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Hip hotelier Vikram Chatwal is known for driving around Manhattan in a vintage Aston Martin, playing with party gals like Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan, and generally having way to much money. Founder of the Dream and Time hotel brands, Chatwal just showed off his amazing 4,000-sq.-ft. Soho bachelor pad in the Wall St. Journal,...
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OK, so it’s still only January, but Germany’s Lurssen has nabbed largest launch of the year honors (for now) with the 285-ft. Ace, an aggressively-styled vessel that takes its place at the bottom of the World’s 50 Largest Yachts roster, edging Steven Spielberg’s impressive Seven Seas, launched last year, off the list. The inimitable Andrew Winch...
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For five successful seasons Aston Martin’s voracious Vantage GT4 racer has snapped up trophies around the world. Now the sexy beast has finally made it to North America with the appointment of Multimatic Motorsports as Aston Martin Racing’s official partner to campaign two cars in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (CTSCC) for...
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In a few months Germany’s Lurssen will launch the Topaz, which at just over 482 ft. will become the world’s 4th largest yacht. The only larger vessels will belong to the Sultan of Oman, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and of course Roman Abramovich. Topaz’s anonymous owner has been unusually press shy, but...
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Mike Kittredge made a killing when he sold his Yankee Candle Company to a New York-based private equity company for $500 million in 1998. No surprise then that he named his new 197-ft. Feadship superyacht Paraffin. Launched in 2001 and refit in 2010, the ultra-luxe vessel is now for sale via Fraser Yachts for about...
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How this one even showed up outside an auction house – or wasn’t just privately bought & sold – is beyond us, but we’re not looking to argue. If anything, it’s a testament to the sort of quality standard we’re trying to keep on JamesList… This sort of Ferrari is a rare sight, and...
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De Tomaso, the Italian supercar marque founded by Argentine-born Alejandro de Tomaso in Modena in 1959, hit a high point with the Pantera in 1971, which became an icon of 1970s Italian automotive exoticism. Prior to that however the company produced the Mangusta, of which just 400 examples were built between 1966–1971. Since then...
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The other day we wrote about Musashi, Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison’s new samurai-style 288-ft. Feadship. The impressive yacht was actually launched alongside a nearly identical vessel, at least on the exterior, the 288-ft. Feadship Fountainhead. Both yachts were designed by De Voogt Naval Architects with interiors by Sinot Yacht Design. Full details of Fountainhead’s décor have not...
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The other day we noted that Paul Allen’s 303-ft. superyacht Tatoosh was causing anarchy in the UK. But the Microsoft billionaire has already moved on – he was just spotted aboard his even larger and more luxurious 416-ft. Octopus in the posh resort region of the Maldives. The Octopus, built by Lürssen in 2003, is currently ranked...
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Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison thinks he’s a samurai. That’s why he designed his $110 million Woodside, California, estate to look like one of those “dine in 16th century Japan” steakhouses, collects samurai armour, and gives all his superyachts Japanese names. His last one, Rising Sun, which he sold to David Geffen, is the 8th...
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