Buddha Bar is a famous bar and restaurant in London that thrives on extravagant performances; however, we have a sneaking feeling that rolling one of their 570-horsepower Brabus G500 4x4² promotional trucks was not part of an act this past Saturday. According to several social media accounts, the massive Brabus toppled over after blowing a red light and getting t-boned by an Uber Toyota Prius. 
One video catches the Brabus sliding to a stop, but the extend of the damage makes it clear the vehicle did at least one complete roll and possibly a spin as well. Since a G500 4x4² rollover is like a giant dinosaur hitting the ground, the truck destroyed everything in its path, including a bus stop. Although both cars sustained heavy damage, neither party involved had any real injuries.
The Brabus G500 4x42 involved in the accident was used to transport Buddha Bar guests and as a promotional vehicle. Buddha Bar also has a Rolls Royce in its London fleet, which stands to get a little more use now that this beast is out of commission.

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What’s the point of life on the road in a mobile home if you’re only restricted to where the asphalt leads? At least that’s the question photographer Stefan Forster asked himself before deciding to build out this epic camper truck based off a Toyota Hilux. Dubbed the Expedition V1 and nicknamed, Úlfur (Icelandic for “wolf”) this is one intense 4×4 off-road capable vehicle.
Over the course of a year and with the help of Geocar, Hurter Offroad, and Arctic Trucks Iceland, this Hilux made the transition from ordinary pickup to extraordinary backcountry vehicle. It’s powered by a 3.0L 225hp diesel engine and boasts a custom-made cabin complete with all the amenities Stefan and fellow travelers could want. Additionally, the Expedition also hosts a slew of off-road features outfitted for even the harshest of conditions. We’re talking a TJM snorkel, a WARN cable, HELLA lights, front and rear differential locks, underbelly protection, and an internal radio control unit among many others. Is it for sale? Absolutely not. Will it motivate you to start saving and build your own? Absolutely. 


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A Tennessee state representative wants to stop protesters taking to the streets, WSMV reported.
State Rep. Rep. Matthew Hill has filed a bill that says if a driver hits a protester who is blocking traffic in a public right-of-way, then that driver would be immune to civic liability if the demonstrator is hit and hurt, as long as it wasn’t intentional.
“If you want to protest, fine, I am for peaceful protesting, not lawless rioters,” Hill said. “We don’t want anyone to be hurt, but people should not knowingly put themselves in harm’s way when you’ve got moms and dads trying to get their kids to school.”
When protesters took to the sidewalks in Nashville after the executive order from President Trump calling for a travel ban, they say they made a decision to be peaceful and stay on the sidewalk as people drove by.
But things took a turn when safety volunteers say they were hit by a car that rolled through a crosswalk.
“These people were legally in a crosswalk at the time that they had the permission to go,” said Julie Franklin, who said she witnessed the incident.
Franklin said the volunteers, who were wearing orange safety vests, were struck while ushering demonstrators across the street in the crosswalk. She said they’d been waiting for the walk signal to maintain safety.
Franklin said volunteers jumped on the hood of the man’s car when they were struck, trying to get him to stop. But the man kept driving.
Spencer DesAutels said he was one of the volunteers who was hit.
“They saw me. They looked right at me,” said DesAutels, who said he was hit by an older man who was driving with his wife past the protesters. “They stopped, and then they decided that they didn’t want to stop anymore and they just drove through me.”
DesAutels said the man drove with the volunteers on the hood of his car until police made him stop.
“My reaction was I don’t want to be caught underneath this car. It was a big car, so I got up on the hood of the car to say I’m not going to get run over any further than he hit,” DesAutels said.
“I am not advocating anyone being hurt or run over. That’s very, very silly that anyone would think that,” Hill said. “Peaceful protesters have nothing to be concerned about. … This is an attempt to have some public safety and inject some common sense.”
Still, DesAutels, Williams and Franklin feel it opens the door for other drivers to possibly hurt protesters.
“I think it’s inhumane to treat human beings like they’re just traffic cones that you just don’t want to abide by, and that’s exactly what that man did,” Franklin said.
Williams and DesAutels believe the move is politically motivated.
“I think this bill shows that they’re scared. That they know that the people have a voice and it’s being heard, and they don’t like it,” Williams said.
Hill and Sen. Bill Ketron, who is the co-sponsor, defended the measure in written statements.
“We believe that citizens have the right to protest,” Ketron said. “There is a procedure for peaceful protests and the purpose of that process is to protect the safety of our citizens. Protesters have no right to be in the middle of the road or our highways for their own safety and the safety of the traveling public.”
The bill was introduced Thursday and passed first consideration in the state Senate.

Former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been airlifted to hospital after a horror crash in Switzerland.
The 47-year-old, who sustained brain injuries after a 288mph rocket car accident in 2006, is being treated in hospital after flipping a £2million electric supercar which then burst into flames as he filmed his new Amazon show The Grand Tour.
But he has miraculously escaped the fireball horror with little more than a fractured knee and was 'conscious and talking' after freeing himself from the vehicle.
Pictures from the scene showed the Rimac Concept One car in flames alongside a road in St. Gallen before the blaze was extinguished by firefighters.
Grand Tour producer Amazon later released images showing the burnt-out wreckage of the car laying upside down on a hill. 

The crash is reported to have happened on a road that was closed for the Bergrennen Hemberg race. 
A spokesperson for The Grand Tour said: 'Richard Hammond was involved in a serious crash after completing the Hemburg Hill Climb in Switzerland in a Rimac Concept One, an electric super car built in Croatia, during filming for The Grand Tour Season 2 on Amazon Prime, but very fortunately suffered no serious injury.
'Richard was conscious and talking, and climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames.
'He was flown by Air Ambulance to hospital in St Gallen to be checked over revealing a fracture to his knee.
'Nobody else was in the car or involved in the accident, and we'd like to thank the paramedics on site for their swift response.
'The cause of the crash is unknown and is being investigated.'
Grand Tour co-star Jeremy Clarkson tweeted: 'It was the biggest crash I've ever seen and the most frightening but incredibly, and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK.'
It comes just weeks after Mr Hammond toppled off his motorcycle and banged his head while riding through a 'remote' part of Mozambique. 
In a blog post, he wrote: 'It's true, I did fall off a motorbike whilst filming recently for The Grand Tour in Mozambique.
'I banged my head, yes, along with pretty much everything else apart from my left thumb, which remains un-bruised.
'Can't tell you more yet about the how and why of it; that's all for later in the year on the show. As for injuries; well put it this way, I don't think I can get a book out of it.'


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From the front, it’s clearly a Rolls-Royce, with a massive maw of a grille and quizzical, round headlamps. From the back, it looks like a yacht, or perhaps a frog. Put them together and you have Sweptail—a bespoke car made for a client with endless resources and decidedly quirky taste.
Rolls unveiled the Sweptail this week in Lake Como, Italy. It wouldn’t confirm how much the two-seater coupé cost, but estimates put the price at about $13 million—one of the most expensive new cars ever sold.
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The client commissioned Rolls to create a car inspired by its 1920s and 1930s models, plus an exotic wood interior, a panoramic glass skylight, a champagne chiller in the center console and a special compartment for his briefcase. His identity has not been disclosed, except that he is male.

Giles Taylor, director of design at Rolls-Royce, likened the design process to haute couture. “This customer came to the House of Rolls-Royce with an idea, shared in the creative process where we advised him on his cloth, and then we tailored that cloth to him,” Taylor said.” You might say we cut the cloth for the suit of clothes that he will be judged by.”
It’s unlikely that someone who can drop $13 million on a car is concerned about how he’s judged. Rolls would only reveal that he was a collector of “distinctive, one-off items” like super-yachts and private planes.

Consider the numbers: 248km/h @ 8800 revs through multiple gear shifts. This is how world-renowned Kiwi drifter Mad Mike Whiddett attacked the corners on Franschhoek Pass in BADBULduring a recent trip to the Southern tip of Africa.
Conquer The Cape (playing in the player above) is the latest in a string of boundary-pushing world firsts for Mike and he loved every second of the drive.
"The drive itself was just crazy," Mike says of the R45 between Franschhoek and Villiersdorp.
"I can compare it a bit to Conquer the Crown – a very successful project we did back home that was a game-changer for drifting because of the credibility the sport got for the precision driving. The scenery is very similar, but this road was far more raw, with like massive cliff-drops and not much run-off. Not much space for error."

At the 2017 F1 Europe Grand Prix in Azerbaijan, Williams Racing tied the record for tje fastest pit stop ever at 1.92 seconds. The blistering time was first set in 2013 by Team Red Bull at the US Grand Prix.
Through eight races this season, Williams Racing has owned the fastest pit stop time in every single race. You can see the complete list of times

Of the 33 drivers competing in this year's Indianapolis 500, the Spaniard Fernando Alonso has caused the most stir. A two-time Formula One World Driving Champion, big things are expected of him for his first time at Indy. So far, he hasn't disappointed. Driving for Andretti Autosport, he qualified at an impressive 231.300 mph to start fifth in Sunday's race, his first oval. IndyCar brought Alonso, 35, to New York for interviews. Following is what we got from him.

Jim Clash: Why skip Monaco this year and compete at Indy?
Fernando Alonso: The Indy 500, the 24 Hours of LeMans and that Formula 1 race are the biggest events in motor racing. Having an opportunity to experience this Indy 500, it was greater than racing in Monaco. Unfortunately, we don't have a competitive package where we can fight at the front [in Monaco], so we take this opportunity - we live this experience, we live the moment, and hopefully we enjoy it.
Clash: Compare qualifying at Indy to Formula One races.
Alonso: The format is different. Those four laps you are out on the track you have to put all of them together. I'm quite happy with the results. We had a small issue with the engine on Sunday morning. We had to change it, so it wasn't calibrated perfectly for the qualifying. So there was a little issue in one corner with overboost. Without that, we probably would have been on the first row of the grid. We were happily surprised about the performance this first week. We know qualifying is not the final thing about the Indy 500 - it's about the race - so we've done nothing yet. We need to put next Sunday everything we learned into the race.
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Alonso: Fantastic. Amazing team, amazing teammates. They're been really helpful, all of them. Marco [Andretti], Ryan [Hunter-Reay], with all the experience they have. Also Takuma [Sato] and Alexander [Rossi], because they came from Formula One. Then the advice from Michael [Andretti], our team boss. They all made me understand that the race is long - it's not like in Formula One where after the first corner the race is pretty much defined. Here, it's a vey long race. You need to stay calm, take the opportunity at the end. Also, you have to set up the car for traffic behind other cars because you won't be alone on the track Sunday, you will be in a group. So it's important to have the confidence there. Many things are different here, and Alexander was especially helpful. I have everything I could dream in terms of preparation and how I adapt to the Indy car and oval racing. Then you need to perform out there because you are alone on the track.
Clash: Anything people don't know about you?
Alonso: Not really. My life has been covered the last 15 years [laughs], so there are few things people don't know about me - nothing really important.
Clash: How do you get back in the car after a horrific crash like Sebastien Bordais' in qualifying Saturday?
Alonso: At the end of the day you understand this is motor sports. We are doing this because we love cars and we love racing. There is always this danger factor there. But there is that in everything we do in our everyday lives. So you close the visor. You don't feel any fear, any problem. You just want to be quicker and quicker.
Clash: Of your two F-1 championships in 2005 and 2006, which was most special?
Alonso: The first one was very special because you feel those kind of emotions. The second one was special as well, because we fought with Michael Schumacher until the last race. That added some value to the second championship. So for both of them I have great memories.
Clash: What would it mean to you to win the Indy 500?
Alonso: That would mean there is one race left - the 24 Hours of LeMans.

Roger Moore, the handsome English actor who appeared in seven films as James Bond and as Simon Templar on “The Saint” TV series, has died in Switzerland after a short battle with cancer. He was 89.
His family issued an announcement on Twitter: “It is the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated.”


Moore appeared in more official Bond pics than his friend Sean Connery over a longer period of time, and while Connery’s fans were fiercely loyal, polls showed that many others favored Moore’s lighter, more humorous take on 007.
In 1972, Moore was asked to join Her Majesty’s Secret Service. He took on the mantle of 007 for 1973’s “Live and Let Die,” which would lead to six more turns as England’s top spy. In addition to reviving the franchise at the B.O. after waning prospects at the end of Connery’s run, the new James Bond relied on more humor in stories that cranked up the camp.
Moore as Bond began to shake off the Connery comparisons and pick up speed after 1977’s “The Spy Who Loved Me” launched the series into super-blockbuster status, raking in $185.4 million worldwide. Next up, the outer space-traveling “Moonraker” (1979) cumed $202 million and 1981’s “For Your Eyes Only” took $194 million.
“Octopussy” (1983) marked a downward turn in the franchise’s fortunes, with B.O. of $183.7 million, and 1985’s “A View to a Kill” saw the actor ready to surrender his license to kill, taking in a little over $150 million.

The young actor came to the U.S. in 1953. MGM signed him to a contract and he received supporting work on several pictures. He played a tennis pro in 1954’s “The Last Time I Saw Paris,” with Elizabeth Taylor. The role was one of several in the ’50s that hinged on his tall, athletic good looks. He would often play royalty or military characters.
Moore had his first taste of smallscreen stardom from 1956-58 as the lead, Sir Winfred, in ITV’s “Ivanhoe.” While still drawing film roles, he would continue to star in TV programs, following “Ivanhoe” with short-lived ABC Western “The Alaskans” and replacing James Garner in “Maverick” in 1960-61 (Moore played British cousin Beau Maverick). By the time he arrived on “Maverick,” its popularity was waning, but Moore won over the cast and crew with his good humor and charm, on-set qualities for which the actor would be known throughout his career.
In 1962, Moore began playing one of the roles that would define his celebrity, dashing thief Simon Templar, who would steal from rich villains each week on “The Saint.” The show ran 118 episodes, transitioning from B&W to color and finally wrapping in 1969. The British skein initially ran in syndication in the States but was part of NBC’s primetime schedule from 1967-69.
Stories would feature exotic locales, beautiful women and plenty of action, elements shared with the bigscreen tales about a certain British spy of the era. Ironically, it was the “Saint” contract that prevented Moore from competing for the role of 007 when Sean Connery was cast in 1962’s “Dr. No.”
Moore returned to the bigscreen with a pair of forgettable thrillers in ’69 and ’70. Despite having sworn off TV, he was subsequently lured back for “The Persuaders.” The show, which featured Moore and Tony Curtis as millionaire playboy crime-fighters, ran only one season; it was successful in Europe but failed in its run on ABC in the U.S.
During his 13 years as 007, Moore landed feature roles in other actioners, but none that would compete with the Bond franchise. Movies from that period include 1978’s “The Wild Geese,” with Richard Burton and Richard Harris, and 1980’s “ffolkes” with James Mason and David Hedison, who played CIA agent Felix Leiter in “Live and Let Die.”
The actor took great fun in skewering his slick image offscreen and on-, including appearances in “Cannonball Run” and TV’s “The Muppet Show,” in which he struck out with Miss Piggy; in the 2002 comedy “Boat Trip,” he played a flamboyant homosexual with some Bond-like elements, and in 2004 he lent his voice to animated short “The Fly Who Loved Me.”
He also occasionally appeared both on the big- and smallscreen. He appeared in the Spice Girls feature “Spice World,” provided a voice for “The Saint” feature in 1997, appeared in an episode of “Alias” in 2003 and had a role in the 2013 telepic version of “The Saint” starring Eliza Dushku.
Moore did quite a bit of voicework in the 2000s in pics including “Here Comes Peter Cottontail,” “Agent Crush,” “Gnomes and Trolls: The Forest Trial,” “De vilde svaner” and 2010’s “Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore,” whose title was an allusion to Bond girl Pussy Galore of “Goldfinger”; his “Cats and Dogs” character was Tab Lazenby.
He became a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in 1991 and had been an active advocate for children’s causes. In 1999, he was honored by the British government with the title Commander of the British Empire.
Moore was born in Stockwell, South London. Despite health problems, Moore excelled at school and took an early interest in art and drawing. His grammar school education was interrupted by the start of WWII; he and his mother spent most of the war in Amersham, 25 miles outside of London.
In 1943, Moore decided to leave school and pursue work in animation at Publicity Pictures Prods., where he was a junior trainee in cartooning. But mishandling of some celluloid brought a swift conclusion to that career path.
Moore began his long acting career during the summer of 1944, when a friend recommended that he seek work as an extra on the film “Caesar and Cleopatra,” which brought Moore a walk-on role and the attention of co-director Brian Desmond Hurst, who was impressed with the looks of the tall, thin young man and secured him extra parts in two subsequent pics. With the support of Hurst, Moore auditioned for and was admitted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1945, Moore was called up for national service and, after basic training, was recommended for the Intelligence Corps. “The only reason they commissioned me was I looked good in a uniform,” Moore joked of his military career.
The actor’s autobiography, “My Word Is My Bond,” was published in 2008; his other books include memoir “One Lucky Bastard” and “Bond on Bond.” In recent years he toured with a popular one-man show, “An Evening With Roger Moore.”
Moore was married to skater Doorn Van Steyn, singer Dorothy Squires, Italian actress Luisa Mattioli and finally to Danish-Swedish multimillionaire Kristina “Kiki” Tholstrup. He is survived by Tholstrup; a daughter, actress Deborah Moore; and two sons, Geoffrey Moore, an actor, and Christian Moore, a film producer.


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The Skip Barber Racing School has filed for bankruptcy, according to documents provided to The Drive, with somewhere between $10 million and $50 million in outstanding liabilities.
The school filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday, according to the copy provided to The Drive.
The most prominent creditor by far is Lime Rock Park of Connecticut, the court filing reveals, with Skip Barber Racing School owing the track $1.225 million for track rent. Somewhat ironically, Lime Rock Park is owned by Skip Barber himself, who founded the school that bears his name. Barber has long since divested himself of Skip Barber Racing School, selling off controlling interest in it back in 1999.
The school also owes rent to several other race tracks across America, including $239,617.19 to Road Atlanta, $169,568 to California's Monterey County (the lawful owner of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca), $112,000 to Mid-Ohio, $105,983 to Palm Beach International Raceway, $56,623.77 to Virginia International Raceway, and $29,600 to Willow Springs, among other unsecured claims to creditors. 
The filing declares that the school possesses assets valued at roughly $5.3 million. That includes a listed $1,489,500 worth of automobiles and $1.6 million in auto parts. It also places a value of $2 million on the Skip Barber Racing School brand name and training techniques. 
The Skip Barber Racing School was created in 1975, after Barber retired from professional racing and set about teaching high-performance driving as a coachable skill. According to the website, the school helped to launch the racing careers of Josef Newgarden, Spencer Pigot, Marco Andretti, Conor Daly, and many other professional drivers; it also counts celebrities as Tom Cruise, Patrick Dempsey, and Jerry Seinfeld among its graduates. 


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