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The 2015 MTI Racing Boat: no ordinary racing boat.

Unless your idea of ordinary is a fully air-conditioned cockpit, a 40,000-watt ‘interior and exterior’ stereo, eight leather seats, video entertainment monitors and LED lighting.

Or the five-point restraints, escape hatches, and integrated roll cage necessitated by a terrifying 156 knot (290km/h, 180mph) top speed, achieved by the joint effort of two 1,350hp QC4V Mercury Racing engines.

In which case, it’s a fairly run of the mill speedboat.

Currently accepting bids.

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Uli Westphal’s Elephas Anthropogenus project – a collection of images depicting how Europeans imagined elephants from the Fall of Rome to the end of the Rennaissance. to wit:

After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe. Since there was no real knowledge of how this animal actually looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant, thus reinventing an actual existing creature.

MORE: Elephas Anthropogenus

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A street legal conversion kit for the 800bhp, V12 track only Aston Martin Vulcan created by RML Group.

Only 24 Vulcans were ever made. Each costs around €2,500,000 so naturally, you’ll want to buy one with (among other things) a reconfigured engine, gear ratio and suspension, windscreen wipers and licence plate holder in order to nip down the shops.

That said, RML will reconvert the road going car (left, above) to racing spec (right, above) should the owner require it.

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