Porsche is on fire. The auto manufacturer from Stuggart, Germany is so well branded and internationally known that they can’t keep Panameras and Cayennes in stock. Now, welcome the all-new 2012 Panamera S Hybrid. After all, their eco-friendly fascination was begat by company founder Ferdinand Porsche, who invented the world’s first hybrid vehicle labeled the Lohner-Porsche “Semper Vivus” in 1900.

Located a short drive northeast of San Francisco, California’s famed Napa Valley is renowned as one of the greatest winemaking climates in the world. With such a magnificent concentration of top vineyards and wineries right next door to each other, it was difficult to choose only a few for this list of our favorites in the area.

Forget oysters or caviar, steak is the new meal of choice for London diners in the know. These days chic Londoners hankering for a juicy slab of prime beef can be found at Hawksmoor in Convent Garden or The Palm on Pont Street, but come September 2011 they will be clamouring to get a table at celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck’s new Mayfair restaurant.

Summer’s almost here and David and Victoria Beckham have wasted no time deciding where the family will be spending it. The couple has rented a gorgeous Malibu mansion for a reported $158,753 a month. The 10,180-square-foot, 7-bed, 9-bath home sits on a 180-foot bluff overlooking a prime whale-spotting stretch of beach.

London’s Regent Street is a fabulous spot for high-end shopping – as well as being the site of the city’s most marvellous Christmas lights which are turned on each year by a celebrity.

We uncovered the best steakhouses in San Francisco that are sure to satisfy even the most discriminating tastes.

Chelsea AutoLegends will be held for the second time and this year’s swinging 60s theme means that there will be plenty of classic cars on show from that era, as well as 60s music playing and fashions on parade.

Leicester Square hardly epitomises chic living, but the newly-opened St. John Hotel manages to bring more than a touch of style to the hustle and bustle of London’s China Town district.

We tucked in to a three-course wine-paired Scottish meal, starting with a featherlight Carpaccio of Loch Duart salmon & Hebridean langoustine, parfait of Dunkeld smoked salmon and wild garlic, washed down with a juicy Simonnet-Febvre Chablis Millessime 2009.