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Is This eBay Ferrari Testarossa Super Rad or Just Ugly?
-These two eBay-listed Ferrari Testarossas are quite similar, except for the fact that one is red and the other is the color of the vinyl seats in your grandma’s 1977 Ford LTD. – According to the seller of both cars—one foxyroxygirl1—the example wearing the more adventurous hue is a 1988.5 model, has only 4200 miles, and arrived to them essentially coated in Cosmoline. The red car, a 1991, seems to be in similarly excellent
Is This eBay Ferrari Testarossa Super Rad or Just Ugly?
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2016 Subaru Legacy and Outback: More Starlink, More EyeSight, (Almost Same) Price
– Following full redesigns for the Legacy sedan and Outback wagon last year, Subaru isn’t resting on its laurels with either mid-size model. The automaker is introducing its new Starlink infotainment setup to the 2016 Legacy sedan and 2016 Outback wagon, as well as expanding its EyeSight suite of safety technologies. The best part, at least for Subaristi? All of these minor updates arrive with a minimum of extra cost. –
Driven: 2016 Mercedes-Benz SL550 Mille Miglia 417 Special Edition
-The Mercedes-Benz SL will be restyled soon, but before an extensive facelift fixes its aesthetic issues, the company is launching this Mille Miglia 417 special edition, which pays homage to a legend. It is a modern-day interpretation of the 300SL that was driven at the 1955 Mille Miglia by the American John Fitch and his co-driver Kurt Gessl to an incredible fifth place overall. A series-production car, that Mercedes finished
Hundreds missing, many elderly tourists, after ship capsizes on China's Yangtze River
By Megha Rajagopalan and John Ruwitch JIANLI COUNTY, China (Reuters) – Rescuers searched on Tuesday for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat was hit by a freak tornado and capsized on the Yangtze River in what may become China’s worst shipping disaster in nearly 70 years. Battling bad weather, divers and other rescue workers pulled five people they found trapped in
Bomb blast hits market in Nigeria's Maiduguri city, 50 killed: witness
A bomb blast hit a busy meat market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing as many as 50 people, an eyewitness and a hospital source told Reuters. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the latest explosion, which follows two bomb attacks over the weekend that killed at least 30 people and bore the hallmarks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The group, which new President Muhammadu Buhari has
Missile maker says Russia did not shoot down Malaysian plane over Ukraine
By Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian company that makes the BUK air defense system that was used to shoot down a Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine said on Tuesday the plane was hit by a missile deployed by Ukraine and not widely used by Russia’s military. State-run Almaz-Antey said its own analysis of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines plane brought down on July 17 last year, killing
Syrian insurgent advances put Assad under pressure
By Sylvia Westall BEIRUT (Reuters) – Steady advances by insurgents on key fronts in Syria mean President Bashar al-Assad is under more military pressure than at any point in the four-year-old war. Losses in the north, east and south to groups including al Qaeda’s Syrian arm and Islamic State may test Assad’s hold over western parts of the country that are the most crucial to his survival. After his loss
Egypt court postpones Mursi death sentence ruling: state TV
The court last month sought the death penalty for Mursi after he and his fellow defendants, including top Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, were convicted for killing and kidnapping policemen, attacking police facilities and breaking out of jail during the uprising against then-president Hosni Mubarak. The ruling was referred at the time to Egypt’s top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding opinion. The court also postponed to June 16