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Sunday 7: Cheapest cars on the market I Drive.com.au

9/8/2018, 8:33:10 PM
Check out the cheapest new cars on sale today. ✔ It also comes standard with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on a 7-inch touchscreen infotainment unit ✔ $15,990 drive-away: Toyota Yaris The Yaris comes third in its category for hatchback sales, just behind the Hyundai Accent and Mazda 2 ✔ Go behind the scenes on Drive at Facebook, Instagram and YouTube


New SUV from Dacia is well-equipped, roomy and could be yours for under ten grand

9/8/2018, 8:01:15 PM
COMMON sense – tricky thing, isn’t it? I’ve had a brittle relationship with it for as long as I can remember. It was the instruction of my parents, demand of my teachers and, today, an almost daily… ✔ For that reason, I can see a lot of Dusters ending up on farms and country estates ✔ Touted as the world’s fastest SUV, the LFP is essentially a Jaguar F-Pace SVR put through the Lister carwash ✔ And it comes in the signature green and yellow Lister colours ✔ He’d love to see it in the paper and it would be a total surprise


Goodwood Revival 2018 sees Glamcab Girls welcoming classic racing cars to festival - but one Ferrari won't make it

9/8/2018, 2:29:30 PM
THE Goodwood Revival festival started its engines on Friday, but one Ferrari crashed before the racing even began. The classic red Ferrari, believed to be a 355 F1 Berlinetta worth £80k, hit anothe… ✔ The flash motors were competing for the Kinrara Trophy, the first of 16 races slated for the three day event ✔ It is now one of the most well-attended historic motor racing festivals in the world, consisting of primarily of classic car racing and parades


Goodwood Revival classic cars hit the track - but the drivers look underage

9/9/2018, 3:54:46 PM
GOODWOOD Revival festival’s final day saw the action move into fifth gear – but some of the racing drivers looked a little young to be behind the wheel. Scores of kids took to the track before leap… ✔ The annual festival’s third day opened off the back of Mike Whittaker yesterday claiming the 2018 Whitsun Trophy for pre-1966 unlimited sports cars ✔ On sale for an eye-watering £1.3m was a 1964 Shelby Cobra heading up the Bonhams sale ✔ Alongside the Cobra was a UK numberplate reading ‘RR1’, fetching a whopping £460,000


BMW crosses boundaries with X2 M35i | Drive.com.au

9/9/2018, 9:13:18 AM
BMW has blurred the lines between hot hatches and performance SUVs with a new X2 M35i. Pitched as the driver-focused version of its “Sports Activity Coupe”, the BMW X2 M35i joins models such as the X5 M50d and M240i as M Performance models which sit a tier below proper performance variants such as the X5M or M2. ✔ Expect it to arrive locally in late 2019 to early 2020, when Audi will reveal a new SQ2 as its answer to BMW’s latest machine ✔ The successor to BMW's rear-wheel-drive 1-Series hatch and M140i performance machine is likely to take a similar form to the X2 M35i, at least mechanically ✔ Go behind the scenes on Drive at Facebook, Instagram and YouTube


Red Dead Redemption 2 Release Date News: Rockstar reveal amazing new character updates

9/9/2018, 3:01:39 PM
ROCKSTAR's Red Dead Redemption 2 is likely to be one of the biggest games of the year and a new gameplay trailer will drop later today. Here's everything you need to know about the world's next favourite Rockstar game. ✔ The memo mentions Random Events which appear to follow in the footsteps of Grand Theft Auto 5’s Strangers and Freaks ✔ It could also mean that Red Dead Redemption 2 - which will have an online component but probably doesn't lend itself towards the huge money-making potential of GTA Online - could also feature some post-launch story DLC


Experts hunt for missing mourning rings of eccentric philosopher Jeremy Bentham

9/8/2018, 6:15:19 PM
It might be considered the ultimate memento mori to have your body wired and stuffed so you can be wheeled out at parties after death. ✔ UCL also has an unidentified ring and two others are known to be in the possession of the descendants of William Stockwell, one of Bentham’s servants, while a ring bequeathed to the French economist, Jean-Baptiste Say was recently sold at auction by Christie’s


Volvo wants to replace aeroplanes with autonomous cars

9/9/2018, 1:07:27 AM
This is Volvo's new 360c autonomous concept and, as you can see, it's of the 100 per cent autonomous, mobile relaxation chamber ilk. 


These are the 5 best Amazon deals this weekend

9/8/2018, 4:04:01 PM
This weekend, Amazon's got some solid offers on products that are probably on your wishlist, including Apple Airpods, a Dyson handheld vacuum, the cult-favorite TubShroom, Ancestry DNA kits, and everyone's favorite Instant Pot. ✔ Under $150: Apple Airpods Airpods are slim, comfortable, and top-notch ✔ (Sorry if you're reading this after the deal is done!) Get the TubShroom Drain Protector 2-Pack for $19.99 (Save $5) 4 ✔ Our tester was very impressed with not only the strong suction power, but also the long battery life ✔ Get the Dyson V7 Car + Boat Cord-Free Handheld Vacuum for $186.94 (Save $)


Kia reveals fancy Telluride SUV during New York Fashion Week - Roadshow

9/9/2018, 11:06:23 AM
This special preproduction Telluride is kitted out with all kinds of off-roading goodies and it looks great. ✔ It feels like it happens earlier every year! and indeed, it is ✔ Aside from that, the not-fashion parts of the car look great and the whole charity thing is pretty awesome ✔ The Telluride packs a V6 under the hood, though which V6 and whether or not there are any turbos bolted to it, has been left to our imagination


Tesla keeps losing senior leadership — here are some of the key departures this year

9/8/2018, 3:54:50 PM
In total 41 executives have left Tesla in 2018, according to a list compiled by short-seller Jim Chanos — 58 in the last 12 months. ✔ I had a great experience working at Tesla, learned a lot, and look forward to all the great technology coming from Tesla in the future, Keller said in a statement announcing his new role ✔ Matthew Schwall , director of field performance engineering, left Tesla in May ✔ CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report


LendingTree is the secret success story of fintech

9/9/2018, 2:07:05 PM
For all of the excitement centered around fintech over the past half-decade, most venture-backed fintech companies struggle to acclimate to public markets. LendingClub and OnDeck have plummeted since their late 2014 IPOs after several years of darling status in the private markets. GreenSky, which … ✔ However, the ability for LendingTree to lock in customers and accumulate customer data to personalize product recommendations is a breakthrough for both consumers and lenders ✔ It’s a rare pathway, but a productive one that more fintech startups should consider


A year later, Equifax lost your data but faced little fallout

9/8/2018, 2:20:23 PM
A lot can change in a year. Not when you’re Equifax. The credit rating giant, one of the largest in the world, was trusted with some of the most sensitive data used by banks and financiers to determine who can be lent money. But the company failed to patch a web server it knew was […] ✔ The credit rating giant, one of the largest in the world, was trusted with some of the most sensitive data used by banks and financiers to determine who can be lent money ✔ Names, addresses, Social Security numbers and more and millions more driver license and credit card numbers were stolen in the breach ✔ Financially, the company looks almost as healthy as it’s ever been


Tesla's board is terrible at its job — it's shown it has no interest in controlling Elon Musk or sticking up for investors

9/9/2018, 9:40:56 AM
Elon Musk's erratic behavior has hurt Tesla's stock and put him and the company in legal jeopardy. But Tesla's board has done nothing about it. ✔ Tesla CEO Elon Musk has drawn widespread scrutiny for his erratic behavior in recent months, including smoking a marijuana cigarette during a video recorded appearance on a talk show Thursday ✔ And the cave diver is threatening to file a defamation lawsuit against Musk


She made the discovery, but a man got the Nobel. A half-century later, she’s won a $3 million prize.

9/8/2018, 3:02:50 PM
Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars — some of the most exotic objects in the universe — and changed astrophysics. ✔ (Courtesy of Robin Scagell and the Breakthrough Foundation) By Sarah Kaplan and Antonia Noori Farzan September 8 at 8:00 AM Jocelyn Bell Burnell built the telescope, laboring in damp and chilly English weather to install more than 100 miles of cable and copper wire across a wind-swept field near Cambridge ✔ In interviews, journalists would ask Hewish to explain the scientific significance of the discovery, then turn to Bell Burnell for what they euphemistically called the 'human interest,' she recalled wryly


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