Remember the Aspid GT-21 Invictus 450-HP Supercar? Well Aspid’s not the only Spanish supercar builder alive and kicking as Spania demonstrated at the Geneva Motor Show this year. The Iberian automaker unveiled its 900-horsepower GTA Spano, a heavily carbon fiber filled beast aiming its twin-turbocharged 8.4-liter V10 at the likes of the Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren [...]

Fantasmes formed between Mario Negrón and Darío Morales a few years after meeting one another at high school where they lived in Puerto Rico. Mario released an EP on his own, The Reveller, and soon asked Darío to join the band. After they began working together, however, Mario battled bouts of depression while bandmate Darío relocated to [...]

Spanish boutique coachbuilders Tramontana have already established themselves with their fine line of handbuilt supercars, highlighted by the topless Tramontana S and closed-roof Tramontana R models. Now they are ramping up the contest with their halo Tramontana XTR — a similarly mid-mounted burner clearly aimed at the racetrack. Powered by a Mercedes-Benz V12, the twin-turbocharged engine [...]

After decades of extended war with neighbor Israel, Lebanon has slowly climbed out of its desperate strife to become a burgeoning regional economic force. There is no surer sign of its potent recovery than the fact that the country has announced its first hypercar and supercar automotive manucaturer: W Motors. Following the upstarts of other [...]

While all sorts of countries from around the world are getting into the Supercar market — such as Poland with its Arrinera De Veno, India its DC Design Avanti, and Mexico its Mastretta MXT — Spain has kept conspicuously out of the dialogue. Not any more. Spanish auto manufacturing startup Aspid has just unveiled its plans [...]

Yves Saint Laurent’s Raspberry Python Malibu high-top sneakers are 80% python and 20% patent leather with a python body and patent leather spats and trim. This combo makes for a sleek shine that might not make the cut for your go-to daily sneaker but would look good with a tux or suit — provided it’s [...]

TASCHEN has taken it upon themselves the horrible chore of traveling around the world — North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia — to photograph 100 home interiors representing a variety of contemporary styles for this TASCHEN 25 Edition 100 Interiors Around the World book. Interior decorations give a dwelling and its inhabitants [...]

As we previewed a couple weeks back, LIAS correspondent Freddi C braves the wilds of Sonar Festival in Barcelona, and lives to tell the tale… Well, I’ve finally recovered from Sonar and already the weekend here is madness again. It sounds like I’m in the middle of a war zone — loud, and I mean [...]