As you know drinking and driving kills thousands of people every day! With so many obstacles on the road, how can anyone be expected to drive responsibly? Maybe a Formula 1 racing legend like Michael Schumacher can teach us how!
Kim Kardashian is a celebrity that needs no introduction, from her scandalous home video with rapper Ray J to her hit reality cable show on TV, Ms. Kardashian is becoming a piece of contemporary pop culture. But did you know that aside from being a hot chick, the daughter of O.J. Simpson’s defense attorney is also an automotive aficionado. It looks like Kim has made friends with the crew over at Platinum Motorsports because all of her exotic rides are wearing the tuning shop’s decorative plate on the front of all her vehicles.
The superstar’s lineup consists of a white Range Rover complete with obligatory Strut grill and what look to be 24 inch rims. Kim K owns a pair of Bentleys, a white four door Flying Spur and a blacked out drop top Continental GTC. She also enjoys taking some time out of her day to pose for a few quick snapshots in front of her Lamborghini Gallrdo Spyder. The latest addition to the Kardashian garage is a smooth silver Ferrari F430.
In January of this year, footballer Cristiano Ronaldo had a nasty accident in a tunnel near Manchester Airport. Ronaldo’s Ferrari 599 GTB was written off and there was £20,000 in damage caused to the tunnel’s wall. After further investigation, police have determined that there was insufficient evidence to launch any prosecution. According to a police source quoted by the Telegraph, "Ronaldo said he simply lost control of the car and there were not enough independent witnesses to prosecute him for any driving offense."
Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher had the chance to get behind the wheel of Ferrari’s new 599 GTB Fiorano with the HGTE handling package. The former Scuderia Ferrari driver pushed the front engine GT car to its limits on the Ferrari test track that the car was named after, during one of the factory’s Pilota Ferrari driving courses.
The Handling GT Evoluzione package includes a lower, stiffer suspension, new tire compounds offering even higher levels of grip, modified magnetic suspension with new damper settings and an even higher performance exhaust for an even throatier note. The HGTE package also includes a number of styling touches that set it apart from the standard production car, including a more aggressive nose thanks to the new front grille, a set of proprietary 20 inch rims and excessive use of the wavy light weight black stuff throughout the interior.
This high performance handling version of the V12 super car is capable of lapping the Fiorano test track in only 1:26, that is just 1.5 seconds behind the factory tuned mid-engine F-430 Scuderia, which is the company’s track attack vehicle of choice. The extra handling will only cost you an additional $40,000 over the 599’s $240,000 base price, a small price to pay.
Jesse James has never been one to turn down a challenge. The man has been never been associated with the words ‘conservative’ and ‘meek’. So it comes as no surprise that James is set to take on yet another challenge that, should he be successful, would put him on the annals of the Guiness Book of World records.
In his latest show, Jesse James is a Dead Man, the impetuous engineer, stuntman, and resident whack job is set to attempt a stunt that is as every bit as dangerous as all the others he has done in his life. Using a hydrogen-powered vehicle, James will attempt to break the land-speed record and in doing so, add this achievement to an already stellar list of ridiculous stunts he’s done throughout his career.
The weapon of destruction James is set to use is actually no stranger to speed record attempts. Called the Streamliner, the machine was most famously used by Dees-Milodin Engineering in their own attempt at history. Despite being an artifact – it was built in the 60’s! – James is pulling all the stops in rebuilding the Streamliner into a speeding bullet. He’s putting in a twin-turbocharged 9.8L V8 engine from Chevrolet and will be exclusively using hydrogen gas to power his rocket ship.
The EcoJet Concept was revealed back in 2007 at the SEMA Show. If the woman in the Ferrari had these guys helping her to park, she would have been able to do it in only 15 moves.
The EcoJet concept car is powered by a Honeywell LT-101 turbine engine that runs on bio-diesel fuel and delivers 650-hp and 400 lb.-ft. of torque.
Check out the video of Jay Leno driving by in his EcoJet after the jump.
Hollywood is planning a biography on the King of Cool, Steve McQueen. The amazing actor, motorcycle enthusiast and LeMans racer is best known to car fans for his role in the film Bullitt. Ford sells a model in honor of the movie’s infamous car chase that pits a flying Mustang, McQueen’s car, against an all black Dodge Charger through the streets of San Francisco.
Contrary to prior reports that actor Brad Pitt was being prepped for a remake of Bullitt, it appears that he will be playing the role of McQueen in the upcoming biopick.
Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton hosted a get together at her new boyfriend’s house last Monday night. As can be expected, the LAPD was eventually called out to quiet the commotion and appease the restless neighbors. The story gets interesting when the boys in blue were called out again later on, this time due to the half a dozen exotics in the neighborhood that were either egged or keyed.
The cars vandalized consisted of two Bentleys, two Maseratis, a $1.4 Million Bugatti Veyron and then some. Paris claims that she was in bed by 3 a.m. and there were only a handful of party guests remaining. Paris commented that “We had nothing to do with this. My blue Bentley was egged and I even filed a victim’s report.” So the question is, who done it? Were the culprits disgruntled neighbors, raucous party goers or could it have been the paparazzi fighting back? The world may never know.
Sometimes the action on screen can get a little too real, as was the case with the stuntman in Nicholas Cage’s latest film "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice," based on the epic poem that inspired the Disney animated classic "Fantasia."
Aparently the driver got a little too excited during the chase scene between his Ferrari was in pursuit of a Mercedes when the mid engined F-430 understeered on the slick Seventh Avenue, jumped the curb and injured two. The injuries were not life threatening and the victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital just to be treated.
You may be familiar with the musician Sheryl Crow; but did you know that she and a group of other celebrities are doing their part to conserve the Earth’s natural resources and lower their negative impact on the environment? With the help of her Mercedes Benz R320 BlueTEC the singer songwriter believes that “the newest clean diesel vehicles are eco-friendly and deserve as much attention as other gas alternatives like hybrids.”
These next generation diesel vehicles are extremely quiet, unlike the traditional clackers that you can hear from a mile away. These new diesels are cleaner and have an extremely efficient range of over 500 miles from a single fill up. The best part is that they qualify for similar IRS alternative power train tax credits just like their gas electric hybrid cousins.
What is most shocking is that the EPA estimates that the U.S. is capable of conserving 1.4 million barrels of oil per day, if only one third of the light duty automobiles on the road were state of the art clean diesels, utilizing technology like the Mercedes BlueTEC vehicles.
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