Top Gear magazine has voted the humble Fiat 500, which looks like a cross between a Mini and a VW Beetle, No 1 for setting pulses racing.

Big wheels keep up to the marque by buying flash

AS ECONOMIC barometers go, there could hardly be any more dashing — a $580,000 status symbol on wheels — and at least 80 Australians have already placed their order for Ferrari's slick new model, the F430 Scuderia.

Then there's the Porsche 911 turbo, retailing at $370,000. More than 100 Australians put themselves behind the wheel of one last year, and others are queuing to take delivery of the next generation GT2 priced at $425,000. Property developer Zac Brankovic, 38, who has been driving Porsches for about five years, shelled out $260,000 for his Porsche Carrera S convertible.

Neighbors feel misled on DPC group home plans

Dot Hughes, who lives on Dartmouth Woods Road, said the man she believes is the owner of a neighboring house being remodeled to accommodate five patients from Delaware Psychiatric Center told her a relative was moving in. She found out from the state months later that that was not the case. (Buy photo) The News Journal/ROBERT CRAIG .

NASCAR Boss Brian France's State of the Sport Address

BRIAN FRANCE: Good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of everyone at NASCAR, thank you for being here. This has become a pre-season tradition of sorts and of course a very important one. We're starting off this year, as that video illustrated, in strong fashion. NASCAR is celebrating 60 proud years in 2008. Think about that, 60 years. We've covered a lot of ground in six decades. The first NASCAR-sanctioned race was run on the beach road course in Daytona in 1948. That was just a few weeks following the famed Streamline Hotel meeting in which NASCAR was formed. Red Byron won in a Ford modified. In a 1949, the first strictly stock race, what is now known as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, was held at the Charlotte fairgrounds. Jim Roper won that race and Red Byron was the season champion. In 1949, there were a total of only eight races.

Rooting interests

Teams have lost to the Patriots over the past half decade in record fashion and often times they have not been able to rationalize it to themselves because of a general lack of standout talent on the Patriots' squad. When they found this to cling to, they pretended to be outraged; in reality they were ecstactic that they had found a way to justify their losses. Cheating or not (and we will probably never know), the country desperately wants us to denounce the Patriots, Belichick in particular. When we stood by him and the team, I think that is when we became hateful to the rest of the country - because they could then equate us with the lack of class and integrity that they gladly embraced in their perceptions of the Patriots. Personally, I'll gladly stand by the Patriots until I meet my death.

Wall decals sticking sleekly in modern, trendy rooms

If you're the kind of homeowner who likes to redecorate frequently, you know that painting or wallpapering an entire room can be daunting. It's time to welcome an easier solution: wall decals.

For a sophisticated aesthetic, stickable wall art can range from bold, wall-covering graphics to delicate art worthy of a frame (stick-on, of course).

Racing: Germain Camrys test at Las Vegas

Two Germain Racing Toyota Camry machines were on the track at the Las Vegas Speedway on Wednesday. Nationwide Series drivers Todd Bodine (03) and Mike Wallace (7) both improved upon their morning test speeds in the afternoon session.