Category Archives: Design

Behold the Ferrari Portofino, a lightweight, 592bhp, V8 turbo with retractable hardtop that will accelerate to 100km/h in 3.5 seconds and on to a top speed of 320km/h.

Apparently intended by FCA boss Sergio Marchionne as a rebuke to the problematic (since recalled) Ferrari California, the Portofino will debut at next month’s Frankfurt International Motor Show, resplendent in an all-new shade of cavallino rampante red – Rosso Portofino.

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Perched on stilts on a cliff overlooking the Pacific near Elk, California, the Shoreline Highway House is a mid-century two-bedroomed ‘holiday home’ decorated in redwood and red brick, connected by an extensive deck to a one bed guest ‘cottage’.

Yours for $1.975 million (€1.68m)

Sure you wouldn’t get a shed in Dalkey for that, etc.

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Behold the 2018 BMW Z4 or something very similar to it.

Long, low, more aggressive in stance than its curvy predecessor, which went out of production last summer, its lines unchanged since 2009.

The new Z4 will be launched at Monteray Car Week next August. Price tba.

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The sumptuous Mendl’s pastry featured in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel – brought to mouthwatering life by Binging With Babish and in a short feature from the film’s DVD extras.

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