Far from knocking the...
Far from knocking the wind out of his sails, the rookie bounced back to come within a whisker of snatching pole position less than 48 hours later. He then took his fourth consecutive second place in the race. “I made a tiny mistake,” he said. “The back of the car slipped a little, and that was it. There is no room for error in Monaco.”
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A chance meeting with ex-McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray in Geneva has thrown-up some intriguing revelations. The much-anticipated two-seater T25 city car ò€“ his self-titled design companyò€™s first offering ò€“ is finished and ready for production!
Acura, Audi, Honda and Volkswagen will integrate iPods with their car stereos for 2006 model lines. There are now 15 car companies around the world offering iPod integration, and more than five million cars will ship with iPod support in the US in 2006.
A development of the Stinger currently used by police and the barbed X-Net laid across military checkpoints, the super-strong lasso goes a step further. It has a belt-style loop made of bullet-proof Kevlar and studded with barbed spikes. They bite into the stolen car’s tyres, deflating them and pulling the loop around the axle. The lasso’s extra-tough synthetic rope unwinds from a pulley that can either be anchored to a concrete block or bolted on to a special HGV-rated tow truck. As the rope unwinds, a hydraulic valve slows it down and brings the car to a stop. 
A famous Brit is back from the dead! Auto Express can exclusively reveal that the MG TF LE500 ò€“ a special-edition run of 500 for the UK ò€“ will cost Ò£16,399 each. And that undercuts the equivalent previous-generation TF by nearly Ò£700 ò€“ but itò€™s still more expensive than a basic Mazda MX-5 by the same margin.