Ferrari 458 Speciale.
It's not that easy to secure yourself a Ferrari 458 Speciale.
Desperately desire to own a Ferrari 458 Speciale? So do a lot of others, apparently.
And Ferrari knows it, too, because it would appear they are "encouraging" customers who have already plonked down a deposit to select a number of (very, very expensive) options in order to ensure their place on the waiting list.
According to UK luxury car finance specialist Magnitude Finance a number of prospective buyers have been informed that their $40,000 deposit only puts them on a list of "possible clients" in complete disregard of what most reasonable people would understand the term "deposit" to actually mean ...
Magnitude Finance director Tim Marlow said: "One client ordered the car many months ago but he was subsequently advised to increase the options he selected to guarantee delivery simply because others are prepared to pay over the odds to get one new."
And it's not like we are talking about floor mats or chrome exhaust tips here either - the brilliant NART stripes that every Speciale should have cost a cool US$11,000 ($14,000), while getting the carbon-fibre engine cover, rear diffuser and outer sill covers will sting you US$27,400 for all of them.
However, according to US website Autoblog, a spokesperson for Ferrari USA told them that, "As with any Ferrari, customisation is offered as a service to make each car unique. However, there are no requirements in order to secure an order."
Which is not really the same as saying "no, we aren't doing that" ...
• Usually the worst thing that happens when a teenager goes for their licence is that they fail. But 19-year old Damontay Wright from Arkansas managed to top that by being arrested. Wright was stopped by police when they noticed he was driving by himself on the way to take his test. As the officer was writing him a ticket for driving without a licence, Wright decided to flee, hitting a police car in the process and eventually losing control and crashing into a house. He was arrested on a number of charges and jailed. Oh, and the police then discovered that the number plates on his car were reported stolen ...
• The funeral of an Australian man was interrupted when a man with dementia stole the hearse that contained the body. Funeral directors were preparing for the funeral of Seth Richardson, and had just gone to get the trolley to move the coffin from the hearse to the funeral home, when a man leapt from the bushes and drove off in the hearse. The suspect was quickly tracked down and turned out to be a 49-year-old man suffering from dementia who had wandered away from a nearby nursing home. Richardson's sister-in-law noted that he had a "wicked sense of humour" and "would have thought this was so funny".
Henry Ford's great-grandson Bill Ford with a 2015 Mustang on the 112th floor of the Burj Khalifa.
Back in 1965, shortly after it was first launched, a Ford Mustang convertible went on display at the top of the world's tallest building, which at the time was the Empire State Building. So how to repeat the publicity stunt with the latest Mustang convertible?
Unfortunately the iconic New York skyscraper long ago lost the title of "world's tallest building". Of course, that just gives a company with a good eye for publicity - which Ford is - an excuse to do it again.
This time, to celebrate the inauguration of its new "business unit" in the Middle East and Africa (which covers a staggering 67 markets in North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa and the Middle East) the company put a 2015 Mustang convertible on the current tallest building - the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
The yellow droptop was hauled to the 112th floor of the 830-metre building - still some way from the top floor in the 163-storey building - and the finishing touch of the famous pony badge was delivered by the executive chairman, Henry Ford's great-grandson Bill Ford.
The promotional Kia Sorento vehicle looks sharp - in more ways than one.
Because the DVD, Blu-ray and Digital HD release of a movie makes almost more for studios than the theatrical release these days, the curse of the promotional car is spreading there, too, now ...
Kia has unveiled a special X-Men edition of the Sorento (lots of seats for your mutant superhero team) in order to promote the home media release of X-Men: Days of Future Past. The special Sorento will be on display at the Australian Open - which Kia also sponsors - and will be accompanied by a video of tennis star Rafael Nadal teaming up with the X-Men to, um, ride in the Sorento in order to take on some Sentinels (the bad guys from the movie).
Kia isn't saying which X-man the Sorento has taken its design from, despite it being blatantly obvious. Vote on its Facebook page. You don't really need The Good Oil to tell you, do you?
Land Rover's Wildcat Defender has a powerful V8 engine underneath the bonnet.
Have you ever thought "gosh, I really would love a Land Rover Defender, but it really needs a massively powerful V8 engine to make it an utterly terrifying deathtrap"?
Of course you haven't, because nobody is that disturbed.
But now a company in the UK has done just that. And for some reason is selling them to the general public, without requiring any psychiatric evaluations of the people who would want to buy them, or anything!
It all springs from the legendary Bowler Wildcat - the insane off-roader that looked vaguely like a Land Rover, but was actually a tube-framed racer with a big V8 jammed in it. Well, it is no longer made by Bowler Motorsport, but by a company called Wildcat Automotive that is now also responsible for the insane Defenders.
The Wildcat Defender LS3 V8 110 XS SW (yep, all of that is its name) packs a General Motors 6.2-litre LS3 petrol V8 that pumps out 320kW of power and 540Nm of torque and is hooked up to a six-speed transmission.
Apparently if you are particularly insane, all you need to do is throw large sums of money at Wildcat and they will pump that power output up past 410kW for you.
To fool potential passengers into thinking you are merely slightly odd (for owning a Defender), rather than utterly deranged (for owning a ridiculously powerful Defender) Wildcat reprograms the Defender's vehicle management system so that the existing instruments and controls work with the new engine and transmission. However, the full leather racing seats front and rear may well tip them off, as will the fact that you will probably be arguing out loud with the voices in your head by now anyway.
328 METRES
The height of the Auckland Sky Tower.
433 METRES
The height of the 103-storey Empire State Building.
823METRES
The height of the 163-storey Burj Khalifa.
520,000 METRES
Height if you stacked the 400,000 Mustangs Ford sold in first year of production
A petition for police body cameras has gained nearly 15,000 signatures.