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cars videos

TVR Sagaris coming to the US – One kidney (slightly used) for sale

Autoweek is saying that the TVR Sagaris will be imported to the US in 2008. At an estimated $120k I will have to sell a kidney to buy one – will be worth it though.

Those of you who haven’t heard of TVR or the Sagaris should check out the Top Gear review

<--Click on the icon to watch with a friend. And as a bonus check out the following video made by Racing Green TVR who is the main TVR dealer in the UK. I wish more ads were like this.

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review technology

Nokia N95 review

I’ve been playing with the Nokia N95 for the last few days and have posted a review on the YRB blog. The basic gist is that its a fantastic device with crappy battery life – click through to read more.

For the Nokia fanboys I have pictures from my unboxing below

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cooking personal

Recipe Exchange

Nithya and I just hosted a very delicious event – the very first YRB Recipe Exchange. The idea for the exchange came from our February trip to Tahoe when we found that a good number of the people at the lab are foodies. Since we all cook very different kinds of food, we decided to have a recipe exchange where we would be able to not only eat various dishes but also learn how they were prepared.

For this event we had Ryan, Yuki, Ayman, Carrie, Nithya and myself meeting in the afternoon to cook a wide variety of dishes (mostly) from scratch before Jeannie joined us for the consumption part of the evening.… Read the rest

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cars videos

How NOT to make a sports car commercial

The Audi R8 is a mid-engined supercar named after a 5 time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. You’d think that it would pretty easy to made a stirring advertisement for a car like that, what you do get is the most soul-less sports car advert I have ever seen in my life. You hear the cars engine for precisely two seconds and see a few shots of the car on a road. There is a long voice-over listing the past technical achievements of Audi and there is no mention made of the performance of the car itself.… Read the rest

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cars motorsport videos

The greatest advertisement EVER!!!!

Shell has just released ‘The Circuit’, a new advertisement to celebrate 60 years of its partnership with Ferrari. It features several historic Ferrari F1 cars driving through the streets of cities like New York, Monaco, Rio de Janerio. The ad took over a month to film and at a reported $2 million it is the most expensive commercial ever made.

Just sit back and enjoy hearing some of the most glorious sounding engines ever made.


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