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“None of my choices are particularly popular; they’re often overlooked, but that’s kind of my point,” says Magnusson. Never one to follow the crowd, he owns an Abarth Zagato double-bubble coupé and would be keen to give it some left-field stablemates. “The design of the MG coupé should have taken the tack of the 911: endlessly improve it, and it would still be with us as a great production car.” Meanwhile, Magnusson describes his chosen Facel Vega III as “a beautiful disaster but with memorable attributes”, and also fights the corner of the re-bodied Aston Zagato.

The two cosmopolitans explain their selection: “The film Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney, is one of our favourite movies. We also love the setting of To Catch a Thief, and go on regular weekend breaks to St Tropez in the summer – so the quaint estate there would be ideal. We could go on morning runs to the boulangerie riding a classic Vespa.”

Having already created an 8C Competizione-inspired bicycle, the collaboration between Compagnia Ducale and Alfa Romeo Centro Stile has generated another car-inspired two-wheeler, this time based on the 4C. Like its four-wheeled cousin, the 4C bicycle strives for minimal weight, with the forks and world-first semi-tube frame made from carbonfibre – the latter being both strengthened and decorated with steel tie rods.

Despite sporting some rather fetching curves of their own, the new models from Maserati wouldn’t have made it into the famous annual edition on their own merit. The company’s marketing department thus employed the services of Heidi Klum – a Sports Illustrated veteran, having graced the cover back in 1998 – to swing a multi-page spread.

April 1964, in the Pinewood Studios on the outskirts of London, the set designers have recreated the rooms of the famous Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach. The plan was to replay a key scene from the third James Bond film, 'Goldfinger', where Bond discovers that his playmate Jill Masterson - played by Shirley Eaton - has been covered with gold covered and hence murdered by 'epidermal suffocation'.

The British acting talent and the French singer-songwriter met in 1968 during the filming of ‘Slogan’. Both were facing a crisis in their lives: the French, chain-smoking enfant terrible had separated from Brigitte Bardot - or rather BB from him; and Jane Birkin had been left by the father of her babies and James Bond theme composer John Barry. But, as fate would have it, the two fell in love and became the dream couple of their generation.