In for an exhilarating ride on water in a green fashion?  Here’s the eco-friendly FoilJet MR1, designed by Matt De Bellefeuille, which is a unique concept vehicle on water that gives you an awesome ride and helps reduce water pollution. It uses a distinctive technique in which its foils, located under the hull of the vehicle, act as wings that propel the vehicle completely out of the water.  Befitted with an electric engine ruling out oil spills in case of an accident, this wonderful water body is appendage with safety features such as a simple switch to shut the engine down. To operate the Foiljet, the rider will simply lower the foil beams and accelerates. The hydrofoils will then start to act as wings making the vehicle foil borne & prepare it to ride smoothly on water.

Combining the efficiency of a motor bike and that of a sail boat, this water body is sure to offer riders a whole new experience. With use of hydrofoils and a 48 Volt motor, the Foiljet is certain to be one of the most efficient vehicles on the water and an eco-delight at $15,000.

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Yacht lovers can pay their attention here. Those willing to ride over water with an attitude can jump onto the Krysalid’42 trimaran. The elite vessel offers a fun-loving, soothing and secured ride to filthy-rich and thus trailing on it means a neat shelling of $606,600. The trimarans are known for their unsinkable nature, even though they are soaked in water. Needless to say, a voyage on Krysalid cruiser aims at revising your understanding of adventurous journey offered by any standard yacht.Feating a foldable structure that can be unfolded within two minutes; it proposes to offer more room on the bulky (42 foot) bridgedeck tavern. Available in two editions, it is purposefully designed to meet two different uses i.e. for racing shows and fast cruise racing.

It is spacious enough to accommodate 6-8 people. So, are the aforementioned reasons enough to convince you in digging out such a fat sum from your deep pockets?

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Who says that sunbathing is restricted to only pool side “on water and over yacht”? Its time to revise your perceptions and meet Volkswagen, which has lately depicted lot of sunbathing potential in its coupe model: Topos Caddy Sail Design. Volkswagen is geared up to mark a stylish entry to the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon with its Topos Caddy Sail Design Concept. The concept aims at transforming the Caddy commercial van to impersonate the technique and functionality of a yacht. True, the Caddy Topos concept won’t offer you a ride over water but its roof features a sailboat style deck that can be customized for recreation and sunbathing. Against mere pinstripes and wood siding, the designer van cum yacht concept sports a working wooden deck fitted with aluminum rails.

The wooden ladder integrated into the glass offers easy access to the roof complimented by a flexible deck that twists to make an opportune platform to lay down and enjoy the nautical sunbathing. Do let me know your views about the concept and your call on the reality potential involved in it.

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I choose to fall into the latter category of rovers, who are born to live on earth but have lost their heart to enjoy rides on water or fly amidst sky. But realizing the impossibility engaged, I was hunting for a vehicle that can calm down my curiosities and relish my survival on earth. And it seems that the car company quietly understood my wants and hence tied a knot with Edmiston, a lavish yacht brokerage and sales firm to unveil an ultimate Range Rover stimulated from super yachts.

The two companies have organized a contest for the eventual “Superyacht Range Rover”. The renowned yacht designers participating in the contest include Dickie Bannenberg, Tim Heywood, Andrew Winch, Terence Disdale, Ken Freivokh, Redman Whiteley Dixon, and Martin Francis.

It is being said that the results will be disclosed on 25 September during the Monaco Yacht Show by Gerry McGovern, the senior designer of Range Rover. The interested visitors can ink deals with the seven-exhibited models with an anticipated delivery to happen within 3-6 months at a demanding price ranging from $297,500-$1.19 million.

Featured model is a creation by designer Dickie Bannenberg, offering a perfect feast to your eyes.

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And today I found an interesting update to my compilation of Top 11 realistic simulators. Those who have a desire to simulate through the celebrated Kontiki voyage across the Pacific Ocean and that too in a contemporary yacht with all means of safety involved have hit the right place. Claiming to offer you a racing experience along the banks of river Seine in Paris and the canals of Venice, the customized SimSail sailing simulator comes from Simsation. The simulator sports two full-sized land cruisers abetted by microcomputers and a great monitor featuring your pals engaged cheering you against your rival. Spacious to accommodate two people, the customized in-game considers all locations, weather and situation. It’s 3.5 X 2.5 meter screen is adequate to sustain the attention of the audience while players race alongside each other in this ultra-cool simulated yachts.

It is flexible to enable you adjust your difficulty and competition levels as per your choice. Irrespective of age and experience, the featured here in-game land yachts offer a quick-and-easy cruise to all gamers. Essentially predestined for exposition magnetism rationales, you can buy yourself one if you have that spare amount of dough to spend and space to install. For now, I have no knowledge about its pricing.

Driven by one-man, the submersible watercraft concept has a tendency to sail both on and under the water surface. Considering the possibility that with growing pollution and population, it would be a tough thought to survive on land. Hence, the concept called Aqua was devised offering a stay under the ocean. Formed like a dolphin, this underwater means of transportation is an ideal one for a stay in water. The designer structure by Korean designers Sungchul Yang and Woonghee Han monitors optimism, supplies oxygen and look for ways to shield the driver from getting hurt with the water pressure.

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If profligate lifestyle and excuse of having piled up dough is the reason for your extravagance then excuse me please! How about enjoying another glass of wine while seating in an open sky over the yacht? One noticeable and self-confessed fact about the hedonistic clan is their possession of a yacht, which according to them comes equipped with every luxury. But the Gimaballed Champagne Holder (pictured above) is surely a missing luxury. The champagne holder respects every drop of Moet ordered from the vineyards based in the north east of France.
The designer Bottler was designed and developed for Dutch company Bottler BV by an established interior yacht designer, who was stimulated by Gerolamo Cardano. It was in 1537 he developed his ‘cardanic suspension’ (gimbals) to hold the breadth firmly adjacent to the ship arrangements. With a starting price tagged at €5,000, the designer wine holder comprise of three concentric rings, where the compass hung always upright. Ready to install in your luxury yacht, the hand-crafted Bottler is designed using watch-making precision and is customized as per the customer’s needs.

Currently, the sleek and stylish champagne holder resides on board of Italian 150-foot yacht Princess Iolanthe and 197 ft super yacht Paraffin owned by Mike Kittredge. If you wish to flaunt this form of opulence as well rush now.
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Ahhh to be friends with dolphins is the submarine called the Innespace Seabreacher. The two-seater submersible that looks and moves like a dolphin. Interestingly, the Seabreacher uses the same canopy as an F-22 fighter jet to insure that the inside stays nice and dry with a watertight seal. When the automobile comes in motion, it looks no less than a jet fighter with energy to breakthrough the tough water. Developed with an intention to impersonate a dolphin’s movement, it uses the downhill elevate of the wings to leap out of the water, and even do cask spins.

I presume it’s as secure as humans can get to really enact a dolphin. If your wild imagination has started wondering dolphins think this form of submarine, then roll further to enjoy the video:

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If you are looking for ways to do justice to that piled up dough and fond of wheels then here comes a neat prospective purchase for you. The vehicle in reference is an Amphibious RV ($850,000-$1.2 million) from Terra Wind that unfolds as a boat with a mission to drive right into a lake and keep on departing. It’s time to carry your amphibious PC and carry on with your schedules while strolling in the Amphibious RV. Designed and developed considering the comfort level of filthy rich, one part of the RV features decked-out motor home and from other angle it seems crazy-lake-going-vessel.

The RV makes you indulge in deluxe environs with its hand crafted interiors. It sports GPS, tons of leather, DVD/VHS/CD players, refrigerator, washer, dryer, 8-jet whirlpool tub, marble floors, shower, 42-inch Plasma TV, and a 6-foot swim deck that enhances your fishing experience.

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Limited edition stuff is what my elite audience crazy about and why not the exclusivity of the products bearing a ceiling-top price gives them every right to ink deals and populate their abode with deluxe thingamajigs. Adding to their kit is an opulent summer fantasy of a limited edition boat cum kayak from Caillou. Called 20ltd Caillou Boat, it features concrete fiberglass floor and hull with mahogany garnish, two fiberglass seats with hovering cushions’, two kayak paddles, a carbon fiber mast followed by a Dacron sail rig with carbon fiber cudgels.

Weighing over 100 pounds, it is easy to transport it from the roof of your car using a Thule or Yakima rack. Measuring 17.5 feet with a 41-inch beam, counted five models are developed with each one retailed at $10,740.

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