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Boreham Motorworks has unveiled a modern Mk1 Ford Escort RS One of the available engines revs to 10,000 rpm and delivers 296 hp Pricing starts at $375,000 The original Ford Escort sold in Europe was a popular economy car whose production spanned decades and also got Ford started in rallying. The Mk1 Escort would eventually become one of the most successful rally cars of all time, especially in RS guise. The Mk1 ceased production in 1975, but now the U.K.’s Boreham Motorworks has brought it back with a modern continuation example built from the ground up using blueprints and other…
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, countries around the world instituted all kinds of sanctions to make it difficult to do business in Russia. Many of these sanctions and other actions focused on rich Russian oligarchs, forbidding them from purchasing luxury goods and cars like a BMW 7 Series in Russia and confiscating property such as yachts. Of course, that doesn’t change the demand for such goods, and that leads to smuggling. One of the latest examples was reported on by Business Insider in Germany. It involved a dealer that managed to get more than 100 cars to Russia. BMW BMW…
Many of us have felt it, and now it’s official: “brain rot” is the Oxford dictionaries’ word of the year.Oxford University Press said Monday that the phrase “gained new prominence in 2024,” with its frequency of use increasing 230% from the year before.Oxford defines brain rot as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging.” And the official 2024 Oxford Word of the Year is… Brain rot 📱🧠 #OxfordWOTY pic.twitter.com/ePgpL28p9H— Oxford University Press (@OxUniPress) December 2, 2024 The word…
This is the time of year when Grace Brown would normally be starting her rebuild, working back to fitness for that Australian block of racing in January where the national titles are decided and home crowds get a chance to cheer roadside. But this time things are very different.Retirement from professional cycling after a dream year – the 32-year-old became an Olympic gold medallist, claimed the individual time trial World Championships and a monument too at Liège-Bastogne-Liège – means that routine is broken. No longer does she have to work up toward an early start to a new year of racing,…
FilmMagic Kevin Costner, former star of ‘Yellowstone,’ is known for his versatile roles in Hollywood. See photos of him throughout the years. Kevin Costner, starting from his humble beginnings in 1981’s Sizzle Beach, U.S.A., quickly rose to fame after his breakout role in 1987’s The Untouchables. This marked the beginning of an impressive era of big-screen success, with notable performances in Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Dances With Wolves, JFK, and The Bodyguard. These films helped establish him as one of Hollywood’s leading stars . Kevin won two Academy Awards for his role in ‘Dances With Wolves,’ and while it seemed…
Shots fired: America’s epidemic of gun violence Shots fired: America’s epidemic of gun violence 10:46 Authorities in Ohio launched a homicide investigation after the bodies of three women were found Saturday inside a home in Columbus.Officers were called to a home on the city’s south side just before 4 p.m. Saturday for what a 911 caller described as a medical event. Police found three women who were pronounced dead at the scene, according to police spokesman Sgt. James Fuqua.He said the killings were considered homicides, but he did not have further details, including what led up to the killings.In an…
By CEDAR ATTANASIO and MICHAEL R. SISAKNEW YORK — A man with a gun thought to be similar to the one used in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was taken into police custody Monday for questioning in Pennsylvania, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.The man is being held near Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 233 miles (375 kilometers) west of New York City, the official said. The official was not authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.Thompson, 50, was killed last Wednesday in what police said was a…
The Russian army killed one resident of Donetsk region yesterday, December 24. The head of the Donetsk regional state administration Vadym Filashkin posted this on Facebook. “On December 24, Russians killed one resident of Donetsk region – in Udachne,” Filashkin said. He emphasized that the total number of victims of the Russian invaders in Donetsk region (2,909 killed and 6,534 injured) is given without taking into account Mariupol and Volnovakha. Read also: Shelling in Donetsk region: Russians killed man, wounded woman in Pokrovsk and its area As Ukrinform reported, on December 23, Russians killed one and wounded two residents of…
The U.K.’s Alan Mann Racing today specializes in maintaining classic cars and developing restomods, but it was once a mainstay of the racing scene, as this video explains. Alan Mann Racing, or AMR for short, was founded in 1964 by racing enthusiast Alan Mann, who’d gotten his start running a garage that prepared race cars for competition. Mann soon negotiated a deal with Ford to run Lotus Cortinas. It was the start of a close partnership between AMR and the Blue Oval that would define the team. This was the era of Ford’s Total Performance push, when the automaker sought…
President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer for an off-target poll released just before last month’s election may be the first of its kind in a modern U.S. presidential election. In researching my book, “Lost in a Gallup,” a narrative history of prominent polling failures in presidential elections since 1936, I uncovered nothing akin to Trump’s litigation, which accuses Selzer of “brazen election interference.” The lawsuit may not survive what are likely to be sharp legal challenges. But its apparent unprecedented nature could have an uneasy effect on pollsters, given their checkered record of accuracy. It is not…