MEMILIKI kereta mewah atau kereta idaman sememangnya suatu yang tidak dapat dipisahkan dengan naluri dan keinginan manusia terutama golongan lelaki.

Maka tidak hairanlah jika kita dapat melihat ramai daripada pemilik kereta yang sanggup mengubahsuai kereta agar kelihatan seperti kereta sports yang menjadi idaman mereka.

Tetapi ada satu lagi golongan jutawan yang hobi mereka mengumpul kereta-kereta lama atau klasik dan sanggup membelanjakan wang berjuta-juta dollar untuk memiliki barangan antik yang diminati mereka.

Di California, Amerika Syarikat, baru-baru ini, sebuah kereta antik BUgatti Atlantic Model 1936 telah dijual dengan harga antara RM100 juta dan RM130 juta.

Kereta Bugatti jenis 57SC itu boleh dianggap sebagai antara kereta tercantik pernah dicipta dan pernah memenangi Anugerah Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2003.

Kereta yang memecah rekod jualan kereta paling mahal di dunia itu mempunyai reka bentuk Perancis dan diperbuat daripada aluminium pada badannya.

Siapa pembeli dan jumlah sebenar yang dibayar untuk mendapatkan kereta itu tidak didedahkan oleh pelelongnya Gooding & Company, bagaimanapun, dipercayai kereta itu dijual kepada Muzium Automotif Mullin di California milik Peter Mullin.

Mullin merupakan Pengerusi Emeritus of MullinTBG dan pengasas serta pengerusi syarikat M. Financial yang mempunyai hobi mengumpul kereta-kereta antik keluaran negara Perancis dan ditempatkan di muzium automotifnya.

Hanya terdapat empat model Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic di dunia dan salah satu daripadanya dimiliki oleh Ralph Lauren, manakala kereta yang dijual dengan harga tertinggi di dunia itu dimiliki oleh mendiang Dr. Peter Williamson yang juga merupakan pengumpul koleksi kereta Bugatti.

Jualan kereta tersebut telah memecah rekod jualan lelong yang dilaksanakan oleh Goodong & Company sebelum ini selepas berjayamenjual kereta Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa 1967 dengan harga AS$12.2 juta di Maranello, Itali pada 2009.

Kereta James Bond dilelong

Sementara itu, kereta Aston Martin DB5 yang digunakan oleh James Bond dalam filem Goldfinger dan Thunderball akan dilelong pada 27 Oktober ini di London dengan anggaran nilai melebihi RM16 juta.

Menurut syarikat pelelong RM Auctions, ini adalah kali pertama kereta Aston Martin DB5 keluaran 1964 yang digunakan oleh Sean Connery dalam filem 007 itu ditawarkan untuk dibeli oleh orang awam.

Apa yang menarik, kereta itu bukan sahaja mengekalkan gaya dan kejuruteraannya tetapi juga peralatan serta gajet asal seperti cermin kalis peluru, nombor pendaftaran khas JB007, alat pengesan, panel bumbung boleh dibuka, pelepas asap dan minyak pelicin.

Pada 1969, pemilik stesen radio Philadelphia, Jerry Lee berjaya menyakinkan Kilang Aston Martin Lagonda untuk menjualkan kereta itu kepadanya dengan harga RM39,000.

Hasil lelongan kereta itu nanti akan dimasukkan kepada Jerry Lee Foundation, sebuah pertubuhan yang menjalankan aktiviti mengurangkan kadar jenayah dan meningkatkan pendidikan.

Kali terakhir kereta model seperti itu dijual di pasaran ialah pada 2006 apabila dibeli oleh seorang pembeli persendirian dengan harga RM6.9 juta, bagaimanapun Aston Martin itu tidak pernah digunakan untuk lakonan dalam filem James Bond.

- SUMBER : UTUSAN MALAYSIA

Disini , kita sesama umat dan bangsa berlaga antara satu sama lain atas isu politik dan isu isu mengarut ! ... Mereka di luar sana cuba menghancurkan Islam dengan menyakitkan hati kita , namun berapa ramaikah yang perasan ? ..

Cuba baca...

A 'pork and wine' party, organised on Facebook, has been banned by Paris officials A 'pork and wine' party, organised on Facebook, has been banned by Paris officials. The event, organised on the social networking site, was planned for Friday, when the streets would be teeming with Muslims coming out of mosques.

But police cracked down on the pork-based protest and any other copycat gatherings in the Goutte d'Or area of northern Paris' 18th arrondissement, or district.

Officials stated that the party could cause 'serious risks to public order'. The party was following a growing trend in France to host open-air drinks parties, organised via Facebook.

The original idea for the Paris gathering came from a woman calling herself Sylvie Francois, who said that she no longer felt at home in the neighbourhood where she had lived all her life.

'People of French origin can't have a drink in peace there. If you are a woman you get hostile looks if you're not wearing an (Islamic) veil,' she stated.

Her party, who had nearly 7,000 Facebook attendees, urged users to bring a bottle of wine and a sausage.

The party was then picked up by extremist groups, who published it to other Internet sites as a response to the 'fascist-Islamist offensive in France.'

The street party would have paraded pork and alcohol, forbidden by Islamic law, outside of a mosque on the Rue Myrha.

A 'halal and mint tea' party was set up on Facebook in response to the protest. (...)

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Pork-and-wine party' blasted

PARIS - A FRENCH minister of Algerian descent on Tuesday condemned plans for a 'pork sausage and wine' party in a multi-ethnic Paris district, calling them 'hateful, racist and xenophobic.' The event scheduled for Friday in a northern Paris area has been organised by a local resident who said she wanted to make a statement against the 'Islamisation' of her neighbourhood.

The junior minister for urban affairs, Fadela Amara, told reporters that that while she 'enjoys a party,' she found this one 'scandalous.' 'I firmly condemn this type of initiative that is not joyful, but hateful, racist and xenophobic,' she told reporters in the town of Mantes-La-Jolie outside Paris.

Ms Amara, a former activist in the immigrant-heavy Paris suburbs before she joined President Nicolas Sarkozy's government in 2007, said the drinks party was supported 'by groups linked to the far right.' Paris police were to meet with the event's organisers on Tuesday to consider their official request for permission to hold the event, which has been announced on the social networking site Facebook.

Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe voiced concern that the drinks party, timed to coincide with the beginning of Friday prayers at the local mosque and just before the England-Algeria World Cub match, could turn violent. 'Everything has been planned in such a way that there could be some excesses, things could get out of control and there could even be violence,' said Mr Delanoe.

Meanwhile, a rival group has set up a 'halal and mint tea' party in response to the Friday event and the head of the main Paris mosque located in another neighbourhood has invited the faithful to attend prayers there to avoid clashes.

Pierre Cassen, one of the organisers of the pork-and-wine party, defended the event, saying he was 'resisting the Islamic-fascist offensive in France.' The tensions come after a government-sponsored debate on national identity held earlier this year revealed anxieties about the integration of France's five to six million Muslims. -- AFP

Pork-and-wine party' blasted

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