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• The Biggest Drinking World Cup Ever Could Not Come At A Better Time For Beer

  09-06-2026 05:59 via dmarge.com
  
  Football has always been good for beer. In 2026, beer may need football even more.
  The next World Cup is shaping up as the most beer-friendly tournament the sport has ever staged. It will be bigger, longer and held across the US, Canada and Mexico, three markets where a cold drink and a big screen are already part of the matchday ritual. For brewers, that is about as close as the industry gets to a perfect setup.
  Analysts expect fans to drink an extra one billion pints during the tournament, he
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• The Cartier Everyone Ignored Became A $3 Million Grail

  07-07-2026 01:53 via dmarge.com
  
  The Cartier Crash has always looked like someone left a watch too close to a fire.
  When it first appeared in London in 1967, that was essentially the reaction it got. Too strange, too artistic, too far from what a serious watch was supposed to look like.
  Production stayed tiny through the following decades, and the Crash drifted along as a minor footnote in Cartier's catalogue, the kind of thing specialists noticed and most collectors passed over.
  But times are changing, and today it is one of
  
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• Erling Haaland Female Lookalike 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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• The Supercar Has Lost The One Thing That Made It Special

  06-07-2026 02:46 via dmarge.com
  
  For a long time, every serious luxury car brand wanted a halo car. Not because it would sell in meaningful numbers, but because it made the rest of the range feel more desirable by association.
  The Audi R8, the Porsche 918 Spyder, the BMW i8 all played this role at different points, machines that most buyers would never own but that gave the brand something to point to when it wanted to signal what it was capable of.
  That logic is getting harder to sustain, particularly in China. The country wa
  
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• Richard Mille Made A $1.4 Million Cycling Watch Too Expensive To Race In The Tour De France

  04-07-2026 02:28 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  04-07-2026 02:28 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  04-07-2026 02:28 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  02-07-2026 05:29 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  02-07-2026 05:29 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  01-07-2026 02:42 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  01-07-2026 02:42 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  01-07-2026 02:42 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  29-06-2026 02:38 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  29-06-2026 02:34 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  29-06-2026 02:34 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  29-06-2026 02:34 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  29-06-2026 02:34 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  26-06-2026 05:31 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  26-06-2026 05:30 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  25-06-2026 08:18 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  25-06-2026 03:32 via dmarge.com
  
  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

  25-06-2026 02:24 via dmarge.com
  
  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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