With a 3.7-liter twin-turbo flat-six delivering 740 horsepower, it’s claimed to reach 62 miles per hour in a scant 2.8 seconds on its way to a top speed of 245 mph. It also carries an astronomic price tag of $3.4 million that could only be afforded by the richest oil barons in the fiefdoms of the Persian Gulf – and, ... Read More »
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has brought Serenity to this year’s Geneva International Motor Show, unveiling the new standard in authentic, bespoke luxury motoring to the world’s media.Showcasing the tireless efforts of the Bespoke designers and craftspeople at the Home of Rolls-Royce at Goodwood to “Take the best that exists and make it better,” Serenity introduces a completely new level of individualised ... Read More »
A 1907 Harley-Davidson Strap Tank recently sold for US$650,000 during a sale held by Mecum Auctions. These earliest Harley-Davidson ‘strap tank’ models are the rarest and most coveted of all Milwaukee machinery, and this 1907 model is one of the first 207 built, including the prototypes. The serial number (#2037) suggests it is the 37th Harley-Davidson built in 1907, making ... Read More »
Remember a couple of months ago we wrote about how the 1977 Lotus Esprit 007 Submarine was going up for sale at RM Auctions? Yes well, the auction’s over. After a fervent bidding battle that can only be worthy of James Bond’s wondermobile from The Spy Who Loved Me, it sold for £616,000 (about US$968,000) to a telephone bidder.Raymond Benson, ... Read More »
Maserati is an Italian luxury car manufacturer established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna. The Maserati tagline is “Luxury, sports and style cast in exclusive cars”,and the brand’s mission statement is to “Build ultra-luxury performance automobiles with timeless Italian style, accommodating bespoke interiors, and effortless, signature sounding power”. Base MSRP: $183,809 Read More »
If you’re a real stickler, you can make sure to travel with licensed cabbies, who drive either yellow or green cars or have an official-looking sticker on their windshield. But most people don’t seem to care. And you won’t either. In metro lingo, getting to where you need to go might involve “transferring” from one taxi terminal (or hotspot) to ... Read More »
Naturally, the folks from Stuttgart couldn’t sit idly by and let their Bavarian rivals be unchallenged in a market segment. Which is why late last year, Mercedes armed itself with the 2016 GLE Coupe as its weapon against the X6. Now, Mercedes followed up with a new X4 fighter — the GLC Coupe Concept— at the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show. ... Read More »
Vintage Electric Bikes releases their 2nd model the CRUZ, with 50 limited edition bikes available on a first-come first-serve basis.California based Vintage Electric™ wheeled onto the Electric Bike scene in August of 2013 with the debut of their flagship model the E-Tracker. The bike gained widespread attention as the “E-Flyer”, a bespoke E-Tracker created by Vintage Electric for car manufacturer ... Read More »
€3,400,000 or nearly US$3.7 million, excluding German sales tax (VAT at 19 per cent)! There’s no denying that its creator, All Naeemi, spent boatloads of man-hours and money to build this custom Pontiac Trans Am – and good for him, but the selling price is just as surreal as the car itself. Read More »
Over the years, there have been thousands of car models, some very beautiful, many more less so. Others have been extremely fast, spacious, capable, etc. The car has typically evolved with most manufacturers content to imitate rather than revolutionize. It makes sense after all, as there is no risk in being conservative. But few have been truly innovative and revolutionized ... Read More »
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