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Behold: the Indian Scout Bobber Sixty – an all black, 999cc, cast-aluminium framed cruiser from Harley Davidson’s traditional rival in the US.
Yours for €14,990 here (and €8,000 in the US).
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Behold: the Citroën AMI Quadricycle – a tiny electric car that even 16 year olds will be qualified to drive (14 year olds in France).
On sale from this summer with a ‘light quadricycle’ designation that will not require a licence, the AMI is 2.4 meters long with a minimal interior, a top speed of 45km/h and 70km of range on a three hour full charge.
Dinky.
Yours for €6,000.
These are sandcastles.
The brutalist sedimentary architecture of artist and sandcastle maestro Calvin Seibert, conjured from nothing more than sand and water, smoothed and levelled by knife, trowel and hand. Sez he:
I always start at the top and work down, taking great care to keep the horizontals level. I pretty much make things up as I go along, allowing surprises and engineering difficulties to shape the castles.
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Behold: the Hyundai Prophecy – an aesthetic ‘Porsche-meets-Tesla-Model-3’ concept from the normally dowdy South Korean maker with ‘ideal’ proportions including an extended wheelbase, minimal overhangs and a streamlined aerodynamic profile.
The ‘Sensuous Sportiness’ continues with ‘pixelated’ taillights, cavernous passenger space, joystick controls and a pillar-to-pillar instrument display.
Whether the Prophecy will ever be completely fulfilled in production remains unclear but some version of this concept or its constituent parts will probably come to market soon.
It takes a special guy to rock an inflatable latex pant.
Behold: the work of 26 year old designer Harikrishnan, exhibited at this year’s London College of Fashion’s MA degree show.
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Behold: the Koenigsegg Gemera – a new class of supercar/luxury sedan hybrid the company is calling the ‘Mega-GT’.
Giant wing doors open onto a four-seat interior (Koenigsegg’s first) equipped with wireless phone chargers, on-board WiFi, an 11-speaker sound system, ‘infotainment’ displays front and rear and luggage space in the boot. Power comes from a 2.0l, 600bhp, twin turbo, three cylinder engine and three electric motors producing a further 1,100bhp, 0-100km/h in 1.9 seconds and a top speed of 400km/h.
Only 300 will be made at a yet to be announced, probably fairly hefty list price.
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Lord Of The Rings fan? Stickler for detail? Today’s your lucky day.
In the first instalment of a 6-part series on his superbly named blog ‘A Collection Of Unmitigated Pedantry’, military historian Bret Devereaux takes a very close look indeed at the Siege Of Gondor in Peter Jackson’s ‘Return Of The King’. To wit:
The army Sauron sends against Minas Tirith is absolutely vast – an army so vast that it cannot fit its entire force in the available frontage, so the army ends up stacking up in front of the city:
The books are vague on the total size of the orcish host (but we’ll come back to this), but interview material for the movies suggests that Peter Jackson’s CGI team assumed around 200,000 orcs. This army has to exit Minas Morgul – apparently as a single group – and then follow the road to the crossing at Osgiliath. Is this operational plan reasonable, from a transit perspective?
In a word: no.
READ ON: The Siege Of Gondor, Professionals Talk Logistics (ACOUP)