Booked your Thames moorings for the summer? It might be worth making those calls as a report suggests that London is about to become the Superyacht Capital of the World. Well, for around three months or so, anyway. The double whammy of Diamond Jubilee and Olympics 2012 sees TripAdvisor name London the best place to…
For motor racing fans, there is no better event than the Goodwood Revival. It’s a fantastic weekend of racing, aircraft and nostalgia. It’s held at Goodwood circuit near Chichester on the south coast of England. LUSSO will of course be there. The Goodwood Revival came to life in the autumn of 1998 a dream come…
It’s no wonder HR Owen is such a successful dealership; not content with selling me two Lamborghinis and a Carrera GT in the last year and a half, more recently they decided I was a prime target for an even bigger fish. It was not long after I had taken delivery of the CGT when…
What do you get when you cross the most sublime driving experience with the best sailing materials? Regardless of what actually occurs there, the back of a Rolls-Royce Phantom has always been a sublime environment. From those deep, loving seats you could watch the world silently pass by, cocooned by double-glazed windows. I’ve been there,…
When I first saw references to ‘Rapier’ and ‘Javelin’ with regards to the Olympics, I thought they referred to specific field and track events, not guided missiles. Yet plans were recently unveiled regarding the siting of a StarStreak SAM battery on a water-tower at Bow Quarter in East London. Incidentally, as the mainstream press constantly…
If you thought previous Bentleys exemplified precision engineering, you’re due a rethink. The new Mulsanne is a beast in the body of… a barge perhaps. That sounds unflattering and shouldn’t, because it’s a very beautiful, lean, lithe barge. But it’s huge. Frankly it would have to be to feature all the lovely details you’d expect…
King Air. Even the name suggests a certain regal air of superiority, and when Brian Jones of NAC at Oxford told me that the only C90GT in Europe was stopping by and asked whether I would I like to fly it, you can be sure that I didn’t need asking twice. When photographer Steve and…
Experts come in many forms. When looking to purchase a home, whether it’s to be a main family residence or a weekend bolt hole in the country, we employ the services of a surveyor. No matter how perfect the place may look in your own eyes, it takes the opinion of someone else to actually…
As though connected together, the five sleek jets pivot perfectly around the horizon as a single rolling entity. We pull up into a loop, the G comes on strong, and for a second I wonder if I’m going to regret not wearing a G-suit. Sliding seamlessly into the next manoeuvre, with the five jets holding…
The Ducati 1098 poses something of a question: is it a) a World Super Bike with number plates or b) a road bike that somehow missed the point of road in the name? Either way, it commands the attention in a serious way and that’s just sitting still on the side stand. The looks are…