-If you’re a racing fan, you’ve probably watched plenty of in-car videos of laps around the famous Le Mans circuit. We’re betting you haven’t seen one like this: Nissan mounted a 360-degree camera to the roof of a GT-R, letting you view a lap from angles not even the driver can appreciate. Technology! – Now, caveats apply. See how there’s no numbers on the “speed” and “RPM” gauge overlays? In
– Ford has announced that Lincoln’s relentlessly mediocre “flagship” MKS sedan is going away in 2016. (Yes, they still make that car.) The announcement came at an event trumpeting the increase of Ford Explorer output at Ford’s Chicago assembly plant, where the MKS is currently produced. “Chicago Assembly Plant is vital to our global manufacturing footprint and will continue to manufacture the Ford Taurus, Ford Explorer and Police Interceptor vehicles
– Ford has announced that Lincoln’s relentlessly mediocre “flagship” MKS sedan is going away in 2016. (Yes, they still make that car.) The announcement came at an event trumpeting the increase of Ford Explorer output at Ford’s Chicago assembly plant, where the MKS is currently produced. “Chicago Assembly Plant is vital to our global manufacturing footprint and will continue to manufacture the Ford Taurus, Ford Explorer and Police Interceptor vehicles
It will be a whole 12 months until the Ford GT race car competes at Le Mans, but Dearborn still sent a cohort of senior executives for the official launch of its red, white, and blue GT racer at the Circuit de la Sarthe. You’ll be pleased to hear that we managed to elbow our way through the throng to grab a few minutes on the stage with both Ford
It will be a whole 12 months until the Ford GT race car competes at Le Mans, but Dearborn still sent a cohort of senior executives for the official launch of its red, white, and blue GT racer at the Circuit de la Sarthe. You’ll be pleased to hear that we managed to elbow our way through the throng to grab a few minutes on the stage with both Ford
– You know that saying about answering a question that nobody asked? Well, Mercedes-Benz tuner Brabus embodies that idea with every overpowered (already powerful) Mercedes it turns out. Introducing its latest creation, a tricked-out Mercedes-Maybach S600, Brabus even goes so far as to admit that its tuning kit is pointless. In the outfit’s own words, the “Maybach S600 comes off the factory line with a 12-cylinder twin-turbo engine producing 523 bhp and
– You know that saying about answering a question that nobody asked? Well, Mercedes-Benz tuner Brabus embodies that idea with every overpowered (already powerful) Mercedes it turns out. Introducing its latest creation, a tricked-out Mercedes-Maybach S600, Brabus even goes so far as to admit that its tuning kit is pointless. In the outfit’s own words, the “Maybach S600 comes off the factory line with a 12-cylinder twin-turbo engine producing 523 bhp and
By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists’ stronghold of Raqqa province in a campaign backed by U.S.-led air strikes. Redur Xelil, the YPG spokesman, told Reuters the YPG and smaller Syrian Arab rebel groups fighting alongside it had begun the move towards Tel Abyad after
By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said it began an advance towards an Islamic State-held town at the Turkish border on Saturday, thrusting deeper into the jihadists’ stronghold of Raqqa province in a campaign backed by U.S.-led air strikes. Redur Xelil, the YPG spokesman, told Reuters the YPG and smaller Syrian Arab rebel groups fighting alongside it had begun the move towards Tel Abyad after
By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) – Nine people were killed when Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed a district in the Yemeni capital Sanaa inhabited by relatives of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, residents and medics said. The air raid, which also wounded at least 60 people, came ahead of planned U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva aimed at ending Yemen’s civil war that has drawn in regional powers, including the world’s top oil exporter