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German car manufacturer BMW unveiled its brand new i8 Roadster model at the 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday. The i8 Roadster is a two-seater hybrid sports car featuring a soft-electric top and an aluminium body with a carbon-fiber passenger cell.The car comes with a battery that has an electric-only range of up to 18 miles before the 3 cylinder, 369 horsepower gas engines joins in. The i8 hybrid roadster is fast - its top speed is 155 mph and the sleek vehicle can accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in about 4.4 seconds.
European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager announces that the EU has fined five car manufacturers, including German automobile giants Volkswagen and BMW, 875 million euros for colluding on the development of anti-pollution technology for diesel cars. SOUNDBITE
A woman has been charged with reckless endangerment after plowing her car into a Manhattan protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Newser reports 52-year-old Kathleen Casillo was driving with her 29-year-old daughter when she said demonstrators began banging on her BMW. Demonstrators were protesting in support of ICE detainees on hunger strike. Casillo says she panicked and hit the gas. Six people have hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. A demonstrator was charged for allegedly interfering with emergency workers responding to the scene.
Madrid, Oct 27 (EFE) .- (Camera: Manuel Única) The Prado Museum reopens the room dedicated to one of its star painters, the enigmatic Jheronimus Bosch, which has been closed to the public since the beginning of the pandemic. The paintings reappear with a new, clearer montage that can only be enjoyed by forty people at a time.FOOTAGE OF THE ROOM.