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Ditch the roof and embrace the elements that’s the motto of the Toyota Land Cruiser ROX, a radical reimagining of the legendary SUV revealed at the 2024 SEMA Show. This open air concept vehicle throws off the traditional roof for an unparalleled adventure experience. Christened the Land Cruiser ROX (“Recreation Open eXperience”), it caters to the intrepid spirit with a suite of design features that blur the lines between driver and environment. Forget the usual window views; the ROX boasts custom crafted “skeleton” doors that provide a panoramic vista, transforming every drive into a breathtaking communion with nature. Land Cruiser…

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Giuseppe Casagrande and his team will have their custom La Liebre race car project immortalized as a 1:64 Hot Wheels ® die-cast car sold around the worldMore than 5,000 vehicles from 13 countries competed in the 2024 Hot Wheels™ Legends Tour presented by Mobil 1The 1968 custom build based on a Baufer modified Ford (NYSE:) Falcon chassis is the seventh Hot Wheels Legends Tour winner to be inducted into the Garage of Legends™ and recreated as a Hot Wheels die-castPhotos of the 2024 Hot Wheels Legends Tour winner can be found HERE EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mattel, Inc (NASDAQ: MAT), a…

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Costco may have raised its prices, but right now you can snag a membership for cheaper than ever.The warehouse store chain’s Gold Star Membership normally retails for $65. For the next few weeks, shoppers can purchase a 12-month membership through affiliate marketer StackSocial and receive a $45 Costco gift card, effectively reducing their annual rate to $20 for their first year.The same offer is also available for Costco’s premium Executive Membership, which costs $130 per year and gives members 2% cash back on all Costco purchases. Factoring in the $45 gift card, you can get an Executive Membership for an…

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McDonald’s is investing $100 million to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to onions on the fast-food giant’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers.The investments include $65 million that will go directly to the hardest-hit franchises, the company said.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that slivered onions on the Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli. Taylor Farms in California recalled onions potentially linked to the outbreak.Colorado reported at least 30 cases; Montana reported 19; Nebraska, 13; and New Mexico, 10. The illnesses were reported between Sept. 12…

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(Bloomberg) — Michael Saylor’s unorthodox decision to hold Bitcoin instead of cash on MicroStrategy Inc.’s books has vaulted the once obscure software maker into the upper echelon of the wealthiest corporations when it comes to financial assets. Most Read from Bloomberg Listen to the Here’s Why podcast on Apple, Spotify or anywhere you listen. The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm’s approximately $26 billion Bitcoin cache is larger than the cash and marketable securities of global market leaders such as International Business Machines Corp., Nike Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Only about a dozen companies, led…

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes on the village of Khreibeh in the Baalbek District of eastern Lebanon killed six people on Saturday, including three children, and injured 11 others, the Lebanese health ministry said. Among the injured were five children, two of whom were in critical condition, the ministry said. Strikes earlier on Saturday killed two medics in south Lebanon, including one in Borj Rahal and another in Kfartebnit, and injured four other rescue workers, with two still missing, the ministry said. Israeli airstrikes also targeted areas of the southern suburbs of Beirut controlled by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah for…

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina has ordered the arrest of 61 Brazilian citizens wanted in their home country for participating in the 2023 storming of government buildings in Brasilia by supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, an Argentine source said on Saturday. Two people have been arrested so far who face prison sentences in Brazil, a judicial source in Argentina told Reuters, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak publicly. Argentina received an extradition request from Brazil’s judicial authorities last month. During the Jan. 8, 2023 incident, a week after leftist President…

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Image source: The Motley Fool As a billionaire many times over, it may be hard to imagine that Warren Buffett thinks much about how to invest a few hundred pounds. In fact though, Buffett started investing on a very small scale. He has repeatedly said he believes he could get strong returns if he had only a small amount to invest. That is because he would be able to buy shares in firms that as someone allocating billions of pounds in assets he no longer looks at as investment opportunities. So if I had a spare £800 to invest today,…

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McDonald’s is investing $100 million to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to onions on the fast-food giant’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers. The investments include $65 million that will go directly to the hardest-hit franchises, the company said.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that slivered onions on the Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli. Taylor Farms in California recalled onions potentially linked to the outbreak.Colorado reported at least 30 cases; Montana reported 19; Nebraska, 13; and New Mexico, 10. The illnesses were reported between Sept.…

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