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Welcome to Maserati, the car company never content with just doing one thing. Race car supremos? Maserati’s done that. Ultra-luxe touring cars for people who are as rich as Croesus? Done that too. Tech-heavy supercars? Yup. Pieces of wantonly overpriced, worryingly under-engineered crap? Check. Back to doing luxe cars for the regular-strength rich?...

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Minnesota is getting its first Ferrari dealership. The Pohlad family's Carousel Motor Group is opening a dealership for the luxury sportscar brand in Golden Valley sometime this month, a news release says. The new Twin Cities Performance dealership is one of 45 Ferrari dealerships in the United States, with the next closest being in Chicago.  "We a...

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There are lots of Italian cars that we would love to ride and possibly hide deep into our treasure islands. After all, Italian cars are as romantic as their old cities. Think of Rome for a moment. The Italian automotive industry is a rich archive of historical milestones. While Leonardo da Vinci helped to figure and fashion automobiles in their mod...

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Gooding & Company has announced an impressive lineup of custom coachbuilt Italian sports cars for the 2021 Pebble Beach Auctions. From Friday to Saturday, August 13-14, at the 70th anniversary of the Pebble Beach Concours, the company will host its signature auctions with some of the most prized collector cars.   Gooding & Company President and Fou...

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The 2021 edition of the Mille Miglia rally will see more than 400 classic and vintage cars travel from the northern Italian city of Brescia to Rome and back again this week. One of the world’s oldest car rallies, the Mille Miglia began in 1927, taking place 24 times until 1957 and bringing international fame to luxury sports cars such as Alfa Romeo...

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After taking a year off due to the pandemic, the Concorso Ferrari & Friends event returns to the Farmington Polo Grounds on Sunday, June 20. The event which is a fundraiser for the Connecticut Children's Medical Center Foundation has been around since 2001. Considered one of the premiere automotive events in Southern New England, will feature the w...

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Franco-Italian-American powerhouse Stellantis will try to revive Italy’s Lancia, one of the most shamefully neglected automotive brands in the world, by parachuting in its own chief design officer. The maker of some of the world’s most legendary cars, Lancia drifted beyond mediocrity and into palliative care under the stewardship of Fiat Chrysler A...

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By not fixing what ain't broke, Dodge is raking in the cash with its Charger and Challenger muscle cars, and Durango SUV. But even that strategy has a limit. Dodge is overdue for new blood in its lineup, and rumor suggests it could get some from Italy in the form of an Alfa Romeo Tonale-based crossover called the Hornet. Revealed as a concept in 20...

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This weekend, car racing fans will have a chance to see the "Superstar Racing Experience," a new event debuting on CBS that aims to rival NASCAR. Some of the sport's top drivers will compete head-to-head behind the wheel. And as CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay reports, the steering wheel itself has an unlikely connection to the Catholic Church...

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Probably one of the best Ferraris designed by Pininfarina was the very first collaborative project - the 1951 Ferrari 212 Inter. With production only kicking off in 1952, the Inter was the first car to leave Modena’s assembly line sporting the Pininfarina moniker on its flanks. Often referred to as the first ‘production’ Ferrari, the 212 was nevert...

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