April 30 2007

Maseratis not so hot at FIA GT

Maserati failed to turn a strong performance in practice into a good result in the first round of the FIA GT World Championship held at China’s Zhuhai racetrack ...

April 26 2007

First official pictures of new Fiat 500

Fiat has released the first official pictures of the new Fiat 500, which will launch exactly 50 years after the original car in July, before arriving in Australia at the Sydney motor show in October prior to a local launch in early 2008 ...

April 26 2007

A Ferrari wins for first time in 12 years at Sebring

A Ferrari 430GT raced by Risi Competizione in the American Le Mans series has taken the trophy at the 12 Hours of Sebring race – the first time a Ferrari has won in 12 years ...

April 23 2007

Autodelta mark 20 years with a European tour

London based tuning house Autodelta – responsible for tweaked version of the new Brera and 147 GTA to name a few – are marking their 20th anniversary with a European tour ...

April 19 2007

Pagani announce new Zonda R

Modena-based supercar maker Pagani have announced an even more extreme version of the Zonda model - if this is possible ...

April 17 2007

German tuning house Hamann get to work on the Ferrari 599

Last month Hamann sent us some details on their upgrade of the Ferrari 599. We've always thought that if you're paying all that money to a manufacturer like Ferrari, then you'd have thought there wouldn't be much to improve on. Hamann's success in this area proves that there are enough people out there who think otherwise ...

April 17 2007

Lamborghini doing well - all 2007 output already sold

In recently from Lamborghini a report showing great financials and a healthy future ahead. Here is the report in (almost) unaltered state ...

April 13 2007

Fiat relaunches Punto Abarth at Geneva

Fiat relaunched one of the car industry’s legendary performance and sporting car marques at the Geneva show this month when it took the wraps off the Fiat Punto Abarth, the first of a new range of high performance and sporting Fiats, as well performance and sporting kits for the Fiat range ...

April 13 2007

March a big month for Ferrari in Australia

It was all happening in March if you were an Australian Ferrari fan - 60th anniversary celebrations saw a cavalcade of Ferraris driving around Sydney and Melbourne and an F1 Ferrari screaming down Lygon Street in Melbourne. Here's what happened, as reported by Ferrari Australia ...

April 11 2007

Maserati Granturismo unveiled in Geneva

Maserati took the wraps off the Maserati GranTurismo at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this month (6 March 2007). It is due to arrive for an Australian and New Zealand launch in early 2008.

April 6 2007

Alfa launches Selespeed Brera and Spider at Geneva

Alfa has added Selespeed versions of the new Spider and Brera at the Geneva motor show, and their arrival in Australia later this year will complete the Selespeed picture for the Italian car maker ...

April 4 2007

Alfa sponsors SBK Superbike World Championship and Ducati Racing

Alfa Romeo will be out in force at Philip Island for the second round of the 2007 SBK Superbike World Championship® on Sunday 4 March as the major automotive sponsor of the premier motorbike racing series and as the sponsor of Ducati Racing and its Australian world champion, Troy Bayliss ...

April 2 2007

Ferrari kicks off 60th anniversary marathon tour

Ferrari has kicked off its round the world marathon relay tour to celebrate its 60th anniversary with Piero Ferrari, son of Ferrari founder, Enzo Ferrari, handing over the official baton to the first of hundreds of Ferrari owners that will carry it around the world ...

April 2 2007

Fiat top dog in Europe last year

The Fiat Group took the 2006 European prize for the largest sales increase, with a 17.6 per cent sales increase for the 15 European Union countries and the EFTA countries, contrasting with just a 0.7 per cent increase for the market as a whole ...

April 2 2007

Autodelta celebrates 20 years

2007 is shaping up to be an important year for UK Alfa tuning house Autodelta with the release of the new Autodelta Brera J5 3.2 C on 7th February, with a number of other bespoke models and high performance upgrades planned for the year ...

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