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An Italian woman has had her driving licence renewed at the age of 100, becoming at least the country’s third centenarian in recent years deemed fit to get behind the wheel. Candida Uderzo was given a new licence after passing an eye test at a driving school in the northern province of Vicenza. The sprightly centenarian said she liked to be autonom...

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If Tuscany has Chianti, the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna has “Motor Valley”, an area that boasts one of the highest concentrations of luxury sports cars and motorbikes in the world. The so-called Land of Motors, covering around 1,000 square kilometres of prime agricultural land roughly between Bologna and Modena, is home to Lamborghini and Ferr...

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If you’ve bought a car in Sacramento in the past half-century or so, there’s a decent chance you shopped at a dealership owned by the Niello family. Now the patriarch of the Niello automobile family has died. Richard Niello Sr., who brought the company to Sacramento after its founding in San Francisco, died at home Saturday. He was 10 days shy of h...

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Though it sounds like a menu in an Italian restaurant, the Bizzarrini Strada is a real car, and there’s no shame in admitting you’re hearing this name for the first time. The classic car enjoyed a rather short lifespan, having come to life in 1964 only to go belly up five years later. The accidental Italian marquee was declared bankrupt in 1969, an...

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International icon of Italian style and award-winning design firm, Pininfarina, has officially opened its first New York City office–representing an exciting next step in the firm’s storybook evolution from bespoke coachbuilder to global design powerhouse. Founded in 1930, Pininfarina is lauded all over the globe for creating some of the most stunn...

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Foreign Cars Italia, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, has had the pleasure of housing two incredible examples of the Ferrari LaFerrari hypercar. These two magnificent Ferraris were at the dealership for service as the dealership is an Official Ferrari Dealer. To learn more about these cars, the dealership uploaded a video to YouTube video, fo...

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There is light at the end of the tunnel for overseas travel again as borders begin to reopen, and there are plenty of tunnels to pass through in Europe. Many years ago when our family travelled around Italy by car our young children were so fascinated with the tunnels that they started recording the number we passed through. As there were so many t...

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Anyone who knows anything about sports cars knows the Maserati name. Once the luxury division of Ferrari, it's currently owned by Stellantis, a multinational automobile manufacturer founded when the Italian-American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles merged with the French PSA Group. But the Italian sports car's origin goes back to 1914 Bologna...

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Maserati has confirmed that they will launch the convertible version of their super sports car MC20, called Cielo, on May 25. The Bologna-based company shared the MC20 stands for Maserati Corse which refers to its racing lineage, and ‘20’ stands for the year 2020, meanwhile, the word ‘Cielo’ refers to the sky. The engine specifications and the rest...

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Alfa Romeo is a legend among car brands, celebrated by Italians as a cult product and driven by icons like Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman and Vittorio Gassman. And among these legendary cars, Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio stands out. Soccer star Mario Balotelli and Jeremy Clarkson are already fans, and online fan clubs have gathered thousands of fo...

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