Sand, Chrome, and Elegance
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Each August for the past 54 years, the aristocracy of the automobile world makes a pilgrimage to the famous golf course in search of the finest vehicles in the world. For the past three decades, Gene Ritvo, a local film maker and the official photographer of the New England Motor Press Association, has documented the famous car show and produced feature films for fans back east.
 
Video of the CTS-V's record lap
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As promised last week- here's the blistering video of the CTS-V on the Nurburgring.  I may have mastered this stuff in Grand Turismo but watching someone do it in real life is far out.
 
2009 CTS-V Crushes Nurburgring Sedan Record
Cadillac CTS-V

Just before this week came to a close Cadillac had something they wanted to tell us. Perhaps they wanted it to sink in all weekend long.  This morning the 2009 CTS-V ran the Nurburgring pretty quick. Sub 8-minute quick. 7:59.32 to be more exact, which happens to be the fastest documented time for a sedan on the ring ever. Whoa. Can you feel your skin tingle?
 
GM using cadavers in crash tests?
A Saab 9-3 Crash

According to Swedish website, The Local , General Motors (parent company of Sweden's Saab) has been using human cadavers in automobile crash testing. Claes Tingvall, from the Swedish Road Administration noted that GM recently finished a multi-year research project in which dead bodies of those who had donated their cadaver to science. 
 
Hi Dad? I crashed your Ferrari
One Crashed Ferrari

From the "Don't want to be that kid" files... Some poor dude in Melboure Australia had to make what could only be described as one nightmarish call to his father.  Yup, he wrecked the Ferrari.  To make things even better, it wasn't any old run of the mill Ferrari either. It was a F360 Challenge Stradale. One of only 16 that made it to Austraila / New Zeland and ran near a 1/2 million dollars price tag. Oops. Thankfully he wasn't hurt in the crash but one can only assume the phone call afterwards was quite painful. As if a news article on the event wasn't enough embaressment for the son- here's a picture of him making the call to dear old dad.
 
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