January 31, 2008
This one of a kind Mustang has a little bit of everything in it. It's powered by a twin supercharged and intercooled EFI engine that offers 800+HP on pump gas with over 1,000+ HP is possible w/tuning. A fully integrated tube chassis with roll bar easily handles the power while a NASCAR style belly pan provides high speed aerodynamics. Formula One style paddle shifters enable lightning fast and consistent gear changes. Enormous Brembo four wheel disc brakes with hydro boost provide fade-free stopping power in a hurry.
Inside, you’ll find power everything with bone chilling air conditioning. To ensure the highest level of your entertainment experience there is a 3,000 watt Kicker stereo system with Dolby 5.1 surround sound, DVD navigation, MP3, iPod, XM Radio, 60GB hard drive, Bluetooth and HomeLink. There’s even WiFi Internet access wherever your journey takes you. The cockpit is wrapped in the finest leather. Seating is fully adjustable with lumbar support, electronic control and heating. To keep the outside world from coming in and to provide the ultimate in year round comfort, the interior is fully lined with the latest in sound proofing and heat insulation. The latest instrumentation with Chameleon lighting provide vital statistics and allow you to adjust to just the right look. A touch screen LCD is integrated into the cars fuel injection system, stereo electronics and diagnostics. With access to a chassis dyno, you can precisely tune the engine from the cockpit. A fully integrated yet easy to operate security system ensures it stays in your possession. Lastly, full documentation ensures the ease of service and helps protect your investment.
Only one of these will be made, and the price tag is a hefty $1.3 million.
You can see more pictures of the car at the Luxury Launches site HERE.
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January 31, 2008
From the press release:
Virgin Galactic today unveiled the design of its new, environmentally benign, space launch system based on the X Prize winning technology of SpaceShipOne, which successfully flew into space for the third time in October 2004 and won the $10m Ansari X Prize.
The construction of the White Knight Two (WK2) mothership, or carrier aircraft, is now very close to completion at Scaled Composites in Mojave, CA and is expected to begin flight testing in the summer of 2008. It is the world’s largest, all carbon composite aircraft; it has a unique high altitude lift capacity, capable of launching SpaceShipTwo and its eight astronauts into sub-orbital space flight.
Whilst the two vehicles comprising the space launch system have been under construction, Virgin Galactic’s cadre of future astronauts has continued to grow strongly to well in excess of 200 individuals with around 85,000 registrations of interest to fly. The deposit base now exceeds $30m representing more than $45m of future income to the fledgling spaceline.
Virgin Galactic will make further announcements regarding the progress of the launch system, development of its markets, the test flying program and start of commercial operations at Spaceport America in due course.
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January 30, 2008
Icehotel, billed as world’s first ever ice hotel, has hosted more than 200,000 people in the past 17 years. The hotel opened for it's 18th season on 7 Dec., 2007 and will have over 29,000 people visit it's 80 ice rooms, bar and chapel this season. The creation of this hotel begins every year in November using only the crystal clear ice from the Torne River near the village of Jukkasjarvi in Sweden. The hotel will be open until mid April, and then of course begin to melt as summer approaches.
You can read more about the Icehotel at their home site HERE.
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January 30, 2008
This year the graduate students from the Instituto Europeo di Designare are coming to Geneva with a full-size concept Maserati. The Chicane concept is the students idea of what the upcoming entry-level Maserati sports coupe could look like. The Chicane is a 2+2 with a front-mounted V8 driving the rear wheels, but the IED students have departed somewhat from the GranTurismo in favor of more sports car look by making the Chicane shorter than the Pininfarina-designed GT, losing a lot of the chrome, and giving the vehicle recessed headlights.
You can read more about the concept at the Autoblog HERE and Car Body Design HERE.
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January 29, 2008
Two of the very best bouts of 2007 featured two epic super bantamweight wars between Israel "Magnifico" Vazquez and Rafael Marquez. That duo is set to join the pantheon of other boxing trifectas when they square off again on Saturday March 1, from The Home Depot Center in Carson, California.
Looking forward to this one.
You can read more about the upcoming fight, and a recap of the two previous ones, over at the Boxing Times HERE.
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January 29, 2008
Deutsche Bank has taken the initial steps toward foreclosure on the $3 billion Cosmopolitan Casino project. The developer and owner Ian Bruce Eichner is looking to find new investors, but the construction loan from Deutsche Bank of $760 million has fallen into default, putting the whole project at risk. The massive hotel and casino is still under construction at the moment, with a planned launch for 2009, which was pushed back from it's original 2008 opening. The project is located between the Bellagio casino resort and the CityCenter casino complex on the Las Vegas Strip, and was different in that about 3,000 hotel rooms were to be condo-hotels.
You can view several pictures of the construction site over at Las Vegas Rex HERE.
(via Luxist)
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January 24, 2008
Sentient Jet is offering it's members impressive Super Bowl packages, complete with some impressive perks. The Bowl package includes seats on the 50-yard line, a 4 night stay in a five-star hotel, a VIP entrance to the game, free access to The NFL Experience (games, entertainment, autograph sessions, etc), and a Super Bowl XLII gift bag. You can even add more to your trip, like dinner reservations, golf outings, spa treatments, and so on.
Packages start at $9399 per person, and you can find out more at the Sentient site HERE.
(via Luxist)
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January 23, 2008
The image to the right is the newly announced MC1. According to its developers, the new model will be powered by a mid-engined 600hp V10 engine. The prototype sits lower than a Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 and is also a little more narrow. It will sport 21-inch wheels and features a full carbon-fiber monocoque body with scissor-style doors. At its rear, the design sports a set of vertical taillights and matching vertically stacked exhaust pipes.
You can read a little more about the upcoming car over at Motor Authority HERE.
No word when the car will hit the market, let alone how much it will cost, but if it looks half as good as the above image, it should make quite a splash.
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January 23, 2008
Whiskey Run Creek Vineyard and Winery, located in just outside Brownville, Nebraska sits on 3.8 acres, and consists of a 100-year-old, 2,000 square-foot barn with the front and two sides decked; a 5,400 square-foot steel production building with a front-loading dock, a more than 100-year-old, 1,200 square-foot brick cave, a wishing well and a waterfall, and is currently for sale, for $1,600,000.
The winery has the capacity to produce up to 10,000 gallons of wine per year. Current inventory includes 4,260 cases of bottled wine and 2,500 gallons in bulk. It has approximately 60 vines of both Chardonel and Chambourcin which make up the producing vineyard on a quarter acre just outside the barn.The barn tasting room, set over Whiskey Run Creek, has a loft with an open floor plan that holds tables, chairs and built-in perimeter seating. Oak flooring and cedar wall siding are used throughout the barn. The winery production building includes a grape crusher, stainless steel casks capable of simultaneously producing eight different wine varieties, a full laboratory, office, restroom and storage area.
Eight miles away is another Curttright property totaling 122 acres, including a house and machine shed. Five acres are planted to grapes and fruit, including 3.5 acres under cultivation by the University of Nebraska. This property is also on the market, for an asking price of $650,000. The winery sources grapes and other fruit from neighboring farms, which have planted about 26 acres of vineyards.
For more information, you can hit their main site HERE and look around.
(via Luxist)
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January 22, 2008
Set to open in London sometime in 2011 is a $40 million wave machine provides six-foot waves to surfers. The plan is to persuade surfers to take to their boards in Tower Hamlets rather than make the long drive to the West Country.Water sports enthusiasts will be charged a fee of $60-an-hour to urban surf.
Duncan Scott, 29, the chairman of the British Surfing Association and a professional surfer, said the urban sites have a future. "Everything about the experience is fake, but the fun is real," said Scott, who has tackled artificial waves in Japan and South Africa. "Some think high-performance surfing will only really develop when we can artificially replicate the same wave again and again allowing us to perfect manoeuvres which we can then take out into real waves. It won't replace ocean surfing but it will be a good stop-gap, especially if you have to take a gamble and drive five hours to Cornwall from London. You can very easily get there and find a howling onshore wind [which ruins the waves]."
(Via Trend Hunter)
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