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One very wealthy collector will soon own what could be one of the rarest, most sought-after
Ferraris of all time — that’s what RM Auctions says, at least. The auction house will host the sale of the only
Ferrari F40 prototype ever built. The F40, the final vehicle overseen by Enzo
Ferrari, was built in 1987 and shown at that year’s
Frankfurt auto show. The vehicle was built, RM says, when Enzo
Ferrari wanted to reinvigorate Ferrari’s reputation with a car as close as possible to its racing machines. The prototype has a 600-hp version of the engine that eventually went into production with 471 hp, and weighs about 400 pounds less than the production versions. The top speed of the prototype is claimed to be 230 mph. The auction takes place in
Monterey, Calif., on August 18 and 19.
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Father’s Day is coming—oh, get a calendar, will you?—and instead of boxing up a lame, last-minute digital tire pressure gauge, why not spend all the money your dad scraped up to send you to college? What the hell, it’s not going to happen at 34 years old, right? The perfect gift this year, we say, will be this pimped-out golf cart put together by MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” crew and blinged out with a
TracVision satellite TV setup, a flame paint job, a cigar humidor, a tablet PC, a beer-cooling tube and perhaps the most important accessory, the ball washer. The golf cart isn’t exactly new—Michael Douglas apparently used it in a recent golf tournament, and the photo provided seems to allow for another driver, perhaps Grizzly Adams—but it is hot, no? Click over to the Motion Picture and Television Fund Web site for a link to the auction, which ends June 15.
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DaimlerChrysler let some driving students in California take the test in fuel-cell cars. In a related story, most of TCC's staff took their driving tests on horseback.
Scion, says one insider, is a "mile deep and a foot wide." So, does that make Chery a hectare tall and two millimeters around? Does
BMW have a small diameter? Remember when you didn't have to know dimensional analysis to read the news?
Can we suggest theme music for the
latest Nissan-Suzuki tie-up? It's a toss-up between the Marvin Gaye classic "Let's Get It On" and the horrible opening music for the horrible '80s sitcom
Small Wonder. Either way, the Robot is the appropriate dance.
May sales:
Toyota repeated its third-place ranking over DaimlerChrysler, leading the mainstream media to speculate that
Toyota will eventually move past GM in annual sales - a story we've been following since, um, 2001. Mazel tov!
Ford's Atlanta plant and GM's Oshawa line top the
Harbour report for productivity-and concurrently, the list for closure. Chalk this one up to real irony, kids, not fake irony Alanis Morrissette-style bummers.
A
Nissan marketing exec says
the big Internet portals are just as effective as broadcast TV when it comes to snaring eyeballs. Stop! You're making us blush! Oh, just sign the check already.
Adrenalin junkies, take note: even
itty-bitty Acuras can do serious bodily harm at 25 mph.
And finally this week,
our readers chose the Corvette Convertible as the vehicle most likely to inspire outbreaks of
Grease. In even better news, our publisher has turned down the offer to play Rizzo in the inevitable revival.
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