The entire Mercury line of vehicles was designed and produced to be a step above the Ford line, but a step below the luxurious Lincoln models that Ford Motor Company introduced to the buying public. The 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator was one of the models that Mercury designed to compete in the muscle car genre that had exploded throughout the 1960s. It was a unique design that was created by Larry Shinoda, the man who also is responsible for the design of the Ford Mustang Boss 302. He also helped create the 1959 Chevy Stingray Racer and the 1963 to…
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Oil fell after the close of the regular trading session on a Bloomberg News report that the US plans to sell more crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, adding supplies to an already saturated market. The United States wants to sell another 26 million barrels from the reserve, and deliveries will take place between April and June. West Texas Intermediate, the US crude benchmark, fell 1% to near $79 a barrel after Monday’s announcement. The non-emergency sale of the SPR was mandated by legislation in 2015, and the Energy Department had tried to halt some of those releases to replenish…
It all ended on Hamilton Avenue, parallel to the entrance to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Police say an NYPD squad car was able to clip the U-Haul, sending the truck onto the curb and forcing the suspect to surrender. Driver accused of stealing U-Haul trucks in custody Surveillance video shows how the driver made his way through Brooklyn early Monday morning, knocking over a bicycle and jumping onto the sidewalk as a pedestrian ran out of the way. “Reckless driving and hitting, running people over, delivery guys on their delivery bikes,” said Carroll Gardens resident Isa Rosenbloom. The NYPD says…
MALTA, NY (NEWS10) — Around 3:03 a.m. Sunday, police responded to an accident on I-87 in Malta. Police determined Anthony S. Alifano, 28, of Clifton Park struck an unoccupied disabled vehicle on the west shoulder of southbound I-87. Get all the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment straight to your inbox! As a result, the unoccupied vehicle was pushed into the center lane and Alifano left the scene of the accident. He was located a short time later in Moe Road, where he was arrested for drink-driving and other offenses under the Traffic and Vehicles Act. Alifano posted a BAC…
Kixx Brunei recently announced the lucky winners of the ‘Kixx on the Edge Grand Draw’ campaign. The award ceremony was held at the Seng Hoe Huat Gadong branch. The grand prize winner, Jiah Hamdan, received a 65-inch HiSense UHD Smart TV. The second runner-up, Jesstina Padan, won an ET30S portable HD projector, and the third prize went to Arifin bin Haji Bahar, who won a Cuckoo Air Q portable purifier. The campaign, which started in October last year, offered customers the chance to participate by purchasing from authorized Kixx dealers. The award ceremony coincides with the launch of Kixx’s new…
TGS and CGG have been contracted to jointly complete the acquisition and imaging of a multi-client seismic survey of dense ocean floor nodes (OBN) in the Balder and Ringhorne areas of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The Heimdal Terrace OBN survey, located directly north of the Utsira OBN survey in the North Sea, will cover an additional 193 square miles of area under receivers (AUR) to increase contiguous multi-client OBN coverage in the region to 1,459 square miles GOLD. The study area covers a mature part of the North Sea, including the Balder and Ringhorne fields, the Iving/Evra and Enniberg…
The legendary die-cast models get the exciting and realistic center stage treatment in Hot Wheels Unleashed, the full-featured arcade racing game that sees players screeching across smooth plastic tracks in the toy cars so beloved by generations, young and old. RELATED: Best Racing Games for Beginners Milestone’s latest creation is a fitting addition to a genre with roots almost as old as digital gaming itself, joining a long line of charming racing titles boasting an equally long line of unique features. THE VIDEO OF THE GAMER’S DAY 10 Cruis’n Blast: Full throttle with no brakes This weird arcade racer that…
2022 Hyundai Santa Fe PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid)By Larry NutsonExecutive editor and office managerChicago officeTHE AUTOMATIC CHANNELHyundai has been on the move. They sold 724,265 units in 2022, a slight decrease of 2% compared to 2021. However, Hyundai outperformed the industry with forecasts calling for an 8.4% drop in total industry sales when are adjusted to the days of sale. The Santa Fe is a two-row, 5-passenger midsize utility vehicle. Santa Fe sales for 2022 were 119,589, up 7%. Extensively redesigned for 2019, this fourth-generation Santa Fe received a mid-cycle refresh with design changes and many new features, plus new powertrain…
DEKALB COUNTY – A truck carrying cars caught fire on the ramp from I-285 to I-85 in DeKalb County Monday afternoon, closing several lanes and producing a huge plume of black smoke.Firefighters said several cars in the truck caught fire near the Pleasantdale Road exit. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]Read moreVideo from the Georgia Department of Transportation showed at least one vehicle completely engulfed in black smoke. There were at least five fire engines at the scene.Officials did not say how the fire started or how long the lanes will be closed.Some lanes had reopened…
Home / News / Ultra-rare EV-converted Bentley: A saved classic or automotive sacrilege? British specialist Lunaz Design has created what it says is “the rarest recycled electric vehicle in the world”, converting a 1961 Bentley S2 Continental, one of only four ever made, into a zero-emissions powerhouse. Has he saved a classic for future generations or committed an automotive sacrilege? you decide But the car is presented as a showcase of what Lunaz can do by combining the world of valuable classic cars and the latest EV technology. In its original specification, the Bentley was powered by a 6.2 liter…