It’s Official: The New Ford GT Will Race at Le Mans Next Year
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It’s Official: The New Ford GT Will Race at Le Mans Next Year
– Ford finally has made the announcement we’ve all been waiting for ever since the new Ford GT supercar made its debut at the Detroit auto show (if not before): The company will campaign a racing version of the new GT and will return to Le Mans for the 2016 race. – The word came in a press announcement at Le Mans featuring Ford executive chairman Bill Ford, president and CEO
Norwegian Woods: A First Drive of the 2016 Bentley GT Speed and GT V8 S
-They came seemingly out of nowhere. Nearly 3000 feet above sea level and hours from the nearest city of consequence, a group of approximately four-dozen camera-wielding tourists of random nationalities spun on their heels and began to snap pictures of, well, us. The fact that we arrived at this Norwegian mountaintop overlook in a fleet of candy-hued 2016 Bentley Continental GT coupes may have contributed to their elation. Although we
2016 Bentley Continental GT Speed / GT V8 S coupe – First Drive Review
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3D Print Your Own 2017 Ford Raptor for Just $5
The all new 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor won’t hit dealers for awhile; same for the Focus RS, the Mustang Shelby GT350R, and the astounding GT. But what if we told you Ford will let you make your own, today? And what if we told you it would only cost you five bucks? And what, then, if we told you you’d need a 3D printer, and you’d never be able to
The Long, Strange Trip Continues with New VW Camper Bus
-That hippie-era icon of slow and hazy motoring freedom, the VW camper, may be only a fading memory here, but the camper-ized Volkswagen van lives on in Europe. There, the latest iteration of the concept has just been introduced. – Today called the California—fittingly named after the state that so warmly embraced it back in the day—this VW camper is based on the new sixth-generation of Volkswagen’s T series van.
The Long, Strange Trip Continues with New VW Camper Bus
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U.S. troops at Taqaddum to help Iraqis plan fight for Ramadi
By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has said American forces being sent to a new operations center in the heart of the war against Islamic State will not engage in combat, but they will do almost everything but fight to support the beleaguered Iraqi forces. U.S. defense officials say the tasks of the troops going to Taqaddum air base will range from advising Iraqi commanders how to
Armed group storms Tunisian consulate in Libyan capital, kidnap 10 staff
An armed group stormed the Tunisian consulate in the Libyan capital Tripoli and kidnapped 10 staff on Friday, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said. The ministry did not identify the armed group, but called the assault a “blatant attack on Tunisian national sovereignty and a flagrant violation of international laws”. Tunisia is one of only a few countries which still has a mission in Tripoli, a city which is controlled by
Strauss-Kahn acquitted in French vice trial
By Pierre Savary and Brian Love LILLE, France (Reuters) – Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted of sex crime accusations by a French court on Friday, the final chapter in a transatlantic scandal that destroyed the political ambitions of a man once tipped to become his country’s president. A court in the northern city of Lille dismissed charges that the former International Monetary Fund chief’s sexual escapades with prostitutes amounted to “aggravated