
The answer: Meeting him on the way out of the track.
![]() After he wins the STP 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday, Kyle Busch encounters a loyal fan while stuck in traffic leaving the track. Her priceless reaction was caught on Twitter by Samantha Busch, Kyle's wife.If you're a die-hard Kyle Busch fan, what's the only thing better than going to Martinsville Speedway and watching your hero sweep the weekend? The answer: Meeting him on the way out of the track. ![]() Here is just a few of the thousands upon thousands of unsold cars at Sheerness, United Kingdom. There are hundreds of places like this in the world today and they keep on piling up... THE WORLDS UNSOLD CAR STOCKPILE Houston...We have a problem!... Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not on the scale they once were. Millions of brand new unsold cars are just sitting redundant on runways and car parks around the world. There, they stay, slowly deteriorating without being maintained. Below is an image of a massive car park at Swindon, United Kingdom, with thousands upon thousands of unsold cars just sitting there with not a buyer in sight. The car manufacturers have to buy more and more land just to park their cars as they perpetually roll off the production line. ![]() here are hundreds of places like this in the world today and they keep on piling up... THE WORLDS UNSOLD CAR STOCKPILE Houston...We have a problem!...Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore! Well they are, but not on the scale they once were. Millions of brand new unsold cars are just sitting redundant on runways and car parks around the world. There, they stay, slowly deteriorating without being maintained. Below is an image of a massive car park at Swindon, United Kingdom, with thousands upon thousands of unsold cars just sitting there with not a buyer in sight. The car manufacturers have to buy more and more land just to park their cars as they perpetually roll off the production line. ![]() The car industry would never sell these cars at massive reductions in their prices to get rid of them, no they still want every buck. If they were to price these cars for a couple of thousand they would sell them. However, nobody would then buy any expensive cars and then they would end up being unsold. Its quite a pickle we have gotten ourselves into. Below is shown an image of the Nissan test track in Sunderland United Kingdom. Only it is no longer being used, reason...there are too many unsold cars parked up on it! The amount of cars keeps on piling up on it until its overflowing. Nissan then acquires more land to park up the cars, as they continue to come off the production line. It is a sorry state of affairs and there is no answer to it, solutions don't exist. So the cars just keep on being manufactured and keep on adding to the millions of unsold cars already sitting redundant around the world. ![]() Is there anything cooler than Luke Huxham’s latest movie involving a Ferrari F40 with rally lights, a ski slope and some instant noodles by the campfire? No, there is not. The video’s called “Snow Camp Feat. Ferrari F40,” and it’s from Red Bull, who are only getting better and better at driving unusually fast cars up ski slopes. Here’s what Google Translate had to say about the Japanese team’s story: The other preparations for winter are are finished. Huge quadruple fog lamp is to nose stain Nurari and red. Because genuine racing car, luggage should I mean, tying the roof carrier. But, the favorite cassette tape, this is a sleepless pillow did not forget no. After all, it is Ferrari F40. Kano F1 driver, as Beruharuto Berger was commandments and “Do not out of the garage is a rainy day.” Its power is catastrophic, approaching the immediate danger to the driver if make a mistake 1mm the amount of stepping on the accelerator. In addition, before the value that the current market price is more than 100 million yen, hear a lot of people to loosen the power of the right foot to step on the accelerator. But, after all. Not only a tool for the car is running also try to retaining clips What price tag. So, this guy is always run through at full throttle. Full throttle indeed. I just want to buy a beer for the whole video team behind this movie, because my mind is blown by their stunning shots. Now, it’s your time to enjoy! ![]() A new Porsche 911 GT3 RS that had just been dressed in Gulf Oil livery took an accidental plunge in the water at the Porsche Centrum Amsterdam dealership in Holland, earlier today. The managing director of Porsche Centrum, Hans Van der Valk, seemed rather calm about the incident involving the €270,000 (in the US, the 911 GT3 RS starts from $175,900) sports car when asked about it by local news. "The car was parked on the waterfront and a mechanic made a mistake when trying to get the vehicle,” he explained, according to RTL news. “That is very unfortunate, but it can happen. When there are people,mistakes are made." All is not lost, though, as Van der Valk believes the car can be saved. "Only the tip was in the water and no one was hurt. There's not much damage," he said. ![]() Bartek Ostalowski lost both of his arms in an accident in 2006. Did that stop him from pursuing his passion for cars and motorsports? Hell no. Ostalowski not only got back into the driver's seat, competing in the Polish Championship Rally Raceway Cross, but he's even learned how to go drifting. In his R34 Skyline, he's not just capable; he's better than a lot of drivers out there who never suffered what he did. Ostalowski uses his right foot to over the pedals, his left foot to do the steering, and he manually shifts the automatic transmission with his shoulder. He can drive unmodified street cars, too. ![]() Breed of Speed recently got the privilege to test the new K40 Electronics RLS2 laser/radar detector. As usual with any product I was skeptical, lets be real, there are dozens of company's out there that claim a product does one thing, when in reality it does another. Not to be rude but I expected this to be just another radar detector that picks up a cop when it's already too late. I was wrong, very wrong. ![]() But first lets start with the quality, I tend to take a product basis of quality just from how it comes from the company. The box was packaged and laid out nicely. It was simple and straight to the point. ![]() I like when a layout of a product is easy to figure out and not just bundled into one big grouping of complexity. The last thing one wants to deal with is figuring out which part goes where. This was convenient and simple. The package came with the usual owners manual, registration car, detector, power cord and mounting suction cup. ![]() The owners manual was easy to read, laid out all the options needed. Frankly the detector itself is so incredibly easy to use, one could easily go without the manual to use it. However there are some pretty amazing features in this little detector. Which are clearly laid out. ![]() After installing the RLS2 and powering it up, it did the usual radar detectors chime and symphony of digital sounds. Then it did something I'm not use to in a radar detector. It prompted GPS connected. This was a first for me and I was intrigued. Turns out when its connected to a GPS it moniters your speed, marks typical police positions of speed traps are at and remembers these for future references. That was an aspect that definitely took it up a notch. Now it was time for the actual test drive. ![]() Denver Colorado has it's share of both speed cameras and speed traps conducted by officers. My goal was to go out and find a couple of these bundles of frustration, for us speeders. The car of choice was my 2001 BMW M5, something that tends to entice me to go beyond the speed limit. Now the great thing about this detector is the options it offers, you can do City mode, which makes detection less sensitive. Highway mode inhibits more sensitivity to K-Band and Laser. The great thing is, a cop has both a handle held speed monitering system as well as one built into the car that is constantly running. This detector picks up both, shows the direction in which the signal is coming from, and displays the speed in which you are driving. ![]() Today's preferred choice of speed measuring by officers is usually Laser. Laser has been a challenge for speeders due to one aspect, if the officer tags your car, your speed is returned to the cop's speed gun instantaneous. Unlike K-band which had a delay. Now this is where the RLS2 was put to the test. I knew of a speed trap in the area, where officers usually hid behind a pole and ran laser at an area where drivers usually sped. Sure enough as I drove by there he was (photo was just an example). So I drove down a good distance, turned on the RLS2 and turned around in the path of the officer. I expected the detector to go off an warn me as I got closer, but after I turned it on it was already warning me, and I was surprisingly quite far away from the speed trap. I drove in his path, 1/4 mile away, the radar detector was going off like crazy. It showed both the direction of the officer, aswell as what he was shooting with. This is where I was impressed, I couldn't believe how far away I was from the speed trap yet the detector was going off as if I was right next to the officers. Now the last test was to find a cop not running a speed gun but driving in his car, as most detectors will not pick up on this. It took me a few minutes but I spotted a cop driving onto the highway on ramp. I was maybe less than 500 yards behind him and the detector was warning me of K-band and the intensity aswell. I was downright impressed. ![]() So whats our verdict on this little guy? For the price of this detector compared to the cost of a speeding ticket today? There's not doubt this is the route to go. Its easy to use, it gets the job done, and comes with features that sets it a bar above the rest. Of course with pro's comes cons to everything. I didn't like how the detector didn't have auto-power down when I turned my car off that would of been nice, Items such as it seemed to pick up signals of a cop when there was none in sight came into play even with sensitivity turned down. However these are quite minor aspects to consider. I frankly would rather have a overly sensitive detector than one that doesn't pick out a cop parked directly behind you. The product is great, the support team behind the product is even greater. They really are on the ball. It's easy to use, its powerful, and its nice to have that security when your going a few mph more that you should. Oh yeah did we forget to tell you, that K40 guarantee's you drive ticket free, if you get speeding ticket they will pay it. Well done K40, we approve. -Breed of Speed ![]() Youtube has an amazing and terrifying video of two coaches trapped by “shooting rocks” – very high velocity rockfalls – on the Karakorum Highway in Pakistan. These boulders, some of which are very large, have managed to get into the high velocity, bouncing mode that is so dangerous: Particularly impressive is the boulder at the 28 second point, shown below. This boulder has entered the mode of movement in which it is rotating around its short axis, allowing very large bounces and high velocities to develop. It is a good thing this did not strike the coaches: . It is not clear as to where this occurred on the Karakorum Highway, but fortunately there were no casualties. It must have been terrifying for those on the buses though. ![]() Ken Freeman is the best custom car builder you've never heard of. The owner of a body shop in West End, North Carolina, Freeman is the man behind Spirit of Nemo, his take on possibly the most challenging movie car of all time: Captain Nemo's 24-foot-long convertible from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And guess what? Nemo is for sale on eBay. Normally, when someone builds a movie car, the result is a lot like a typical concept car—good from afar, but far from good. (Why not? It just needs to look good on camera.) Freeman's Nemo, though, stands up to close scrutiny. The details are impeccable and, amazingly, the car drives way better than you'd expect of a six-wheeled convertible with quad front steering and the width of a Peterbilt. It tracks just fine, the 425-cubic inch V8 happily thumping away like it meant to propel this leviathan. You could drive it on the street, provided you have a plan for where to turn it around. And I can vouch for that, since I'm one of the few people to drive it. ![]() The car is loosely based on two Cadillac limousines, but it's not like this is a re-bodied Caddy. The frame, for instance, is based on steel I-beams from a dismantled bridge because the low-slung ride height wouldn't allow for the underbody bracing of a typical convertible. The hood and various other structural areas are reinforced with carbon fiber or Kevlar. The mammoth hood rises on struts—no prop rod necessary. The car's ornate details, from the elephants to the interior trim, were carved in reverse by Freeman and cast in molds. There were no shortcuts on this car. So what's it gonna take to get Nemo and its custom trailer aboard your personal submarine? Well, reserve is met, and the reserve is $165,000. As I told Freeman the day I drove it, wealthy people covet an object that nobody else can have, and there's only one of these. It's a beautifully executed car, but it took him 6,500 hours. He's not building another one. ![]() The driver of this Corvette had a scare at Sebring International Raceway last weekend, after a brake failure down one of the circuit’s long straights led to it running straight on at the Turn 7 hairpin. The Corvette then makes a hard left turn and plows through a set of gates before trying to find its way back into the racetrack. Corvette in one of the club races ahead of last weekend’s 12 Hours of Sebring. At the time of writing, we’re not sure on who was the driver at the time, although we’re beginning to think it may have been a relative of Frank Drebin of the Police Squad.The incident came to light when sports car racer Andy Lally Tweeted about it on Saturday: Watch the video below. |
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