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Tender touch Classic , retro bikes and now even a Riva-style boat – Ares Design is really motoring, says hand-built, 42-knot Riva-style speedboat, Simon de Burton fitted with a pair of 750hp engines and costing around €650,000, are well and truly in hand. The original reason for my trip was to become built on the chassis of a contemporary f any reader is about to commission the first person outside the firm to ride the C7 model. Ares has also come up with a a bespoke, classically styled tender, you Ares take on BMW’s R nineT retro-look staggeringly beautiful interpretation of a 1956 I might want to hold fire until you’ve spoken motorcycle. If that was anything to go by, the Spider called Project Wami and is to the geniuses at Ares Design in . The forthcoming boat promises to be something currently completing its 21st-century take on town is famous for exotic Italian marques very special indeed. the famous Pantera of the 1970s. such as , Maserati, , Ares was co-founded in 2015 by former All Ares vehicles combine the latest De Tomaso and , so you’d be right in Lotus CEO Dany Bahar (who took mechanicals with hand-built coachwork thinking that Ares is most closely associated Red Bull into and interiors made to any with the automotive sector. Its speciality is before moving to Ferrari as specification the customer converting old vehicles and creating entirely commercial vice president) and SPECIFICATIONS requires. In the case of the BMW new ones for wealthy enthusiasts who want a serial entrepreneur Waleed al R nineT, however, around €50,000 car or motorcycle that is not only beautifully Ghafari. Among other things, ARES BMW R nineT buys one of a strictly limited engineered but also utterly unique. he founded the $3.3 billion edition of 25 machines in one Engine Twin cylinder, But during Dubai Pearl real estate project. of three styles. 1,170cc, air/oil cooled a recent visit to With a remit to “wage war Power 81kw/110hp The fact that the one I tried Ares Design’s on mediocrity”, the company @7,550rpm was among the best-riding, state-of-the-art, has already created the world’s Gearbox Six speed best-finished custom motorcycles 18,500-square- only Mulsanne coupé, Weight 222kg I have ever encountered bodes Fuel capacity 18 litres metre design and the indomitable-looking Ares rather well for the boat. And if I’m Top speed 200km/h The Ares boat manufacturing X-Raid based on a Mercedes- around €50,000 chosen to be the first outsider to and, top, its Price BMW R nineT facility, I discovered Benz G63 AMG and a “brand sea trial it, I’ll certainly consider that plans for a new” 1964 Corvette Stingray myself honoured. aresdesign.com

Mind and body In an effort to cater for patients’ overall well-being, Vivamayr’s Maria Wörth clinic, on Lake Wörth in southern Austria, has appointed a resident psychologist and now offers a mental-healing programme to boost its famous nutrition schedule. In what the clinic calls “emotional detoxing”, therapy sessions are aimed at restructuring dysfunctional beliefs into “free-form” beliefs, or more positive thoughts. vivamayr.com

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