From ESPN News/Associated Press:
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Corvette Racing unveiled the new 2012 Daytona prototype on Tuesday at Daytona International Speedway.
It’s the first Daytona prototype body built by a manufacturer. Its first test will be Wednesday at Daytona.
The Corvette DP will have four teams next season — Bob Stallings Racing; Wayne Taylor Racing; Sprit of Daytona Racing and Action Express Racing.
The car will make its racing debut in the 50th anniversary of the GRAND-Am Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.
Jim Campbell of Chevrolet says sports cars and endurance racing is the perfect platform for manufacturers to develop cars. The new car incorporates Corvette styling cues and is recognizable to sports car enthusiasts.
A would-be car thief in Prince George, B.C., has learned a powerful lesson from a powerless car.
He now knows that the Corvette he tried to steal on Sunday afternoon becomes nothing more than a four-wheeled holding cell when the battery dies.
RCMP Sgt. Jason Keays told the Prince George Citizen the 21-year-old jumped into the idling Corvette just as the owner was putting away a charger used to revive the sports car’s dead battery.
The owner watched in disbelief as the thief rolled up the power windows, locked the power doors — and promptly stalled the vehicle while trying to back out of the driveway.
Without enough juice in the battery to restart the car, the suspect was trapped inside as the Corvette withstood his efforts to smash a window or pry one open with a [...]
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Here is an excerpt from an email between the scammer and a potential customer:
—–Original Message—–
From: Anes Bolesta [mailto:anesbolesta@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:11 PM
To: [...]
From a customer of ours:
An old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he’s lost. Wandering about, he notices a panther heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.
The old German Shepherd thinks, “Oh, oh! I’m in deep shit now!”
Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the panther is about to leap, the old German Shepherd exclaims loudly,
“Boy, that was one delicious panther! I wonder, if there are any more around here?”
Hearing this, the young panther halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees.
“Whew!,” says the panther, “That was close! That old German Shepherd nearly had me!”
Meanwhile, a squirrel who had been watching the whole scene [...]
PureRossi has unveiled the first details on the Rossi SixtySix – a Corvette C6 that borrows its design DNA from the classic Sting Ray model. The SixtySix will be built in limited numbers and will be unveiled at the 22nd Annual EyesOn Design this Sunday at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills.
As we were saying, the Rossi SixtySix will take its design inspiration from the Sting Ray models: there will be a split window, stinger hood, a modern front, and retro “bumpers”. For the interior, updates will be made to the center console area, door accents, and shift boots.
The sports car will be offered in eight exterior colors: black, red, maroon, blue, pearl white, a charcoal gray, and yellow.
Under the hood the Rossi SixtySix will have a V8 engine producing 450 HP and 400 lbs-ft of torque Unfortunately, performance figures haven’t been released yet so little is known about how [...]
