One Lap of the Web: Scary Almost-Halloween Edition

-- Just in time for Halloween, here's project car as scary as it is inexplicable. A 1988 Lamborghini Countach, actually made by Lamborghini of Italy in 1988 (at the Lamborghini factory) has been neglected like the Trans Am that's been sitting in your uncle's shed since the Carter administration. We're pretty sure there's a scary story about how this Countach ended up this way, but we're not sure we want to hear it -- it'll be too depressing. On the other hand, if someone wants to take on a Countach project car....

-- Being a purposely weird racing series, the 24 Hours of LeMons is going to have its share of weird accidents. Even if the cars aren't going all that fast, anything can happen at any time, just as this somewhat jarring video from the Nadeau Motorsport demonstrates.

-- Nissan has found an interesting (and slightly mean-spirited) way to introduce the Nissan Leaf in South Africa -- by driving the Leaf to gas stations, asking the attendants to fill up the car, and filming them trying to do so. The gas station attendants get bonus points for being good sports, as we can think of several places where this type of prank would have resulted in the Leaf's cabin getting filled with gasoline.

-- Here's something almost as scary as the Countach project above: a rental agency in Los Angeles will rent you a Tesla Model S for $499 per day. Yes, per standard Earth day, not one of those 140-hour days one of the newly-found exoplanets experience. No, it's not gold plated. It's just a Tesla Model S from, umm, this current model year. No celebrity history that we know of. No racing history that we know of either. The rental agency has an interesting explanation for this scary price, the logic of which isn't quite convincing.

By Autoweek Editors