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Skip Barber Racing School offers lifetime access for $295,000

The Skip Barber Racing School is offering a lifetime pass to its various driver-training and racing programs. The cost: $295,000. Barber's Fast Pass for Life allows drivers to fill available seats at any of the school's programs--its racing schools, high-performance driving schools, Mazda driving schools and race-series activities.

Jaguar Land Rover sorts its finance

Tata has secured £175 million private funding for Jaguar Land Rover But it is now being reported that JLR has managed to secure £175 million in private funding, obviating the need to succumb to Government interference in its business. Which has got to be good news for the JLR workforce – at least for now. Jaguar and Land Rover are very much on the up.

Porsche's new '911': the Cayenne fire engine

By Nick Eaton First Official Pictures 10 September 2008 10:13 Another day, another Porsche variant. Stuttgart's fire department has taken delivery of two red-hot Cayennes with a difference: they're emergency vehicles which have been specially tweaked by Porsche's Training Centre for the city's firemen. The Stuttgart fire service claims that the hilly topography of the city meant it needed all-terrain emergency vehicles, and the project was given to local firm Porsche because the Cayenne served up the firemen's needs for something that can go anywhere fast. Nothing at all with them wanting to arrive in style or make neeh-naah noises in a Porsche.