The Hills stars make it official with a traditional ceremony in California
My Rolls-Royce is a lot more expensive than your Buick. A pint of Ben & Jerry's costs double the A&P generic brand. That makes sense. But when it comes to college tuition, the difference between the Harvards and the Podunks is not nearly so great.
Federal transportation safety officials Wednesday issued an "urgent" recommendation calling for a redesign of a component on some Boeing 777 aircraft engines -- a component blamed for two major mishaps in the past year.
The signs in the window of Jay Kos, an upscale men's wear boutique on Park Avenue in Manhattan, seemed at best cheeky, at worst clueless. Surrounded by glaring economic-crisis headlines cut out of newspapers, they said, "Cashmere sweater: $2,500. Recession price: $2,500." "Lamb's fleece jacket: $11,000. Recession price: $11,000."
High net-worth individuals will always find ways to enjoy, celebrate and flaunt their wealth -- the yacht at Monte Carlo, the chateau, the vineyard and the Rolls Royce Phantom. The very wealthy add to this their private jets -- Gulfstreams and Lears -- providing mobile bedrooms and boardrooms for upwards of four people.
For those of you who are schoolteachers, you will understand what I am about to relate.
The nationalization of the once lucrative bank threatens the British Prime Minister's already tottering fortunes
You expect a motorist to shell out a little extra cash for a vanity license plate.
From style icons like Tom Ford to glamorous locations like China, last year Art of Life brought you the best of good living.
Investors who abhor smoking or environmental degradation are regularly told by financial advisors that they should choose stocks that yield the highest returns, including stocks of companies that produce tobacco or pollute the environment, and then donate their profits to campaigns for the causes they support.
The Hills stars make it official with a traditional ceremony in California
My Rolls-Royce is a lot more expensive than your Buick. A pint of Ben & Jerry's costs double the A&P generic brand. That makes sense. But when it comes to college tuition, the difference between the Harvards and the Podunks is not nearly so great.
Federal transportation safety officials Wednesday issued an "urgent" recommendation calling for a redesign of a component on some Boeing 777 aircraft engines -- a component blamed for two major mishaps in the past year.
The signs in the window of Jay Kos, an upscale men's wear boutique on Park Avenue in Manhattan, seemed at best cheeky, at worst clueless. Surrounded by glaring economic-crisis headlines cut out of newspapers, they said, "Cashmere sweater: $2,500. Recession price: $2,500." "Lamb's fleece jacket: $11,000. Recession price: $11,000."
High net-worth individuals will always find ways to enjoy, celebrate and flaunt their wealth -- the yacht at Monte Carlo, the chateau, the vineyard and the Rolls Royce Phantom. The very wealthy add to this their private jets -- Gulfstreams and Lears -- providing mobile bedrooms and boardrooms for upwards of four people.
For those of you who are schoolteachers, you will understand what I am about to relate.
The nationalization of the once lucrative bank threatens the British Prime Minister's already tottering fortunes
You expect a motorist to shell out a little extra cash for a vanity license plate.
From style icons like Tom Ford to glamorous locations like China, last year Art of Life brought you the best of good living.
Investors who abhor smoking or environmental degradation are regularly told by financial advisors that they should choose stocks that yield the highest returns, including stocks of companies that produce tobacco or pollute the environment, and then donate their profits to campaigns for the causes they support.
The outbreak in Surrey remains limited so far, and the hunt for the source is focusing on a nearby research lab
A hedge fund manager whose fund ran into trouble from the sell-off in securities backed by subprime mortgages is having to put his huge yacht up for sale, seeking $23.5 million.
U.S. troops are pinned down in a crowded city center. Several are wounded and need immediate evacuation. There are miles of labyrinthine roads and thousands of enemy gunmen between them and the nearest base.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is aptly named. When it lifts off the runway at PAE Paine Field in Everett, Wash. for its first test flight this summer, it will carry the dreams of more than 900 small subcontractors that helped create it. With 584 copies on order as of June, it's the fastest-selling new plane in the history of commercial aviation and will keep Boeing and its suppliers busy for a decade or longer.
The eyes of the aviation industry will be on the 787 Dreamliner's unveiling on Sunday but is the fastest selling airliner in history ready for its close-up?
As corporate jets take up an increasing share of the skies, they're being pressed to contribute more to aviation costs
From your own slice of paradise to your own thoroughbred, this month on Art of Life we explore the best way to invest your money. Whether it is cars, racehorses or your own private island, we tell you how to channel your money into less traditional investments.
The housing boom was good to John Devaney. Really good. He owns a Rolls-Royce, a Gulfstream Jet, a 12,000-square-foot mansion in Key Biscayne and a 143-foot yacht, as well as a few Renoirs and a valuable 1823 reproduction of the Declaration of Independence.
Car companies are coming up with a lot of radical ideas. Here are ten that should go the distance, from Detroit's 2007 North American International Auto Show.
Ford Motor Co. will introduce a 4-door, V-8 concept-car carrying most of the mechanical underpinnings of its popular Mustang sports car, the company said in a recent statement.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will unveil its first convertible in five years at the auto show in Detroit later this month.
Once the sole provenance of the elite, luxury goods are now aimed at a much bigger market -- the middle class. Brands such as Starbucks, Coach, Victoria's Secret and Evian are redefining the traditional concepts of luxury, observers say.
To the tune of a brass band playing "Happy Birthday," a beaming Queen Elizabeth II joined throngs of loyal subjects at Britain's Windsor Castle to celebrate as she turns 80.
Here's a sales pitch I'll bet you'd never expect for a 20-foot-long $390,000 luxury sedan: "It makes a great gift."
BENTLEY CONTINENTAL FLYING SPUR
You may never have the opportunity to peel out and smoke the rear tires on a $350,000 Rolls Royce Phantom, but if you ever get the chance, here's how.
Not for nothing has the title Rolls-Royce come to have a resonance way beyond the confines of the motor industry.
Mercedes-Benz was the most mentioned brand in 2005's biggest rap hits, found a survey released this week.
We humans have always placed considerable value on smelling nice, often going to great lengths, and great expense, to acquire the finest perfumes and fragrances with which to douse ourselves.
BMW, parent company of Rolls-Royce, is planning to release a smaller, less expensive Rolls than the company's current Phantom sedan, according to a report on Edmunds.com's Inside Line Website.
Pity the ignorant executive who boards a plane for the United Arab Emirates bragging about his Ritz-Carlton reservations. Because even before landing, he'll spot the best business hotel in the Midd...
Twenty cars that have transported heads of state and other world leaders will be on display starting June 18 as part of the "Presidents, Popes and Potentates" exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
Call them affordable exotics. They are pre-owned, classic cars that have fallen in price to the range of a new Chevy Suburban.
I had to laugh when I figured out the purpose of the button on the steering wheel, the one with a picture of a wheel with wavy lines.
AT THE SPECIALTY EQUIPMENT Market Association trade show in Las Vegas--the giant annual wingding for people in the business of customizing cars --there is a rule of thumb, with a corollary. The rul...
This was the year that Americans reasserted their traditional values.
Supporters of President Bush will be bringing their own fanfare and enthusiasm when they flock to Washington in January for inaugural festivities, but they'll also be generating much excitement for D.C. hoteliers, who promise to pamper anyone willing to pay.
IT'S BEEN A BRUTAL YEAR for Chevrolet. Bacardi is in serious trouble, and Lamborghini is being lapped by Rolls-Royce. We're not talking about their businesses, mind you. No, the icons have all take...
"In 1930, 21-year-old Frank Whittle filed his patents for what we now call the jet engine.
How many times have you heard that the best way to budget is to laboriously record every single expense in a notebook for an entire month?
At first glance, it seems that life is getting better for America's workers. The unemployment rate has dropped by half a percentage point in the past year, and 1.4 million more people have been hir...
The following are little-known facts about Rolls-Royce past and present.
The carmaker Rolls-Royce is celebrating its centenary at the very spot where the company was founded.
Exactly 100 years ago today, Charles Stewart Rolls, the third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock and owner of one the earliest auto dealerships in Great Britain, met a man named Frederick Henry Royce in a hotel in Manchester, England.
U.S. stock markets slipped early Wednesday, as investors took in lower-than-forecast earnings from Alcoa, the first Dow component to report results, and awaited the onslaught of other corporate reports, due in the days ahead.
For one view of what this year's economy might hold, look no further than January's Detroit Auto Show. Past the giant displays of General Motors, Ford, and Toyota was one of the tiniest stands in d...
With the possible exception of fine wine or a Rolls-Royce, products start depreciating the moment they're sold. But at Theragenics--a Buford, Ga., company that makes implantable, radioactive "seeds...
Season's Greetings! I know full well that most of the folks on my holiday list neither need nor deserve gifts this year, but what with the economy turning and the stock market likely to be up for t...
Connoisseurs of the car salesman's art won't want to miss this one. With Rolls-Royce, Bentley, and Maybach creating a new market niche somewhere north of extravagant, a spectacle is in the making: ...
Talk about an accident of timing. Over the next 12 months three of the world's preeminent automobile manufacturers--all German, as it turns out--will introduce a trifecta of new cars so expensive t...
Regulars at the airport outside Mojave, Calif., have seen some odd aircraft over the years, but one plane that's been flying there for the past few months is especially peculiar: a Boeing 747 with ...
For industry movers and shakers, the New York City auto show is usually a big yawn. It occurs late in the vehicle introduction season and in a city that basically hates all cars that aren't stretch...
FORTUNE: Good morning. In keeping with the theme of this issue of our magazine, today we are going to be speaking with an individual who has brought health, fitness, and wellness to new heights ove...
Rare is the new car that elicits instantaneous negative reaction. Rarer still--unheard of, really--is the new BMW that ignites criticism before it even leaves the factory. The latest version of BMW...
On the bustling floor of the Detroit auto show, the Bentley Continental T Mulliner coupe was easy to miss: another expensive, dark-green two-door, its squarish lines a decade out of sync.
Picture David Henry. He's a classic. Clean-cut, energy and ambition to burn. Wears those loose-fitting khakis and that wide-striped Polo shirt as if he'd been born in them. Has a look in his eyes t...
For the millions of Americans contentedly motoring around each day in their slick, well-engineered BMWs, it may come as a surprise that the proud Bavarian carmaker's latest attempt to conquer the w...
It didn't work for Godzilla, but the No. 1 rule for success in the automotive business for years has been "size does matter." Manufacturers like to spread their fixed costs--for engineering, techno...
Okay, so times are tough for Volkswagen Chairman Ferdinand Piech, what with his discovery that, after spending $790 million to buy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, VW doesn't get to use the Rolls-Royce bran...
Opening scene: somewhere in Beverly Hills on a warm, hazy summer day. The camera pans a stretch of boulevard; in the background, large, well-tended manses perch. In the foreground, a startling glin...
Perched on the auction block under the heat of spotlights, camera crews, video monitors, and thousands of spectators, the gleaming 1938 Packard convertible coupe--with its wide-eyed luxury--was an ...
Pretend I'm a guy. This guy: The IPO opened at 15, closed at 34. I am suddenly very rich. I got from venture funding to going public on one suit and a Swiss Army watch, the model with a compass. I'...
Some people hitchhike around the world with nothing more than a backpack. Some fly the Concorde and take everything with them. I'd travel in style, if I could afford it. And if I had one computer t...
David Ross, the man perched so jauntily on this yacht, has plenty of reason to grin. He owns Burger Boat, the small Manitowoc, Wisconsin, builder of custom-designed, handcrafted yachts so coveted b...
For most of the past four years, stock prices have cruised from one high to the next with the smooth, silent ride of a Rolls-Royce. But since March, the market has been lurching like a broken-down ...
The lure of 20 million potential customers is leading companies to the World Wide Web, an Internet information service on which they can offer electronic catalogues and other marketing material com...
MANAGING/COVER STORY 44 BURNED-OUT BOSSES Talk about conflicting messages! Managers in the Nineties are supposed to think of themselves and their employees as a team, yet at the same time they are ...
Coming this fall: a limited-edition Rolls-Royce, for those who prize exclusivity above all. Called the Flying Spur, this turbocharged Rolls will sell for $225,000 (vs. $189,000 for your run-of-the-...
-- JOHN AKERS, 58, former head of IBM and a onetime Navy pilot, on his role as a director and investor in a new airline to be launched by Frank Lorenzo, 53, former head of Texas Air: ''I've done ev...
Car & Driver calls it ''the best sedan in the world.'' At $128,500, the 600SEL is the flagship of the Mercedes-Benz fleet: 2 1/2 tons of luxury and performance, with a 402-horsepower V-12 engine an...
Whatever next, chaps! Sir David Hannay, Britain's Ambassador to the United Nations, has had to turn in his 1989 Silver Spur Rolls-Royce. He's now being chauffeured around in a made-in-the-Colonies ...
T. J. RODGERS, 43, founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, on his evolving relationship with company directors: ''I've become comfortable having a board that gets on my case often. When we screw ...
Until now, cars with pricetags over $100,000 have had the aura of collector's items. Superluxury automakers -- Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, and their ilk -- count annual production in the hun...
Riding to his inauguration in an open Rolls-Royce and escorted by guards on white horses, the new President of Brazil might have thought the world was smiling on him. Only for a moment. With inflat...
THROUGH much of the magazine's history, FORTUNE's advertisements vividly reflected the way members of a powerful and discriminating class viewed the world -- or how they wished it could be. Even th...
The trouble with some homes is that they don't think for their owners. You can get your residence to wise up, though. Just purchase an electronic system that lets you program it to maintain your pl...
Right now the most luxurious and powerful vehicle made by Chrysler Corp. is the Gulfstream IV jet. But soon the honor will revert to a much slower machine, the new Lamborghini Diablo. That's becaus...
It's an investment, you tell yourself as you plop down $14,000 for a 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. Not so, says S. Prestley Blake, the retired chairman of Friendly Ice Cream, who owns more than a ...
''WE ARE of the same breed. One of her ancestors was Attila the Hun and one of mine was Genghis Khan. We have found each other. We are on the same wavelength.'' So says Prince Johannes von Thurn un...
Three years ago Rolls-Royce introduced a turbocharged Bentley to pay homage to the car's roots as a 1920s racer. As befits a marque famous for understatement and preferred by Lord Peter Wimsey, ini...
The consumer's love affair with luxury still burns brightly, despite the market crash. Take cars. Early in November, in what might seem a masterpiece of bad timing, BMW introduced its most expensiv...
CARMAKERS and dealers in the U.S. are scrambling for better ways to sell. The proliferation of makes from all over the world, the development of new car technologies, and car buyers' increasing sop...
Allen Paulson, chief executive of Gulfstream Aerospace, picked a great time to take his company public. But if the new-issues market was hot in May 1983, it was a terrible time for planemakers. Wit...
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