Category Archives: Design
Social Decay
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Aging motel signage for when social media is eventually replaced by the next big thing, by Andrei Lacatusu
Hot Keels
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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.
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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Behold the snaky aplomb of the the SerpaS Sports Car – designed by Camal Studio and commissioned by Monza-based Aznom Automotive – a lightweight carbon fibre and hammered aluminium V8, 350bhp ‘pure racer’ with a leather/carbon fibre interior tailored to the requirements of each owner.
Price on application.
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A convertible 1967 Ferrari 330 GTS – one of only 99 produced.
Yours for between €1,700,000 and €2,000,000.
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The World Rally Championship bothering 1974 Lancia Stratos HF Stradale. This is one of the 492 road-going versions – fully documented and complete with its original Ferrari Dino 2.4-liter V6 and five-speed manual transmission.
Currently accepting bids and yours for something north of €304,000.
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Behold: the Bugatti Type 55 Roadster – possibly the most advanced car on the planet. In 1931.
Based on the Type 45 and Type 47 Grand Prix race cars, it had a straight 8 supercharged engine and (previously unheard-of) alloy wheels.
This beautifully restored vehicle was the first T55 ever made which explains the cost.
A mere €3.4+ million.