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...miles per gallon. The "Five-Star" crash rating is also unchanged. "You can be riding in a $1.8 million Bugatti and you won't get any better protection," says Randle. The 2010 Mustang will also come with a completely new suspension based on the one used in the special "Bullitt" edition Ford put on the road last year in small numbers. Overall, the early-peek reviews are favorable, but not inspirational. As Car and Driver magazine notes, the new Mustang is "heavily revised version of the current car, with changes concentrated in the areas that called for the most improvement...
...played by Steve McQueen defies the Nazis and jumps a barbed-wire fence on his motorcycle. The real hog jumper? Bud Ekins, the go-to stuntman of his era. Ekins' later credits included doubling for McQueen again in a famous car chase through San Francisco in the 1968 thriller Bullitt and overseeing stunts for the '70s TV show CHiPs. He was 77. His exploits as an Air Force pilot in the Pacific during World War II included 219 combat missions; he counted among his myriad awards an honorary title from the Queen of England. But Major General John (Jock) Henebry...
...ultimately backed up to the point of flooding, which happened Thursday evening. “The tub in the room backed up, and it overflowed and ran down the walls into the House Office,†Levesque said. Water also flowed into the house gym and the Bullitt Room, a classroom in Quincy. While the plumbers were working to unclog the blockage, students were told not to use their bathrooms, for fear that their flushed or drained water would travel down the pipes and soak the workers trying to fix the system. “We wanted...
...Precision Intervention Technique - is essentially what Bullitt was trying to pull off when he hit the black Charger in the left-rear door. If you bump another car in just the right spot, the car will spin and come safely to a stop. That's the theory, anyhow, and Scott's supervisor gave the go ahead to "take...
...Like Bullitt, though, Scott encountered a few problems. The fleeing car was going way too fast for an accurate PIT, so Scott chose another strategy. Nine miles and six minutes into the chase, he rammed the car from behind, sending it off the road and down an embankment. There was no gas station at the bottom, but the crash was bad enough: It rendered the driver, 19-year-old Vincent Harris, a quadriplegic...