The business aviation company has introduced a new private dining programme, which essentially means a range of properly posh in-flight meals, created in partnership with top restaurants, and all apparently designed to deal with the effects on the taste buds of everything from the pressurised cabin to the dry air and background hum of the engines.

2. Master of all trades

Generally the descriptions “supercar” and “off-road vehicle” signify very different types of transport indeed. Well, not any more. Lamborghini describes its new Huracán Sterrato as the world’s first all-terrain “super sports car” and boasts of its ability to thrive on dirt surfaces as well as on asphalt.

Unveiled at Art Basel in Miami on November 30, 2022, the Huracán Sterrato – which Lamborghini has been teasing for years – is a wildly unconventional looking machine, with a dramatically aggressive profile and a whole host of sporty features, including raised suspension, plastic cladding and LED rally lights above the front bumper.

Quite how anyone in Hong Kong would ever make use of the car’s adeptness over rough terrain is a fair question, but then the fact you can barely get supercars out of second gear here hasn’t stopped people in the city buying them, so that probably won’t either.

3. Electrifying performance

The reasons to buy anything other than an electric car keep shrinking. Case in point: the Rimac Nevera, from the Croatian high performance electric vehicle manufacturer, which recently recorded a top speed of 412km/h, or 258mph, making it the world’s fastest electric car.

It did so at the Automotive Testing Papenburg track in Germany, one of the few in the world to boast 4km long straights, where it was driven by Rimac’s chief test and development driver Miro Zrncevic, who noted that the record speed represents a third of the speed of sound.

It follows a previous world record in 2021, when the car racked up a time of 8.582 seconds for 402 metres, which made it the world’s fastest accelerating production car. “Production” though is relative: the Nevera is available in a limited edition of just 150 cars.