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Although I have almost forgotten the feeling of traveling with my suitcase after being sealed in Shanghai for more than forty days, I still stuck my head out of the window and took a deep breath when I saw that Porsche co-branded RIMOWA had a new suitcase, Pepita, which was sold through Porsche's official website on April 21.
"Don't think you'll trick me into buying a Porsche."
Although this time RIMOWA sincerely took out its own top model - aluminum magnesium alloy suitcase to do co-branding, Pepita suitcase throughout the metallic white feeling is also very tempting, but also put the Porsche logo in the most eye-catching position of the suitcase, the black belt and badge belt buckle on the trunk also pulled the sense of ceremony to the fullest, each box also has a unique exclusive number, RIMOWA also said that it will sell exclusive co-branded stickers separately.
But! RIMOWA This box is normally priced at more than 30,000, and the joint model is only open to Porsche 911 owners to purchase qualifications, and the global limited quantity is 911, this means of selling suitcases to promote Porsche is really unacceptable to me, who is extremely resistant to bundling.
And the volume of Pepita is 30L, Porsche 996 to the latest 992 generation, all water-cooled 911 trunks can accommodate it. But I think that air cooling is the indelible classic of 911, and Pepita can only lie in the back seat of it, which is also unacceptable to me.
In fact, this is not the first time I have dismissed the idea of buying a supercar because of the luggage problem, 911 is still a small money, in the early years when I looked at the Porsche 918 Spyder, it was the same, the two-door supercar is not limited to the production of 918 units, but also a set of exclusive luggage kits.
The storage space of the 918 Spyder is already very few, and only a suitcase that grows into such a triangular shape can be better put into it.
At that time, the most troubling problem for me was that although the volume of this box was 30L, the shape was really unbelievable to its storage capacity, so this luggage set looked cool and could not impress me, and in addition to the suitcase, in fact, I think that the suit bag is a kind of thing that can only be used in a lifetime.
It's really not for Porsche, in fact, in the years when I liked 20-year-old Chen Guanxi, I liked Ferrari as much as the 20-year-old, but it was still a matter of suitcases.
On the Ferrari 458 bar, V8 naturally aspirated engine supercar, bought more than 4 million, open the front trunk, full of calculations in a way that ordinary people can understand to describe, four boxes of mineral water can not be more, want to put down my daily action more than 20 inches of suitcase is simply a dream.
The Ferrari 812 Superfast launched in 2017 is also extremely cool, after all, it is the successor of the F12berlinetta, the trunk space is slightly better, 11.3 cubic inches, but if you want to fit perfectly, you have to choose its two-piece suitcase specially customized by Poltrona Frau.
Ferrari's latest work in recent years, ROMA, the luggage space is not bad, and it was still very fascinating when I saw this car at the Chengdu press conference. But in the next instant, the sales said that the two suitcases displayed were not sent, and it was also said that Norman Foster (the designer of the HSBC headquarters building in Hong Kong, the German parliament dome, apple's new headquarters) personally operated, and one hundred thousand pieces of a ROMA could hold two.
Fall, that wants me 200,000, impossible.
However, when it comes to Ferrari's luggage design, in 2019, the New York Times called the most influential industrial designer of the era, and Mark Newsom from Australia also cooperated with Ferrari on a luggage project, which was designed by him and then produced by the Italian Schedoni brand.
A total of six models have been produced, including trolley cases, duffel bags, pockets, suitcases and quarantottore cases (special business briefcases with space for clothes and overnight essentials), all in the colors of Ferrari's main interior, as well as the special burgundy vinaccia developed specifically for this collection.
There are still many gimmicks in this luggage set, such as the leather pattern on the outside of this suitcase inspired by the Ferrari engine cam cover, the aluminum series is made by the same car supplier, the sliding mechanism of the roller handle is developed by Ferrari engineers and patented, and compared to Ferrari-made cars, each series of luggage has a unique chassis number.
These six products have been displayed in the personalized catalog of each Ferrari car, in fact, from the fact that each suitcase design can be perfectly loaded into Ferrari's luggage compartment, I am still relatively satisfied, but it is still a price problem, often hundreds of thousands of + prices, don't think about it, although I have more money, but I am not stupid.
Do you think there are many other supercars to choose from? It's so naïve that you can't think of the troubles of rich people.
Pagani is so attractive to me, but Zonda's luggage compartment is like this, in addition to the customized suitcase you tell me what else to put down, and the gap that is always filled on the side is really obsessive-compulsive.
Huayra is the same, the position of the suitcase is not on the side of the body, the shape is not particularly bad, in addition to buying this custom suitcase when buying the car, I can't think of a second possibility.
Although the suitcase is indeed not bad, and there is a Huayra logo, the price is also a bit too beautiful, and the optional item clearly states that the seven-piece suitcase costs 14,950 euros (about 105,000 yuan).
Or there is another way, like the real estate tycoon, the famous rich supercar collector Manny Khoshbin, to persuade Hermès to customize a huayra for him, which naturally includes a customized Hermès luggage set, not counting the original Huayra.
But this is too high-profile and does not conform to my usual principles of life.
Aston Martin DB11 can be said to be the most beautiful of all models, the trunk is 10 cubic feet full, if you want efficient utilization, you have to buy the original four-piece suitcase; brother Vantage is a little better, although the body volume is a little smaller than that of my brother DB11, but the trunk volume is 12.4 cubic feet, which translates to almost put down the luggage I traveled with.
If you really want to be flexible and comfortable, you may only choose the Rapide, after all, it is a four-door sports car, and the trunk space is beautiful after all. When I was publicizing in those years, I showed how many large bags and small bags I could hold, just like this-
But don't you think that a four-door sports car really has less soul?
I've also seen a lot of cars, like the "Green Devil" Mercedes-AMG GT R, The Mersey, the V8 roars, the trunk space is 10.1 cubic feet, at most a small suitcase, or it is a duffel bag, Mercedes-Benz tailored a set of AMG duffel bags for it, and you can also print the tire marks of the GT R.
Mercedes-Benz has many more customizations, and AMG SL's accessories are also beautiful, tailored by Italian leather goods manufacturer Santoni, made from the same Napa leather leather as the Mercedes-AMG SL seat cover, available in three sizes – wallet (11 x 4.3 x 6.3 inches), backpack (14.1 x 7.1 x 16.1 inches) and duffel bag (24.8 x 11 x 13.8 inches) in black, ochre brown and red.
As a fan of Versace, the Murcielago LP640 Versace model that Versace and Lamborghini co-created at that time also attracted me, in addition to the Versace logo throughout the body, two suits customized by Versace for the owner and a luggage suit with a black cowhide suit decorated with Greek echoes were my focus.
That suitcase is also attached to a palladium-plated brass luggage roll label, which is engraved with versace "custom limited edition" words, the car is limited to 20 units, this luggage set is of course also limited to 20 sets (really did not find the luggage set kit on the car pictures casually feel the atmosphere, I really regret that I did not take a photo that year).
McLaren is more of a favorite of those of us who love sports cars, but the luggage problem is even more serious.
Take the McLaren 570GT and the McLaren GT, both have two luggage compartments in the front, the front volume is 5.3 cubic feet, the back is 7.8 cubic feet, which adds up to OK, but separately, the duffel bags are the most, the boxes are really a bit difficult for us to run, and we have to put it like this -
Even the McLaren F1, one of the most valuable supercars on the planet, is extremely harsh on the luggage compartment, and the place to put the luggage is on both sides of the body, as if not long ago saw this design or on a Coaster, although the space can be, but the shape is still strictly limited to the optional range of the suitcase.
But I don't think so alone, gordon Murray, the designer of the emerging British niche supercar brand GAM in recent years, also said that the biggest dissatisfaction with McLaren F1 is that there is "less luggage space", although the GMA supercar luggage compartment he designed himself is like this -
Every time Gordon Murray releases a video explanation on the new GMA car, his favorite thing to do is to personally demonstrate the inconvenience of opening the luggage compartment, but I fell, did you tell me that I had other options besides customizing the suitcase?
Dragon slayers eventually become evil dragons, when these designers can know, we can afford to buy supercar people also want to achieve Taobao luggage freedom, not to mention that car owners really need luggage, female stars also have to go to the toilet.
I was furious when I wrote this, and I vented my dissatisfaction with my girlfriend, and she actually said—
"When did you afford to run supercar?"
Eh, it seems that I have been locked up at home for more than a month, I can no longer distinguish between reality and dreams, Shanghai will not unseal the next time I will write a topic at No. 600 Wanping South Road.