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- ZWAPP! Original 1966 Batmobile Sells for $4.62 Million at Barrett-Jackson [w/Video]
- Rolls-Royce Ghost Becomes a Million Dollar Bathtub in Indonesia
- BMW Debuts New Two-Man Carbon-Fiber Bobsled Prototype for Team USA
| ZWAPP! Original 1966 Batmobile Sells for $4.62 Million at Barrett-Jackson [w/Video] Posted: 19 Jan 2013 08:38 PM PST  With its creator and owner George Barris making a specail appearance on stage to boost its appeal, the original 1966 Batmobile went on sale for the very first time at Saturday's Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. After a heated bidding war, the Batmobile sold for $4.2 million (about €3.15 million or £2.6 million at the current exchange rates), plus another $420,000 in fees, which brings the tally to $4.62 million (€3.47 million or £2.9 million), to car collector Rick Champagne from Arizona. Read more »       |
| Rolls-Royce Ghost Becomes a Million Dollar Bathtub in Indonesia Posted: 19 Jan 2013 11:28 AM PST  Once again, the Indonesian capital of Jakarta has been savaged by heavy floods reeling from torrential rain, which media reports said have left at least a dozen people dead and nearly 20,000 homeless. Over the past few days, many roads inside and around the city were flooded stranding hundreds if not thousands of motorists. In one incident, a Rolls-Royce Ghost saloon, said to cost around 10 billion IDR or over 1 million USD in Indonesia, was photographed outside the Bundaran Hotel partially submerged. Read more »   |
| BMW Debuts New Two-Man Carbon-Fiber Bobsled Prototype for Team USA Posted: 19 Jan 2013 07:11 AM PST  After more than a yearlong development process, BMW of North America presented a new prototype of its two-man bobsled for the official U.S. team. Designed in collaboration with the USA Bobsled & Skeleton Federation (USBSF), the high-tech bobsled will be used for the first time today at the FIBT World Cup in Igls, Austria. Read more »   |
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