What color drone would you like with your new car? That could be a dealer's question if a group of Wayne State University students working with drone developer Skypersonic LLC and other companies have their way. Nearly 20 college students are working on a drone-car prototype that could communicate with each other to show camera images...
READ MOREThis past May, Chrysler Group LLC donated one of its iconic American-built supercars, a 2013 Street and Racing Technology (SRT) Viper GTS, to the Sons of Italy Foundation (SIF), a nationally recognized nonprofit based in Washington D.C. The SIF is the philanthropic arm of the 109-year-old Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), the largest...
READ MOREAlfa Romeo is still scheduled to return to the U.S. with the 4C in the second quarter, and more Alfa models will arrive in calendar year 2015, to be sold both in Maserati and "best performing" Fiat dealers, Chrysler and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said in an hour-long press conference at the North American International Auto Show. Marchionn...
READ MOREby Mike Hanlon A Ferrari 335S Spider Scaglietti sold for US$35.7 million (€32,075,200) at Artcurial's Retromobile auction in Paris on 5 February. The car narrowly failed to break the world record of $38.115 million set by a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO in August, 2014, but eclipsed the $29.605 million fetched by Juan Manuel Fangio's 1954 Mercedes-Benz W19...
READ MOREMaserati of North America Inc, filiale dell'omonimo brand modenese del gruppo Fiat, ha registrato a dicembre un aumento delle vendite negli Stati Uniti del 34,1% su base annua a 1.412 unità. Il brand del Tridente, secondo i dati raccolti da Autodata Corp, prosegue dunque sul trend di costante e forte crescita riscontrato negli ultimi mesi...
READ MOREFollowing an initial phase with the two corporate logos appearing side-by-side – symbolizing the desire to respect the history, culture and industrial roots of the two groups – both Fiat and Chrysler now require a new corporate identity representative of an organization that is much more than the sum of its two component parts, based on strong core...
READ MOREJeep will begin later this month its foray into the market for subcompact SUVs -- the industry's fastest-growing segment -- when it puts on sale the Renegade, the first model born from the coupling of U.S. and Italian engineering at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). "It's the first example of cross-country collaboration," CEO Sergio Marchio...
READ MOREAlmost since it opened in 2008, Allentown's America on Wheels Museum has struggled financially, dipping each year into a dwindling endowment to cover operating costs while its leadership waited for development of the city's Lehigh riverfront to shift into gear. The museum — which chronicles the history of over-the-road transportation — has...
READ MOREIn quella pianura napoletana dove un secolo fa il geniale ingegnere Nicola Romeo immaginava quei motori che avrebbero scritto la gloria dell'Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili («Quando passa un'Alfa mi tolgo il cappello», diceva il vecchio Ford, in omaggio alla creazione del suo collega italiano), proprio lì sta nascendo una nuova casa automobili...
READ MOREBig money rolls down the streets of Dallas - literally. Bentleys, Ferraris, Maseratis and even a Bugatti or two regularly grace some of Dallas' more gilded boulevards. Long known as a city sweet on luxury cars, Dallas' fascination with six-and even seven-figure vehicles is reflected in the high-end area of the Dallas Auto Show, which opened...
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