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A 2007 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 722 Edition, once owned by six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan, is for sale.
The SLR McLaren 722 Edition honors one of Stirling Moss’s wins in 1955 and has black wheels, a stiffer and lower suspension, added aero, carbon trim, and a more powerful supercharged V-8.
It’s listed for $695,750 by Crave Luxury Auto in Houston, Texas.
Michael Jordan is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time (we won’t get into the MJ vs. LeBron debate), and the six-time NBA champion has owned some of the greatest cars as well. A handful of them were shown briefly in ESPN’s The Last Dance, a 10-part documentary about the final season of Jordan’s Chicago Bulls dynasty in the 1990s. One of his cars, an SLR McLaren, which wasn’t shown in the series, is up for sale with just over 1000 miles.

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The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren was a joint venture between McLaren’s Formula 1 team and Mercedes and was produced between 2003 and 2010. Jordan’s example is a 722 Edition, a limited edition introduced in 2006 that honors the late Stirling Moss and his co-driver Denis Jenkinson’s victory in a 300 SLR with the starting number 722 at the Mille Miglia in 1955. It’s finished in Crystal Antimony Grey with black 19-inch wheels and has a stiffer suspension with a lower ride height plus larger front brakes and upgraded aero. There’s also red “722” badging and tinted head- and taillights, and the interior features carbon-fiber and Alcantara trim.

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A supercharged 5.4-liter supercharged V-8 is under the hood. In the 722 Edition, it spits out 641 horsepower and 605 pound-feet of torque, increases of 24 horsepower and 30 pound-feet over the standard SLR’s supercharged eight-cylinder engine. At launch, Mercedes touted a 3.6-second sprint to 60 mph in the more powerful 722 Edition, though in our testing, a standard SLR clocked in at the same time and raced through the quarter-mile in 11.6 seconds at 125 mph.

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An eBay auction for the car ended on January 3 without meeting the reserve; however, the selling dealer told Car and Driver that it’s going live on eBay again on January 4. The asking price is currently $695,750.

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Kia revealed a new ultra-luxury version of its minivan for the Korean market.
Called the Carnival Hi Limousine, it has a plush interior with special features including curtains and an air purifier.
The Carnival should arrive in the U.S. as the 2022 Sedona, but it’s not likely to offer a special version like this.
With #vanlife trending more than ever and luxury automakers like Lexus getting into the van game, it’s no wonder that Kia is going all-out for a new version of the Carnival (a.k.a. Sedona) minivan. The new ultra-luxury spinoff of the Korea-market Carnival is called the Hi Limousine, and we’re intrigued by its lounge-like interior with everything but the kitchen sink.

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The Hi Limousine is based on the recently redesigned version of the van, and it has a high-roof setup and appears to have extra chrome trim on the outside. But the real treats are inside, as it features recliner-style second-row seats, privacy curtains for the rear windows, an air purifier, entertainment screens, and even an LED lamp on the ceiling that’s meant to mimic a skylight.

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When the Carnival eventually makes its way to the States as the new-generation 2022 Kia Sedona, we probably won’t get most of these niceties. But the recliner-style captain’s chairs are possible, as the current-generation Sedona offered them as an option on the top trim level in the past (the lounge seats disappeared from the U.S.-market van after the 2018 model year).
Even if Kia did offer such a van in the U.S., we can’t imagine too many American van shoppers would splurge for the full Hi Limousine package, which starts at the equivalent of around $56,000 in Korea. But every now and then it’s fun to see a van that’s nicer than your living room.

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With The Weeknd’s “Bright Lights”—okay, a cover version—blaring, a guy selling his used 2010 Ford Focus puts the emphasis on how cool you are, not the car, in a clever homemade commercial.
The seller told Car and Driver that despite over 30,000 YouTube views and counting, the car’s still for sale. Well, the buyer pool in his town of Grand Forks, North Dakota, isn’t exactly deep.
Still, an obvious upside is that the seller has gotten offers to make more videos for other people’s used cars.
We’re come a long way from the days when a simple classified ad would sell your car. These days, people often share a full slate of glamour shots of the car they’re trying to offload, and clever descriptions and stories aren’t uncommon, either. But if you’ve got the time and a few friends, you can take things to the next level with a cinematic YouTube entry.
That’s the route taken by John Thomas Goerke, who lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and describes himself as an old-school Dodge Viper fan. Goerke is selling his 2010 Ford Focus SE with 120,000 miles on it for $5999. That’s roughly in line with the higher end of the Kelley Blue Book prices for other used Focus SE models of that era available online, but those old Focus models don’t come with this cool two-minute video that was first spotted by our friends at Motor1.

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With more than 30,000 views so far, Goerke’s video has unquestionably managed to attract outsize attention for an old Ford. According to the YouTube comments, people around the world, including Russia and Australia, have been pointed toward the video by their local news outlets, but all of this attention hasn’t helped actually make the sale. Goerke told Car and Driver he still has the car, but that doesn’t mean the time spent creating the commercial was wasted.
“More people have been interested in hiring me to make videos for them than in paying almost $6000 for a 10-year-old car,” he said. “I’m not too surprised. The car is listed on the upward edge of the Kelly Blue Book. And the actual number of people who could plausibly purchase it is pretty small, since I live in North Dakota.”

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The plot of the ad is a bit confusing, with the main character driving riskily thanks to (simulated) drug and alcohol intoxication before stumbling out on a dirt road, but everything looks cool and the choice of song is fitting. It’s a cover of The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights,” and the video for the original song, which inspired Goerke’s ad, also featured a car driving around at night since it was basically an advertising extravaganza promoting the Mercedes-AMG GT roadster.
For Goerke’s purposes, his ad’s honest message is revealed in the one line of narration: “No matter what you think when you see it, remember that cool comes from what’s inside the car.” That, when you think about it, could really be the tagline for 90 percent of the used cars sold each year.
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If you’re as car obsessed as we are and also like to watch stuff, you understand that the automobiles in movies are often as memorable as the actors. Casting the right vehicle can be as important as landing Meryl Streep or Tom Hanks. So for this episode of Window Shop, we challenged the crew to find Oscar-worthy film cars. Oh, and we set the budget at $20,000 because this show used to be about shopping for used cars on a budget.Contributor John Pearley Huffman raids the Disney vault for an obvious but admittedly iconic choice. Although his find isn’t an exact clone of the car in the movie, it does have a sunroof, which is critical to the plot, and it could easily be modified to match the screen star. Deputy testing director K.C. Colwell is inspired by an ’80s film that gives the original Ford Taurus a starring role. But instead of trying to find a replica of the movie car, Colwell wisely presents the best version of the Taurus, the excellent SHO. Senior editor Joey Capparella picks a first-gen Audi A4 that makes a cameo appearance in a relatively obscure animated Japanese film that most of us haven’t seen. He gives the movie two thumbs up and tells us that although the A4 isn’t central to the plot, the animators went through considerable effort to properly depict it.Contributor Jonathon Ramsey and yours truly find cars that are perfectly cast and deliver award-winning performances in great films—okay, maybe Ramsey’s film isn’t great, but we do discover that one of the shoppers saw it at the impressionable age of six. My pick is identical to the Cadillac driven by Henry Hill in Goodfellas, and Ramsey finds a front-drive RV dressed in military garb. As is our way, we bicker and list faults with one another’s choices. And in the end, like the academy, we crown a winner.
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Massachusetts announces a plan to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
The plan mimics one from California that was announced in September as well as a goal set by New Jersey earlier this year.
Other states may soon follow the lead of California and Massachusetts while President-Elect Biden has said that he will push for the adoption of electric vehicles.
While EVs are still in the single-digit area of overall vehicle sales, they continue to climb and have already surpassed the sales of vehicles with manual transmissions. Now it seems that the electrification investments made by automakers are getting a boost from another part of the country.

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Massachusetts is joining California with a plan to ban the sale of new gasolined-powered cars by 2035. Governor Charlie Baker released a 2050 decarbonization road map that includes the reduction of emissions from passenger cars. Massachusetts states that 27 percent of statewide emissions come from light-duty vehicles (passenger vehicles). The goal is for the state to reach net-zero fossil-fuel emissions by 2050.
In order to make sure those EVs are actually usable, the state plans to expand the public charging infrastructure to take into account that many people don’t have a garage in which to charge an electric vehicle.
The initiatives by California and now Massachusetts could be the beginning of a trend by states to slowly ban the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles. Several European countries have the same types of measures in order to battle climate change. Meanwhile, President-Elect Joe Biden has a plan to speed up the electrification of vehicles in the United States that includes replacing the country’s fleets with EVs.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, while stopping short of a mandate, in October also set 2035 as its goal for eliminating internal-combustion vehicles as well.
With the cost of EVs expected to reach parity with gas cars within a few years, some of the sticker price issues that turn off potential buyers will disappear.
Currently, Massachusetts and California are only requiring that new vehicles sold by 2035 be electric. Used car sales of gasoline-powered vehicles will still be allowed. In other words, you can still own a V-8–powered Corvette when you ring in the new year in 2035. It will still be a while before the roads in either state are populated entirely by EVs.
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