Behold: the Austro Daimler Bergmeister ADR 630 Shooting Grand.
Austro Daimler -which made its last car in 1934 – was a subsidiary of the company that would go on to become Mercedes Benz in 1889. 85 years on, it’s back with this hybrid electric, all wheel drive, bubble-roofed, gullwinged 1,181bhp estate capable of 0-100km/h in 2.5 seconds and a top speed of 330km/h.
So now.
Price to be announced.
Behold: the 1965 Ford GT40 Roadster – or rather, one of twelve non-racing prototypes of the Le Mans conquering race car, and the only one to survive in mint condition.
Yours for between €6 and €8 million.
New hand-painted maps illustrating cinematic journeys by cartographer Andrew DeGraff.
(From top: Fargo; Mad Max: Fury Road; Guardians Of The Galaxy; Silence Of The Lambs; Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom; Labyrinth; Monty Python And The Holy Grail (with a key to the main characters); The Lord Of The Rings, The Shining and The Wizard of Oz.)
More of Andrew’s excellent Cinemaps here.
Previously: Plot Maps
Behold: tennis superstar Rafael Nadal’s recently commissioned 80 Sunreef Power luxury catamaran.
Fully customised with a high grade adjustable teak deck, bar, open kitchen, six cabins and garage filled with jet skis and other water toys, Nadal will take delivery sometime next year.
Ah, but will it make him happy though?
Probably, yes.
‘Freequences’ – another cakey zoetrope experience from the master of animated confectionary Alexandre Dubosc.
Careful – it might repeat on you.
Previously: Nomnomnomotrope
Behold: the Cliff Concept Boutique Hotel – a vertiginous five-tiered vision on the upper face of Preikestolen (‘Pulpit Rock’) 600 meters above Norway’s Lysefjord.
Every year, 200,000 visitors flock to Preikestolen to take in the spectacular view. Architectural design studio Hayriatak envisages an exclusive vantage where guests can take in the sights from rounded balconies and the glass walls of an infinity pool cantilevered over the fjord.
Behold: the Ecurie Ecosse LM69 – a street legal race car built to 1969 FIA regulations. But why, for pity’s sake?
In 1956 and 1957, Ecurie Ecosse – a small Scottish racing team – won the coveted Le Mans title with customised Jaguar D-Types. Shut down in the 1970s, then revived in the 1980s, the company remains in operation today and now plans to revive the prototype Jaguar XJ13 – the car Jaguar envisioned for Le Mans before abandoning the entire project.
The LM69 is a vision of what might have happened had Jaguar updated the XJ13 to race at Le Mans in 1969 (hence the name). 25 of these 5.0l, V12 racers will be made – the exact number required to homologate the car for competition under 1969 rules.
From top: Neue Rathaus Munich; Music Box Steps Los Angeles; Livraria Lello & Irmão bookstore, Porto, Portugal; Tianmen Shen Zhangjiajie China; Hotel Bristol Palace Genoa; Herefordshire Beacon Malvern Hills and The ‘Exorcist Stairs’ Washington, D.C.
