FRENCH TOWN FOR PRICE OF NYC STUDIO
Instead of buying a studio in New York City you can now have an abandonned village, Courbefy, located in the Limousin region of France (less than 30 miles from Limoges) for €330,000/$438,174. There are reportedly 19 buildings (with residences) in the villages but it also comes with a slew of “thieves, drunks and squatters” who have taken over the ghost town. At its height, the town in the 90s had over 200 inhabitants and there is still one swimming pool. Bidding is open until Friday –to date there are no open bids and, reportedly if no one snaps it up it will belong to Credit Agricole. via Telegraph, Yahoo!, Newser, […]
ZERO TO 62MPH IN 3.8 SECONDS
Enter the new Ferrari California convertible updated with a new Handling Speciale package for 2013. It is scheduled to be officially unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March. And, it is expected to be lighter and even faster than the 2012 California. The blog Luxury Insider notes that the “model will be about 30kg lighter and deliver 490 horsepower and 373 lb-ft. of torque, an increase of 30 HP. The new exhaust manifold and a tweaked ECU means that the automobile’s zero-to-62 mph acceleration time has been cut to just 3.8 seconds.” Expected price tag starts at $192,000.