Wheelies: The Culled Classics Edition After nearly two decades as a museum and vault dedicated to preserving Southern California's automotive history, the Petersen Automotive Museum is selling more than 100 cars in its 400-car collection. While some of the outgoing vehicles aren't what many would consider historically significant - modern supercars like as a 1995 Ferrari F50 and a 2006 Bugatti Veyron - some of those to be culled have people wondering if the museum will depart from the original vision of the late magazine publisher Robert Petersen, the museum's founder. Among the cars scheduled for liquidation are a 1999 Shelby Series 1 built to honor the designer Carroll Shelby's 75th birthday, and one of the 1963 Volkswagen "Herbie" Beetles that starred in the 1968 film, "The Love Bug." For its part, the museum says it can raise up to $5 million from the sales, which will finance upgrades and new displays likely to include more French cars and motorcycles. According to The Los Angeles Times, the museum's executive director owns a motorcycle company and its new board chairman runs a museum that specializes in French cars. The Los Angeles Times Nissan says it will begin making cars in China destined for the global market. The automaker just opened a design center in Beijing, which it says is aimed at creating Chinese-inspired models that people in other countries will find appealing. Shiro Nakamura, Nissan's global design chief, said that the company's Beijing-based staff - most of whom are Chinese - will create a global platform within the next two years. Your typical riding lawn mower has enough power to move itself across the yard in a few minutes, and maybe down the street in front of the house at a light-breeze-in-your-face pace. Not Honda's Mean Mower. With a 100-horsepower, 1-liter VTR firestorm engine, a 6-speed, paddle shifted transmission and a paltry 309-pound curb weight, it's the sort of mower that Forrest Gump could have used to run circles around the Crimson Tide's fastest sprinters. According to Autoblog, Honda says the HF2620-based Mean Mower will sprint from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 4 seconds, to a top speed of more than 100 m.p.h. Not that it would be cutting much grass at such a clip. Hyundai may join the ever-growing compact crossover utility vehicle market soon, according to a report by Edmunds. John Krafcik, chief executive officer of Hyundai Motor America, said at a news conference last week that the Korean automaker was underrepresented in the lucrative crossover segment. Although Hyundai doesn't yet have plans to bring a new, smaller C.U.V. to the North American market, Mr. Krafcik said that based upon market trends, an offering smaller than its Tucson is a possibility. Edmunds Back in April, an Indiana man presented his father with a special present: The 1972 Ford Mustang Mach 1 that had been his first car. The father had been looking for his old ride for a while, but the son found it first and surprised his dad with it. The video has been on YouTube for a while, but recently surfaced on Reddit, generating more than 1,600 comments in a day. Internet fame or no, it's a touching story. Gawker