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The 2026 edition

Italian cars, researched from the beginning

A new, independent reference to the cars, engineers and design houses that shaped Italy's motor industry—guided by the best subjects from this domain's original e‑zine, but written and sourced afresh.

Poster-style illustration of three fictional Italian cars on a winding Italian hillside road

New reference guides

Freshly researched stories from the model archive, spanning racing departments, landmark designs and cars that changed their marques.

  • Alfa Romeo · history

    Autodelta: Alfa's racing department

    How Carlo Chiti's independent concern became the competition arm behind the GTA and Tipo 33 programmes.

  • Lancia · history

    Lancia, from 1906

    Vincenzo Lancia, the Lambda, the Aurelia and a tradition of engineering firsts—without compressing the difficult years.

  • Maserati · model guide

    Maserati GranSport

    The sharper 2004 evolution of the Coupé, and the bridge it formed between two eras of road-going Maseratis.

  • Alfa Romeo · model guide

    Alfa Romeo 147

    The European Car of the Year winner, its 2004 revision and the extraordinary 3.2-litre GTA.

  • Alfa Romeo · model guide

    Alfa Romeo 156

    The saloon that reset Alfa's design language and introduced common-rail diesel to a production passenger car.

  • Ferrari · model guide

    Ferrari F430

    The road car in which Ferrari made the electronic differential and steering-wheel manettino central to the experience.

  • Fiat · model guide

    Fiat Grande Punto

    Why the 2005 Punto mattered to Fiat, what changed, and how Giorgetto Giugiaro's shape has aged.

  • Design · profile

    Pininfarina

    From Battista Farina's workshop to the Cisitalia 202, a Ferrari-defining partnership and the modern design group.

Explore the marques

Seven makers, one design culture, and very different answers to what an Italian car should be.

Alfa Romeo

Competition, engineering and the 61-model historic index recovered from the former site.

Ferrari

Road-car guides from the 250 and Dino families through the F430 and 599 generation.

Fiat

The people's cars that put Italy on wheels, plus the sporting and design stories around them.

Abarth

Carlo Abarth, small-capacity competition cars and the model names that still cause confusion.

Lancia

Engineering-led cars from the Lambda to the Delta, and the complicated history around them.

Maserati and Lamborghini

Grand tourers, supercars and two very different readings of Italian performance.

A recovered map, not recovered copy

The first italiancar.net was an English-language e‑zine active mainly from 2003 to 2008. Its archived structure contains more than 900 captured URLs: news, features, marque histories, road tests and large model “FACTfile” sections. Later versions of the domain were unrelated, and the original articles do not belong to the present owner.

We use that historic URL map to decide what deserves a modern destination. The writing here is new, factual claims are linked to sources, and an old address receives a permanent redirect only when the rebuilt page covers the same subject. Read the domain history and editorial policy.

Rebuild status. This first expanded edition restores the main navigation, seven marque indexes, a design section and eight priority articles. The model archive shows what the former reference library covered and which entries are live now.