Disappeared, murdered: the mysterious case of the bankrupt car tuner.
This car case smells fishy – Uwe Gemballa, prominent German businessman and founder of Gemballa, a tuning company specialising in high-end exotics, famously went missing in South Africa this year. His body was found a month ago, buried crudely in Atteridgeville, south of Johannesburg. And now his murderer has been arrested, tried and sentenced to jail in 24 hours. When the SA justice system processes a murder case that quickly, we smell something fishy.
Raikonnen will not return to F1 in 2011 – Kimi Raikkonen’s management team has confirmed that the Finn is no longer looking at Formula 1 race options for next season, as the World Rally Championship is where he wants to stay in 2011. No, Ice Man! Come back! Click me.
Aston Martin One-77 destroying the ‘Ring – Gratuitous car-porn for petrol heads. Aston Martin’s 1-million Pound, V12 monster car is all but sold out to a few lucky (and blindingly wealthy) sods. At least we get a video. Enjoy.
Volvo “won’t copy Germans” – Volvo’s new CEO reckons it’s time to get back the brands Swedish roots. In a rather ambiguous statement, Stefan Jacoby said: “Simplicity is the key. We need to stop copying the Germans. We should express what Scandinavia stands for: high values for human beings, strong social security and welfare. We don’t have to be the same size or have the same package.” Fair enough.
