If you wake up day after day only to find your bank balance replenished by a few million dollars, chances are at some point, you won’t know what to do with it. Take this Porsche 911 owner for example. He couldn’t find ways to get rid of the fast-accumulating green paper and did this to himself.- A 40- pound pure gold covered Porsche 911.

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Who told you that India is solely a small-car market? Audi, the German manufacturer with a difference, is not planning to stop with its sedans and SUVs in India. With already seven dealerships setup in the Nano-country, Audi has plans to expand that network further.

Within a few months, those dealerships, among the A8, Q7 SUV and other models will sell the R8 supercar. Sister company Lamborghini has also been operating successfully in India for sometime now, and Ferrari too, has announced its interest in trading in the country.

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Last week, we brought you news about the Chinese counterpart of the BMW X5 and how the German court banned the maker from selling it in Germany. For those who thought the escapade was over, wait till you hear this.

A German court in Munich has slotted into top gear and ordered Shuanghuan to destroy all their SUVs plying German roads. Making matters worse is the court’s notice to importers, China Automobile, to pay compensatory damages to BMW.

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LusoMotors, famous for the design of the modern-day Ferrari Dino, is now presenting the mid-engined LM23, a model of which design is inspired from the Lotus 23b. But the new LM 23 means more track racing than looks. The new reshaped model features a space frame chassis made of steel tubing, with double skin aluminum alloy sheets and the outerskin is made of fiberglass and carbon fiber elements.

Those who wish to buy the car can choose from a variety of car or motorcycle engines all of which deliver power to the rear wheels. The company’s engineers are currently trying a 150hp 1.0l unit from a Honda CBR1000 with a 6 speed sequential gearbox. They could fit also a turbocharged Subaru boxer engine to the new LM23. With a special body kit, the standard 4WD setup is converted into a 2WD gearbox delivering power to the rear wheels. The price for a complete kit excluded the engine starts from from €15,000 (11,500 GBP or $23,600).

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A Dino will never happen, but how about a Ferrari flat-six engine? According to AutoTelegraaf that block in on the agenda. According to Roberto Fedeli, a company spokesman, a V6 Turbo engine in a part of plans. The new engine will meet the future environmental requirements but will keep the current Ferrari’s performance.

“A turbo engine is one of the developments of the “Research & Design” department,” he said. “It will be smaller in size and capacity than the current V8 and V12 engines.”

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As we are used to, Project Kahn unveiled another masterpiece based on the Bentley Continental GT, called the GTS ”Black Edition”. The car features a re-designed front bumper, new side sills and a rear boot spoiler. At the interior the vehicle features a leather upgrade, gloss piano fascia panels and a steering wheels featuring the same gloss piano finish or, at customer’s choice, a carbon fiber finish.

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After the official images and informations about the 2009 7-Series, BMW released the first official video of the luxury sedan.

The new BMW 7 Series is entering the market with a V8 and a straight-six gasoline engine both featuring Twin Turbo technology and direct fuel injection (High Precision Injection) as well as the first representative of a new generation of six-cylinder diesel engines.

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MG announced prices for the TF LE500: 16,399 pounds (20,700 euros). Sales will begin in September. The price of the two-seater sports car will include a body-colored hardtop, air conditioning and parking sensors.

MG will also introduce an entry-level TF that will substantially undercut the Mazda’s price.

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AutoBild caught the future Maserati GT-C (Gran Turismo Convertible) testing in Germany. Powered by a V8 engine the future GT-C will join the Gran Turismo line-up starting 2009 (next to the GT and the GT S).

Built on the same platform as the Gran Turismo Coupe, it will be a folding soft top convertible, and not a hardtop one as some rumors suggested.

Under the hood there will be the same 4,2 liter V8 engine as in the coupe version that will deliver 405 hp at 7,100 rpm and a maximum torque of 460 Nm at 4,750 rpm.

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According to some German researchers, the answer is red.

No, seriously, I’m not making this up.

OK, that’s a pretty small sample size, but still, just for the sake of discussion, there’s some pretty weird psychoacoustics going on here if the results were to hold in an expanded experiment.

Also, I wonder if this study could be used in a court of law to mitigate against specific kinds of fix-it tickets?

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