Filed under: Volkswagen, Toys
There’s likely to be no shortage of VW Beetle owners who can relate to this new kit from Lego. It’s a box with 1,626 parts in it that one day, after hours of work, will resemble a classic Bug. Three differences: This box of bits will only cost you $120 and a successful build is probably not above your skill level. Oh, and your spouse probably won’t mind you building this one on the kitchen table.
When completed, the VW measures 16 inches long by 6.5 inches tall. Its tiny stick shift moves, the glove compartment opens and the seats fold forward. The engine is in back where Beetle engines belong and up front is the spare tire. When you’re done, finish off the car with the included VW logo decal.
It’s too bad the Beetle’s curvaceous roofline and nose are made jagged by the blocky Logos, but on the other hand, it’s kinda cool, too. Thanks for the tip, Andy!
[Source: Auto Trader Blog]
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With India and the US agreeing to an historic and unprecedented civil nuclear deal after over three years, they have also widened their horizons to the issue of bilateral relations.
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Iraq’s prime minister vows to protect Christians in Mosul as nearly 1,000 police are sent to the northern city after sectarian attacks.
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Just weeks after praising Kenya’s economic recovery, the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that the country will be among six African states “hit hardest” by the global financial meltdown’s effects on trade.
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Filed under: Supercars, UK
Click above for high-res gallery of the Arash AF10
Britain’s history is punctuated in no small part by the proliferation of its cottage industry. And while the industrial revolution may have taken care of that to a large degree, it’s still alive and thriving in the realm of the supercar. Small independent exotic automakers abound, including names like Ascari, Ultima, Noble, Farboud, Farbio and Arash, to name just a few. Trying to keep track of them all is enough to make your head spin, especially when the same guy is behind the latter three. After selling off Farboud, the new owners changed the name to Farbio and founder Arash Farboud started a new outfit under his first name. What you see here are the first proper images of his latest creation, the Arash AF10.
The carbon-fiber body, which (aside from the adjustable front wing) bears a startling resemblance to the Ferrari Enzo, is laid over a carbon fiber chassis for a sprightly low curb weight of 1,200kg (about 2,600 lbs). Power is provided by the 7-liter pushrod V8 out of the Corvette Z06, tuned from the stock 498 hp up to 530 thanks to new intake and exhaust systems, driving the rear wheels through a manual Graziano gearbox and kept in check by AP Racing brakes. The supercar is expected to sell for about 170k pounds sterling - a fair bit less than the £220k a Lamborghini Murcielago will cost a British customer - and begin delivery sometime next year. A sequential gearbox is expected to join the catalog, as well as the potential for dropping in the supercharged V8 from the Corvette ZR1 a year and a half down the line. In the meantime you can check it out in the gallery below.
[Source: Arash]
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President Yoweri Museveni yesterday confirmed reports that security organisations are on high alert to tackle terrorist groups believed to be planning attacks in urban areas.
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Filed under: Motorsports, Videos, Commercial Trucks
For as clean and green and Earth-loving as the Europeans are, they sure do some dirty things… like throw a sooty-exhaust-belching racing semi around hairpin turns with loads of opposite lock - up an impossibly green mountain - just for a hillclimb. But hey, trucks and racing aren’t illegal yet, so we say flog ‘em while ya got ‘em. Check out the video of Markus Boesiger, 2007’s Truck Racing Champion, and his dashing diesel after the jump.
[Source: StreetFire]
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Turkish MPs extend the army’s mandate to carry out raids against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq by one year.
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Filed under: Etc., Euro, Lifestyle, Event Alert
It’s incredible that there can be so many goings on around a little car show. There was a spot of turmoil in the last shortened season of Top Gear, a few grumblings of unhappy presenters, and then the hallowed BBC couldn’t figure out when the next season was going to begin. But here we are, the date has arrived: Top Gear version 12 will commence on November 2nd, 2008, A.D. I guess then we’ll start to find out what they’re doing in Vietnam…
[Source: Top Gear]
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Afghan and NATO-led forces have killed 65 Taliban militants near the provincial capital of the southern province of Helmand.
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