This page collects news about the Italian car industry: model launches, plants and ownership. The most distinctive part of it fits inside one region. Ferrari at Maranello, Lamborghini at Sant’Agata Bolognese, Maserati, Pagani and Dallara around Modena: Emilia-Romagna packs more high-performance carmakers into a short drive than anywhere else, together with the suppliers, coachbuilders and test tracks that keep them running. The volume half of the industry is Fiat’s, and it is a small-car business that the Panda and 500 have carried for decades. Italian styling counts as an export in its own right, through the design houses Pininfarina and Italdesign, both now under foreign owners in India’s Mahindra and Volkswagen Group. New names still appear at the small end: Automobili Mignatta was founded in Piedmont in 2024 and hand-builds around 30 cars a year.
Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Maserati and Abarth belong to Stellantis, formed in 2021 when Fiat Chrysler merged with France’s PSA. Ferrari went the other way: separated in 2016 and listed on its own, which leaves it the largest European carmaker without a parent group. Lamborghini has been Audi’s since 1998. One thread ties the first two together, since the Agnelli family holding company Exor is the largest shareholder in Ferrari and in Stellantis at once. The rest of the tree is in Europe’s car brands.
