Good oil: Big rollers line up

50 Cent

Hollywood's big names are queuing up to buy the new $1 million Rolls-Royce convertible. It hasn't gone into production yet but already there is a two-year waiting list. Rapper 50 Centis apparently thinking of chopping the top off his new Rolls-Royce Phantom sedan because he doesn't want to wait for the official version. Talkshow host Jay Leno, a self-confessed car nut, has been given a preview drive. He is understood to be the only person outside Rolls-Royce owner BMW to test-drive it.

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Cars entering parking lots at Korean Government offices in Seoul have to abide by a "vehicle-day-system" designed to ease traffic congestion. It stipulates that if the last number of a licence plate is 1 or 6, the car is restricted from parking on Mondays. Tuesday's numbers are 2 or 7; Wednesday's 3 or 8; Thursday's 4 or 9; and Friday's 5 or 0.

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The US Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a man charged with road rage. David York was charged with criminal threatening and reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon. York, who bumped a car and threatened a motorist, was jailed for 15 months.

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California company RM Auction will put one of the world's most sought-after Ferraris - an F40 prototype built in 1987 - up for grabs in August. The F40 came about when Enzo Ferrari wanted to reinvigorate Ferrari's reputation with a car as close as possible to its racing machines. The prototype weighs about 180kg less than the street-legal F40 and has a 450kW (600bhp) version of the 350kW (470bhp) engine that eventually went into production. Top speed is around 370km/h (230mph).

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Nine people die on Britain's road each day, but car drivers feel safer behind the wheel than they do travelling on other modes of transport, research shows. In a British study, drivers said they felt safer driving than as passengers on trains, planes or ferries - despite being aware these journeys were much less likely to end in disaster than one in a car. Most respondents ranked being a passenger in a car as one of the modes of transport that made them feel least safe.

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A court in Hawaii has ruled that a woman who prefers wearing her seatbelt strap under the arm rather than over the shoulder isn't breaking the law. The court dismissed a traffic ticket issued to Denise Ribbel because the law requires a driver to be "restrained" by the seat belt, not "properly restrained".