Back in 2006, UK art student Lauren Porter knitted her very own Ferrari Testarossa. It took her ten months and 12 miles of yarn, but she did it. If only she would have knitted the entire 4.9 flat-12 motor, I’d have to seek her out and make her my wife.

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When the year 2000 went by without any laser guns of transporters or flying cars, I was a bit dissapointed to say the least. I mean, could TV and movies have actually lied to me about the future? Apparently not, they were just a few years off.

Moller International, the company known for always trying to make flying cars but never really making them, is at it again. This time they were contacted by a wealthy Russian businessman and asked to make a flying car out of a Ferrari 599 GTB, which is the obvious place to start. It’s called the Autovolanter and judging from the circular vents all over the place, it’s meant to be capable of vertical take offs and landings.

A heavy downpour caused a treacherous track out at Monza today. Still, it was one of the most sensational qualifying sessions I’ve seen in a long time. The 21 year-old Sebastian Vettel won pole position for the first time in his career for tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix, making him the youngest Formula 1 driver to win pole, ever. His winning time was 1 minute 37.555 seconds.

When his race engineers told Vettel that he’d secured pole position, he started cheering ‘grazie, grazie,’ to thank his Italian team. Later, at the press conference, he said “I never would have dreamt that I could be on the pole. This is our home race and even though we are not as big as Ferrari, I think people will now know about us.” He was speaking of his relatively small race team, Scuderia Toro Rosso, which is 50% owned by Red Bull.

Every other website that posts this Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano picture has the inevitable “Those Saudi freaks and their money…they’re douchebags and they lack class”.

Whatever. This car is freaking awesome and you know it. Look how shiny it is. I mean… it’s so shiny.

What’s the deal, you ask? Is that a chrome finish on there. No, the 599GTB has an all aluminum body, and if you sandblast off all the paint, and spend thousands of hours polishing aluminum, you get a badass mirror finish. Say what you will, I respect the effort.

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Felipe Massa

Lewis Hamilton set the pace this past weekend at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and seemed destined to walk away with the Belgian Grand Prix win. It was not to be though.

The real strangeness happened after the race was over. Race stewards watched the replay over and over again, trying to determine if Hamilton gained an unfair advantage when he tried to overtake Kimi Räikkönen even though he didn’t have the line. It turns out he did, he apparently took a short cut inside the corner while off the track (aka “straightlined the chicane”). The stewards gave him a 25 second penalty for that, which moved Massa up to the top spot and put Hamilton behind Heidfeld, but still ahead of Alonso. I always hate when any type of competition comes down to a technical decision.

After committing a spelling error during my daily google image search for “erotic spanking from cop”, I happened upon a Lamborghini Gallardo police interceptor, an “exotic cop” car custom-fitted for the Italian Polizia that “spanked” the Holden Commodore on the test track. My interest sufficiently piqued, I went on in search of other bigger, badder cruisers and was surprised to find that the police around the globe are riding surprisingly phat these days.

1. Lamborghini Gallardo, Italy

A study commissioned by the ultra-exclusive British insurer Hiscox proves beyond all doubt that supercars turn women on, and econo-cars just don’t.

David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and a Volkswagen Polo then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva (a measure of arousal). He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff, especially women, after hearing the first three revving supercars. As for the VW Polo? Everyone had less testosterone after listening to it.

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Massa in his Ferrari

Last Sunday at the new Valencia street circuit in Spain, with over 115,000 spectators packed into the grandstands in sight of the Mediterranean harbor, Felipe Massa won the European Grand Prix, just ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Massa started in pole position and drove a near perfect race the entire time after that.

The 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC Atalante Coupe that sold for a record $7.92 million

Financial tough times? Hogwash!
Gooding & Company, the official auction house of the 58th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, brought in a total of $64.2 million during it’s two-night auction of ultra-rare collectible cars on August 16 and 17.

One lucky bidder paid a record setting $7.92 million dollars for a 1937 Bugatti Type 37SC Atalante Coupe. That’s the highest price ever paid for an automobile in the United States. The $64.2 million take broke even last year’s huge tally of $60 million. Twenty cars sold for more than $1 million and five cars sold for more than $2 million.

Audi R10

As a follow up to my recent article about last week’s Generac 500 race at Road America in Wisconsin; Audi and their supremely powerful turbo diesel R10’s finished with the overall first and second place finish in the LMP1 class.  It was the second consecutive time in the American LeMans Series that Audi has come in with the top two spots.