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Fourteen years after it disappeared from the catalogue, the Cartier Roadster is coming to Australia, with the Maison confirming the relaunched collection launches locally this month. The Roadster first appeared in 2002 and ran for a decade before Cartier discontinued it in 2012. That left one of the brand’s few properly sporty shapes to the pre-owned market, where it built a quiet following among collectors who wanted a Cartier that looked nothing like a Tank.

There are celebrity cars, and then there is a V12 Lamborghini that went from a rock star’s driveway to the garage of the man who made a fortune photographing rock stars. A 1998 Lamborghini Diablo VT Roadster previously owned by Rod Stewart is now live on Lloyds Auctions, offered by Darryn Lyons, the Geelong-born paparazzi boss, former Geelong mayor and owner of Australia’s most famous mohawk. Bidding opened at $1 and closes on Saturday, October 31.

Brace yourself. I’ve just become a Zeekr owner. My new 7X Performance AWD in Forest Green is sitting in the garage, and to get it there I sold what I still think is the greatest station wagon ever made. I was 50/50 on getting an EV right up until I made the call. Knowing a car stacks up on paper and handing over the keys to one you love are two very different feelings. And in this economy, finding something that slides under the EV FBT threshold was a smart financial move.

Brace yourself. I’ve just become a Zeekr owner. My new 7X Performance AWD in Forest Green is sitting in the garage, and to get it there I sold what I still think is the greatest station wagon ever made. I was 50/50 on getting an EV right up until I made the call. Knowing a car stacks up on paper and handing over the keys to one you love are two very different feelings. And in this economy, finding something that slides under the EV FBT threshold was a smart financial move.

The Swiss watch industry is having a rough trot. Big brands have all but stopped spending, and as someone who has run DMARGE for 15 years, I’ve watched how the current economic outlook has put the brakes on an entire luxury industry. So it was slightly disorienting to sit across from Elie Bernheim, the third-generation CEO of Raymond Weil, and hear him say his company is growing in markets around the world.

Chevrolet has done something car companies almost never do. It has made its most expensive model in Australia cheaper, and not by a token amount either. The 2027 Corvette Z06 is now on sale locally from $299,990 before on-road costs, General Motors Australia and New Zealand announced today. When the Z06 first landed here it carried a $336,000 sticker, so buyers are looking at a saving of just over $36,000 on the track-bred, naturally aspirated flagship of the range.

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Flying private usually requires a net worth with a lot of zeroes, a charter membership and a thick skin when it comes to carbon emissions. On an industrial estate on the outskirts of Bristol, England, there’s a far cheaper way to tick it off the list, provided you don’t mind that the plane isn’t going anywhere.

Lando Norris spends his weekends strapped into a carbon fibre tub at north of 300km/h, so it tracks that when the reigning Formula 1 world champion finally gets to sit down on a plane, he wants a seat that goes flat. Norris is fronting new Etihad Airways campaign imagery built around the airline’s Business Class cabin.

There was a time when Taylor Sheridan was just the bloke who wrote Sicario and Hell or High Water. Now he basically is Paramount+, a one-man content factory pumping out Stetsons, shootouts and slow-burn family feuds at a rate that would make a Netflix algorithm blush. The numbers are ridiculous.