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One Lap of the Web: Saucy spouses and salty roads

-- Not every race car driver was James Hunt. Legendary drag racer Don Garlits couldn't have been legendary without his wife Patricia, who recently passed at the age of 71; in a few more weeks, they would have celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. She supported Don when he didn't think his racing would amount to anything, and she was instrumental in persuading Don to switch to rear-engined dragsters -- Don's eventual acceptance ended up changing the face of drag racing forever.

Maserati Quattroporte Bellagio: Quattroporte Estate for sale

Maserati Quattroporte Bellagio - built by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera There, and I bet you didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Maserati Quattroporte Bellagio, much less that it was a Quattroporte Estate. But then it’s not an official Maserati job, but it does have a credible provenance. Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera are a company you will have come across once or twice in the last year if you’re a regular visitor to Cars UK.

Revealed: the popular city cars that FAIL a new crash test

It’s fair to say that drivers are pretty well protected in just about any new car on the market today. It’s rare for cars to get anything below the maximum five stars in the Euro NCAP crash tests, and even the most basic of cars come with equipment like ABS and airbags as standard. But America’s Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has devised a new test, which involves a “small overlap front crash” – similar to a head-on crash but only the front corner of a car collides with a solid object.