World's oldest running car for sale
World's oldest running car for sale, The world's oldest working car is set to go under the hammer - and it is expected to fetch up to £1 million.

The four-wheeled car, called La Marquise, was built in 1884 for the Count De Dion, one of the founders of the automobile manufacturers De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux. It has only had two other owners since, according to Gooding & Company, the auction house selling it.

The four-seater, fuelled by coal, wood and paper, takes about half an hour to work up enough steam to go. In an 1887 race, La Marquise hit an average speed of 26 miles per hour on a 19-mile course. The following year it won the world's first motor race, beating out its three-wheeled competition, another De Dion-Bouton.

Racing on the Streets of Moscow Ended with the Accident
In Moscow, Nissan GT driver-R wanted to show him what a car ...Could not have happened a tough accident.Nissan GT driver-R was very lucky that his car was so strong that it is not fragmented.

Car travel Royal Guests
It has been repeatedly fingered the cars of presidents and prime from around the world. Today we look at any car ride royal person.

MotoExpro 2011 in London
LJ user mgor wrote in his blog: This year's Motorexpo in London exhibited little old Jaguars, some of them could buy quite a decent price on. In general, choose.

Prime Yalta Rally 2011
June 2 at Yalta started the 4 th World Cup in classic IRC rally - the Cup of the President of Ukraine 
Prime Yalta Rally 2011. Conducting Yalta Rally traces its history since Soviet times, but the first time this year the competition displayed on a world level as a stage of the international series.
Yalta highway has no analogues in CIS countries, nor in Europe and is known as one of the most complex and interesting in the Old World.

Amazing Golf Mobiles
Settlement called The Villages in Florida is 90 miles from the road to the golf mobiles. Past as freely and ride around the streets of the town. They say that the first driver golf mobiles become old, who failed to pass the test to drive. Now the popularity of golf mobiles in the U.S. skyrocketed. Let's look at the most unusual cars.

Auto Show in Washington
From 28 January to 6 February 2011 at the Washington Convention Centre is autoshow «Washington Auto Show 2011, where car makers have the opportunity to present their new projects to the public.

Now that the global automotive industry has found its footing again, manufacturers from around the world chose the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show to strike a bold note and display the kind of machines that buyers not only covet, but dream about. In a far cry from the mostly barren wasteland of last year's show, this year's contenders are almost all real-world, production-ready models that deliver excitement with their restyled sheet metal, chopped tops, boosted engines or new powertrains. Here are the biggest stars on display, and our picks for best in show.

Welcome to the greatest car exhibition on Earth: the Specialty Equipment Market Association Show in Las Vegas. Every year, aftermarket suppliers, tuners, hot-rod builders and even mainstream carmakers wrench tirelessly in the months prior to this Sin City mainstay to craft the most imaginative machines their minds can conceive. While innovation has its place, sometimes these automotive artisans can venture into the extreme zone. Here are our picks for the most outrageous machines on display at the 2010 SEMA Show.


The word chic was coined in Paris, so it's no great surprise that the biennial Paris Motor Show is filled with stylish and elegant machines. Among the most fashionably dressed sheet metal are the concepts, cars built to demonstrate an automaker's creative vision and technical prowess and to test it, in a public way, without taking a huge financial gamble on a full production car. Here, we've selected 10 concepts on display in the City of Light that we think represent the best of the breed.


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