For Seattle?s Jason Stock, winning the iRacing.com NVIDIA Cup Season 2b title was a case of fourth time?s a charm.  Since joining the service in January, he?d finished in the top ten in each of the pint-sized season standings (seventh in 2011 Season 1b, fourth in Season 1c, second in Season 2) so although he was certainly trending in the right direction, he decided to take a slightly different tack. ?After finishing second place last season to Zsolt Hamvas I knew that to win an NVIDIA Cup Championship, it would require more than a series of nearly flawless victories,? says Stock.  ?My initial solution was to call in sick for work on the last day of competition for the week so that I could get in the highest SoF race [...]

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Europe, Videos, Lotus, Police/Emergency

If the Italian Polizia di Stato (state police) need to get somewhere in a hurry, they've got a Lamborghini Gallardo at their disposal. But what about the national Carabinieri? Not about to left behind, the para-military police turned not to one of their own domestic sportscar-makers, but to the UK. (Or to a foreign-owned automaker based there with mostly Italian management.)

The Carabinieri have taken possession of not one Lotus Evora S, but two. One will be stationed in Milan and the other in Rome, but both are fitted with all the latest equipment, including a portable refrigerator for the rapid transportation of organs and blood for medical emergencies.

The hand-over at the Carabinieri headquarters in Rome followed advanced driver training at Lotus headquarters in Hethel, England, and the two cars are on loan to the service for two years. Follow the jump for the press release and trio of videos, and check out the images in the high-res gallery for a closer look.

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On Monday we presented this week?s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle from whence it came. The presence of the 1990s Honda shift knob helped several of you recognize the car as a 2000 Honda Insight. The first commenter to correctly identify it was DEM, who specified both [...]

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