Michael Schumacher, the SLS AMG and the China Bar tunnel experiment

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Michael Schumacher drives the Mercedes SLS AMG through the China Bar Tunnel in Boston Bar, British Columbia. A Mercedes Benz tv spot for the new Mercedes SLS designed to suggest that the car has enough power and grip and answer the age old question, “is it possible to roll a car in a tunnel”.

The long version of the ad is below, the tunnel entrance appears at 1 min 58 sec.

Michael Schumacher, the SLS AMG and the China Bar tunnel experiment

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Michael Schumacher drives the Mercedes SLS AMG through the China Bar Tunnel in Boston Bar, British Columbia. A Mercedes Benz tv spot for the new Mercedes SLS designed to suggest that the car has enough power and grip and answer the age old question, “is it possible to roll a car in a tunnel”. The [...]

Standing On A Corner In Winslow Arizona

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What an unfortunate day of construction for the Google car to go through this poor old town of 9,900 people. A population that has stayed the same since the heady days of old Route 66 when the train station, airport, and local businesses were buzzing with activity and business. Now, Winslow is a town decimated, [...]

Last stop for German cars

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If you’ve ordered a car from Germany and it hasn’t yet arrived, then get you VIN ready and a microscope, this might take a while. This is the major shipping port for German cars to the US and the rest of the world. Mostly filled with BMW, but if you look closely you can see [...]

Tiger Woods buys Albany House in the Bahamas

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Tiger Woods and Ernie Els team up with the Tavistock Group and buys this home in the Bahamas with the goal of building a luxury community built around a golf course, of course…

Largo’s Palmyra Estate in Ian Fleming’s Thunderball

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This home is owned by Largo in the 1961 Thunderball movie, the second movie in the series, although slated to be first, it couldn’t escape scheduling complications. Facing certain death, James Bond has to deal with sharks in the pool on the left side of the house, only to escape what has become a series [...]

Jackie Robinson tribute at his 1940′s home in Montreal

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In honor of the legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson, both US and Canadian delegates gathered at a small home in Montreal at 8232 Avenue de Gaspe to pay tribute to the man who helped not only with the civil rights movement in the United States, but help pave the way for equality for African American [...]

Donelson View Baptist makes forecast

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Gorgeous mansion outside Philadelphia slowly dies

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The ominous quality of the Google street view image almost sums it up, this building is dying, picked over by liquidators and auction houses for years as the owners try to recoup some of the their investment in this one hundred year old money pit. Lynnewood Hall, a once proud residence to the wealthy Widener [...]

Conrad Black returns to former home in Florida

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The infamous Conrad Black, Canadian newspaper tycoon and Chief of Hollinger International, charged and subsequently imprisoned for fraud in March 2008, has today been released from Coleman Low Security Federal Prison in Coleman, Florida and returned to his former mansion on the Florida coastline after his friend Roger Hertog, chair of the New York Historical [...]

Top Gear finds the epicenter of Southern Hospitality in Alabama

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In the famous Top Gear episode in which they had to purchase cars for $1,000 and drive them from Miami to Alabama, they were given a challenge to see which team member could write in paint the most incendiary of slogans on another team member’s car to provoke a response from the locals. The collection [...]