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When it comes to high-end hypercars and super-fast supercars, a few companies should come to mind first: Bugatti, Ferrari, Koenigsegg, Rimac, and Pagani, among others. These manufacturers have cemented themselves as the top dogs in the supercar and hypercar space, extending to their wealthiest clientele the fastest, rarest, prettiest – and in this case – most expensive cars on the planet. But in order to find out which of these unattainable-to-most vehicles is the priciest, we've scoured the invoice sheets and uncovered 40 cars all worth $1 million or more. The group includes hybrid Ferrari convertibles, an American speed king , a few electric Hypercars , and two a one-of-a-kind Rolls-Royce cars built for royalty. We should note, though: The prices listed here are the price of the vehicles when new. So we’re not counting auction cars like the Ferrari 250 GTO, or overpriced secondhand sales. But don’t worry, there’s still hundreds of millions worth of cars here to whet … [Read more...] about 50 Most Expensive Cars In The World

Listen to this article It’s also the youngest of the professional categories and, while Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock each race 24 times during a season the runs from February through much of November, Pro Stock Motorcycle (PSM) has 16 races, starting at the third contest of the year, the Gatornationals at Gainesville, Fla. in March of each year. That doesn’t mean PSM is any less competitive than its three brethren, nor does it mean there’s less combativeness between competitors, all thinking the other guy gets a better break. No, PSM is a tense and terse battleground - and for the Countdown to the Championship, it races at the same six venues allocated to the other pro classes. The players in Pro Stock Motorcycle There are four primary motorcycle manufacturers vested in NHRA’s Pro Stock Motorcycle class: the long-lived Suzuki’s TL1000 and GSXR; Erik Buell’s XB12R, Victory’s Gunner and the Harley-Davidson V-Rod. Only two of these manufacturer’s motorcycles are … [Read more...] about Hines gunning for sixth Pro Stock Motorcycle title

Listen to this article TOP FUEL Brown claimed his 59th career victory, and fifth of the season, with a 3.763-second pass at 319.29 mph in his dragster to defeat Doug Kalitta and his Mac Tools machine, 3.811 at 320.28. It is Brown’s second consecutive win at the NHRA Carolina Nationals, the opening event of the NHRA Mello Yello Countdown to the Championship. “I’m dreaming right now, someone needs to come and pinch me,” Brown said. “This is the way you want to start the Countdown off. Qualifying didn’t go the way we wanted it. We just kept digging. That was the key. The track was the hottest that we have had all year long. We knew it was going to be tricky. We navigated down it and we did what we had to do.” Before picking up the victory over Kalitta, Brown faced down Clay Millican, Brittany Force, and Pat Dakin, and thus remains on top of the points with Kalitta in second. FUNNY CAR Force, a 16-time world champion, powered his PEAK Antifreeze Chevy Camaro Funny Car to … [Read more...] about Antron Brown, John Force start Countdown in winning style

By Thomas Mallon Knopf. 352 pp. $28 - - - Hollywood history is filled with has-beens and never-weres, so you're forgiven if you don't remember Dick Kallman, a small-time Broadway player turned television actor whose career reached its fleeting apogee when he starred in a 1965 sitcom called "Hank." After that show's cancellation the following year, Kallman didn't make another headline until 1980, when - having retired from show business and refashioned himself into a successful antiques dealer - he and his partner were brutally murdered in their Manhattan apartment in a robbery gone wrong. That this lurid episode chalks off the center of Thomas Mallon's engrossing new novel, "Up With the Sun," may seem peculiar at first, given the deftness with which Mallon has woven minor characters into the grand fabric of history dating back to 1994's "Henry and Clara." That novel, which set a tale of star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, was followed … [Read more...] about Book World: Thomas Mallon’s ‘Up With the Sun’ is a keen portrait of 1980 New York

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Less than a week removed from the hiring of DeMeco Ryans as the Houston Texans ' sixth head coach, another key piece indicated that he too hopes to be in the Bayou City for the long haul. Starting left tackle Laremy Tunsil represented the Texans at the Pro Bowl fesitivities in Las Vegas over the weekend, and on Sunday, he provided some insight into his future plans with the franchise. During an interview with NFL Network's Cameron Wolfe , Tunsil was asked about what Texans fans can expect moving forward. The team has failed to win more than four games in each of the past three seasons, but judging by Tunsil's response, he hopes to see the rebuild in Houston to its completion. "I'm trying to stay here forever," Tunsil told Wolfe, before adding, "I want to be a part of the franchise on the winning side too." Caught with @Texans star LT Laremy Tunsil about the Pro Bowl, … [Read more...] about Houston Texans’ Laremy Tunsil says he wants to play for team ‘forever’

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 20 A Baton Rouge couple has created a mobile app to help crawfish fans get their next fix, complete with locations and pricing. Laney and Ryan King devised The Crawfish App in January 2013 after having trouble figuring out where to get crawfish in the Baton Rouge area. They simply wanted an app that could show them who was serving crawfish and knew others were probably looking for something similar. OUCH: Casian Crawfish's Carolina Reaper crawfish challenge is only for the strong and crazy brave The app, released in February 2017, is constantly being updated, with most every crawfish place in Houston in their database. The number crawfish vendors on the app continues to grow. “It was basically out of frustration and the love of Louisiana culture that we created it,” Laney … [Read more...] about Need to find your next crawfish feast? There’s an app for that

Listen to this article Vautier and Hawksworth will share one of the Portuguese squad's two Oreca 07-Gibsons with bronze-rated Fred Poordad as they tackle the Pro-am sub-division of the top LMP2 category in the ELMS. For factory Lexus driver Hawksworth, it marks a first foray into European racing since a partial campaign in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with Tech 1 Racing in 2019. “I am really excited to be joining the Algarve Pro Racing team for the 2023 European Le Mans Series,” said Hawksworth. “It’s going to be a lot of fun to be doing some racing in Europe again and I have only heard great things about the Oreca 07 LMP2 car and the team. "I have two great teammates in Tristan and Fred and we will be working hard alongside the team to get some strong results.” Vautier and Hawksworth once shared the track in IndyCar Vautier has been a regular of the IMSA paddock since 2017, spending the past four seasons with the JDC-Miller MotorSports team in the … [Read more...] about Vautier, Hawksworth join Algarve Pro for 2023 ELMS season

Listen to this article For the NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series competitors, bringing home the Wally trophy at Lucas Oil Raceway outside Indianapolis means everything. Heck, even qualifying for this race isn’t easy: anyone who has a chance to make the field will come to this place and try, and so there’s always a surge in entrant numbers. Recently it’s been tough to scavenge sufficient competition to make a full field of 16 for eliminations for the Mello Yello 24-race campaign. Racing at the top is always expensive and partnerships that work are often tough to find. But for the 62nd annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals, there were plenty of “go hard or go home” racers on the 261-acre premises. There were a healthy 20 Top Fuel dragsters, 19 Funny Cars, 19 Pro Stocks and 23 PS Motorcycles. And so there was bumping in and out of the field and upsets that changed the scope of the six-race Countdown to the Championship playoffs that start in Charlotte next week. … [Read more...] about U.S. Nationals drama is a taster of what’s to come

Listen to this article The 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series is sprinting to its close, with only two events remaining in a 24-race season. The penultimate event, the 16th annual Toyota NHRA Nationals on The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway takes place the final weekend of October, a tradition that incorporates both competition and fun, as it either falls on or close to Halloween. .For the four Mello Yello categories: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle, the Countdown to the Championship could continue to the season finale in Pomona two weeks hence. That being said, there’s a very good chance for reigning and two-time Top Fuel champion Antron Brown to rack up his third category title on the dragstrip that abuts Nellis Air Force base. Brown, with seven wins in his pocket and a 150-point lead over Doug Kalitta, earned his second title at this race last year and could take his pink-emblazoned Matco Tools “Tools for the Cause” dragster to the top of … [Read more...] about Titles in the balance in Vegas