Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2017 i Maxim

Man, if you thought you were having a bad day,” says Conrad Colman, peering into the camera, “just look at mine. Colman is a skipper in the Vendée Globe sailboat race. As he calmly addresses the lens, you notice that something looks very askew in the background. Colman is standing upright, but the boat is listing around 80 degrees to starboard. The cabin is flooded. He is thousands of miles from land. And did we mention the fire? A few days after he nearly went under, Colman explained the connect-thedots calamity that precipitated all of this. “The controller for the solar panel malfunctioned and caught fire,” he told Maxim via satellite phone. “There was thick smoke on the inside of the boat, leaping yellow flames behind my chart table. I…

Thomas Steinbrück is ready for whatever comes next. The German designer studied at the top French design schools and launched an eponymous clothing line that’s been featured in stores like Barneys, Henri Bendel, and Bergdorf Goodman. He’s worked with Geoffrey Beene and Alber Elbaz, overseen a complete overhaul of the Kenneth Cole brand, and was entrusted to oversee the transformation of Porsche Design into a world-class luxury lifestyle brand. Now, his sights are set on rebuilding Reebok, the oldest manufacturer of athletic footwear in the world, dating back to 1895. The European sportswear giant’s creative director spoke with Maxim about the challenges of his new role and how he plans to conquer the global marketplace. On becoming a designer: Design has always been important to me. It wasn’t really about…

Trading Paris for New York in the early 1990s, French photographer Antoine Verglas arrived during an era when the pages of fashion magazines were splashed with big hair and heavy makeup. But Verglas envisioned something different, and in the years following he shot future supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Stephanie Seymour in a distinctly uninhibited state. “It was at the time where all those girls were really glamorized,” Verglas remembers. “It was the end of the ’80s—a lot of makeup, a lot of hair—and I wanted to portray the women in a much more candid way, a much more approachable way, a much more natural way. The point was not to deglamorize them, but to show them how they were in their own environment, in their own apartment, their own…

Many young boys plaster their bedroom walls with posters of supercars and fighter jets, dreaming of someday piloting one. Iranian-born auto mogul Ferris Rezvani was one of those dreamers. “I’ve been fascinated with car design since childhood, and I had aspired to be a fighter pilot like my father,” he says. In describing the motivation behind his most recent creation, Rezvani says, “I wanted to bring an experience and thrill similar to flying a fighter jet.” Rezvani’s company, founded in 2014, released its third model, the Beast Alpha, in November 2016. His fighter-pilot father would be proud. With a price tag of around $200,000, the Beast Alpha features a 2.4-liter turbocharged K24 DOHC Honda racing engine that produces 500 horsepower. Paired with a sequential automatic transmission, the car goes from…

Legend tells of a time when there existed a big American motorcycle company other than Harley-Davidson. It holds that there was an even older bike maker, one founded at the turn of the century in Springfield, Massachusetts, in what was then the nation’s industrial heartland. Springfield was also the home of Duryea Motor Wagon Co., the first American car company, launched in 1896. Gunmaker Smith & Wesson is still headquartered there. In 1901, retired bicycle racer turned manufacturer George M. Hendee, who had originally launched his company as a bicycle maker, exhibited his first motorcycle. Hendee Manufacturing Co. began volume production of Indian Motorcycles the following year. While it is commonly associated with art deco streamlining, especially the skirted fenders and a prominent swept-back Indian chief-inheaddress ornament, that styling didn’t…

As the clothing chain Zara proliferated around the world in the early 1990s, the company’s founder, Amancio Ortega, remained all but invisible. He had never been photographed or interviewed by any major media outlet, and some observers speculated that the mysterious-seeming Ortega might actually be in business with some less-than-savory characters “They couldn’t understand how he could do it,” a personal adviser to Ortega told the Washington Post in a 2012 interview. According to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the rumor made its way to then Catalan president Jordi Pujol, who reportedly summoned Ortega to his office for an explanation. Ortega, who is still extremely publicity-averse—he has never granted a formal interview in his life, according to his communications team, and did not respond to requests for comment on this…

The Aperta shares the LaFerrari’s next-level hybrid powertrain, which combines a 6.3-liter V-12 with a 120 kW electric motor to generate a time-zone-shifting 950 horses. Despite losing its roof—which normally compromises aerodynamics and rigidity—the Aperta boasts the same 217-mph top speed and blistering acceleration of its hardtop sister, hitting zero to 60 mph in under three seconds and 124 mph in less than seven. “We made significant modifications to the chassis to ensure we maintained the torsional rigidity, beam stiffness, and NVH characteristics of the coupé version,” chief technology officer Michael Leiters explains. This feat was accomplished via reinforcements added to the sill, A-post areas, and windshield frame. The Aperta’s exceptional acceleration can be attributed to torque fill, or the performance hybrid technique of using the electric powertrain’s “instant torque”…

NASSAU World-class beaches, five-star restaurants, and posh hotels will have you indulging like the pirates who once called it home Nassau’s reputation might be most tied to the all-inclusive Atlantis resort that sits on its satellite, Paradise Island, but the capital boasts plenty of natural beauty and history of its own that’s often overshadowed. Don’t be turned off by Nassau’s popularity—the famous Cable Beach is still beautiful and fairly uncrowded, and water activities like snorkeling and glass-bottom boating abound on New Providence, the island on which Nassau is located. Just a three-hour flight from New York, Nassau also has a robust food scene featuring heavy-hitting names like Nobu and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, not to mention unpretentious haunts that serve delicious local fare Stay at the gorgeous Graycliff Hotel, a 20-room colonial…

Einar Enevoldson was soaring through the sky at 50,722 feet, a world record for a sailplane or glider, but something was seriously wrong. Enevoldson and his copilot, the celebrated aviator, adventurer, and millionaire Steve Fossett, were wearing NASA-designed pressure suits that were supposed to enable them to survive flying in an unpressurized aircraft at such heights. But the suits were expanding, hindering any movement and preventing the men from reaching the aircraft’s controls. They were also doing very little to keep the aviators warm as external temperatures dropped below -65°C. The pair landed safely that day. But although Enevoldson had just set an altitude record, he knew that to achieve his dream of piloting a glider above 90,000 feet and surviving, significant improvements needed to be made. Enter the Perlan…

The picturesque northern Italian town of Maranello is the birthplace of arguably the finest performance marque in automotive history. At the security gate of the secretive factory, visitors are greeted with a sign, bold and simple: a large rectangle with the word ferrari written in yellow serif font. Nearby, three flags snap in the breeze: the tricolors of Italy; the navy blue and gold stars of the EU; and the cavallino rampante (the “prancing horse”), its front legs kicking in the air triumphantly, defiantly. Inside the sprawling campus, workers wear matching red uniforms, not unlike those found on the famed Formula 1 pit crew. The particular hue is so iconic, it’s known everywhere from the Arctic to the Amazon as “Ferrari red.” This is home to the world’s most successful…

Afew years ago, when Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp., was invited to test the new offerings from the company’s marine department, the master driver and car enthusiast was stunned. The yachts in development not only featured impressive powertrains and hulls designed to enhance handling and stability, but they also fit into Toyoda’s idea of the Lexus brand. This revelation resulted in a multiyear project to bring to life a Lexus-inspired yacht that expands the brand into the realms of lifestyle and recreation. The result of these efforts is the Lexus Sport Yacht. Built in collaboration with Marquis Yachts LLC, an American yacht manufacturer, the new creation is constructed largely of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic, the same kind found in the world’s top supercars, including Lexus’ own LFA. The material saves…