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    Featured: Why Italians are no longer buying supercars
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    Italy is the wound that continues to drain blood from the financial body of Italian supercar and sports car makers. The wound was opened by the country's various financial police who decided to get serious about superyacht-owning and supercar-driving tax cheats a few years ago, by noting their ...

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    Video: Half naked girls fight over gladiator and getaway on a scooter
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    This girl-on-girl catfight quickly rages out of control when one woman has her clothes suddenly stripped off her back and ends up half-naked in public. Luckily, what appears to be her quick thinking boyfriend decides to make a speedy getaway and flee the strange scene on a scooter with his ...

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    Featured: Lamborghini Aventador police interceptor unveiled by Dubai police
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    Don't bring a knife to a gun fight, and don't bring a Volkswagen to a Lamborghini chase - such was the logic of the Dubai Police Department prior to ordering their brand-new Aventador pursuit vehicle. Given the plethora of fast exotics that bruise the Arabian roadscape, we can't blame the police ...

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    Video: Italian border agents find $6M in gold bars hidden in car
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    Border police in Italy struck gold when they dug a little further into a car trying to pass into Switzerland. The car's occupants, a family of five, claimed to be on an "Easter vacation." But police said their nervous behaviour prompted them to go on an Easter egg hunt. The officers ...

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    Rumormill: Audi rumoured to buy Alfa Romeo, officials deny it
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    For more than two years, Volkswagen has been making public statements about its willingness to buy Alfa Romeo and quadruple the Italian brand's sales, and for just as long, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has replied with some version of "Mr. Piëch, drop it." According to a report in Ward's Auto, ...

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    Video: Fiat 500 driver's Italian U-turn fiasco goes viral
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    We show you folks a lot of videos here on Autoblog. From our own original series like The List and Translogic, to all manner of craziness from the recorded history of the automobile, to more Russian dash cam videos than we'd generally like to admit. Rarely though, do we see a car-themed video ...

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    Official: Meet the 701-hp Mazzanti Evantra
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    If you've heard of upstart boutique supercar maker Mazzanti, we salute you. About a year ago, we brought you news of this small Italian firm, which then was under the name Faralli & Mazzanti. The creation was the Evantra, and as the name of the company has changed, so has the car. The ...

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    Featured: 100 designers give their interpretation of the wooden toy car
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    Automoblox, the little and terrifically simple wooden cars, are always a treat for car guys around the world. And every single year, tonnes of of us get them as gifts. So even though scale-model cars are as detailed as the real thing, R/C cars can go faster than and do things that real cars ...

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    Video: Lamborghini braces us for the end of Gallardo production
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    A changing of the guard is afoot in the Lamborghini stables. The Italian supercar brand sticks with a particular model for a respectably long period of time, thus any model changeover is cause for attention. First came the gloriously badass Aventador succeeding the Murcielago, which signals that ...

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    Report: Italians buy more bikes than cars for the first time since WWII
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    In the midst of economic turmoil in Europe, more Italians are turning to bikes as their preferred mode of transportation. Such is the bicycle's popularity in Italy that purchases of the pedal-powered two wheelers have eclipsed automobile sales for the first time since World War II. According to ...

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