Category Archives: Design

Behold: the Triumph Scrambler 1200 Steve McQueen Edition – a celebration of the actor’s link with the marque, which featured heavily in his collection of over 200 hogs.

Based on the top of the line 1200 XE scrambler spec, the limited edition 1200cc bike is decked out in the competition green livery of the disguised TR6 Trophys famously featured in ‘The Great Escape’ (1963) with a vintage leather saddle, laser-etched McQueen signature and a unique serial number for each of 1000 models.

The bike will cost $16,400 in the US and probably more in the unlikely event of you ever cornering one this side of the pond.

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Behold: the 1988 Lamborghini Countach 5000 Quattrovalvole – designed by Marcello Gandini, it entered production in 1974 and spent the next two decades adorning the bedroom walls of teenage motorheads worldwide.

This American export, presented in the classic Nero over beige leather livery with gold wheels and accents, massive rear wing and flared fenders, is in immaculate condition and has even been divested of its line-wrecking US-spec bumpers.

Yours for $385,000 (€331,500) if you’re passing through Cleveland Ohio.

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Behold: the Segway APEX H2 – production-ready concept electric motorcycle scheduled for release in 2023. Powered by a hybrid electric-hydrogen powertrain with swappable replacement hydrogen canisters, the Tron-Like APEX has a minimalistic mono-posto tail, wide-section tires, single-sided swing-arm and hub-center-steered single-sided front-end. 

It will do 0-100km/h in less than 4 seconds with a top speed of 150km/h.

And it’s yours for $10,700 (€8,980) in the US and, no doubt, more than that elsewhere.

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A mesmerising, undulating kinetic artwork by Scale Collective created for the Constellations Festival in Metz, northeast France.

A ring of forty eight 1.5m long light rods, 40cm apart, each connected to a single motorised mechanism controlled by a viewer interface that spins the rods to create synchronised patterns.

But you knew that.

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Behold: the 1980 Lancia Rally 037 – a high-performance, mid-engined successor to the Delta S4 developed by Pininfarina, Abarth, and Dallara for Group B racing, it would be the last rear wheeled car to win the World Rally Championship.

037s are extremely rare and this vehicle is the original factory prototype vehicle, making it something of an icon.

Comprehesively restored having already gone under the hammer for €355,000 in 2016, the car returns to auction in Milan this June where it will no doubt be yours for considerably more.

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