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Fully self-driving Ferraris are off the table, at least according to CEO Benedetto Vigna, who says the brand will keep improving driver-assistance systems but will not hand the whole experience over to software.
That sounds obvious until you remember how quickly car companies redraw their own red lines. Ferrari once h
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Ferrari Says It Will Never Let The Computer Chips Have All The Action
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Richard Mille Made A $1.4 Million Cycling Watch Too Expensive To Race In The Tour De France
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Richard Mille has made a watch that looks like it belongs on a Tour de France bike. The catch is that it probably should not go anywhere near an actual Tour de France stage.
The new RM 64-01 Tourbillon Colnago is Richard Mille's latest collaboration, built alongside legendary Italian bicycle maker Colnago and fronted by four-time Tour champion Tadej Pogačar.
On paper, it is a cycling watch. In practice, it is an 800,000 Swiss franc (~$1.44 million AUD) collector's object, limited to 50 pie
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Kids Scratched A $764,000 Ferrari And The Parents Offered $1000
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There are bad days to own a Ferrari. Then there is coming home from a business trip to find out your $764,000 AUD supercar has been used as a playground.
That is what happened to a Ferrari 488 GTB owner in Kunming, China, after four young boys decided the parked red supercar outside looked like something worth climbing.
Surveillance footage shows the children approaching the car with bamboo poles before getting onto the bodywork, sitting on the roof and using sections of the Ferrari as a slide.
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Cupra Cut The Tavascan’s Entry Price Without Killing Its Style
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Cheap electric cars often have a problem. They look cheap.
You can usually spot the base model from across a car park. Smaller wheels, sadder trim, fewer features and the quiet sense that someone ticked the sensible box and moved on. The entry version tends to exist mainly so the brand can advertise a lower starting price, not because anyone particularly wants to drive it.
Cupra is trying to avoid that trap with the updated Tavascan. The brand has added a new entry-level Tavascan V to its Austr
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Phillips’ $340 Million Watch Season Shows Collectors Want More Than Rolex
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The watch auction world is not short on hype at the best of times. Every season brings another record, another rare reference, another room full of people pretending they are not emotionally attached to tiny mechanical objects that cost more than houses.
But what Phillips just pulled off is harder to wave away.
The auction house closed the first half of 2026 with more than $235 million (~$340 million AUD) in watch sales across Geneva, Hong Kong and New York, the strongest six-month period in wa
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Haaland Brought The Birkins And Norway Brought The Viking Row
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Footballers used to arrive at tournaments with headphones, a wash bag and the same nervous airport tracksuit as everyone else. Erling Haaland appears to have packed an Hermès archive instead.
Norway's striker is already hard to miss at six-foot-five, scoring goals like it bores him slightly, looking like someone designed him after watching too much Viking cinema. At this World Cup he has become a talking point before the whistle even blows, and not for his pressing stats.
The bags. Not j
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The Z9GT Is Denza’s Bid To Give Luxury Buyers Their Bond Moment
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Luxury cars used to have an accent. Usually German, sometimes British, occasionally Italian if the brand felt brave. Denza is skipping all of that.
The Z9GT is arriving soon in Australia, and it isn't trying to slide quietly into the premium EV conversation. This is a large electric shooting brake with around 850kW, a claimed 0 to 100km/h time of 2.7 seconds, and charging that takes the battery from 10 to 97 percent in roughly nine minutes.
Most new luxury brands introduce themselves the same w
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TAG Heuer’s New Gulf Chronograph Is Not Trying To Be Subtle
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Some watches whisper. This one has racing stripes.
TAG Heuer has revealed its new Formula 1 Automatic Chronograph x Gulf, a limited-edition piece that takes Gulf Oil’s famous blue and orange motorsport livery and runs it straight across the dial.
It is not delicate. It is not shy. It is not one of those watches designed to disappear under a cuff and behave itself at dinner.
This is a 44mm titanium chronograph with a forged carbon tachymeter bezel, orange accents, black DLC details and eno
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MG Gives Australia’s Ute Mania A Black Edition Upgrade
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The Australian ute used to have a fairly simple job. Carry tools. Tow something heavy. Survive a dirt road. Look better with a bit of dust on it. That version of the ute still exists, of course. You can find it outside worksites, hardware stores and caravan parks every weekend. But it is no longer the whole story.
The modern ute has become something else. These days, a ute has to be a family car, a weekend escape machine, a towing rig, a daily driver and, increasingly, a bit of a status play. B
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Cadillac’s ‘Baby’ OPTIQ Is Bigger, And Better, Than Most Competitors In Market
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There's a moment on the road out of the city, windows up, Phil Collins climbing toward that drum fill in "In The Air Tonight," where the Cadillac OPTIQ stops being a press car and becomes a problem. The problem being that I didn't want to give it back.
We had it for a week. By Sunday night I'd emailed Cadillac asking for a few more days, which is not a thing I normally do. Press loans are like footballers' wives. They come, they go, you learn not to get attached. I wanted to keep driving this o
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The Dress Sneaker Took Over The Office. Now The Loafer Wants Its Job Back
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There was a time when men knew where they stood. Dress shoes went to work. Sneakers went to the gym. Loafers sat somewhere in the middle, usually on a man who owned a linen blazer and had strong opinions about espresso.
Then the office got confused.
Casual Friday became every day. Silicon Valley decided that hoodies could run companies. Wall Street discovered that comfort did not have to look like defeat. Somewhere in that mess, the dress sneaker found its moment.
You know the shoe. Leather upp
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Rolex’s New Boutique Is So Exclusive You Need A Cable Car To Reach It
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Most Rolex boutiques sit on expensive shopping streets. This one sits above the clouds.
Rolex has opened the world's highest watch boutique on Mount Titlis in the Swiss Alps, around 3,020 metres above sea level. It is not the kind of place you wander into after lunch or pass on the way to another luxury store.
You have to earn the visit a little.
The journey begins in Engelberg, then moves through cable cars, the Rotair revolving gondola and mountain access before visitors arrive at the newly r
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Range Rover Is Going Electric Without Killing The V8
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Range Rover has always been good at silence. Not total silence, of course. There was still a V8 somewhere under the bonnet, a soft growl in the background, reminding you that all the leather, glass and quiet confidence had plenty of power behind it.
Now Range Rover wants to see what happens when the growl disappears.
The first fully electric Range Rover is due to arrive by the end of 2026, and JLR is already trying to frame it as the best version of the car. Not the cleanest. Not the most polit
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Airports Used To Be Places You Rushed Through Until The Best Ones Made You Stay
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Airports used to feel like dead time. You arrived too early, shuffled through security, paid too much for bad coffee and waited under harsh lights until a screen told you where to go.
The whole point was to get through it. But now the best new airports want a different reaction. They want you to look around. Wander. Eat something decent. Buy something you cannot find at home. Take a photo before you even reach the gate.
Travel used to begin when the plane took off. Now, for some cities, the air
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Formula 1 Is Bringing Space Jackets To Battle Europe’s Heatwave
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The strangest image in Formula 1 this weekend may not be a front wing upgrade or a tyre blister.
It may be a driver standing on the grid in a shiny silver cooling jacket, trying to lower his body temperature before climbing into a 300km/h sauna.
Welcome to the Austrian Grand Prix.
The FIA has declared this weekend's race a heat-hazard event, with temperatures expected to climb above the 31 °C trigger while cars are on track. Sunday's race at the Red Bull Ring is forecast to be punishing, an
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Emirates Just Dropped Its 18th Bulgari Amenity Kit, And It’s A Reminder Of Who Gets Spoiled Up Front
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There's a particular kind of person who measures an airline by what shows up in the little zip-up bag at their seat, and Emirates has spent 16 years quietly catering to exactly that person.The latest proof landed this week: an 18th collection of Bulgari amenity kits for First and Business Class, rolling out gradually across select long-haul routes throughout the year.
The kits have been redesigned to match Emirates' retrofitted cabins, which is corporate speak for "the colours now agree with ea
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Zendaya Just Wore The One Vintage Rolex Daytona Every Collector Quietly Wants
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On her wrist, watch spotters clocked a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona reference 16520, known to the people who lose sleep over this stuff as the Zenith Daytona. It is not the loudest Rolex she owns. It might be the most interesting.
She signed with Rolex as a Testimonee last October, so a wrist full of Crown is hardly breaking news. Reaching for a discontinued steel chronograph from the late nineties, over anything currently sitting in a boutique window, is the move worth noting. Spotted by the eagle
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Australian Menswear Spent Years As An Afterthought Now It Feels World Class
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For most of the last decade, Australian menswear was the bit you skipped. Our womenswear went global, with the world buying into our designers and treating them like a serious export. The blokes, meanwhile, got tees and business shirts and a vague cultural shrug.
You can see it in what won. Brands built on the Australian male's lowest common denominator did the numbers, while anything with ambition struggled to get noticed. Industrie and The Academy Brand cleaned up because that was the ceiling
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Adrian Portelli Is Taking His Cheap Petrol Model To The Supermarket Aisle
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If Adrian Portelli is involved, chances are there is going to be some noise around it.
After giving away cars, big prizes and the kind of online promotions that get attention quickly, the billionaire moved into cheap petrol, turning a Preston service station into a cost-of-living talking point.
Now he wants groceries.
Portelli has confirmed the Deer Park IGA in Melbourne’s west will become the first LMCT+ supermarket, with works set to begin on transforming the store. It is a local move,
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A $31,000 Gas Truck Got 5,500 Reservations Before It Even Exists
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Ask people what happened to the small pickup and you will usually get the same answer. It got too big. Then it got too expensive.Then it became a rolling living room with heated seats, giant screens, software subscriptions and a price tag that made ordinary buyers wonder who trucks are even for anymore.
That is the frustration REO is trying to tap into.
The Texas startup is pitching the Runabout, a small gas-powered truck aimed at people who miss when pickups were basic, useful and easy to unde
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GM Australia’s Jess Bala Thinks Cadillac Has Found The Gap The Germans And Chinese Can’t Fill
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We have spent more time in Cadillacs over the past few months than we ever expected to. An OPTIQ on our own roads. A VISTIQ around Melbourne. Our dog has logged enough hours in the back of one to have formed an opinion, and she approves. Enough kilometres, in other words, to have our own views, which we do, and most of them are positive.
So when we got the chance to sit down with Jess Bala, the Managing Director of GM Australia and New Zealand and the woman who quite literally brought this bran
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This 1975 Porsche 911 Now Has 500HP And No Engine Noise
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A 1975 Porsche 911 is supposed to make a certain kind of noise.
Not just any noise. That thin, mechanical, air-cooled sound that makes old 911 people stop talking for a second and start thinking about steering feel, throttle response and the glory days of Stuttgart.
This one does not do that anymore. In an Instagram post, a classic Porsche 911 has been converted into a fully electric restomod, taking it from around 150hp in period to roughly 500hp today.
The builder already knows where the argu
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These Mini GT-R, Maybach And Defender Replicas Are Way Too Serious To Be Called Toys
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There was a time when a small car for kids meant plastic wheels, a weak battery and a driveway speed limit set by your parents.
These are not those cars.
The junior car world has moved into something far more expensive, more detailed and much harder to explain to anyone who still thinks ride-on cars are supposed to be cheap.
The latest reels doing the rounds show a baby R34-style GT-R, junior Defenders and a Mercedes-Maybach-style mini luxury car that look less like ordinary children’s ri
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Hublot’s New Big Bang Collection Looks Like It Was Made For Yacht Season
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A Hublot Big Bang has never been a quiet watch. That is the bottom line. It is big, loud, obvious and completely uninterested in slipping under a cuff unnoticed. You either like that kind of confidence, or you do not, but nobody has ever accused Hublot of being shy.
For summer 2026, the brand has softened the Big Bang. Not in price. Definitely not in attitude. But in colour.
The new Big Bang Summer collection takes Hublot's familiar ceramic-heavy formula and covers it in pastel shades that feel
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Nike And Adidas Are Turning The World Cup Into A Brand War
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The World Cup is not only being fought by the teams on the pitch.
Nike and Adidas are fighting another tournament entirely, one built around shirts, boots, celebrities, streetwear, YouTube views, pop-ups and the question every sportswear giant cares about most.
Who gets remembered when the football is over?
This year, the answer is not simple. Nike has gone loud, cinematic and aggressively cultural. Adidas has the deeper World Cup roots, the official tournament links and more teams wearing its
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Mercedes Is Turning The G-Wagon Into A Drone Hunter
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The G-Wagon already looks like it was designed for trouble. That has always been part of the appeal. Even when it is parked outside a hotel, a footballer's house or a luxury boutique, Mercedes' boxy SUV still carries the shape of something built for harder use.
Now Mercedes is leaning into that history again.
The German carmaker has signed a deal with Tytan Technologies to develop anti-drone vehicles using the G-Class and Sprinter as the base. The plan is to create mobile systems that can help
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The Most Popular Car At Barcelona FC Training Is Not A Supercar
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FC Barcelona players are not exactly short of money.
This is one of the world’s biggest football clubs, packed with international stars, Champions League winners, young wonderkids and players earning the kind of salaries that usually come with a garage full of questionable decisions.
So people might expect the entrance to Barcelona training to look like a rolling motor show.
Ferraris. Lamborghinis. Porsche 911s. The kind of cars you usually hear before you properly see them, engines bounc
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Qantas Has Built A Custom Cabin To Make The World’s Longest Flight Bearable
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Qantas has already asked passengers whether they would really spend up to 22 hours in the air. Now the airline is showing how it plans to make that answer easier.
The Australian carrier has locked in Sydney-to-London as the first Project Sunrise route, with the nonstop service now due to launch in October 2027. That gives Qantas a clear target for one of the most extreme commercial flights ever attempted, cutting out the traditional stopover and turning the old Kangaroo Route into a single leap
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Ferrari’s First EV Might Be The Car Buyers Order To Get The One They Really Want
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Ferrari’s first electric car was never going to get an easy ride.
The Luce has already split opinion in a way few modern Ferraris ever do. Some of that comes down to the obvious reason. It is electric. Some of it comes down to the design. It looks nothing like the Ferraris many owners grew up obsessing over. Then there is the idea itself. A four-door battery-powered Ferrari was always going to make traditionalists twitch.
Still, controversy has not scared buyers away.
Ferrari says interes
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Ralph Lauren Drops Its Very Crisp Wimbledon Collection
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The American label returns for a third decade at SW19, and it does so as the only fashion house ever named the tournament's Official Outfitter.
There is a difference between sponsoring a tournament and dressing it. Ralph Lauren has spent close to 60 years building a brand on the idea that sport and style are the same conversation, and Wimbledon has rewarded that with a distinction no rival has ever held.
The label returns this year as Official Outfitter of The Championships, the only designer t
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