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• Cadillac Built A Car Stereo So Good That Mixing Engineers Now Use As A Reference

  04-06-2026 03:45 via dmarge.com
  
  I gave house music a proper go. Six years of it. I'd write a track in the studio, then jump in the car and drive home to hear whether the mix actually held up. That was the real test. If it survived the commute, it was finished. If it fell apart somewhere on the drive, back to the desk.
  So I know what I'm chasing when I get into a car and press play. I also know the familiar disappointment that usually follows.Then I spent four days with the Cadillac VISTIQ in Melbourne.
  Hand on heart, I have n
  
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• The Floating City That Wants To Put 80,000 People At Sea

  05-06-2026 03:38 via dmarge.com
  
  Cruise ships have spent the past two decades getting bigger. The Freedom Ship wants to make them look small.
  Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas can carry around 7,600 passengers and has enough restaurants, pools and attractions to make some holiday resorts look undercooked. Yet even that floating giant starts looking surprisingly small when you place it next to the latest plans for the Freedom Ship.
  And that's because the Freedom Ship is not really trying to be a cruise ship at all. It wants to
  
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• Rolex Just Gave Its Most Divisive Sports Watch A Cleaner Second Act

  05-06-2026 03:38 via dmarge.com
  
  Rolex does not usually have second thoughts. The brand's biggest hits tend to stay remarkably consistent from one generation to the next, while the less successful ideas quietly disappear from the catalogue. That is what makes the return of the Yacht-Master II so surprising.
  When the original arrived in 2007, it looked unlike almost anything else Rolex was making. It was large, colourful and built around a highly specialised regatta timer that most owners would never need. Some collectors appre
  
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• Clint Eastwood’s 70 Year Hollywood Run Has Quietly Reached Its Final Scene

  05-06-2026 03:38 via dmarge.com
  
  After seven decades in Hollywood, Clint Eastwood appears to have quietly called time on one of cinema's greatest careers.
  Clint Eastwood built a career on saying less than everyone around him. So perhaps it makes sense that his Hollywood ending has arrived quietly, through a passing comment from his son.
  There was no farewell press conference. No retirement announcement. No emotional final interview reflecting on seven decades in the business. Instead, confirmation appears to have come from Kyl
  
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• Nobody Does Polo Like Ralph Lauren

  04-06-2026 12:36 via dmarge.com
  
  Nobody has ever owned a sport the way Ralph Lauren owns polo, and the funny thing is he did it by loving the picture of it more than anyone who actually plays. The white trousers, the long Sunday, the easy grace of the whole scene.He fell for all of it decades ago and then spent the next sixty years making that picture available to the rest of us. That's not borrowing the game. That's giving it a second, bigger life.
  Last Thursday, the brand brought that fantasy to Richmond Lowlands, out past t
  
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• Santa’s Hometown Is Luring Summer Tourists With A $33,000 Gold Hunt

  04-06-2026 04:33 via dmarge.com
  
  Lapland already has Santa, reindeer and the Northern Lights. Now Finland is adding something even more persuasive for summer tourists. Actual gold.
  The Finnish resort town of Levi has launched a summer-long treasure hunt that sends visitors searching across its trails, landmarks and fell landscapes for a hidden gold prize worth around €20,000 (~$33,000 AUD). It is called the Midnight Sun Hunt, which sounds like something pulled from a children's adventure book but is very much a real touri
  
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• Qantas Is About To Find Out If Passengers Really Want A 22 Hour Flight

  04-06-2026 04:33 via dmarge.com
  
  Qantas' 22-hour flight dream has finally taken to the skies. The airline's first custom-built Airbus A350-1000ULR has completed its maiden test flight over France, moving Project Sunrise out of aviation fantasy and into the very real business of testing, certification and passenger endurance.
  The aircraft flew for three hours and 43 minutes over France and the French Atlantic coast, reaching just above 41,000 feet. It now begins a testing campaign of around 80 hours, with Airbus and Qantas work
  
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• Australia’s #1 Full-Size Ute And Biggest Luxury SUV Got an EOFY Deal That is Hard To Walk Past

  03-06-2026 05:22 via dmarge.com
  
  Full-size American pickups used to be a curiosity in Australia. A thing you'd see parked outside a Bunnings in Penrith and wonder who ordered it. That was five years ago. Today, the Chevrolet Silverado is the best-selling full-size pickup in Australia, with sales continuing to grow through GMSV's national dealer network of around 60 locations. This is no longer a fringe vehicle. It is the category leader, and it got there for a reason.
  Silverado is part of the landscape now, from the beach to t
  
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• Toyota’s Most Unhinged Corolla Yet Is Coming To Australia

  03-06-2026 04:06 via dmarge.com
  
  For most of its life, the Toyota Corolla has been the car you bought when you wanted no drama. Reliable, sensible, easy to recommend and about as rebellious as a tax return filed early. The new GRMN Corolla is not that Corolla.
  Toyota has revealed its most extreme production Corolla yet, and Australia is getting it in limited numbers in 2027. It is a two-seat, manual-only, Nürburgring-honed hot hatch with carbon fibre panels, wider tyres, retuned suspension and enough motorsport seriousnes
  
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• Audemars Piguet Doubles Down On Colour After The Royal Pop Frenzy

  03-06-2026 04:06 via dmarge.com
  
  Audemars Piguet has clearly decided subtlety can take the summer off.
  After the Royal Pop drop reminded everyone that serious watchmaking does not always need to dress like a boardroom, AP is now pushing the same colour-first energy into the Royal Oak Offshore. That matters because the Offshore has never been the polite member of the family.
  Since 1993, when it arrived as the oversized, rubber-trimmed troublemaker nicknamed The Beast, it has always been the Royal Oak for people who like their l
  
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• Zeekr’s 912hp EV Makes Supercar Performance Look Outrageously Overpriced

  02-06-2026 04:05 via dmarge.com
  
  There was a time when 912hp belonged to bedroom posters, pit lanes and cars with prices that made accountants reach for a chair. Zeekr has now put it in a Chinese electric liftback for roughly US $54,000 (~$75,000). Even stranger, horsepower may not be the most ridiculous number here.
  The Zeekr 001 Fifth Anniversary Edition has gone back on limited sale in China after its first run sold out shortly after launch. That matters because this is not just a birthday-badge special with red stitching a
  
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• Qantas Just Turned Its Newest Jet Into A Flying Great Barrier Reef Postcard

  02-06-2026 04:05 via dmarge.com
  
  Qantas has revealed its newest Airbus A321XLR, and for once the most interesting thing about a narrow-body jet is not the legroom argument waiting to happen.
  The aircraft, named Coral Sea, has rolled out of Airbus’ paint shop in Hamburg wearing a bright Great Barrier Reef-inspired livery across both sides of its 44-metre fuselage.
  Sea turtles, clownfish and coral now sit below the Qantas wordmark, turning the airline’s seventh A321XLR into something closer to a flying tourism campai
  
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• Adrian Portelli’s Giveaway Empire Just Ran Into A Very Australian Crackdown

  02-06-2026 04:05 via dmarge.com
  
  Adrian Portelli made giveaways feel like entertainment. Canberra now looks ready to treat them like gambling.
  The billionaire businessman behind LMCT+ has built one of Australia’s loudest modern prize machines, mixing luxury cars, million-dollar homes, cash giveaways and social media theatre into a subscription-based rewards club.
  For his 1.3 million Instagram followers, it has long looked like the dream version of a raffle. Pay in, watch the hype, maybe walk away with something ridiculou
  
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• The World Cup Has Lost Its Hublot, And Now The Biggest Event In Sport Can’t Tell The Time

  01-06-2026 06:54 via dmarge.com
  
  For the first time since 2006, the World Cup is happening without a watch brand's name on the fourth official's board. Hublot has walked.
  After 16 years and four straight tournaments, the Swiss house confirmed in mid-December it would not renew its deal as FIFA's official timekeeper. That leaves the United States, Canada and Mexico hosting a World Cup this June with the luxury timekeeper slot sitting completely empty for the first time in over two decades.
  It's a strange thing to lose. Most peo
  
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• Rolex Knows Tennis Is Still Luxury’s Most Elegant Power Move

  31-05-2026 09:27 via dmarge.com
  
  Luxury brands love sport, but Rolex has always understood something others often miss. The best sponsorships do not feel like sponsorships at all. They feel like part of the furniture.
  That is why Rolex and tennis still make so much sense. The Swiss watchmaker giant has been tied to the sport for almost half a century, starting with Wimbledon in 1978 before expanding across the wider tennis calendar. Rolex is today associated with all four Grand Slams, the ATP and the WTA, and some of the sport
  
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• Gucci Just Made Formula One Luxury’s Most Expensive Runway

  31-05-2026 09:27 via dmarge.com
  
  Formula One used to be where luxury brands bought hospitality suites, dressed a few drivers and enjoyed being close to the noise. Gucci has decided that it is no longer enough.
  From 2027, Alpine will become Gucci Racing Alpine Formula One Team, with the French outfit replacing its current BWT identity with Gucci's black, gold, red and green world. It is the first time a luxury fashion house has taken title partnership of an F1 team, which tells you exactly where the sport now sits in the global
  
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• Ferrari’s Wildest New Machine Has Finally Taken Shape And It Does Not Have Wheels

  31-05-2026 09:27 via dmarge.com
  
  Ferrari has just shared the first proper look at the hull of its 30-metre Hypersail racing yacht, and it already looks like one of the strangest things Maranello has ever put its name on.
  The carbon-heavy foiling monohull has now been removed from its mould in Pisa after more than a year of curing, lamination and internal structure work. That gives the world its first real look at the scale and shape of a project that sounds less like a yacht and more like Ferrari throwing its entire performanc
  
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• James Bond’s Biggest Moment In Years Has Sponsors More Excited Than Audiences

  28-05-2026 06:25 via dmarge.com
  The internet reacted to 007 First Light like Bond himself had just stepped out of a DB5, martini in hand, ready to save cinema. In reality, it's a video game. A very good one, by most accounts. IO Interactive's origin story launched this week to strong reviews and early Metacritic scores that could make it the studio's highest-rated game yet. But it's still a video game. Not a film title announcement. Not a casting announcement. Not the cultural reset everyone is pretending it is.
  But the react
  
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• Audi May Have Found The One Car That Can Make Enthusiasts Care Again

  28-05-2026 04:45 via dmarge.com
  
  Audi does not need another sensible performance car. It needs something people talk about when they are not shopping for one.
  That is why the latest R8 chatter feels bigger than a normal product rumour. The TT is gone. The R8 is gone. Audi still builds fast things, but fast SUVs and polished performance sedans do not quite hit the same nerve as a proper low-slung halo car with bad intentions and a reason to exist beyond the spreadsheet.
  Now Audi boss Gernot Döllner has made that door look
  
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• Ferrari’s First EV Will Test Whether The Brand Can Survive Without The Sound

  27-05-2026 01:29 via dmarge.com
  
  Ferrari did not just launch an electric car. It launched a question with four motors, five seats and a US $640,000 ($~894,000 AUD) price tag.
  The new Ferrari Luce is quick, glass-heavy, Jony Ive-designed and unlike almost anything Maranello has built before. It can hit 60mph in around 2.5 seconds, run to more than 190mph and carry five people, which already makes it strange territory for a brand built on low-slung drama, two-seat fantasy and the kind of engine note that makes grown adults behav
  
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• The Maextro S800 Is What Happens When China Stops Chasing European Luxury And Starts Replacing It

  26-05-2026 03:39 via dmarge.com
  
  The luxury car world has long spoken in a few familiar accents. British if you wanted old money. German if you wanted executive power. Italian if you wanted theatre. Chinese buyers knew the script as well as anyone, which is why BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Porsche and Rolls-Royce became shorthand for having made it.
  The Maextro S800 suggests that the script is starting to change.
  The 18-foot Chinese luxury sedan, built by JAC Motors with Huawei technology, has been framed as China’s answer
  
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• Meet The Luxury SUV Delivering Looks, Comfort & Performance At A Stunning Price

  25-05-2026 04:51 via dmarge.com
  
  The VISTIQ landed on me in Melbourne for four days of mostly perfect autumn weather, which is exactly the kind of conditions you want to road-test something this big. Five point two metres of American three-row EV, captain's chairs, a stereo that rearranges your understanding of what a car can do, and a price tag that genuinely doesn't make sense when you put it next to its rivals.
  That last bit is the real story here. The VISTIQ lands in Australia at $116,000 before on-roads. It's offered excl
  
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• Australia’s Most Beautiful Street Is Paying The Price For Going Viral

  25-05-2026 03:13 via dmarge.com
  
  Tasman Drive was never trying to be famous. It was just a quiet residential street in Gerringong, south of Sydney, with a ureal view at the bottom of the hill and people living normal lives at the top of it.
  Then the internet noticed the angle. The road falls towards the ocean. The green hills. The blue water. The sort of shot that makes a phone camera feel like it has discovered something sacred.
  Over the past year, visitors have started arriving to recreate the same photo, some crawling past
  
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• Europe Still Slaps If You Stop Travelling Like A TikTok Tourist

  25-05-2026 03:07 via dmarge.com
  
  Europe is not the problem. The problem is that everyone is trying to have the same European summer in the same five places at the same time.
  Paris will always be Paris. Rome will always win. Dubrovnik, Santorini and the Amalfi Coast are not suddenly going out of fashion because someone discovered Albania. But in 2026, the classic European summer now comes with a surcharge: higher prices, thicker crowds, hotter weather, airport friction and the quiet humiliation of paying premium money to queue
  
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• Tom Hardy’s MobLand Exit Leaves Paramount With A Bigger Problem

  24-05-2026 02:35 via dmarge.com
  
  Tom Hardy was not just another name on the MobLand poster. He was the reason a lot of people pressed play.
  The British crime drama had plenty going for it already. Guy Ritchie gave it swagger, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan brought heavyweight class, and the Harrigan family had enough dysfunction to keep the story moving.
  But Hardy’s Harry Da Souza gave the show its centre. He was quiet, controlled, permanently unreadable and exactly the kind of fixer a crime drama needs when everyone el
  
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• Lionel Messi Turned Down Saudi Money And Still Became Football’s Quiet Billionaire

  24-05-2026 02:35 via dmarge.com
  
  Lionel Messi becoming a billionaire was always supposed to happen in one of two ways. Either he took the absurd Saudi money, joined Cristiano Ronaldo in the Gulf and let the cheques do the talking, or he kept doing things the Messi way, quieter, stranger and somehow still impossible to argue with.
  He chose Miami. Now he has joined the billion-dollar club anyway.
  Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index now puts Messi’s net worth above $1 billion (~$1.40 billion AUD), after a career that has d
  
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• Why China Suddenly Can’t Get Enough Of Wagons

  22-05-2026 03:00 via dmarge.com
  For two decades, the wagon has been treated like a dying relative nobody wants to visit. SUVs ate its lunch in Australia, crossovers finished off the leftovers in America, and even the Germans quietly let their estate ranges wither. So it is genuinely strange to watch the rescue party arrive from China, waving the keys to a dozen brand new long-roof machines.
  The 2026 Beijing Auto Show made it official. Across roughly 50 football fields of show floor, the wagon was suddenly everywhere. Not as a
  
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• Polestar And Oxford Want To Measure What Driving Actually Feels Like

  22-05-2026 00:00 via dmarge.com
  Polestar is trying to answer one of the most interesting questions in modern motoring. If every electric car can launch like a supercar, what actually makes one exciting?
  The Swedish EV brand has teamed up with the SDG Impact Lab at the University of Oxford for a new pilot study looking at whether the thrill of driving can be scientifically defined and measured.
  The project will explore how driving pleasure manifests in the brain and body, using physiological, cognitive, and behavioural data ga
  
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• From Silverados To Superyachts: Why GM Specialty Vehicles’ $750 Million Boat Show Play Makes Total Sense

  21-05-2026 13:34 via dmarge.com
  The rain finally broke on the Gold Coast. After a week of it coming down sideways, the sun arrived just in time for the Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show, and the timing felt almost staged. Light bouncing off the marina, and somewhere around $750 million worth of boats sitting on the water waiting to be admired.
  We're up here staying at the InterContinental Sanctuary Cove, which sits right on the doorstep of the whole thing, and the wealth on display is genuinely hard to process. Sunseeker
  
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• Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Is Already Fighting Hollywood’s Latest Woke War

  20-05-2026 12:04 via dmarge.com
  Christopher Nolan used to be the rare Hollywood director everyone could still agree on. Then he made The Odyssey, cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, put Travis Scott inside Homer’s ancient world, brought Elliot Page into the ensemble, and suddenly Homer’s ancient epic became the latest front in the woke wars.
  The film is not even in cinemas until July, but the argument has already arrived fully dressed for battle. One side says Nolan is bending Greek mythology to modern Hol
  
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