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Here are some of the must-grab items on the discerning Branscombe beachcombers' shopping list. BMW R1200RT motorbike: $18,000 BMW automobile gearbox: $5,900 Timberland boots: $240 Empty oak wine barrel: $200 Nike running shoes: $120 L'Oréal moisturizer for men: $20 Flip-flops...
...Rhino Buggies, the firm Watson runs with his son and three staff, makes cars that out-hum the Hummer. They can drive over boulders as big as a Barina and through water that would flood a Falcon. The $58,000 Blizzard has a Nissan Patrol chassis, engine and gearbox, but nothing else about it is ordinary. It's Mad Max in a suit: stylish, smooth riding, thanks to adjustable shock absorbers, but tough enough for anything, from the Outback to the Apocalypse. That's too tough for Australian transport authorities. "They say it's too intimidating for on-road...
...culinary is the first place I’ve been into where everybody’s not f’ed up on something.” Voice full of disgust and regret, he describes a former roofing boss who, high on cocaine, smashed his fingers in a gearbox...
...they will vote as a bloc inside it, begin to integrate in foreign affairs, justice and taxation, and start to isolate the refuseniks - who would deploy their remaining vetoes in a climate of growing acrimony. That would be a Europe not just of two speeds but a whole gearbox, including reverse. Whether that would be such a bad thing depends, of course, on what you expect of the E.U. The truth is, the E.U. already operates at several speeds. Britain remains outside the euro zone but that hasn't hurt the British economy (indeed, maybe it's helped...
...Mazda. He is taking over from the veteran Wolfgang Reitzle, a former BMW honcho respected for his product-development and engineering acumen. Analysts say Jaguar would not be in the black without Reitzle's insistence that the automaker not skimp on such engineering details as the six-speed gearbox in the S-Type. Some Ford watchers, though, say Reitzle's departure was timely. "Wolfgang was great on the brand side, but he was always banging heads against people on the cost side of the business," says analyst Scott Hill of Sanford C. Bernstein...