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Hello everyone . Is anyone here passionate about racing

Anyone went? Saw the carbuyer article. The Z4 looks like a Kia!

Just in case you are thinking what the subject title is about... It's not a replacement for Viagra or some new Love Hotel. It's a brand of tyre from Spain. First time seeing this. More rare than China made Linglong or Double Coin tyres.

How do you maintain or ignite the passion in your marriage? My wife is still beautiful after years of marriage...but I remember and recall how I used to get hot flushes just thinking of her (before marriage)...something that doesnt happen much anymore. Maybe it's different stages of relationship. Any bros here married to their wife for more than a decade and still able to keep the fiery passionate fire in their marriage? Please share your secrets.

http://www.ettoday.net/news/20121013/113988.htm saw in the taiwan news ... victim claimed that her Spider 360 was scratched becoz she was too pretty. you judge for yourself. best if you can find the video of the interview !!!!!!!

What's your passion in life? What are you living for?

Fernando Alonso paid tribute to the "passion" of his Ferrari team after clinching their first race win of the season at the British Grand Prix. The Spaniard dominated after taking advantage of a pit-stop problem for Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, who finished second ahead of team-mate Mark Webber. "The big thing about Ferrari is the passion, the victory and the love for victory," said Alonso. "I knew we had enough pace to fight for the victory and it came." Early in the race the Red Bulls appeared to be making the best of the half-wet, half-dry track - and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton also fared better than Alonso, the Briton overtaking for third place on lap 15. But as the track dried out, Alonso came into his own and regained third spot from Hamilton nine laps after conceding the position. Two laps later Alonso was handed the lead, passing Vettel in the pits as the German was held up when his pit crew struggled to fit a rear tyre. Continue reading the main story All we can do is try to win every race, be aggressive and keep our strategy at the maximum Fernando Alonso "We struggled when it was wet, but we got quicker as the track dried out," said Alonso. "We stayed calm and we knew our opportunity would come later in the race. After passing Lewis Hamilton, I attacked the Red Bulls. "I saw the problem in the pit stop with Sebastian and we were in the lead at that moment, but who knows what might have happened after that. "I had to keep the car on the track and away from the grass, to not make any mistakes." Before Sunday's race at Silverstone, Alonso drove the car that, in 1951, took Jose Froilan Gonzalez to Ferrari's first British Grand Prix victory. "The British Grand Prix is a special event for every driver competing in F1, we know the history of this race, a special grand prix and I had the privilege to drive the Froilan car that was the first Ferrari win in F1," said the Spaniard. "Today we won in the same circuit with the same passion, the same group of people who work for this fantastic team." Alonso's victory means he leapfrogs McLaren pair Hamilton and Jenson Button to go third in the drivers' championship. While conceding the 93-point gap to leader Vettel remains a distant target, Alonso vowed not to give up the fight. "From now on we will challenge Red Bull all the way," he said. "All we can do is try to win every race, be aggressive and keep our strategy at the maximum."

Prehistoric women had passion for fashion Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:06pm EST By Ljilja Cvekic PLOCNIK, Serbia (Reuters) - If the figurines found in an ancient European settlement are any guide, women have been dressing to impress for at least 7,500 years. Recent excavations at the site -- part of the Vinca culture which was Europe's biggest prehistoric civilization -- point to a metropolis with a great degree of sophistication and a taste for art and fashion, archaeologists say. In the Neolithic settlement in a valley nestled between rivers, mountains and forests in what is now southern Serbia, men rushed around a smoking furnace melting metal for tools. An ox pulled a load of ore, passing by an art workshop and a group of young women in short skirts. "According to the figurines we found, young women were beautifully dressed, like today's girls in short tops and mini skirts, and wore bracelets around their arms," said archaeologist Julka Kuzmanovic-Cvetkovic. The unnamed tribe who lived between 5400 and 4700 BC in the 120-hectare site at what is now Plocnik knew about trade, handcrafts, art and metallurgy. Near the settlement, a thermal well might be evidence of Europe's oldest spa. "They pursued beauty and produced 60 different forms of wonderful pottery and figurines, not only to represent deities, but also out of pure enjoyment," said Kuzmanovic. The findings suggest an advanced division of labor and organization. Houses had stoves, there were special holes for trash, and the dead were buried in a tidy necropolis. People slept on woolen mats and fur, made clothes of wool, flax and leather and kept animals. The community was especially fond of children. Artifacts include toys such as animals and rattles of clay, and small, clumsily crafted pots apparently made by children at playtime. COPPER AGE One of the most exciting finds for archaeologists was the discovery of a sophisticated metal workshop with a furnace and tools including a copper chisel and a two-headed hammer and axe. "This might prove that the Copper Age started in Europe at least 500 years earlier than we thought," Kuzmanovic said. The Copper Age marks the first stage of humans' use of metal, with copper tools used alongside older stone implements. It is thought to have started around the 4th millennium BC in south-east Europe, and earlier in the Middle East. The Vinca culture flourished from 5500 to 4000 BC on the territories of what is now Bosnia, Serbia, Romania and Macedonia. It got its name from the present-day village of Vinca, 10 km east of Belgrade on the Danube river, where early 20th-century excavations uncovered the remains of eight Neolithic villages. The discovery of a mine -- Europe's oldest -- at the nearby Mlava river suggested at the time that Vinca could be Europe's first metal culture, a theory now backed up by the Plocnik site. "These latest findings show that the Vinca culture was from the very beginning a metallurgical culture," said archaeologist Dusan Sljivar of Serbia's National Museum. "They knew how to find minerals, to transport them and melt them into tools." The metal workshop in Plocnik was a room of some 25 square meters, with walls built out of wood coated with clay. The furnace, built on the outside of the room, featured earthen pipe-like air vents with hundreds of tiny holes in them and a prototype chimney to ensure air goes into the furnace to feed the fire and smoke comes out safely. "In Bulgaria and Cyprus, where such workshops have also been found, they didn't have chimneys but blew air on the fire with straws, exposing man to heat and carbon dioxide," Sljivar said. COLOURFUL MINERALS He said the early metal workers very likely experimented with colorful minerals that caught their eye -- blue azurite, bright green malachite and red cuprite, all containing copper -- as evidenced by malachite traces found on the inside of a pot. The settlement was destroyed at some point, probably in the first part of the fifth millennium, by a huge fire. The Plocnik site was first discovered in 1927 when the then Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was building a rail line from the southern city of Nis to the province of Kosovo. Some findings were published at the time but war, lack of funds and objections from farmers meant it was investigated only sporadically until digging started in earnest in 1996. "The saddest thing for us is always the moment when we finish our work and everything has to be covered up with earth again," Kuzmanovic said. "That's the easiest for the state, conservation is very expensive and the land owners want to work in their fields." But there was some hope that the latest excavation would be preserved due to its importance, Kuzmanovic added. "We dream of uncovering the entire town one day, and people will be able to see prehistoric life at its fullest," she said. For a table on Europe's prehistory, click on (Editing by Ellie Tzortzi and Sara Ledwith)