March 19, 2024
Pagani

Pagani Huayra goes all carbon on the Geneva Motor Show

The Italians at Pagani don’t really care much for a discrete appearance. Not with their standard cars and even less with the rarest of the bunch. After giving us the F Roadster’s naked carbon fiber body and the crazy Zonda R, they’ve come to the Geneva Motor Show with a similar approach. The car is

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Maserati

Maserati GranTurismo gets recalled

Even the mighty fall sometimes. Maserati is a name that has managed to quite nicely avoid sending their customers recall notices but not even they are immune. Today however we’ve received word on how the NHTSA has a bit of a complaint about the Maserati GranTurismo supercar, particularly its tail lamp assembly. According to the

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Fiat

Fiat 500 limousine by Carrozzeria Castagna

Fiat’s revival of the 500 is based on a Panda mini-hatchback but is smaller, has less doors and a considerably cramped interior space as well. The point of the Fiat 500 was to make a new car that’s prettier, more sporty and isn’t burdened with the common look of its less impressive relative. Or is

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Fiat

Frankfurt preview: 2012 Fiat Panda

We all know the enormous amount of issues Fiat has been faced with in recent times and we all know that what really saved them from going under was none other than the little Fiat Panda. A new version of it being previewed for the Frankfurt Motor Show. The Panda has a history stretching so

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Lotus Supercars

Lotus Evora S joins ranks of the Carabinieri

Not since the Italians at Lamborghini gifted a couple of Gallardos to the country’s police force have we seen a publicity stunt of this size. In a moment of madness inspiration, the British at Lotus decided to help out the Carabinieri (Italy’s paramilitary police) with a couple of supercars for daily runabouts. Actually, the two

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Chrysler Maserati Supercars

Maserati SUV reportedly getting Chrysler V8 power

Lamborghini may not be going the SUV route but sadly, not all Italian sports car makers can do the same, Maserati’s extended lineup clearly includes one such vehicle. Production for the all new Maserati SUV is scheduled to start sometime in 2012 so certain details had to be put out of the way, technically at

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Alfa Romeo

Rumor: Alfa Romeo 4C could get more versions

There’s a bit of a rumor going around these last few days about what could pretty much be the best modern car Alfa Romeo ever made, the 4C. It seems like the big family that is Fiat may want to take the new baby Alfa love and spread it around to with other members such

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Maserati

Maserati GranTurismo MC will be seen on American streets

Now that’s something generous of the Italians, for once, and a rare opportunity at that, they’ve decided to make one of their special edition cars available in the U.S. In this particular case, I’m talking about the Maserati GranTurismo MC, the faster and meaner version of the trident’s stunning GT car.

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Lamborghini Supercars

Lamborghini’s Aventador once again sold out

In case you missed the situation on the new Sant’Agata Bolognese flagship, here’s another update from the Italians. Apart from only making 4000 units and the Lamborghini Aventador being sold out for 2011, it’s now gotten worse.

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Jaguar Tuning

Panzani Design turned a Jaguar into the Vintage GT

And in doing so, they came up with one of the ugliest versions of an already relatively ugly British creation, the Jaguar S-Type R. Panzani Design is an Italian tuning firm, one that’s not very successful or popular and somehow we can see why that is.

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Abarth Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo’s 4C is really happening

The 2011 Geneva Motor Show showed it to us in the metal and now we’re getting to the point where we’re finding out more about the Alfa Romeo 4C. Not only is this gorgeous and affordable two door coupe actually going to be produced but Alfa Romeo is already working on actually bringing it to

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Lamborghini Supercars

Lamborghini Gallardo lineup to start with RWD

It’s not that long ago that Lamborghini introduced four wheel drive to its cars. It’s even less than long ago that the company went back to basics with the Lamborghini Gallardo Balboni. While that version of the Gallardo was nothing more than a limited edition version meant to honor the Italian company’s retiring test driver,

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Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Geneva presence rendered

So what if Fiat took over Chrysler and in the “Crossfire” Alfa Romeo has been said to be in ever deeper trouble. We’ve even been told that the glorious Italian brand may end up being sold to to the Germans at Volkswagen, but that’s not true or the end of the story.

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Bentley Luxury Cars Tuning

Bentley Continental Shooting Break enters mass production

Erm, sort of. You see, the Bentley continental Shooting break isn’t exactly a fully fledged Bentley product. Underneath the estate-ish looking Coupe you actually have a “regular” Bentley Continental GTC which has most of its body redone by hand.

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Concept Cars

The Pagani Zonda becomes Absolute

I guess the the Pagani Zonda is a killer machine even though it’s dying. As I’m sure most of you know, by next year Pagani will be revealing the Zonda’s replacement and while most people would be tempted in trying to buy that, some like the current version more.

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Lancia

Pininfarina’s New Lancia Stratos finally… sold

We first ran into the Lancia Stratos back in 1972 and since then it has had a special place in the hearts of petrolheads around the world. In the heart of a truly special petrolhead, one called Michael Stoschek, it was such a potent memory it inspired him to commission Pininfarina to make him a

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Lamborghini Supercars

Production of the Lamborghini Murcielago ended with a bit of a celebration

I’m well aware of the year count being 2010 but it seems to be just a few moments ago when 2001 showed us an amazing release. The Italians gave us the new Lamborghini Murcielago. The stunning shape, the definite angry bull DNA, the Lamborghini Murcielago was a serious contender. As a blip of Joy the

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Chevrolet Muscle Cars Tuning

Romeo Ferraris take on the Chevrolet Corvette

Don’t start to panic, Modena isn’t churning out America’s idea of a muscle car and nor is Shakespeare’s best lover making use of a big V8 to get around. Romeo Ferraris is actually an Italian tuning house that’s just as mad as the high performance car manufacturers around the boot shaped country.

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Maserati

A new Quattroporte may be coming in sooner

Trust me, this isn’t a joke on how Maserati’s cars sell sex and how they may be having “trouble” in that section. As a matter of fact this is real and it’s gotten me all jumped up (don’t read into that). According to some of the latest reports the 2014 Maserati Quattroporte may actually be

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Ferrari Tuning

Status Design Ferrari 430

Now, before we set of I have to say the Russians over at tuning company, Status Design were in some sort of meeting when they had some serious… protocol drinks and then they got to the Ferrari 430. And when they got to it and looked a bit at the spec sheet they must have

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