The Automobili Pininfarina Battista has made its dynamic debut in the USA, taking to the roads of California ahead of Monterey Car Week. The electric hypercar is heading Stateside in production form for the first time, with the Italian design house saying it will give potential clients their first opportunity to experience the car. This particular...
READ MOREWhen the Tonale crossover makes its debut next year, it will mark the beginning of a major transformation at Italy’s Alfa Romeo. The Tonale will become the first model Alfa offers with a plug-in drivetrain. And it will become one of the last products the Italian brand will sell using an internal combustion engine. By 2027, in fact, Alfa plans to go...
READ MOREConcorso Italiano is a big celebration of all the best cars from Italy. While it got a little too big for a while there, it has had a new corner of the Blackhorse Golf Course on Fort Ord for a couple years now and it seems to have settled in nicely. The car count went from over 1000 (mostly F355s) to right around 550 or 560 cars. That may still sou...
READ MOREThe third annual Italian American Police Society Car Show was held in Norwalk Sunday. This year's show is dedicated to a former Westport police officer who died of a heart attack in December. There were hundreds of cars behind St. Ann's Club in Norwalk, from antique to newer versions, that are bringing the community together and supporting a Westpo...
READ MOREYou likely have heard of Concorso Italiano, perhaps even attended the big annual celebration of all things Italian — especially cars and food — held on the Monterey Peninsula in mid-August. But did you know about the other Concorso Italiano, the one on the East Coast? In Salem, New Hampshire, Tuscan Village Salem hosts its own Concorso Italiano, an...
READ MORECenter for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University Event Announcement: September 26, Sunday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Robert D. Cess Concorso d’Eleganza XV Annual Celebration of Italian Vehicle Excellence and Beauty: A display of “art forms on wheels” as a means of illustrating one form of Italian culture. Display vehicles will rally at Stony Brook Univ...
READ MOREWhen you think of an Argentine who decided to quit his day job and start building his own sportscars o Italian soil, the first name that springs to mind these days is Horacio Pagani. However, a few decades before him, a 27-year-old former racing driver named Alejandro de Tomaso was the first to accomplish this feat when he started the company that...
READ MOREThe track is the ideal terrain for cars from Italy's famous Motor Valley. The road cars from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pagani, and others are vigorously tested between the kerbs, but they aren't the most extreme machines from these automakers that line the legendary Via Emilia road. Many of these manufacturers, in fact, are involved in motorsport. Here...
READ MOREFerrari has confirmed that its 2023 Le Mans Hypercar will be a four-wheel-drive, hybrid-powered machine built to the prototype side of the formula’s technical regulations. Antonello Coletta, who is the director of Ferrari’s Competizione GT department, told Sportscar365 that the Italian marque has chosen the same core vehicle architecture as the Toy...
READ MOREIf autonomous rides ever free us from driving, extra focus will should be paid to car interiors. A brand new concept full of a mind-boggling quantity of tech affords a imaginative and prescient of what that future could appear like. If the automobile ever turns into a actuality, that’s. Meet the Teorema, a digital blueprint for the zenith of street...
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