1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa: world's most expensive car

RM Auctions, in association with Sothebys made history in Maranello (May 17) as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for €9,020,000 at the third annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record for the most expensive motor car ever to be sold at auction.- www.worldamazingrecords.com

This 1957 250 Testa Rossa went up for auction and was sold for 9 million euros (£8m)

The final price of the Testa Rossa (minus commission)

The Jaegar dials on the dash


The Testa Rossa's interior

There's no air-con, sat-nav or electric windows; just some padding to stop your knees banging against the exposed chassis tubes

Volkswagen Beetle Limousine

Old Volkswagen Beetle Limousine

This photo was taken in Ordu, a province of Turkey, which is also famous with its VW Beetle Fun Club.


New Volkswagen Beetle Limousine

Renault banned in China over safety issues

I just read the news, that China refuses to import Renault cars due to: “safety problems” found by China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision. It have never been more obvious that we are talking about politics here, not the real quality problem.

Renault is famous of their cars safety. All currently sold passenger cars got the highest notes in Euro NCAP safety tests. On the other hand we have China, that produces cars, that are… how to say… “safe the other way” (meaning rubbish). In all NCAP tests, they all got very low safety ratings. And they still allow to drive them there.

Yet they refuse to accept the Renault cars. They blacklisted Laguna, Scenic and Megane models. And nobody knows (besides the Chinese agency) what are the safety problems in particular.
AFAIK there is no special car series produced for Chinese market – Renault is producing the cars for all regions in few of their factories. So it’s pretty safe to assume that Renault didn’t try to sell them “worse quality” versions, as they all come from the same factories.

I think that this ban has something to do with giving he exiled Tibetan spiritual leader – the Dalai Lama, honorary citizenship of Paris three days ago. The award was condemned by Chinese government. - http://carsoblog.com/2009/06/china-bans-renault/

Related Article:

1. French cars fail tests in China - http://news.bbc.co.uk

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