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FIRST LOOK: 2025 Aston Martin Vanquish

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Gaydon – Meet the newest third generation of Aston Martin Vanquish , the world's fastest and most lethal GT sports car ever. The third generation Vanquish is not the direct successor of its previous generation, but it's the chronological successor of the most powerful GT sports car DBS Superleggera following the release of the 2024 DBS 770 Ultimate final edition last year. The new Vanquish made its world premiere on Monday, September 2 at the 2024 Venice International Film Festival  following the screening of Tim Burton's film Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega and Monica Bellucci. - Overview The 2025 Vanquish will be the most powerful and most extremely lethal GT sports coupe ever. It is powered by the new 5.2 liter V12 twin-turbo engine which produces 825 hp and 1000 Nm of torque. The car accelerates from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in about 3.2 seconds and can sprint from 0-200 km/h (0-124 mph) in less than eight seconds. Top speed...

2024 MTV Video Music Awards winners list: Swift wins big again as Carpenter wins song of the year

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Elmont, NY – The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards is the 41st annual running of the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) since its inaugural edition in 1984. It also marks the 40th anniversary of the VMAs. The 2024 edition held in UBS Arena in New York, was originally to be scheduled on Tuesday September 10, however the event pushed back one day to Wednesday September 11, the day after 2024 U.S. Presiential election's second debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. UBS Arena (pictured in 2021) hosted the 2024 MTV VMAs . The award night was once again dominated by megastar  Taylor Swift with seven award wins out of twelve nominations, including Best Artist, Best Pop, and Video Of The Year. With those wins, Swift has won more VMAs than anyone else in the VMA's 40-year history. Swift's 30 wins surpassed Beyonce Knowles's 27 wins. Last year in 2023 , Swift won nine awards out of eleven nominations; the only category she won in the last two years is Video Of The Year. Meanwhil...

What's new in the facelifted 2nd-gen Toyota Fortuner?

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JAKARTA – On September 6, 2024, PT Toyota Astra Motor (TAM) officially launched and marketed the all-new Toyota Fortuner, which is the third major facelift from the second generation that has been marketed in Indonesia and other southeast Asian countries since February 2016. Here are some of new changes for the newly facelifted Toyota Fortuner for the Indonesian market. 1. Exterior The only change from the exterior is the front grille where it carried from non-ASEAN market Fortuner Legendary which had been facelifted earlier this year, while the rear is unchanged but the rear bumper and sensors. The head lamps improved into DRL with full LED (VRZ, SRZ and GR-S only). 2. Interior The interior had also got new features like wi-fi hot spot and the newly updated infotainment system (for higher variants like 2.8 VRZ GR package TSS and 2.8 GR-S TSS). 3. New safety system For this new facelifted Fortuner it is also upgraded with Toyota Safety Sense (TSS) safety systems which is standard for h...

History and timeline of Disney Channel stars topping Billboard album charts

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Los Angeles, CA – With Girl Meets World star Sabrina Carpenter recently joining the club of female Disney Channel stars topping the Billboard 200 albums chart , we breakdown the list of soloists who had joined the top of album charts both in the U.S. and outside U.S. (including UK and Australia). - Miley's early and prominent success The first Disney Channel star who reached this accolade is Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus with her debut album Meet Miley Cyrus (2007). Cyrus continued her success with her second album Breakout in 2008. After departed from Hollywood to sign with RCA, Cyrus consistently charted her top-3 albums from 2013's Bangerz , to 2023's Endless Summer Vacation . Prior to Cyrus, the first Disney Channel star to rank inside top 3 in Billboard albums chart was Lizzie McGuire star Hilary Duff with her debut album Metamorphosis in 2003, however Duff's album peaked at number two behind Britney Spears' third album In The Zone . Spears herself was...

The story of Sabrina Carpenter's "Taste" music video

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NEW YORK, NY – The music video for Sabrina Carpenter 's single " Taste " from her new album Short N' Sweet delivers dramatics scenes as two of the actresses Carpenter and Jenna Ortega battled it out to get a guy that ended up being killed. Here's the story from the music video which would be a crossover episode for two of the Disney Channel hit TV series Girl Meets World and Stuck In the Middle Carpenter and Ortega starred in respectively. - Synopsis The music video begins with Maya Hart prepared a weapon to fight against Harley Diaz for getting their own boyfriend Dane (Rohan Campbell). Maya used a knife while Harley targeted and shot Maya with a shotgun into a fence, before Maya threw a knife into Harley's face. In the hospital Maya received treatment from the doctors before Harley shocks Maya with a pacemaker. Back at home, where Harley is enjoying her moment with her boyfriend Dane, while in the outside, Maya used a voodoo doll to make Harley out of co...

2024 Dutch GP: Norris denies Verstappen's home delight in a thrilling race at Zandvoort

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Zandvoort – The second half of the 2024 FIA Formula One World Championship season begins at Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, where reigning world champion and current world championship leader Max Verstappen is eager to win in front of his home crowd once again in Zandvoort. Starting second on the grid, the Red Bull Racing driver led the early stages of the race, only before McLaren driver Lando Norris poised to deny Verstappen's quattrick of home wins at Zandvoort. On lap 18, Norris overtook Verstappen to take the race lead and to silence the Dutch crowd as well. Since then, the young British driver never looked back and won the race by over a countrymile as Verstappen still gets much delight from home fans despite settled for 2nd in the race. Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc completed the podium in third place after the Monegasque gambled with two-stop strategy. Norris (McLaren) came out victorious after beating Verstappen at Zandvoort . With the win, Norris became the third McLaren ...

Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet album review

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NEW YORK, NY – The moment that Carpenters waiting for is finally arrived! After her success with previous album Emails I Can't Send , singer-songwriter and actress Sabrina Ann Lynn Carpenter is back with her new album Short N' Sweet . The 12-track album features three singles: the chart-topping " Espresso " and " Please Please Please ", and " Taste ". Today, as the album's release date, we review Carpenter's sixth studio album (her second with the Island Records label which is one of Universal Music Group's flagship labels). - Album composition For the production of this album, Sabrina Carpenter hired Taylor Swift 's loyal music producer Jack Antonoff to compose some of the songs from the album, including "Please Please Please" and "Slim Pickins". The reason of why Carpenter hired Antonoff is because of her (Carpenter) opened for Swift's Eras Tour concerts in Latin America and Australasia legs. Thanks to A...

My favorite girls born in 2001

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LOS ANGELES, CA – 2001 is the year where the start of Generation-Z began, from the September 11 attacks, the establishment of Wikipedia , and the rise of Britney Spears. Here are the three of the famous/popular women who were born in 2001: Billie Eilish, Rowan Blanchard and Chloe East. (note that they turned 23 in 2024 and 24 in 2025). 1. Billie Eilish Billie Eilish is an American singer-songwriter who rose her fame with her debut single "Ocean Eyes" in 2015. Eilish scored her first number one single "Bad Guy" in 2019 from her debut album  When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? . In 2021 Eilish released her second album Happier than Ever , which features another chart-hitting single "Therefore I Am". Her most recent album, Hit Me Hard And Soft (2024) features two chart-hitters "Lunch" and "Birds Of A Feather". Eilish's older brother Finneas is also a record producer who worked for most of her (Eilish's) albums. Eilish also c...

2024 Belgian Grand Prix: Hamilton takes another historic win as Russell gets disqualified post-race

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Stavelot, WAL – The 2024 Belgian Grand Prix at the iconic Spa-Francorchamps Circuit brought another late race drama as the drivers will heading to the summer break before starting the 2nd half of the world championship at Zandvoort circuit in Dutch GP in late August. The 2024 Belgian Grand Prix saw the two Mercedes drivers George Russell and Sir Lewis Hamilton dominated the entire race as they fought each other for the victory until the checkered flag waved on the 44th lap of the race. And it was the no. 44 of Hamilton who came out victorious once again despite finished 2nd over the finish line; as his teammate, the no. 63 of Russell enjoyed his winning triumph that lasted by one hour, before the FIA later investigated that Russell's car was found underweight, thus disqualified Russell from the race. Hamilton (Mercedes) won his 105th career F1 race at the Belgian GP, the second T-most successful driver at the Belgian track (shared with Ayrton Senna) behind Michael Schumacher. Russe...

Adventures In Babysitting (2016): cars driven by Jenny and Lola

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NEW YORK – The 100th Disney Channel Original Movie Adventures In Babysitting stars Sabrina Carpenter as Jenny Parker and Sofia Carson as Lola Perez. The two actresses and singers needed their own driving licenses while driving during the film's production in April 2015; Carpenter was 16, while Carson was 22 at the time. And here are the two iconic cars driven by the two main characters of 2016 remake of 1987 film of the same name Adventures In Babysitting . 1. Toyota Prius (third generation) The third generation Toyota Prius driven by Jenny debuted as a compact liftback manufactured and marketed by Toyota, having launched in 2009 for model year 2010 at the January 2009 North American International Auto Show. Internally designated as model XW30 and replacing the XW20 series, sales began in Japan on May 18, 2009. Noted for its more aerodynamic bodywork and a claimed drag coefficient of Cd=0.25, an underbody rear fin helps stabilize the vehicle at higher speeds. The third generat...