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Pardon me if you're feeling oversaturated with news of the wreck of the Costa Concordia off the coast of Giglio, Italy—and I do mean directly off the coast—but I'm endlessly enamored of ship wrecks. More »
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Italy is the spiritual home of enthusiastic driving. No other nation has such a deep-seated tradition of producing fast, beautiful, soul-satisfying automobiles. Here are Jalopnik reader's choices of the ten cars that best embody that national heritage of speed and art. More »
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Germany may be the recognized birthplace of the automobile, but no nation claims fast, beautiful cars as a part of its identity like Italy. What's the most truly Italian car ever made in Italy? More »
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The 984-foot-long cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on the island of Giglio, Italy, killing at least three people. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated, but 50 are still missing. The night photos remind me of the sinking Titanic. More »
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What the 2012 Corolla lacks in substantial changes to its beige exterior and likely uninspired driving experience, it attempts to make up for with a new emphasis on la dolce vita. More »
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Few things are more universally recognizable as a product of Italy than a brand new Ferrari. For this reason we find the Swedish owner's choice to wrap a brand new Ferrari 458 in the colors of the Italian flag a little strange. More »
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When you purchase a new Mercedes CLS 350 CDI it makes sense that you would want to keep your shiny new Benz clean inside and out. What makes absolutely no sense is taking a hose to your brand new leather interior, like this Italian Mercedes owner. More »
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Supercar ownership may seem like nothing but good times to those of us who don't have one, but even after you absorb the massive cost of owning and maintaining one it's not all hooning and impressing members of the opposite sex. More »
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From now on, I'm starting a countdown clock from the launch of a new supercar to its first crash. I'm actually surprised it took this long to see how well the Lamborghini Aventador would survive an impact with a few poles. More »
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Georg Plasa, the 51-year-old German hill climber, died Thursday after the Judd V8-powered BMW 134 he was driving crashed during the Coppa Carotti in Italy. More »
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Looks like Top Gear's planning a show on mini hot hatches like the Abarth Fiat 500, Citröen DS3-R and Renault Clio RS. Bystanders caught them chilling in Lucca, Italy's Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, a space large enough for some serious paving-stoned hoonage. Great news! More »
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What is so important that this Italian bus driver feels the need to use two cellphones simultaneously while driving a bus full of passengers with his elbows? Calling technical support on one phone to set his Internet and email settings on the other one. More »
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Perhaps all of those asides made about the Gumpert Apollo's appearance in relation to the new Gumpert Tornante finally got to it, as this weekend a modified 800-hp Apollo hit Monza with one question: who you callin' ugly? More »
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An Italian businessman who owns the rights to the DeTomaso brand today unveiled the vehicle he plans to revive it with. Dubbed the SLC, it's everything those of us who had Pantera posters on our bedrooms dreamed of — a dead-eyed, bloated business sedan. More »
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Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paused his game of "bunga bunga" with underage prostitutes long enough to notice that Chrysler-Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne had said Friday the two companies could merge into a U.S.-based corporation. After demanding a sit-down with Marchionne, Berlusconi returned to mulling what else rosary beads were good for. (Photo:AP) More »
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An Alfa Romeo 159 falls victim to students laying waste to Rome in the name of protesting against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. While 159's are fairly common in Europe, it's still a sad sight. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia More »
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Studious application of the throttle will cause a rear-wheel drive car to turn around its axis, preferably in a cloud of smoke. Remove the smoke and you end up with Il Girasole, a house that will do the same. More »
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Here's amazing video of flood waters flushing cars down a street in the Italian village of Atrani on the Amalfi Coast last week. More »
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This long-nosed Ferrari prototype was recently filmed yowling around Maranello. It's wearing the headlights of a 458 Italia, the rear glass of a 599 Fiorano, and enough camouflage to cover half of Europe. Unsurprisingly, it sounds fantastic. More »
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The place is Misano World Circuit in Italy and the car with the major battle scars is a first generation 997 GT3 RS. Don’t worry, it survived just fine. More »
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Three heirs to an Italian coffee empire are being investigated for making and selling millions of dollars' worth of fake Ferraris. An elderly mechanic, the Italian government, and one pissed-off Ferrari chairman are involved, and no one's happy. Here's why. More »
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One: Sports-car company builds four-door sedan. Two: Four-door sedan is loved by some, hated by others. Three: Someone turns four-door sedan into touring-car racer. Four: We actually dig it. More »
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Pete Vack of Veloce Today wrote this compelling summary of one of the coolest books written about Alfa Romeos. We love Alfas, so we couldn't resist. Hell, even if you don't love Alfas, you should probably buy it. —Ed. More »
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A few years ago, we were given a rare peek inside Lamborghini's factory in Sant'A'gata Bolognese. The cars assembled within those walls are some of the finest, and loudest, in the world. Bella, bambinos. Bella. More »
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No one knows for sure if this "Attenzione Prostitute" sign in Treviso, Italy is warning motorists or trying to encourage more business for the busty, purse-waving ladies of the night. (Photo Credit: Adam Crowe via Carscoop, Telegraph) More »
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Even a Swiss Army knife-equipped MacGyver couldn't hide that a major chase scene from the show's first season was lifted wholesale from the 1969 film The Italian Job. Luckily, mullets and Minis go together like cheesy music and ‘80s TV. More »
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Late Fall is not a safe time to park your car near the Vatican... as the owner of this Fiat (and the Mini below the jump) will surely attest to. More »
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The famous chase sequence in Bullitt was just about perfect, but it lacked a few crucial components. For example, where was the church procession blocking the road? The oil drums bursting on the pavement? And where was the Fiat? More »
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If Italian stereotypes are indeed true, the highway policemen pictured here are doing nothing but listening to this Ferrari F430’s exhaust note. More »
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Following yesterday's sojourn across the United States we'd open our minds and borders with ten great international drives chosen from the "Drives of a Lifetime" list from National Geographic: Traveler. More »
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As we continue to celebrate 450 cars photographed down on the Alameda, California street, we're going to follow up the Germans with the rest of the Europeans: Italy, France, Sweden, and the UK! More »
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Whatever may or may not have been accomplished at last week's G8 Summit in Italy, this photo of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak in a GEM flanked by security guards is great success. Merkel, Gaddafi, Sarkozy and other leaders looking ridiculous below. More »
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Super cars need drop-dead gorgeous looks. Conventional wisdom insists putting a long monster-of-an-engine up front is how to accomplish this. Then how come the mid-engined Miura is the prettiest thing ever? More »
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In 1969, barely six years after its founding, a young Hungarian engineering student found himself at the Lamborghini factory. Presented here for the first time are his photographs of Miuras, Espadas and huge V12’s. More »
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Trucks are big things with big V8 engines, spewing diesel smoke, correct? Not quite. Trucks are things for hauling other, smaller things—and when the hauling is on the narrow streets of Italy, nothing beats the pint-size Piaggio Ape. More »
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From the Department of the Comically European comes this project by Dutch branding agency Springtime, developed for the Public Design Festival in Milan. More »
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One is an Italian supercar. The other is a Hungarian bus. Both are from 1971 — and both use the same rear light cluster. More »
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Old guys in polo shirts nurturing vintage Ferraris? Industry people showing off concepts which will never get built? What's the point? Not much: but it's a great way to spend a weekend in Italy. More »
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We’re heading to Italy to report on this year’s Concorso: an event with the most beautiful automobiles on display, along with the essential paradox of the vintage car. More »
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Are you itching to buy the recently-announced Maserati GranTurismo MC but put off that you can’t drive it on the public road? Don’t worry. There is a way. More »
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