TheCarConnection.com Takes on Ferrari's 612 Scaglietti; Explores Maserati's Future; Offers a Complete Round-Up of Geneva Motor Show News; Captures the Secret Mazda MX Micro Sport; and Gets an Exclusive Inside Look at Volvo's Women-for-Women YCC Concept Car

DETROIT, March 8 -- Snow isn't something you want to see while blasting down the Fiorano test track at 200 kmh, but when you've got a chance to test drive the new Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, you grit your teeth and hold the pedal to the floor. Join TheCarConnection.com behind the wheel of Ferrari's new supercar in this week's issue.

Then see how one manufacturer's fate could determine the future for another. Maserati was little more than an automotive footnote when the failing Italian automaker was acquired by long-time rival, Ferrari. Now Maserati is rolling out its most important product in decades, the sleek and sexy Quattroporte. Will it save Maserati -- or bring down Ferrari? TCC has the story.

Check out BMW's V-10-powered M5 "concept," the coupe-like Mercedes CLS sedan, Chrysler's Crossfire SRT-6 convertible, and 50 other hot cars, crossovers and concepts in the web's most extensive coverage of the Geneva Motor Show.

The Volvo YCC, or Your Concept Car, which debuted in Geneva, isn't a "chick car." Nor is it pink. But it has been completely designed and developed by a female team of Volvo employees -- a first in the car industry. TheCarConnection got an exclusive, inside look at the project, and you can read more in this week's issue.

The battery car is dead -- or is it? See why some Electric Vehicle diehards are putting their hopes in new plug-in hybrids.

Then get the latest on rising gas prices and see if we're in for a record that nobody wants.

And TheCarConnection's spies have been busy this week. They've snapped pics of the next Audi TT, as well as the production version of Mazda's tiny, boxy MX Micro Sport.

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