Behold: the Canoo Multi Purpose Delvery Vehicle – an all-electric 200bhp van with a 480km full charge range, available in two accommodating variants: the MPDV1 with 6.5m³ of internal storage room and the MPDV2 with 14m³.
Boxy, good and yours to preorder for €27,000 for the base model (plus shipping).
Joshua Sokol writes in the New York Times:
Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, the map style favored by National Geographic, dates to 1921. And the Dymaxion map, hyped by the architect Buckminster Fuller, debuted in a 1943 issue of Life.
Enter: a brash new world map vying for global domination.
MORE: Can This New Map Fix Our Distorted Views of the World? (NYT)
Probably not, but still…
The vision of Sri Lankan-based architect and 3D artist Thilina Liyanage, Ocean cabin is (or rather, would be) an oceanfront retreat ‘at the edge of the world’.
Accessed by a stairway wrapped around a massive rock. the cabin itself is an A-Frame supported by stilts featuring a living space with a sleeping mezzanine above. Clearly it’s all about the view and so, true to the axiomatic triplet of real estate, what really matters is location, location, location.
Behold: the Rolls Royce Phantom Tempus – an even more luxurious version of the current top of the range Roller.
Resplendent in Kairos Blue, the Tempus is decked out with a ‘Starlight’ headliner offering a scenic view of deep-space with swirling star motifs in the doors. The front dash features what the designers refer to as a “Frozen Flow of Time” – 100 hand-polished columns milled from a single aluminium billet, representing the 100 million year rotation of a pulsar star, if you don’t mind.
Only 20 will be made and they’re all spoken for.
Behold: the 1974 Lancia Stratos HF Stradale – the road-going version of the Group 4 World Rally Championship dominating Bertone designed cuneo of the 1970s.
This vehicle, with just 6,632km on the clock, complete with its 2,418cc Ferrari V6 engine and full documentation might just be the best preserved survivor of the 492 ever built.
Yours for €560,000.
Behold: the Bugatti Centodieci – a prototype hypercar inspired by the wedge-shaped E110 of the 1990s
First debuted in 2019, the Centodieci has an 8.0l, quad-turbo W16 that’s expected to produce a staggering 1600bhp, accelerating to 100km/h in 2.4 seconds.
Yours for a mere €8.2 million, were you one of the handful of billionaires to have already pre-booked the entire production run.
Behold: the spectacular 50,000 book library of the Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokyo, designed by architect Kengo Kuma.
Opened this year, the functioning collection forms the towering backdrop to a theatre and performance space illuminated by projection-mapping technology that imbues the monolithic shelves with a candy-coloured glow.
Behold: the Aston Martin DB5 Vantage Convertible – the topless variant of the 1964 Silver Birch coupe made famous in various Bond films.
This vehicle – resplendent in Peony Red with a tan Connolly leather interior and camel Wilton wool carpets – is one of only seven made with a Vantage powered 325bhp inline six engine. Over its lifetime, a fully documented €165,000 has been spent on restoration, hence the pristine condition.
Yours for at least €1,070,000.
