| Tesla to raise $250m for electric cars
Tesla Motors, which this month launched a battery-powered roadster based on the Lotus Elise, plans to raise $250m in equity and debt to fund a push into production of electric sedans. The California-based niche carmaker plans to build an electric four-door, five-passenger luxury sports sedan, comparable to a midrange BMW or Mercedes, that will sell for about half the price of the roadster, which retails in the US for $98,000. .
Jonny is Jenkins' top 10
Neil Jenkins is backing Jonny Wilkinson to go on and beat his kicking record during this season's RBS Six Nations tournament. The Newcastle Falcons fly-half is closing in on the Welshman's landmark figure of 1090 points for his country and the British Lions. Despite England coach Brian Ashton insisting Wilkinson is no longer 'untouchable,' with Waps' Danny Cipriani and Sale's Charlie Hodgson waiting in the wings, Jenkins expects Wilkinson to get the nod for England's championship opener against Wales at Twickenham on Saturday. The 28-year-old superstar needs just 62 points to rewrite Test rugby history and Welsh kicking coach Jenkins fully expects his record to be beaten. Best "The guy is outstanding," Jenkins said.
Pick up a six pack for a sizzling summer
Call it vanity, but having a strong, flat stomach really isnt enough. If youre sick of attractive women swooning about Brad Pitts abs in Fight Club, its crunch time. Start with improving your mid-body strength with a variety of exercises. The best exercises for the abdominals will focus on all of your lower middle muscles, including: the lower back muscles, the lower side spinal muscles, and the both the middle abdominals and the obliques. Crunches, bent-knee sit-ups, trunk twists, back raises and side bends are the easiest and safest exercises. Start off with a small amount of reps and do as many sets as you can. Gradually add more sit-ups to each set. Start with say, 20 crunches, rest, then do 20 more, rest and do another 20. Work your way up to 50 crunches in each set and build up to doing at least three sets.
Power Outages, Wildfires Left in Gusts' Wake
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Porsche unveils SUV after exiting Detroit
Porsche unveils SUV after exiting Detroit Cayenne GTS, Windy City event both touted as performing best-in-class. Eric Morath / The Detroit News CHICAGO -- Porsche AG showed its 2008 Cayenne GTS SUV for the first time in North America at the Chicago Auto Show on Thursday, just a couple weeks after the German automaker was a no-show in Detroit. In unveiling the latest Cayenne model, Porsche described the GTS as the best-performing on-road SUV in the market. While the new version gives up some of the standard Cayenne's off-road capabilities, a 405-horsepower V-8 engine and lower-riding sport suspension make the SUV nearly track worthy, officials said. But the unveiling seemed to be as much about Chicago as the Cayenne. Company officials talked about how Chicago is a strong market for the automaker.
Mickey Kaus
Is the Bush administration's Kabuki appease-the-right pre-semi-amnesty show of force on the border already ending? The National Guard's border deployment has been a success, according to the administration and the Border Patrol, which say the number of people trying to enter the U.S. illegally has fallen dramatically. [North County Times] The administraiton's natural reaction to the success of this deployment is, of course, to ... reduce the deployment! 'It was working, so we stopped it!'... There are several possible explanations for this seemingly perverse, risky move: 1) The guardsmen are needed in Iraq and Afghanistan; 2) The Bushies cynically think conservatives won't notice and will stay appeased while Congress passes "comprehensive" reform; 3) The Bushies think they don't need conservatives to pass "comprehensive" reform; 4) The Bushies have given up on "comprehensive" reform; 5) It was working, so they stopped it.
WASH all this then? A sizzling vid of hotel heirhead Paris Hilton ...
The 26-year-old man-eater straddles a Bentley, soaps herself into a lather and saucily sucks at her fingers in the ad for burger chain Carl's Jr. Watch Paris Hilton get wet and wild on video Carl's Jr bosses made the most of Paris' assets by making her clamber all over a car, stripped to just a skimpy swimsuit. Paris eventually remembers what she's advertising and crawls alongside the black motor to bite into the spicy BBQ burger. TV bosses in America have banned the ad - deeming it to hot. But just like some of her previous film work the scenes have hit the internet and we've got our hands on the saucy clip. .
Virtual Pit Reporter: Team updates before California
I think part of that is having Juan (Montoya) as a teammate last year has helped him step up. I think bringing Dario (Franchitti) on has helped him step up. He's stepping up. He's doing what we've asked him and what we want him to do. He's doing exactly what we want him to do. We couldn't be happier."
Go back to the top 6. Elliott Sadler, No. 19 Dodge, Gillett Evernham Motorsports This week: Sadler won the 2004 Labor Day weekend race at Fontana for Robert Yates Racing in a Ford. Sadler has two top-10 finishes in 13 starts there. "It is always nice to return to someplace where you've won before, but we're going back this year with a whole new deal," Sadler said. "We have a brand new type car that we've never raced there. We've only had the one test session with this new car on this type of track.
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