Category Archives: Design

Behold: The Greatest of all Alfa Romeo Spiders. this was Muhammed Ali’s 1976 runabout, owned and driven for several months by the 34 year old champ before he gave it as a gift to its current owner.

Complete with its original Ali-signed registration slip and currently accepting bids.

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Behold: The 1972 Maserati Ghibli SS Coupe – a 4.9l, V8 grand tourer with a top speed of 174mph (286km/h) – the fastest road going Maserati ever made.

This one, fully restored with a modest 72,000 miles (115,875km) on the clock can be yours for €263,000.

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Behold the Hubblephone – a virtually all-screen 5G clamshell due for release in 2020 from the ludicrously over-named Hong Kong company Turing Space Industries.

A 14.3 x 7.6 x 0.6cm  ‘main deck’ extends over the top and down the back of the phone with a 50MP, 15x optical zoom camera. An ‘upper deck’ with its own processor and GPU features a further two 12.6cm screens and three 12MP cameras. 

Yours for €2,400, if it ever sees the light of day.

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The Nissan S30, aka the Datsun 240Z – a nifty two seat coupe produced between 1969 and 1978, was one of the best selling sports cars ever made.

UK restoration company MZR offer a basic restoration of the Classic Edition or – as above – a forty update of the Sport Design. Available as 2.8l or 3.2l straight six with modern steering, suspension, air-con and (perhaps most usefully) a comprehensive rust treatment on the body shell.

Yours from €79,000 and upward.

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Born to be together: a superbly preserved straight-six, 4×4 1943 Dodge WC51 towing an equally well-presented Harley Davidson WL from the same year. The trailer is a faithful replica of similar units used during WW2.

Yours for €65,300 the pair.

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Behold: Galaxion – a firmly-in-the-realm-of-science-fiction concept grand tourer from designer Daniel Simon’s book Cosmic Motors.

Powered by a miniature fusion reactor with a chassis made from bioengineered mussel shells, the Galaxion is intended as a runabout for the aristocrats of some faraway planet.

Yours in your dreams.

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Behold: the ‘military edition’ of the  already fairly squaddy Rezvani Tank SUV.

All the zombie-thwarting muscle of the original 6.4l, V8 4×4 but with added B7 ballistic armour, kevlar shielded radiator and fuel tank and bombproof undercarriage.

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