Formula One points leader Ferrari’s Felipe Massa set the pace despite crashing out during the first practice session for Sunday’s British Grand Prix.
Massa, the Brazilian who leads the Formula One standings by two points, climbed out of his car a few minutes after the crash and did not appear to be hurt.
He already had posted the fastest time in the first practice of 1 minute, 19.575 seconds when he spun on some oil at the end of the fastest straight of the Silverstone circuit.
His car spun 180 degrees and went into the safety wall backward, damaging the rear.
McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen crossing the finish line 0.012 slower. McLaren teammate Lewis Hamilton was third, 0.048 behind.
Here is the video of F1 Massa Silverstone Crash:
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Nikki Catsouras, aka Porsche Girl, 18 years old, was tragically killed in a tragic car accident in her father’s porsche on 2006 Halloween while driving her Dad’s porsche sports car.
“Nikki broke a house rule and we had a disagreement, and I took her car keys away,” said Christos Catsouras, Nikki’s father.
Then, her family says, Nikki did something out of character. She took the keys to her father’s Porsche 911 Carrera, a car that goes zero to 60 miles an hour in less than five seconds. She had never driven the Porsche before.
According to state highway patrol reports, at approximately 1:45 p.m. last Halloween, Nikki Catsouras was traveling 100 mph on State Route 241, near Lake Forest, Calif., when she clipped another car and lost control, going across lanes over the median and slamming into a concrete tollbooth. She was killed instantly.
Here is a video of Nikki Catsouras’ tragic story:
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This is the Scott Kalitta crash video, a video showing a horrific crash that took the life of Scott Kalitta while participating in the National Hot Rod Association Super Nationals at the Old Bridge Township Raceway Park.
Scott Kalitta, the 46-year-old Funny Car driver, was killed within seconds after beginning the National Hot Rod Association ’s fourth and final qualifying round when his car, a Toyota Solara, exploded in a massive fireball at 300 miles per hour.
Son of legendary race car driver, Connie Kalitta, Scott Kalitta has had 18 career victories since he started racing in 1982. He followed in his father’s footsteps winning the Top Fuel champion twice in 1994 and 1995.
The crash video of Scott Kalitta’s final, fateful race can be seen below. Initially, Scott Kalitta seemed to be in complete control of the race car, but seconds into the race, his Toyota Solara’s engine exploded and crashed into a wall at the end of the race track where a second, larger explosion occurred. Normally, a parachute would deploy to slow the car, but Scott Kalitta’s didn’t.
Rest in peace Scott Kalitta.
Here is the Scott Kalitta Crash Video:
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H20 Car is a car that runs on water. With oil price at historical high of more than USD$134 per bbl, it looks like H20 Car is the future. What do you think?
Channel 8 news at 10pm showed the H20 Car invented by the japanese.
Reuters.com also reported on H20 Car invented by Japanese:
Tired of petrol prices rising daily at the pump? A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water.
Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water — rain, river or sea — was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles).
“The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time,” Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo.
“It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars,” he added.
Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo said.
Whether the car makes it into showrooms remains to be seen. Genepax said it had just applied for a patent and is hoping to collaborate with Japanese auto manufacturers in the future.
Most big automakers, meanwhile, are working on fuel-cell cars that run on hydrogen and emit — not consume — water.
More links:
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* – Run A Car On Water.
* – Run Your Car On Water.
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Jeep Renegade Concept is a sporty B-segment-sized two-seater ideally suited for the all-weather delights of off-roading and dune surfing.
“Jeep has a great future and great future products, a lot of what you see in the Renegade concept will be integrated into Jeeps that we will see over the next few years,” predicted explained Steve Schmelz, Sea View Chrysler Jeep, Ocean Township. “Everyone who has seen the Renegade at auto shows around America has loved it.”
“Everyone at our dealership is very excited with the possibility that we could one day see this vehicle on our showroom floor,” said Christopher Mackey, Freehold Chrysler Jeep. “The Renegade concept puts a different twist on what it means to be “green’ with parts being molded from soy and other recyclable materials.”
” “The Green Machine.’ Jeep is taking us from Army “green’ to environmental “green,’ ” said Anthony Maffucci, Toms River Jeep. “Good for the Earth we all dwell and dawdle on and still the best for our four-wheeling enthusiasts. This time Jeep will produce the Renegade with the heart of a rebel with a cause.”
“With an electric motor powering each axle, the Jeep Renegade concept is designed for a “hang on and have fun experience,’” said Tony Shamenkov, Jeep Renegade concept principal exterior designer.
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Maybach 62 S, the most powerful chauffeur-driven saloon in series production, is powered by a twin-turbocharged 612-horsepower V12, the same 6.0-liter engine offered in the Maybach 57 S as well as the Mercedes-Benz CL65, and S65 and SL65.
The “S” stands for “Special”.
More information on Maybach 62 S can be found at www.maybach-manufaktur.com
Here is a video of Maybach 62 S:
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The International CXT or Commercial Extreme Truck is a very large pickup truck. Introduced in September of 2004, the CXT is 21 ft (6.4 m) long with a 9 ft (2.7 m) tall cab. It is the largest production pickup truck on the market.
The CXT is priced from $93,000 to $115,000.
Here is a video about International CXT
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The Scion Hako Coupe is a concept car unveiled by the automaker Scion on 19th March at the 2008 New York International Auto Show.
The sporty interpretation of the box concept was developed by Tokyo Design Division which studied global, youth-inspired trends.
Sporty? Coupe? Doesn’t look like one to me. What do you think?
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Curbstoning – selling salvaged vehicles as a private party to another private party without revealing the vehicle’s true history. Often, seller will file away the vehicles Vin number, as well as welded the vehicle with the front end of another newer vehicle.
A young Mercer Island man bought through a Craigslist ad for $2,000 wasn’t the 1989 Volkswagen he thought he was getting. It was a salvaged vehicle that included the front end from an older, 1987 model welded onto it.
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Smart Car, 2.6-metre Smart for two micro car manufactured by Daimler AG, earned the highest rating in front-end and side-impact testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
The idea behind the “Smart car” was to create a vehicle easy to parallel park and the name Smart is an acronym for Swatch Mercedes ART.
The project, started by Swiss watch manufacturer Swatch, was nicknamed the “Swatchmobile”. They then teamed up with Daimler-Benz and marketed the car as “smart” as the logo.
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