Alfa Romero is planning to unveil two new models at the Paris Motor Show next week — the MiTo SBK Limited Edition 1 and MiTo Superbike Special Series — created to mark Alfa Romeo’s sponsorship of the Superbike championship. The MiTo SBK Limited Edition one has a 1.4-liter 170PS QV engine that’ll take you from […]
Bell & Ross have preserved the enchantment of vintage timepieces with the PW1 and WW1 watch collection — which we covered almost exactly a year ago. Now they’ve sublimated those simple timepieces by manifesting them in a new oxidation-resistant alloy, Argentium. Doing so, the American watchmaker revives a common metal’s nobility allowing us to re-evaluate […]
As a pioneer in the implementation of titanium in watchmaking, TAG Heuer’s vaunted Research & Development team has now developed a process enabling the use of Titanium Grade 5 — a lightweight but difficult to employ alloy normally used in aircrafts, turbines and surgical implants — in the case construction of the Monaco V4 Titanium […]
Although the first all new Scion to hit the US market since the tC way back in 2004, the iQ is hardly new. In fact, it’s been zipping through crowded cityscapes in Europe and Japan since 2008, the year it won Car Of the Year in the land of the rising sun. But it is […]
Venice Beach manufacturer LINUS uses French and Italian bicycle designs of the 1950s and ’60s as inspiration for their simple and dependable city bikes. As bike culture grows evermore from LA to Portland and Denver to NYC, new companies seem to crop up everywhere, but few have put as much thought and personality into the […]
Yesterday it was the Aston Martin V12 Zagato tribute, and today it’s BMW’s turn to play their homage card. Their new 328 Hommage was crafted to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of BMW’s watershed 328 line, the sports coupé that helped define the Bavarian Motor Works very brand. Similar to the go-kart like Weismann Spyder Concept […]
Who needs to dig out a turkey anymore when you’re hard up for good luck? Now you can carry a wishbone around your neck all the time without ever having to break it in two, thereby making an already odd superstition sort of moot. The charm measures 13.5″x6.5″x2.25, is made from a 24k gold-plated alloy […]
In order to celebrate the upcoming launch of its new Range Rover Evoque (see below), Land Rover’s design department has crafted a bicycle ostensibly built to match with its more active lifestyle SUV. The luxury British brand’s aerodynamically-optimized frame is made entirely of carbon fiber, and was created using F1-derived technology by premier carbon bike […]