Solution: yachts made in China. “It wasn't the first place we thought of,” says Bean, who is used to people raising an eyebrow at the thought of what may be the world's most expensive luxury good being manufactured in a country still better known for …

IMAGINE YOU have this massive luxury yacht that you charter to rich people and one of those rich people leaves a mirror, white powder and a rolled-up dollar bill in his bathroom. You would not be happy. Neither is the captain of Honor, the 164-foot …

The Panamera luxury liftback is one of those Porsches that purists love to hate – just like they hate the Cayenne SUV and will hate its little bother, the Audi Q5-based Macan too. When Panamera was launched back in 2009, the five-door copped it for …

But it's clear that the technology would save billions more in euros than it would cost – provided that enough drivers were using the Car-to-X system so that sufficient data could be collected to make it worthwhile. The luxury automaker Mercedes is …

“It has been led by luxury cars . . . and more and more young people have started to buy foreign cars instead of saving money to buy real estate,” says Yoon Dae-sung, executive director of the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association.

Specialist in super-luxury cars, John Koutoulakis of Toronto's Grand Touring Automobiles deals in the type of ride that costs as much as a condo and gleams like a Piaget watch. In other words, the vehicle has to be handcrafted and customizable from …

This freedom to choose your place of abode — assuming you can find work or start a business — is an option, a luxury that you can tuck away at the back of your head. It is Plan B. It is not a luxury available … Finally, I've moved — although I …

Modern … pure luxury inside the 3,500-passenger, 1,200-crew ship. The next morning … Anticipation for our rainforest zip-lining adventure was running high as we boarded the bus and started the steep climb along mountainous roads. And what a high it …

I spend most of my non-writing time working on small luxury cruise ships as a guide and lecturer, usually visiting the places I have written about. I have brushed up my … You can die on an adventure, but it beats withering away on a ward. Forgotten …