Archive for the ‘007’ Category

Limited Edition Carbon Black Aston Martins

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

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EPIC WIN — that is all. The DBS and Van­tage mod­els are get­ting this upgrade [sweetness!].

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But seri­ously, this reeks of awe­some. Here’s some specs from the offi­cial press release :

Fea­tur­ing bespoke Car­bon Black metal­lic paint espe­cially for­mu­lated with a sub­tle metal­lic twist to cre­ate a deep rich patina.

Each car will undergo 50 man-hours of hand paint­ing fol­lowed by strin­gent qual­ity checks.

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For the V12 Van­tage the iconic Aston Mar­tin side strake has been fash­ioned from real car­bon fibre backed by a black mesh and com­pli­mented with gloss black 10 spoke dia­mond turned alloy wheels.

A bright fin­ished grille and front park­ing sen­sors [nor­mally an option] com­plete the exte­rior detailing.

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Inside, own­ers will be greeted to swathes of Obsid­ian Black leather high­lighted with a con­trast sil­ver coarse stitch all hand stitched by the crafts­peo­ple at Gay­don – Aston Martin’s global head­quar­ters in England.

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Light­weight seats formed from Car­bon Fibre and Kevlar sav­ing 17 kg over the stan­dard seat also fea­ture together with Piano black facia trim, cen­tre stack and cen­tre con­sole, anodised black tread plates and unique sill plaques build on the car­bon theme.

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The Aston Mar­tin 700w Pre­mium Audio Sys­tem is deliv­ered as stan­dard in the V12 Van­tage while the DBS boasts the Bang + Olufsen Beosound DBS audio sys­tem as standard.

Of course, Aston Mar­tin hasn’t revealed the pric­ing model yet [it’s expected to be announced early 2010] but it is rea­son­able to expect that the price will be hefty.

via The Coolist / Auto­blog

AMVOX2 Racing Paris Chronograph via Jaeger LeCoultre

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

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This lovely lim­ited edi­tion [to 24 pieces] is hand-crafted and cased in tita­nium. I have no other words for this but … beautiful.

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Would James Bond have this watch? I’m think­ing yes, of course! For more details I don’t really under­stand [ha!], check out the links.

via Selec­tism / Time­zone

Code X Luxury Yacht

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

As in, some­thing James Bond would have on the week­ends before get­ting ambushed by bad guys …

I really should have a ded­i­cated sec­tion on this blog, just for James Bond. I keep find­ing all these cool Bond-esque things. Like this :

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From the site :

The uncom­pro­mis­ingly designed yacht, built by inter­na­tional lead­ing experts, sym­bol­izes a dream come true. CODE-X unites rad­i­cal purism, the opti­mal ben­e­fit of renew­able energy and the sheer power of a rac­ing machine in one boat.

A flex­i­ble solar hybrid propul­sion sys­tem enables both quiet, envi­ron­men­tally friendly cruis­ing in ports and coastal areas as well as the plea­sure of high speeds on open waters!”

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Code X has For­mula 1 engines and uti­lizes solar power as well. Here are some specs :

Engines :
/ 2 x Ilmor marine com­bus­tion engines MV10-710
/ Con­fig­u­ra­tion : 90 degree V 10
/ Horse­power : 2 x 710 HP
/ Torque : 882 Nm @ 4800 rpm
/ Full throt­tle rpm range: 5400 — 6300
/ Capac­ity : 2 x 8.3 liters
/ Per­for­mance : 90 kn
/ 2 x elec­tric engines

Source of Energy :
/ Fos­sil fuel [2 tanks]
/ Solar-power

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There’s even some images of the deck and inte­rior layouts.

via Code X