MARANELLO, Italy, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Italian automaker Ferrari drove a different circuit in 2008 than other car companies, claiming its best year ever in sales, earnings and profits.

TURIN, Italy, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Andrea Pininfarina, chairman and chief executive officer of Italian car designer Pininfarina, was killed Thursday in a traffic accident, authorities said.

CAMPAGNANO, Italy, April 6 (UPI) -- Michael Schumacher, the ace Ferrari driver, says the Formula One racing world has yet to see what his car can do.

ROME, July 22 (UPI) -- Rome succeeded Friday in fighting off another foreign company's efforts to buy an Italian bank, in this case the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.

ROME, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- General Motors Corp. agreed to pay Fiat SpA more than $2 billion on Sunday to allow the Detroit-based giant to dissolve the disputed option that could have forc

ROME, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Troubled Italian carmaker Fiat SpA and its U.S. partner General Motors Corp. have started a period of mediation that will decide the fate of Italy's largest ind

TURIN, Italy, May 30 (UPI) -- In a surprise move Sunday Luca Cordero di Montezemolo was appointed president of the Italian car maker Fiat to succeed Umberto Agnelli, who died Friday.

MILAN, Italy, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Gianni Agnelli, an Italian tycoon who was a major force in establishing Ferrari's preeminence in Formula One racing and the supremacy of Juventus in Italian soc