New Corvette and Caddy are hardly gas misers
General Motors’ latest video is pretty unconvincing. While it has alternative-fuel cars at the Detroit Auto Show on this week, the ones that are ready for sale are, for want of a better term, gas guzzlers. And they need to be promoted. The Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 and Cadillac CTS-V look the business, and GM says that it’s […]
James Bond star, Sir Roger Moore, working on memoirs
Sir Roger Moore, star of The Saint and The Persuaders, and who played James Bond seven times between 1973 and 1985, is to publish his memoirs this year. The 80-year-old star of Live and Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me said: ‘The time is right to tell my story.’ The book, called My Word […]
International think-tank announces fifth annual Brands with a Conscience
The Medinge Group, an international think-tank on branding and business, today releases its fifth annual Brands with a Conscience list. In the Group’s opinion, these eight diverse organizations show that it is possible for brands to succeed as they contribute to the betterment of the society by sustainable, socially responsible and humanistic behaviour. The […]
The Indian luxury brand: Jaguar, Land Rover the vanguards to the west
[Cross-posted] We can be pretty con?dent with Ford’s latest non-announcement announcement that the Tata acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover is a fait accompli. The Indian multinational says it will make no changes to employment at Jaguar and Land Rover, which no doubt helped swing the sale in its favour. And there are other […]
A nice site came across my virtual desk today: Modify, an eco-chic boutique specializing in higher-end fashion, accessories, home items and beauty products. I don’t know the folks behind it, but I am pretty impressed with the home page design. We linked it from the Lucire Shopping Guide—the online one—today. Shows there’s plenty of growing […]
Lucire’s Car to Be Seen in nominees for 2008
Last night, the nominees for Lucire’s Car to be Seen in 2008 were announced: Fiat 500 Ford Mondeo Jaguar XF Volvo C30 Audi A4 Audi S5 Look, ma: no minivans or SUVs. These still have not distinguished themselves, in our book. One looks much the same as the other—except for the Volvo XC60, which we […]
We’ll announce the 2008 Car to Be Seen in nominees shortly on the Lucire website, but what gets us is how many mainstream models are in the reject pile. But at least the Australian Toyota Avalon and Rover 45 are gone. Chrysler Chrysler Sebring Jeep Patriot Jeep Compass GM Daewoo Tosca (a.k.a. Chevrolet Epica, Holden Epica) […]
Dress My Nest: feng shui and clutter
Clutter and feng shui are connected, according to Jayme Barrett in this segment from MyStyle.com’s Dress My Nest. On today’s Lucire home page. You may also like Mini celebrates 50th with unique model dedicated to George Harrison HRH the Duchess of Sussex a surprise presenter at the Fashion Awards Finding Zen with style Oscars 2018: […]
Beige is a bad interior-design default colour, says Dress My Nest’s Thom Filicia in our latest segment on the online cover of Lucire. You may also like Lucire updates: emerging talent, a new social network, and Lady Gaga on the Bruxelles subway Sylvie van der Vaart gives BMW the hair test Pierfrancesco Favino and David […]
Thom Filicia dispels myth no. 6
I know we started with no. 2, then no. 12, and we are now on no. 6 on Thom Filicia’s Dress My Nest tips—but that’s the order we’ve been given permission to post them in. As of last night, Thom has been dispelling another interior-decorating myth on our home page: that furniture has to be […]
