Automotive Finance News shows off the Indy 500 Pace Car.  And there's a plan to build 500 replicas.!

    That's gotta hurt.  A $30 million dollar fine to DaimlerChrysler for CAFE fuel mileage fines. "s the new standards increase over the next decade, companies that produce a lot of high performance cars like Mercedes and BMW will likely be paying a lot more in fines unless they start selling a lot of hybrids and diesels."

Here's a neat little article about six steps to easliy modify your car. While the piece focuses on a BMW,  it pretty much applies across the board. Logical list, but helps to see it in print.

Wishing you and yours the merriest of holidays.

Great selection of odd drifting videos. From tricycles and army tanks (above), to buses. Check 'em out at A Man's World.

We all marvel at extraordinary photos of crumpled cars, but these airplane photos seemed worthy. Really expensive boo boos. There's an entire selection of them posted at Crooked Brains. Do you get a ticket for this sort of thing?

Nice feature article on the '57 BMW... at Business Week. As it states, a car that went from failure to icon.  It is believed that approximately 80% of all 507s have survived.  Well, with a recent sales tag of $893, 104, that's an icon alright.

That's the tag line for a jewelry store named Jareds, in case that line does not make sense in your area of the country.

Anyway, 22- and 24-carat gold cars? Too much of a good thing, I think. 

But check The Gadget Website for shots of a Benz and Jeep with more bling. 

Dark Roasted has their fifth collection of the World's Most Dangerous Roads. Nuh-huh. Not going.

Check 'em out, lots of switchbacks and more. Those roads in the Andes are not fit to travel on.