McLaren Mercedes SLR makes £160,500

A McLaren Mercedes SLR achieved a record price for Manheim Auctions in Europe when it sold for £160,500 at the recent Prestige Sale at Manheim's Colchester Auction Centre, beating the £158,000 paid for a similar car at Manheim's Manchester Auction Centre in January. The sale attracted a huge amount of interest with over 300 buyers registered on the day.

The McLaren Mercedes SLR was one of 45 vehicles at the first Prestige Sale to be held at Colchester's four lane facility. Other vehicles featured at the sale included two BMW 650i coupes which sold for £30,200 and £31,500, a Mercedes-Benz SL 5.4 AMG convertible (£31,200), a BMW M5 (£43,000), a Jaguar XKR (£49,400) and two Porsche 911s which sold for £48,000 and £ 57,000.

"The atmosphere was really exciting especially when the McLaren Mercedes SLR came into view" commented Chris Cush, Manager at Manheim's Colchester Auction Centre. "To have broken the price record for a car sold by Manheim Auctions in Europe was an unexpected bonus and rounded off a great day."

Other Prestige Sales this year at Colchester will be on 13th May, 1st July, 2nd September and 4th November.

WebVisible, an interactive ad company for local markets, gets $12M more

WebVisible, a company that focuses on interactive advertising in local markets, said it has received $12 million in second round of funding.

The funding was led by Sutter Hill Ventures and included existing investor Redpoint Ventures.

The Irvine, Calif. company offers a software that manages interactive advertising campaigns for small-to-medium-sized businesses.

It can track a consumer’s location apparently because it partners with companies that have cookies and other information that provides it with that information, including Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Local.com, Voicestar, eStara, Telmetrics, Blue Lithium, Advertising.com, ValueClick, and Looksmart.

 

WebVisible then partners with companies like AT&T, British Telecom, Yellow Pages Group of Canada, Earthlink, and The McClatchy Company, among others — which sell Webvisible’s advertising product to their local business customers trying to reach consumers in their geographical area.

House producer heading to Court K

Filed under: House, Pickups and Renewals

Paul Attanasio, House executive producer, has conjured up a legal drama for Fox. The network greenlighted a one-hour pilot, Court K, which is set in Milwaukee and involves a judge, a prosecutor and a public defender. Just because it's set in Milwaukee, don't expect to see Laverne and Shirley.

Like House is not your typical medical drama, Court K will not be a typical lawyer show, not that Boston Legal is typical, but you know what I mean. Court K is reportedly a lot grittier, with sardonic, dark comic elements. We'll have to see if any of the principals are hooked on Vicodan. I wonder if it'll remind me of the movie ...And Justice For All, which was also a dark comic look at a Baltimore courthouse. But then, wasn't that Night Court, too?

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Sam Raimi teams with CW for reality

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Spider-Man's director is going real. Reality TV that is. After nearly two years of talking with the CW about this project, Sam Raimi is prepping a summer reality series called 13. Considering Raimi's unique vision, as seen in the Spider-Man movies and other features like Darkman and Evil Dead, you have to hope that he'll bring something fresh to a genre as played out as reality.

Raimi with co-executive produce the eight-episodes of 13 with a renown reality producer, Jay Bienstock (Survivor and The Apprentice). Also attached is Robert Tapert, Sam's Ghost House Productions partner.

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