Italian supercar brand Lamborghini has designed this awesome Bike together with bikes’ specialist BMC Switzerland. Created for the 50th anniversary of Lamborghini and to keep it exclusive it’s creating only 50 Bikes. Only 7kg in weight and a price tag of 25.000 euros.
Jacques Fournier, who has designed some of the unique timepieces featured in ‘Only Watch’ Auction in Monaco, and more recently an achievement of excellence with the pentagonal shaped five timezone collection for Jacob & Co, has now manufactured his own exclusive avant-garde luxury sports watches with ‘Wryst Airborne.’ The collection features a real redefinition of sport timepieces with an unusual looking bold design and vibrant colors perfect for the Spring and year-round. The luxury sports watches are durable and sophisticated for every day wear.
Wryst Sports Watch
The brand has also introduced for the first time a DLC coating (Diamond-Like Carbon), as tough as diamond and used for aerospace & Formula 1 racecars engine parts, and a growing in popularity ‘K1′ crystal stronger than sapphire all together for an incredibly resistant timekeeper.
WRYST Timepieces
Equipped with a brand new gold plated 5 jewels Swiss quartz movement, you will wear the first chronograph with sub dials at 12h, 6h and 9h in the world.
Perfect for adrenaline addicts; Water-skiing, kite surfing, rock climbing, snowboarding or skydiving… this watch will never wear out and withstand the toughest situations and the most hostile natural environment thrown at you.
Wryst Watches
The FW3 green, FW4 yellow and FW5 orange are strictly available in limited edition of 75 pieces. But, if you prefer more casual color combinations, you can choose the Airborne FW6 with white dial and brushed stainless steel case (not in limited edition).
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The cup of coffee is simply getting more grand than one can think of, and its not because of the beverage inside. Its all about the coffee machine! From the luxuries and designing examples like Elektra Chrome Espresso machine, Concordia 2500E, the Racepresso, Xelsis Digital ID machine, and $20,000 Halogen coffee machine all show that the coveted beverage has not just gained fame for its quality beans, but machine which turn up the perfect cup. For those automobile geeks, Espresso Veloce brings the V10 and V12 coffee machines, modeled after the engines with similar configuration. From the aluminum, magnesium, and titanium which are regular materials in the motor racing world, these coffee machine bring in the soul of these vehicles right into one’s cip of coffee.
Like most things nice and beautiful, these machines will be made in a limited edition of 500 units each, but the price doesn’t seem to be floating on the horizon. From composite metallic work right from the iconic Ferrari engines, the look tickles the fantasy of every Formula 1 racing fan, with the oil filter shaped coffee filter, and the dispensers which resemble the spark plugs of the engine.
It was perhaps that the setting from The Southern Equitorial Ferrari Automobili Club in South Africa, which set the tone for showcasing these machines. So whether it’s a personal bar, office, creative corner of the home, or simply just a showpiece, these machine have surely come a long way from the conventional designs known.
Via: Espresso Veloce/ The Fancy Things
Saving energy in an automobile usually requires running a smaller engine, cutting weight and reducing aerodynamic drag to a minimum, and in the XL1, VW pushes all three steps to their modern limits. Power comes from a two-cylinder, 0.8-liter diesel — essentially half of VW’s standard 1.6-liter four-cylinder diesel plant — mounted in the rear of the XL1, linked to a 7-speed transmission, a 5.5 kWh lithium-ion battery and electric motor. The two-seat body of the XL1 has a 0.189 coefficient of drag (a Toyota Prius has a 0.25 Cd) and it weighs just 1,752 lbs., about half of a typical American midsize sedan.
That combination allows the XL1 to travel 31 miles on electricity alone, and over 310 miles on a tank of fuel, for what VW claims is a mileage rating of 261 mpg (or 313 mpg by European standards) — better than any other gas, diesel or electric-powered vehicle. That’s twice as efficient as the most miserly car for sale in the United States, the Scion iQ electric — which can only travel 38 miles on a full charge.
To build the XL1, Volkswagen also had to use engineering extremes usually not found outside a racetrack. The body of the XL1 will be made from carbon fiber, although using a process VW claims will be far cheaper than those applied by supercar builders such as Ferrari and Lamborghini. The XL1 will be assembled by hand in a special section of VW’s Osnabrueck factory in Germany. And to ensure the safety of the passengers in case the XL1 rolls over, the scissor doors can be blasted open with explosive bolts.
But that efficiency comes with a few sacrifices, with speed first among them. Together, the electric motor and engine produce 68 hp and 103 lb-ft of torque. VW says that’s enough to launch the XL1 to 62 mph in 12.7 seconds — although it suggests not doing so. Top speed is limited to 99 mph. And the two seat interior of the XL1 has to look stylish, because there’s nothing behind the seats; the XL1 will offer a limited amount of space under the hood. To save weight further, only a cutout of the windows roll down, like the old Subaru SVX.
Given the combination of exotic materials, engineering costs and low-speed, hand-built production, there’s no way the XL1 will make a profit for VW. It exists only due to the will of VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech — grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, the designer of the original Beetle — who has pushed VW to refine the idea of the XL1 for more than a decade. For all that VW revealed today, it didn’t announce prices, and that’s the one bit of data that will determine whether the XL1 makes sense as anything other than a corporate science project.
Via: Autos.yahoo.com
