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The Luxury Super Car Event & Concours d’Elégance revs its V8s and wheel-spins into the stately, gravel drives of Syon Park. Debutantes to the manicured lawn this year include the new Lamborghini Aventador, promising a ‘time-travelling’ acceleration of 0-62 mph in a shade under three seconds, and the 268mph Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, although LUSSO’s…
This weekend saw the Goodwood Revival take place at Lord March’s Goodwood racetrack in south England. With the spirit of the 50s on display with racing, aircraft and people in classical dress, it’s not hard to see why this is the highlight of many motor racing fans’ years. Only at the Revival can a visitor…
During the last 20 years the car industry has seen an injection of SUVs from marques that, before, had spent their time honing sports cars and family cars. If you wanted a luxury 4×4 there was really only one place to look: the Range Rover. It still tops my sought after list. However, a gap…
Money can’t bring you happiness – as the Pink Floyd song doesn’t go. A cliché spun by the poor to give succour to a life of Travelodges and Nando’s? Very probably. Allegedly, psychologists have definitively worked out the time it takes for lottery winners to lose the glow of good fortune. It’s 12 months. That’s all…
We whip through the Blackwall Tunnel, exhausts flaring and roaring, enjoying the hum and purr of the monstrous engine restrained in this glowing rocket. Headlights flit-flit-flit through the central reservation but our eyes are on the lookout for Gatsos, flashing blue lights and undercover coppers. We’re encapsulated in a quiet pod, a super-smooth ride that’s…
When the driver of a Formula One car pulls out onto the track, he’s at the sharp end of a rolling annual $300 million investment. The teams are literally made of money and the sharing of technological know-how, and title-name prominence, is the obvious ROI for Vodafone-McLaren-Mercedes. But what persuades someone like Infiniti, a luxury…
Like every reader of LUSSO, I can tell the difference between a Pouilly Fuissé and a Pouilly Fumé without inhaling. I can distinguish between Gucci and Pucci with my eyes closed. I am, in other words, so profoundly sophisticated and so preternaturally cool that it sometimes gives me a headache. But very occasionally I wake…
At the Leggende e Passione sale, a Ferrari 250 TR classic car has broken the world record for the highest price paid at auction. The 1957 classic car sold for €9.02 million. The sale was held within the grounds of Ferrari’s Maranello factory and the TR was part of a large range of cars up…
With the communication age that we live in, and the huge network of companies such as Friends Reunited, avoiding contact with someone from your past can be difficult. Let’s face it, if you really wanted to stay in touch with anyone from your school days you would have make the concerted effort to do so,…