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Reddit find of the day, a color coded map that shows gas prices across the country.
USA National Gas Temperature Map

SOLD!

We are selling our beloved PW/PW MCS as Sherry is moving to San Francisco and probably won’t need a car for a while. Here are the specs and details:

2004 MINI Cooper S (6-speed manual)
33,000 miles
Pepper White
Body Color Roof
Black Mirrors
Black Bonnet Stripes (dealer-installed)
Sport Package (Dynamic Stability Control, 17’s, Fogs, Xenon headlights with Headlight Washers)
Silver Wheels
Panther Black [...]

Went to MINI2 to check out the new BMW - Peugeot Citroen engines and found this: http://movies.autoexpress.co.uk/autoexpress/240106_mini_cooper.mov

Got an email fro MINI USA about this:MINIUSA.COM
limited run of 2000 cars, no backseats, 217 hp @ 7100, 184 ft-lb @ 4600, top speed of 150mph. If they geared this thing correctly it will be pretty damn fast. (I hope it has an LSD, but since it is available as a option on the MCS’ [...]

Now this looks like it would go around the track much faster than my MR… I want!!!!!!! and a white one JUST like that!
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Jet-powered VW bug takes to the street - Engadget
Ron Patrick wanted a VW Beetle with a jet engine (hey, who doesn’t?). But he also wanted to be able to drive it on the open road, rather than just on a closed airport runway surrounded by fire engines and EMT crews. His solution? A [...]

This might be fun, Circuit Mont Tremblant, a former F1 circuit, looks like a lot of fun, and from the circuit map it seems quite high-speed, Not sure if I could get up to the F430 top speed of 196mph, but probably at least 160mph or so. The school is extremely overpriced though, but then [...]

ouch! I thought the Mazda6 were pretty safe…
MSN Money - The least-safe cars of 2006
The 2006 model year is young. Not all new cars have crash-test scores
available, but many do, and here are the six with the worst
crashworthiness.
The least-safe cars of [...]

330 MPG Uber Hybrid?:
They plan to sell a revolutionary hybrid two-seater car that they say can get up to 330 miles per gallon, and will sell for under $20,000.

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The new Porsche 911 Turbo (997TT) is going to be 3520lbs, that is pretty damn heavy. Maybe I should go grab one of the remaining 996 GT3’s while I can still find them…
http://www.autoweek.com/news.cms?newsId=103796