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...products and accessories, but when asked about the most they ever paid for individual items, men outspend women in almost every category with the exception of handbags. People's favorite "extravagant" luxury purchases include the 2005 S-Type Jaguar, an 18-karat gold Tiffany ring and the Porsche 911 Cabriolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Going Gets Tough ... | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...Northwest Hugh Hefner, although he has accumulated some nice toys. He lives in an expensive condo decorated with Asian antiquities, across the street from his expansive downtown-Seattle office suite. "I don't live like the average 26-year-old," he admits. His latest purchase: a Porsche 911 Cabriolet to go along with his Jaguar and speed boat. He grew up in Seattle, and entertained neighborhood kids with magic tricks, including one in which an audience member put a coin in a varnished box. Warshavsky then made the coin disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Stock In Smut | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...escapade. He got three speeding tickets--two from the same cop who was trailing him--just on the drive from Albuquerque the weekend he moved Microsoft to Seattle. Later he bought a Porsche 930 Turbo he called the "rocket," then a Mercedes, a Jaguar XJ6, a $60,000 Carrera Cabriolet 964, a $380,000 Porsche 959 that ended up impounded in a customs shed because it couldn't meet import emission standards, and a Ferrari 348 that became known as the "dune buggy" after he spun it into the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE REAL BILL GATES | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...Names of Plowshare projects are not acronyms but tend to have something to do with transportation. Examples: Cabriolet (for excavation), Gasbuggy (for releasing natural gas), Ketch (for underground gas storage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A-Blast for Copper | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...Energy Community in Brussels. But the unforgiving police doggedly continued their investigation, discovered that more than a year ago Kilb acquired a Mercedes 190 SL sports car and, after it had been damaged in an accident, the Daimler-Benz Co. replaced it with a sky-blue Mercedes 220 S cabriolet. What even the most dogged search failed to uncover was any evidence that Bureaucrat Kilb had paid Daimler-Benz so much as a pfennig for either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Case of the Sky-Blue Mercedes | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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