Hear the horsepower and exhaust as the car owners rev up the engines.

High Performance Motor Sports Organization (HPMSO) is having their 10th annual car show in the parking lot in front of the Timme Center during Ferris Fest on April 25.

The car show will display a variety of cars, trucks, bikes, and classic vehicles.

“I went to the show last year, and it was really cool,” said FSU student and automotive service and engineering technology major Steve Somers. “There was a wide variety of cars there, and the exhaust competition was sweet to watch.”

Music will be playing all day, and the annual Car Bash Event will be held during the show as well. The Car Bash event follows its name; people bash a beat up car and hope to get the biggest dent to win a prize.

Prizes will be given out via a $1 raffle before trophies are distributed, and the annual competition for the loudest exhaust will take place. Raffle participants must be present to win.

HPMSO Vice President Nick Redding said, “The judges of the competition will be judging each car based on the quality of the exhaust and how loud the exhaust can get.”

Nikki Martyniuk, public relations director of this show said the exhaust of each car contestant will be read using a bass track. The decibel reading of the exhaust when the engine is revved will determine which exhaust is the loudest.

Redding mentioned that last year around 45 to 50 cars were on display and has high hopes of seeing just as many this year.

The cars of the show will be separated into their different classes: Best 4x4, Late Model, Sport Compacts, Best Beater, Best Classic Car or Truck made before 1981, Best Bike, and Best of Show.

Judging for the competition begins at noon, the competition begins at 1 p.m, and trophies will be handed out at 4 p.m.

Each car must be pre-registered on or before the show. Early registration can be done via email to hpmso@hotmail. com for $8. Early registration must be done by 5 p.m. on April 23. Registration on April 25 can be done only from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. for $10 at The Gate. A $2 late fee is admitted for any registration put in after 11:30 a.m.

For anyone interested in joining HPMSO or for more information on the car show contact Redding at hpmso@hotmail.

If Jason Statham is the greatest B-movie action star of our day (and he is), then the “Crank” movies are his showcase. These gonzo, amoral, politically incorrect rides put the ripped, bald and mean Statham through his paces like nothing else in his action repertoire.

And unlike the decline and fall of “The Transporter” series, the latest “Crank” shows few signs of slacking off the pace.

We know Chev Chelios died at the end of “Crank,” plummeting to his death as he pummeled his nemesis mid-fall. In “Crank: High Voltage,” Chev has been scooped off the street and kept alive for organ harvest by Chinese doctors working in the back of a Chinatown brothel. Chev (Statham) wakes up post-op, realizes he has an artificial heart and quickly learns from his underworld surgeon pal (Dwight Yoakam, on his game) that he needs to get his real heart back and that he has about an hour to do it, depending on stops for re-jolting the apparatus in his chest.

“Juice me.”

Many characters from “Crank” take a second bow in this blast through a manic hour in L.A.’s strip clubs, brothels, horse tracks and gay bars. Corey Haim is now the bouncer who watches over pole-dancer Eve (Amy Smart, naked again, fearless and hilarious). Kaylo is dead, but his gay brother (Efren Ramirez) who suffers from “full body Tourette’s” is here to help Chev. As is the nuttiest, trashiest hooker on the streets, Rai (Bai Ling, taking a stereotype to hysterical extremes).

And Chev needs the help. He has cars to hijack, Latin and Chinese villains to shoot or pound, cops to fend off and a little ice chest that he figures has his heart in it to retrieve.

Cameos pepper this sequel. Porn stars walk a porn star actor’s picket line (Ron Jeremy among them) and David Carradine goofs on his “Kung Fu” miscasting (he’s an aged Chinese gang lord). And was that John de Lancie (“Star Trek’s” Q) as a cynical, profane newscaster?

At every turn, Chev, the British-born hit man who is all but impossible to kill, slaps, stabs, punches and pistol whips everyone who gets in his way. When he sodomizes a hefty villain with a shotgun in an early scene, you can’t help but remember how amusingly amoral and over the top the original “Crank” was. Tarantino and company tried to make a “Grindhouse” movie. These filmmakers actually did.

Statham was defiantly unapologetic about doing these movies the one time I asked him about them _ “I love those guys!” Those guys being codirectors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, jump-cut kings who chop-chop-chop until the movie jerks to life like Frankenstein’s monster getting “the juice.” The movie is a cartoon of action, slap-happy captions and subtitles, Looney Toons sound effects and horrific violence. It’s the closest thing the movies have ever seen to a video game transformed into a movie. Here’s the quest, here’s who you have to kill to achieve it, here’s your time limit. Gamers should be “Crank’s” biggest fans.

A good idea _ a flashback to Chev’s video-game-addicted youth, a violent lad worth interviewing on British tabloid TV, even at 12.

A good idea abandoned— Chev’s English slang, explained in captions, “Strawberry tart” (heart), “sausage Nigels” (figure it out). The film presents the guy as a bigot at war with a world of gay and brown and yellow people. “Mighty white of you” is the one publishable put-down.

It’s so amped up that “High Voltage” suffers its own energy shortage well before the finale. It’s also every bit as stupid as it sounds.

But when the book is finally written on the career of Jason Statham, it won’t be the flashy Guy Ritchie debut (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”) or the hard-nosed “Bank Job” he’ll be remembered for. A scowling coiledspring of an actor, he needs a “Crank” surrounding him just to keep up.

The father of the nine-yearold girl who played the young version of lead female Latika in “Slumdog Millionare” has reportedly put his daughter up for sale, according to E!Online.

The father, Rafiq Qureshi, unknowingly talked with British Tabloid News of the World recently, stating that the family had never received money that they had been told they would receive from the making of this year’s Academy Award winning movie.

News of the World had staged numerous meetings with Qureshi and other members of the family with young Rubina Ali in tow after being tipped off that the family was looking to sell their daughter, who is famous in Mumbai and around the world.

In an attempt to escape the slums of the Indian city of Mumbai, it has been reported that the man was trying to sell his daughter, Rubina Ali, for an estimated $300,000, which was actually four times the original amount he was asking for.

Qureshi claims that the families were given a small amount of money before production started (around $3,000) but then never saw anything after the movie was completed.

According to News of the World, Qureshi claims that the pressure of Hollywood is what caused him to try to put his daughter up for sale.

However, according to a recent news story, “Slumdog” director Danny Boyle recently gave large amounts of money to Plan, an Indian children’s charity, as well as paying for education and housing for both Ali and her co-star, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail.

The movie had been previously criticized when the actors received a small amount of pay for the hugely successful movie. This delay in payment was actually caused by the film’s success, according to the Guardian.

There were also initial worries that the parents of the child stars may use the money for things other than their children’s future. These worries were proven true when Qureshi admitted to spending Ali’s money on hospital fees and the purchase of a mobile phone for himself.

According to the Guardian, “The filmmakers…have appointed three trustees with long experience in social services to manage a trust fund for the two children. They said the children can tap the trust funds after they graduate from high school.”

The Guardian states that the sale of children is common in India, where over 11 million children are abandoned and more are sold as workers, often being camel jockeys or even prostitutes.

As of press time, Qureshi is reported to have been arrested, according to the Sun.