Car and Van News

Alfa Romeo’s new 4C compact supercar will lead the Italian brand’s charge back to the US market.

Sergio Marchionne, chief executive of the Fiat Group, is confident that the car unveiled at Geneva will spearhead the brand’s American return after 18 years away.

The head of Italian car giant Fiat wants the European Union to step in and help rescue Europe’s beleaguered automotive industry.

As carmakers struggle with falling sales, Sergio Marchionne has called for intervention on a European level and a halt to individual companies and countries making unilateral decisions which are not in the interests of a single market.

Mazda and Fiat have announced a partnership that will lead to the creation of new sports cars for both brands.

The cars will be built by Mazda in its Hiroshima, Japan plant and be based on the next MX-5 roadster.

Fiat will launch its all-new Panda supermini into the UK in February.

The car will be offered for the first time with the two-cylinder TwinAir engine, as seen in the popular 500.

The magnitude of Chrysler’s recovery should not be under-estimated, claims its UK head as the brand launches two new models to the British market.

Speaking at the launch of the Chrysler Ypsilon and Delta, Brand Director of the newly renamed Jeep Chrysler UK Nigel Land says that the US manufacturer has performed “an epic turnaround.”

SEAT has unveiled a host of summer offers in a clear bid to build on strong early sales in 2011.

The VW group subsidiary has achieved its best ever UK market share of 1.8 per cent year to date, and in March saw this figure boosted to 1.98 per cent.

America’s Treasury Department announced late on Thursday that it is to sell its $500 million stake in Chrysler to Fiat.

The stake is worth six per cent of the company and will boost the Italian stage owned giant’s stake in Chrysler to 52 per cent, giving it control of the US manufacturer.