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Vintage Prosches the latest 'blue chip' investment

Edit Canberra Times 26 Dec 2015
Earlier this month in London, Bonhams sold a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL for $US1.34 million. The sum was about this year's average for the iconic coupe, which amassed considerable value since similar models started going for $3- and $4 million back in 2012 ... So the real question is, what's next? ... (No ... And auction houses offered 27 more Porsches this year at the Monterey auctions than they did last year, especially 930s and 911 SC models ... ....

Vintage Porsches the latest 'blue chip' investment

Edit Canberra Times 26 Dec 2015
Earlier this month in London, Bonhams sold a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL for $US1.34 million. The sum was about this year's average for the iconic coupe, which amassed considerable value since similar models started going for $3- and $4 million back in 2012 ... So the real question is, what's next? ... (No ... And auction houses offered 27 more Porsches this year at the Monterey auctions than they did last year, especially 930s and 911 SC models ... ....

Vintage Porsches Are Rising as the Next Blue Chip Classic Cars

Edit Yahoo Daily News 24 Dec 2015
Earlier this month in London, Bonhams sold a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL for $1.34 million. The sum was about this year’s average for the iconic coupe, which amassed considerable value since similar models started going for $3- and $4 million back in 2012 ... And auction houses offered 27 more Porsches this year at the Monterey auctions than they did last year, especially 930s and 911 SC models ... More from Bloomberg.com....

Cars From the 1980s Are the Most Active on the Auction Market

Edit Bloomberg 03 Sep 2015
The reign of blue-chip Ferraris on the auction block could be over. . Or will decline, at least, in the next few years. That’s according to research by Hagerty Insurance in Traverse City, Mich ... Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton, here at 16, with her Chevrolet Corvette in 1984. Photographer. Joe McNally/Getty Images ... Auction houses offered 27 more of them this year in Monterey than they did last year, especially 930s and 911 SCs ...   ... ....

FP3 - Hamilton to the fore in Belgium (Formula One World Championship Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Aug 2015
(Source. Formula One World Championship Limited) Latest / Headline. 22 Aug 2015 After seeing his team mate lead the way on Friday, it was Lewis Hamilton's turn to top the times for Mercedes in Saturday morning's final practice at Spa-Francorchamps ... It was Red Bull who led the switch onto the faster, soft tyres, and Ricciardo and Kvyat duly hit the front, posting 1m 49.930s and 1m 49.980s respectively ... Neither went quicker ... distributed by....

Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber cars line up second, third in Le Mans 24 Hours grid

Edit Stuff 12 Jun 2015
The cars driven by Kiwi racers Brendon Hartley and Early Bamber in the Le Mans 24 Hours race will start off the grid in second and third respectively after Porsche teams swept to the front of the field in qualifying ... Australian Mark Webber, in the number 17 car, was second fastest while Force India F1 driver Nico Hulkenberg will line up third in the number 19 ... 10 Imperatori/Kraihamer/Abt (Rebellion-AER) 3m 28.930s Ad Feedback ... ....

Audi ready for the 24 Hours of Le Mans (Audi AG)

Edit noodls 12 Jun 2015
(Source. Audi AG) Microsoft Word - 04_Le_Mans_Qualifying_2_GB.docx. Communications Motorsport. Eva-Maria Veith. Tel. +49 173 9393522. E-mail. eva-maria.veith@audi.de www.audi-mediacenter.com. Audi ready for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. • All three Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars on 2nd and 3rd rows of the grid. • Intense Thursday for the Audi Sport Team Joest mechanics ... Ullrich ... Wolfgang Ullrich ... 10 Imperatori/Kraihamer/Abt (Rebellion-AER) 3m 28.930s....

It's the practical Windows Phone most people can afford

Edit PC World 08 Jun 2015
Microsoft’s Lumia 640 is the tract home most Americans pretend to shun, but end up buying anyway. friendly, unpretentious, with an exterior that cheerfully advertises something different in just a few stock colors ... And it’s cheap ... the Lumia 830s, Icons, and 930s ... ....

Rosberg gets the jump on Hamilton

Edit The Hindu 29 May 2015
Nico Rosberg won the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix for the second year in a row in a Mercedes one-two finish with teammate Lewis Hamilton on Sunday. Hamilton’s overall championship lead was cut to 10 points, after eight of the 19 races, with the Briton starting on pole position but beaten crucially into the first corner by the determined German ... The start made the race ... The results. 1. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) 1h 30m 16.930s, 2 ... 7....

Qualifying - Rosberg claims pole by narrowest of margins in Brazil (Formula 1 World Championship)

Edit noodls 08 Nov 2014
(Source. Formula 1 World Championship) Qualifying - Rosberg claims pole by narrowest of margins in Brazil 08 Nov 2014 ... Massa lapped in 1m 10.247s, Bottas in 1m 10.305s ... As Rosberg lapped in 1m 10.166s to pip Hamilton's 1m 10.195s, and then both improved, the Williams drivers had to rely on their first timed runs in Q3, where Jenson Button reversed his Friday misfortunes with fifth for McLaren in 1m 10.930s ... distributed by ... (noodl....

2014 Brazilian Grand Prix FP3 & Qualifying Report (McLaren Group Limited)

Edit noodls 08 Nov 2014
(Source. McLaren Group Limited) "Whatever happens tomorrow, we can have a strong race". Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, Saturday November 8. It was a successful turnaround for the whole team today after a difficult and problematic day of practice yesterday ... 6th Q1 (on Options)  1.11.097s        5th Q2 (on Options) 1.11.127s  5th  Q3 (on Options) 1.10.930s  5th overall  ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Japanese Grand Prix FP3 and Qualifying Report (McLaren Group Limited)

Edit noodls 04 Oct 2014
(Source. McLaren Group Limited) "We'll take whatever the weather brings tomorrow". Suzuka, Saturday October 4 ... KEVIN MAGNUSSEN, MP4-29-02 FP3 16 laps 1m35.251s (+2.023s) 7th Q1 (on Primes) 1m34.930s        6th Q2 (on Options) 1m34.229s   6th  Q3 (on Options) 1m34.242s  7th overall ... I made a few mistakes on that lap, so there were probably a few tenths left on the table.  ... (noodl....

FP2 - Hamilton blitzes the field at Spa-Francorchamps (Formula 1 World Championship)

Edit noodls 23 Aug 2014
(Source. Formula 1 World Championship). Lewis Hamilton took command of a red flag-interrupted second practice session in Belgium, finishing more than half a second clear of Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg and the rest of the field on Friday afternoon. Hamilton recorded 1m 49.189s on Pirelli's soft compound tyre, leaving Rosberg well adrift on 1m 49.793s and the valiant Fernando Alonso on 1m 49.930s for Ferrari. Nobody else got close....
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