Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Which Sports Car Are You?

*Edit*
It was brought to my attention, (thank you very much...), that I am not as competitive as the Corvette would imply, so when I took the quiz again I got a better result. Kind of weird, I've always wanted a Miata......

I'm a Mazda Miata!



You like to soak up the sun, but your tastes are down to earth. Everyone thinks you're cute. Life is a winding road, and you like to take the curves in stride. Let other people compete in the rat race - you're just here to enjoy the ride.



Take the quiz.


Thursday, February 23, 2006

How to spend $1 million dollars in 10 seconds......

*UPDATES*
-This guy was being investigated for a bunch of stuff, including fraud and involvement in the Swedish Mafia (?)
-He allegedly was drinking at a party in Malibu prior to the accident, and was challenged to a race with a Mercedes McLaren SLR. The accident occured during that race, where the speeds may have reached almost 200 mph
-Apparently this guy "owned" 2 Enzos, although the Bank of Sweden was in the process of reposessing this one
-Insurance has already stated they will not cover this, due to the suspicious nature of the accident. That means this will be a total loss for whoever actually owns this car.

I saw this online yesterday, and told the official wife of PB I would post these on here today.

So apparently some guy trying to be cool in his Ferrari Enzo, goes cruising down this road in southern California at like 130 mph and loses control.

(For those of you keeping score at home, the Ferrari Enzo is a limited production Ferrari supercar, which costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million dollars plus the fact that in order to even buy one, you have to own another Ferrari first. It could also be noted the Enzo is completely capable of going 200+ mph, although I don't think they'd recommend it on a back road.)

The initial report said they found a guy still strapped into the passenger seat with a busted lip, and no driver. The guy said the driver was "some German guy", who jumped out of the car and ran into the hills. Police found blood on the driver's airbag, but not the passenger's. Hmm........that sounds, interesting. I guess it turns out this guy was wasted, and after the crash jumped out of the driver seat, jumps into the passenger seat, and pretends to be some confused innocent passenger. I know the guy was drunk, but that's the best story you can come up with?

The resulting crash scene stretched out for almost a mile, with the engine sitting about a 1/4 mile from the rest of the car. The body of a Ferrari Enzo is primarily carbon fiber, which is great for saving weight, but doesn't really withstand a crash very well. Although the fact that the guy walked away from this is pretty amazing.....





Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Poll

I guess it's been a while since I was last here huh? Haven't really had too much to post about lately, plus I've been moderately busy at work. Not usually with work related stuff, just while I'm here---slacking off, mostly.

I imagine most of you know about the demise of the Civics, and subsequently the arrival of the Audi. What the Audi needs most is a new paint job, which I was going to have Maaco do for like $250 bucks.

This morning though, in my Internet travels, I discovered a way to paint it myself for like $50 bucks. So now I need to pick a color---I thought I might throw this out to you fine folks and see what colors you would suggest.

So go ahead, be honest---feel free to pick a couple colors if you like them.

(You might notice the lack of a "pink" option, Cooter, so don't even think about it.....)