Through the link-up Fiat hopes to sell some of its own brands in the United States.

In return for technology and his time, Fiat will probably end up with 35 per cent of Chrysler by 2011.

The thing about the scorpion badge is that it bestowed upon the car a certain specialness; this was no ordinary Fiat, but an Abarth.

Cheng said that Fiat plans to sell in China only Alfa Romeo cars imported from Italy, but that producing those cars locally in China is a future possibility.

So, the managing director of Fiat had them build him a toilet that was a big lounge with columns and drapes and carpets, aquariums in the walls.