A team of explorers recently celebrated travelling 4,000 kilometres from Russia to Canada via the North Pole.
No big deal, you say? Air Canada was having a seat sale anyway? If so, somebody forgot to tell this intrepid gang of Russians, who drove the entire way in specially modified buses with massive tires. They did so over two months, at an average speed of 10 kilometres per hour (and you thought your commute was bad).
Threading between icy outcrops, with the constant danger of falling through the shifting pack ice it hardly sounds fun, does it? Still, part of exploring is proving something can be done, and the Russian team also had the opportunity to experience polar life in all of its frozen splendour.
They ran across roving polar bears several times, saw the spectacular northern lights, and even bumped into a pack of walruses, about which everyone was very excited until they figured out it wasnt actually that beret-wearing guy from MythBusters. The cars now sit in Resolute Bay, planning the return trip back across the Bering Strait. I suppose it beats flying coach.
Acura to build NSX in Ohio
I double-dog dare you to point out exactly where Marysville, Ohio is on an outline of the continental United States without any of the state lines drawn in. Its sort of in the middle-ish bit. Or to the east?
Well, geography was never my strong point. The point is, Hondas recent announcement that theyre going to be building their world-beating, mid-engined supercar outside of Japan is a bit of a surprise.
Of course, being that Honda already has two production facilities in Ohio, perhaps the news shouldnt come as a surprise. After all, the Accord Hybrid will be built just down the road, and the NSX will contain some of those same components. NSX production is slated to start sometime in 2015, which means we have approximately two more years of being shown concept cars at every single auto show between now and then.
Car thief nabbed at drive-through
There is almost nothing filled with the satisfying blend of justice served and schadenfreude that is a good dumb-thief story.
Having stolen a 1995 Toyota 4Runner from outside an apartment building, Katherine York immediately left town, right? Wrong. Being, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, York instead filled her ill-gotten SUV with stolen clothing and decided to pick up a snack at the local McDonalds drive-through.
This all happened in Kennewick, Wash., which has a population of only 77,000. Oh yeah, and the drive-through in question is just five miles from where York swiped the 4Runner. And it happens to be where the workplace of one Virginia Maiden the Toyotas rightful owner.
Brendan McAleer
