest report from Maserati on the FIA GT Championship along with some great photos ...more in ItalianCar Club

Panda Aria concept shows off Fiat green technologies

Fiat have chosen the 2007 Frankfurt car show to unveil their latest green technology vehicle - the Aria concept car ...more in ItalianCar Club

Millionth Panda rolls off the line

The one millionth Fiat Panda rolled off the production lines of Fiat Auto Poland in Tychy (Poland) yesterday, a 1.2 litre red 4x4 built for the Italian market ...more in ItalianCar Club

Maserati gets top billing at 2007 Goodwood Revival

Maserati were out in force at this year's Goodwood Revival. 116,000 spectators came to gawk at 23 classic Maseratis, Nick Mason and his 1959 Maserati Birdcage Tipo 61 and Sir Stirling Moss reunited with the Maserati 300S he raced in the 50s ...more in ItalianCar Club

Abarth returns to Frankfurt motor show

Fiat is relaunching the Abarth name - and all that name stands for in the world of motorsport - at the Frankfurt show with a display of the Grande Punto Abarth S2000 on a large steel scorpion-shaped platform and with the announcement of a new Grande Punto Abarth 'essesse' (Super Sport) model (pictured) ...more in ItalianCar Club

Fiat to flaunt green credentials at Frankfurt show

Fiat rightfully lays claim to being king of the small car - reclaimed this year with the launch of the new 500 ...more in ItalianCar Club

Preview of Alfa at Frankfurt

Alfa will be showing off their new models clustered around Alfa's limited edition 8C Competizione as the centrepiece of the stand - only 500 8Cs will be made. ...more in ItalianCar Club

Lancia set to expand its horizons

Right at the bottom of the latest media release from Lancia (mainly about the forthcoming Frankfurt motor show) a little comment gives us some hope that the brand will return to markets it left many years ago ...more in ItalianCar Club