in annother news they had shown a computer-animated picture-stream and a photo of this "ramp". it was indeed a small sand-heap, not higher than 2 meters. and it was 30 meters away from the church. but it was enough.

Must suck to be him

http://www.koreus.com/video/place-parking-ceinture-securite.html
(video contains a Volvo)

That parking video was pretty funny! Was not expecting that!

Here is a nice video with old Rally photage, I guess we will never see something like Group B again

http://www.garaget.org/video/fqjappr02tid

I wish we had sandy desert terrain to 4x4 in, like they have in UAE / Dubai. Looks like fun, all we have in North Carolina is mud (and lots of it) I’d love to go desert running, get dehydrated and pass out, all that fun stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oMLiADaNNM

Since the group b is dead, i have never watched motorsport on tv again, no kidding. the whole formula 1-hype is not interesting for me, not a little bit.

sorry neptune, but except the scene a 2:30 this was no desert-off-road-drive at all. it was just gently strolling around on sandy ground.


So it was more off-road, when I stuck in the mud of the farmer's acre, when we bought our christmas-tree:
http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?file=11.010htP3gPWsoi0iyR.JPG

And really something different was our trip across namibia with such a car: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_63284-Nissan-Frontier-D22-2001.html, especially the last 5 kilometers of that trip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sossusvlei

yes, i know, the ford expedition is something holy for you, but you will agree, that its not a real 4x4-offroad-car, rather a lifestyle-suv.
the bmw x5 and the audi q7 arent offroad-cars either, not to use on real rough ground.

I'm sure the majority of you have already seen this (at least the American members) but I felt it was the best Super Bowl commercial this year

http://www.hulu.com/superbowl/55643/super-bowl-xliii-ads-audi-chase#s-p12-sr-i0

(and in case you don't catch on, it goes from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today)

That Audi commercial is pretty sweet. I didn't watch the Super Bowl so I missed out on all of them.

Can't watch it outside of the US missed out on superbowl (time difference) unfortunatley, Benny Graham lost he was my favourite AFL (Aussie football) player. apparently the Dorritos comerical was good.
is this the one? http://www.superbowl-commercials.org/251.html

Yes, but you want the 60 second version. The 30 second version cuts out some funny bits.

On board camera of an italian fire truck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boWtPLXMaGo

see the stupid guy with the BMW E46 at 0:54

This remind me something funny: an ambulance arriving few cars behind me.
Most of the people try to go on the side, to let the ambulance pass (but it was not easy for it since the other cars are still a little in its way), instead of clear the way.
I continued to drive normally as the ambulance was not so close, respecting speed limits... and I lost* the ambulance which was going slower than me in roundabouts

(*)not sure of the word, i.e. when you go faster than your opponent in a chase

The word you're looking for is "outran".

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61b_1234056366

Long chase between Russian police and a BMW, the police try to shoot at the car to stop it.

Nice crash.

Idiot with a BMW...:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRFXSnUR1Zg

(not posted already I hope)

Idiot with a BMW, never heard of that before (I don't mean the video)