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Sixty-two Maserati collectors, racetrack-country-club members, and/or wannabe gentleman racers have already flashed their AmEx Black cards, securing every copy of the latest Maserati Corsa track-only model: the 2024 Maserati MCXtrema. We covered the concept based loosely on the Maserati MC20 supercar last year, when it was known only by its codenam...

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Picture it. As the story goes, Ferruccio Lamborghini, who had been manufacturing excellent tractors since 1948, had bought a Ferrari about which he made complaints. His response from Enzo Ferrari came across as an insult when he said, “Why don’t you stick to tractors, and I’ll stick to cars.” Apparently Lamborghini replied, “I can do this as well,”...

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Fabulous Veneto is a network of companies operating throughout the Veneto region, at different levels, in the tourism and production sectors. The organization's goal is to promote the territory and its artistic and natural riches, including its cities of art, the Venetian Villas, the Dolomites and much more. All unique experiences that urgently nee...

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Joseph Robert Panetta, 89, of Pebble Beach, died Dec. 19, 2022, and will be remembered as “a buon uomo, a good man,” according to his brother Leon Panetta. Joseph Panetta was born Aug. 2, 1933, in Sheridan, Wyoming to Carmelo and Carmelina Panetta. The family would move to Monterey, then Carmel Valley. Joseph Panetta attended San Carlos Elementary...

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The 89th  Festa Italia, celebrating Monterey’s Italian heritage and cultural traditions, will be held on September 9-11, 2022.  Join us for this special festival honoring the local fishermen of Monterey, both past and present. This popular family friendly free event shares the sights, sounds, food and culture that make the Italian experience so spe...

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Maserati began teasing the GranTurismo Folgore toward the end of Car Week on Twitter and Instagram with a caption that read, "A rose gold wrap suited to the Golden Coast. Impossible to keep it secret. We’re touring California with the new GranTurismo Folgore and an audacious Italian-American entertainer. The air is electric. Keep following us down...

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Taking place between the 18th and 20th of August 2022, the RM Sotheby’s auction at the Monterey Conference Centre provides ample mouthwatering displays for automotive enthusiasts and purveyors of moving artwork alike. Some of the selections can tickle the fancy slightly more than others so we have decided to look at the top 3 1950s Italian classics...

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Unfortunately, tradition will have to wait one more year. The board of directors of the annual Festa Italia Fisherman’s Festival honoring the local fishermen of Monterey voted Saturday morning to cancel the 88th edition of their event, which was set for Sept. 10-12 at Custom House Plaza, due to the rise in COVID-19 cases caused by the delta variant...

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Concorso 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...

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If this year’s Monterey’s Annual Festa Italia is any indication, the three-day festival that’s rooted in the city’s Sicilian history and that of its local fishermen, still runs deep. In its 86th year, as one of the oldest running festivals in the state, it featured Italian cuisine, music, dancing, raffles and a bocce ball tournament. It also includ...

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