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Parents 'risking kids' lives' on defective tyres

MORE THAN 30% of parents are ferrying their most precious cargo around on illegal tyres, a new study has found. Road safety charity TyreSafe has reported that one of its members carried out a study at a Shropshire primary school, where almost a third of the cars dropping children off at school were wearing tyres that were either past their wear markers, were incorrectly inflated, had bulges or cuts, or had foreign objects sticking out of them. “The start of the new academic year means that we will be experiencing many more cars on the roads, particularly at peak times of the day,” comments Stuart Jackson, chairman, TyreSafe.

Ken Block and his Ford Fiesta slide into Forza Motorsport 3

Rally and gymkhana driver Ken Block is torturing tires with a Ford Fiesta these days. So our Microsoft friends at Turn 10 Studios, makers of Forza Motorsport 3, have their version of Block and his rally Fiesta sliding their way around some open space and through the warehouse available for viewing. So here you go.

Ferrari FF: More Pictures!

Ferrari has revealed more pictures of the FF, the shooting-brake-styled supercar set to debut at the Geneva motor show. These shots show the 651-hp, V12-powered speed demon frolicking in the snow, where it's putting Ferrari's first-ever all-wheel-drive system to good use. The four-seater replaces the venerable 612 Scaglietti and is expected to arrive in the fall.