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• Qantas Pulled Off One Of Aviation’s Biggest Comebacks

  10-07-2026 03:53 via dmarge.com
  
  Three years ago, Qantas was ranked 106th globally for punctuality. In June, it topped the world.
  According to global aviation data provider OAG, Qantas recorded the best on-time performance of any major airline in June, with 87.16 per cent of its 22,617 flights arriving within 15 minutes of schedule.
  That edged Colombia's Avianca into second place, with IndiGo, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Pegasus Airlines rounding out the top five. For an airline that spent much of the post-pandemic period sy
  
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• Anonymous Aussie Tech Founder Auction Delivers Massive Result

  30-07-2026 03:38 via dmarge.com
  The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona "Rainbow" (ref. 126598RBOW) that headlined First State Auctions' single-owner sale hammered at $510,000. Add the 20% buyer's premium and the winning bidder paid $612,000.
  That is the most expensive watch ever sold at auction in Australia. The previous mark was $450,000, set by a 1946 Patek Philippe ref. 1436 through the same house in late 2023, and it has now been cleared by $162,000.
  There is a second, quieter record in there too. First State says this is the first
  
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• Audi Did Stuff All For Years Then Dropped Three Of The Coolest Cars Going Around

  30-07-2026 02:50 via dmarge.com
  
  Audi has had an interesting half-decade. They killed the TT and the R8 in 2023 and put nothing in their place, dropped the A7 and S7, launched e-tron variants nobody could tell apart, and renamed half the range according to a rule they abandoned before the paint dried.
  The numbers caught up. CarsGuide reports Audi Australia is down 11.2 per cent across the first half of 2026, the worst of the German three, against BMW at 8.0 per cent and Mercedes at 1.7.
  Then, inside six months, three of the co
  
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• Dior Winter 2026 Men’s Collection Is Jonathan Anderson Picking A Street Fight With Fashion And Winning

  30-07-2026 01:04 via dmarge.com
  
  Jonathan Anderson isn't tidying up the Dior codes. He's reimagining them on the pavement of Avenue Montaigne and inviting you along.
  Winter 2026 opens with his young, style-obsessed cast drifting through Paris with nowhere to be, until one of them spots a small plaque set into the footpath outside the Dior boutique. A woman in a yellow dress. The name reads Paul Poiret.
  If that means nothing to you, here's why it should. Poiret worked a few doors from Dior on the same street a century ago. He c
  
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• I Sold My Audi RS4 After Five Years, And The Science Says I Am Allowed To Be Sad

  28-07-2026 04:05 via dmarge.com
  
  Back in 2021, I wrote a story about how selling a car can quietly gut you. I was quoted in it, talking about the BMW 335i Touring I had let go after seven years, admitting I was melancholy for a week and that I asked my girlfriend to photograph me next to it, something I had never done in my life.
  I read it again this morning, hours after signing over my 2019 Audi RS4 Avant. Five years on, apparently I have learned nothing. Nothing, I tells ya.
  The RS4 was the car I drove every day. Home to wor
  
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• I Sold My Audi RS4 After Five Years, And Science Says I Am Allowed To Be Sad

  28-07-2026 04:05 via dmarge.com
  
  Back in 2021, I wrote a story about how selling a car can quietly gut you. I was quoted in it, talking about the BMW 335i Touring I had let go after seven years, admitting I was melancholy for a week and that I asked my girlfriend to photograph me next to it, something I had never done in my life.
  I read it again this morning, hours after signing over my 2019 Audi RS4 Avant. Five years on, apparently I have learned nothing. Nothing, I tells ya.
  The RS4 was the car I drove every day. Home to wor
  
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• Australians Are Overspending by $6.4 Billion A Year on Holidays, and Here’s Why

  27-07-2026 11:00 via dmarge.com
  
  There is a moment on every trip where the maths quietly stops mathing. The flights are paid for, the hotel is paid for, and a $40 cocktail has been reclassified in your head as a rounding error. And new research from Wise, the smartest account for your travel money, has revealed why.
  According to its research, Australians are overspending by an estimated $6.4 billion a year while travelling, thanks to what the company calls "vacay maths”, the phenomenon that sees spending go out the windo
  
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• Australians Are Overspending by $6.4 Billion A Year on Holidays, and Here’s Why 

  27-07-2026 11:00 via dmarge.com
  
  There is a moment on every trip where the maths quietly stops mathing. The flights are paid for, the hotel is paid for, and a $40 cocktail has been reclassified in your head as a rounding error. And new research from Wise, the smartest account for your travel money, has revealed why.
  According to its research, Australians are overspending by an estimated $6.4 billion a year while travelling, thanks to what the company calls "vacay maths”, the phenomenon that sees spending go out the windo
  
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• BYD’s Denza Z9S Is Bringing Supercar Numbers To A Luxury Sedan

  23-07-2026 06:35 via dmarge.com
  
  A luxury sedan is usually built around comfort, refinement and a quiet bit of confidence. It is not supposed to have the kind of numbers you expect from a supercar. The Denza Z9S clearly has other ideas.
  BYD’s premium brand has taken a sleek grand tourer-style sedan and given the top-spec version performance figures that would not look out of place on a Ferrari or Bugatti spec sheet.
  It is the sort of thing that makes you stop and check the numbers twice.
  RELATED: The Z9GT Is Denza’
  
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• Zeekr Wants Australians To Drive Its Future EVs On Ice Before Anyone Else

  20-07-2026 05:26 via dmarge.com
  
  Most people test-drive a new car around the block. Zeekr would rather hand you the keys in the middle of New Zealand's Southern Alps.
  The premium EV brand has opened bookings for Zeekr On Ice, an exclusive customer event combining luxury hospitality with a full day of ice driving at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds in Queenstown.
  The bigger hook is what participants will actually be driving. Alongside Zeekr's current Australian lineup, guests will get behind the wheel of two models that
  
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• The Last Bugatti W16 Has Been Built And It Marks The End Of A Hypercar Legend

  20-07-2026 05:26 via dmarge.com
  
  Some cars become legends. So do some engines, and Bugatti's W16 is one of them.
  The company's 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged W16 has been one of the great engineering achievements in road car history for more than 20 years.
  It powered the Veyron that rewrote the hypercar rulebook, the Chiron that pushed performance further again, and every major Bugatti that followed.
  Now that the run has officially ended. Bugatti has unveiled the 99th and final Mistral, the last series production car that will ev
  
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• The Gold MoonSwatch Is Swatch’s Answer To The Royal Pop Meltdown

  20-07-2026 05:26 via dmarge.com
  
  Swatch has spent four years proving that a $570 (~$820 AUD) quartz watch can trigger luxury-level behaviour. Queues outside stores, watches flipped online within the hour, stock that disappears before half the line gets inside.The new Mission To The Moon 1969 MoonSwatch takes that formula somewhere stranger again.
  This one does not just borrow Omega's name and the Speedmaster shape. It adds 11 grams of 18K Moonshine Gold, caps the run at 1,969 pieces, and requires every buyer to fill out a 32-q
  
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• Luxury Watch Prices Are Climbing Again And Rolex Isn’t The Biggest Surprise

  20-07-2026 05:26 via dmarge.com
  
  Luxury watch prices have spent the past few years sliding in the wrong direction. The post-pandemic buying frenzy faded, flipping stopped being profitable, and secondary market prices drifted lower as supply finally caught up with demand.
  That slide looks to be reversing. Fresh data from Morgan Stanley, built on WatchCharts pricing, shows secondary market value retention improved across seven of the eight major Swiss brands it tracks in the second quarter of 2026.
  Buyers are still paying below
  
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• Christopher Nolan’s New Film Can Only Be Seen Properly In 41 Cinemas And Australia Has One

  20-07-2026 05:26 via dmarge.com
  
  Millions of movie lovers are watching Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Only a lucky few are seeing it exactly as he intended.
  That's because Nolan's latest epic is the first feature film ever shot entirely on IMAX 15/70 film, the highest-resolution film format in existence.
  Only 41 cinemas in the world can project it exactly as intended. Australia has one. That cinema sits in Melbourne, the only IMAX 15/70 screen in Australia and the only one in the Southern Hemisphere.
  RELATED: Christopher Nol
  
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• Rainbow Rolex Sets New Australian Watch Auction Record

  19-07-2026 12:12 via dmarge.com
  
  It is done. Lot 1 has closed and Australia has a new most expensive watch ever sold at auction.
  The Rolex Cosmograph Daytona "Rainbow" that we flagged earlier this month as a genuine record threat finished at $510,000 on the hammer, landing inside its $500,000 to $600,000 estimate.
  Add First State Auctions' 20% buyer's premium and the winning bidder is committed to $612,000 before customs, duties or anything else.
  The previous Australian benchmark was $450,000, set in late 2023 when a 1946 Pate
  
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• Erling Haaland Was The Passenger In Monaco’s Most Famous Bugatti And His Own Garage Is Wilder

  16-07-2026 02:46 via dmarge.com
  
  Monaco is not a city that gets easily impressed by supercars. Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Bugattis move through its streets with enough regularity that most locals barely look up. Erling Haaland still managed to attract a crowd.
  The Manchester City striker was recently filmed as a passenger in a Bugatti Chiron making its way through Monaco's streets, with onlookers capturing the moment as he stepped out. View this post on InstagramA post shared by VDH automotive (@vdhautomotive)He was not behind
  
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• BYD Is Chasing Toyota’s Crown And Has Decided It Doesn’t Need America To Get There

  16-07-2026 02:46 via dmarge.com
  
  There is an assumption baked into almost every major carmaker's global strategy. To become the biggest, you need to win America.
  BYD's head of international operations, Stella Li, thinks that assumption is outdated.
  When asked about founder Wang Chuanfu's goal of overtaking Toyota as the world's largest carmaker within five years, Li said the company does not need the US market to get there.
  BYD is currently locked out of selling passenger cars in America by tariffs and restrictions on Chinese
  
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• The Old Fashioned Cocktail Switch You Didn’t Know You Were Missing

  16-07-2026 02:37 via dmarge.com
  
  There is a certain kind of guy who will tell you the Old Fashioned is sacred ground. Whiskey only. No substitutions. He usually says this while holding a drink he ordered because Don Draper ordered it first.
  We used to be that guy. Then we made one with 1800 Añejo instead of bourbon, and suddenly the Old Fashioned had a whole new dimension we hadn't considered.
  Same language, different accent
  The Old Fashioned is not really a whiskey drink. It's a spirit-forward drink that happens to hav
  
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• Polestar Tried To Kill The Rear Window And Has Now Built A Car With One

  15-07-2026 04:59 via dmarge.com
  
  When the Polestar 4 arrived in 2023, it did something no mainstream production car had attempted. It removed the rear window entirely.
  Instead of glass, drivers got a roof-mounted camera feeding a digital rear-view mirror. Polestar argued the change created more space for rear passengers and pointed toward where automotive design was heading.
  Three years on, the company is heading somewhere slightly different.The new Polestar 4 SUV is a more practical sibling to the existing Coupé, and i
  
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• Jannik Sinner May Have Accidentally Created Rolex’s Next Famous Daytona

  15-07-2026 04:59 via dmarge.com
  
  The best Rolex nicknames are never planned. Nobody at Rolex called the Paul Newman Daytona the Paul Newman. Collectors did.
  The same goes for the John Mayer Daytona and the Panda and countless other references that became legends through years of enthusiastic discussion in rooms Rolex had nothing to do with.
  Now another Daytona may be working its way into that tradition.
  After winning back-to-back Wimbledon titles in 2025 and 2026, Sinner celebrated both victories wearing exactly the same watch
  
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• BMW’s Biggest Market Has Changed And The Neue Klasse Needs To Prove It Was Worth The Wait

  15-07-2026 04:59 via dmarge.com
  BMW spent decades selling an idea as much as it sold a car. Precision engineering, perfect handling, the Ultimate Driving Machine. In China right now, that formula is running into a market that has moved on faster than the brand anticipated.
  The Neue Klasse iX3, BMW's long-awaited electric range, is due to launch in China this November. It arrives at a difficult moment.
  China remains BMW's biggest single market, yet the German brand is heading toward a third consecutive year of declining sales
  
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• This Might Be The World’s Best Coffee Shop For Car Lovers

  14-07-2026 05:45 via dmarge.com
  
  Most cafés are somewhere you stop after a drive. DRVN Coffee was built to become part of the drive itself.
  Tucked away in Abu Dhabi, the homegrown concept has become one of the more unusual destinations in the car world, combining speciality coffee, Neapolitan pizza and a rotating collection of rare classics that would hold their own in most serious museums.
  The pitch sounds simple enough. If enthusiasts always end up at a coffee shop eventually, why not build one around the cars they ac
  
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• The AI Boom Is Creating A New Generation Of Private Jet Owners

  14-07-2026 05:45 via dmarge.com
  
  Private jets used to follow a fairly predictable timeline. You built something, sold it, waited a respectable amount of time and eventually bought the Gulfstream. The new generation of AI and tech wealth is skipping most of those steps.
  Across the United States, private aviation companies are reporting a surge in demand from AI founders, SpaceX employees and venture capital investors who are becoming wealthy fast, in some cases before they have officially cashed out at all.
  SpaceX's blockbuster
  
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• BYD’s Luxury Brand Just Built A 1,582HP Supercar To Take On Europe’s Best

  10-07-2026 03:54 via dmarge.com
  
  Chinese performance cars are starting to challenge the industry's biggest names.
  The Denza Z Coupé is the new flagship from BYD's premium brand, and the numbers it is leading with are not subtle. 1,582 horsepower, a claimed 0 to 100km/h time of 2.25 seconds and a 300km/h top speed.
  A track-focused Racing version cuts the sprint to under two seconds and raises the ceiling to 350km/h. These are not the figures of a brand testing the water. They are the figures of a brand that has decided i
  
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• The Rolex You Cannot Buy At Retail Is About To Test Australia’s Auction Record

  09-07-2026 08:07 via dmarge.com
  
  Australia is not usually where the world's biggest watch auction stories happen. Geneva gets them. Hong Kong gets them. New York almost always gets them.
  This time, Sydney might.
  A rare Rolex Rainbow Daytona is set to feature in First State Auctions' upcoming luxury watch sale, with specialists predicting it could become the most expensive watch ever sold at an Australian auction.
  The estimate is in excess of $500,000, which would comfortably clear the current local record for a wristwatch. Tha
  
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• The World’s Most Exclusive Summer Gathering Isn’t On Land

  09-07-2026 05:04 via dmarge.com
  
  Every summer, some of the world's most expensive possessions quietly begin arriving in the Mediterranean. Not sports cars, not private jets. Floating palaces.
  Long before tourists fill Ibiza's beach clubs or celebrities settle into their favourite waterfront restaurants, an entirely different kind of seasonal migration is already underway.
  Some of the largest and most valuable private yachts on Earth have returned to Spain, turning ports like Ibiza, Barcelona, Tarragona and Málaga into t
  
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• Porsche Wouldn’t Fix This GT3 RS So A YouTuber Did

  09-07-2026 05:04 via dmarge.com
  
  Buying a used Porsche 911 GT3 RS is supposed to be the dream. Buying one that Porsche itself refuses to repair is something else entirely.
  That is exactly the gamble YouTuber Mat Armstrong took when he paid £87,000 (~$168,000) for a damaged 991-generation GT3 RS that had already been written off by most people.
  Porsche allegedly refused to repair the car under warranty after suspecting the engine wear did not match the mileage shown. According to Armstrong, the company believed a mileage
  
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• IWC’s New Ingenieur Shows Why Zesty Luxury Sports Watches Are Having A Moment

  09-07-2026 05:04 via dmarge.com
  
  Luxury sports watches spent years getting bigger. Cases stretched past 40mm, wrists disappeared under oversized bezels and the industry largely treated size as a proxy for desirability. Somewhere along the way, that assumption started quietly unravelling.
  Collectors are rediscovering smaller watches, and brands are paying attention. The latest signal comes from IWC, which has expanded its 35mm Ingenieur Automatic collection with a new light blue "Pool" dial.
  It is not a flashy launch, but it is
  
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• Prominent Tech Founder Just Consigned Australia’s Largest Ever Swiss Watch Auction

  07-07-2026 09:00 via dmarge.com
  
  Somewhere in Australia, a prominent Australian tech founder has decided to part with a slice of his incredible watch collection. Not all of it. Just enough to make history.
  The estimated total value of what he has consigned to First State Auctions is the largest single offering of Swiss luxury watches this country has ever put under the hammer. With auction estimates for references running from $4,000 to north of $500,000, split across two auctions this month.
  This is the sort of catalogue that
  
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• The Female Haaland Trend On Instagram Is Getting Out Of Hand, And He Loves It

  07-07-2026 01:53 via dmarge.com
  
  Some footballers go viral for their goals. Erling Haaland is going viral because half of Instagram has apparently been hiding women who look exactly like him.
  Over the past few days, reels have been spreading of women with the same blonde hair, sharp jawline and unmistakable expression as Norway's striker. One lookalike inspired another, then another, until the whole thing stopped being a coincidence and started being its own category.One reel alone has pulled more than 85 million views. The co
  
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