Love it or hate it, you will never forget it.1,620m long and 73m high for a three-minute adrenaline-filled ride!

It is getting dark, it is already -16°C, it is beginning to snow and you are on an icy 30 degree-steep slope. Not exactly perfect driving conditions, but the sleek metallic silver Prinoth Beast does not even blink. No wonder this monster piste groomer is the most powerful in the world! It is also the most efficient, with over 40% more grooming area, which is good news for the environment.

What is a cartesian shuttle? A micromanipulator? How about a polar carbon fibre manipulator? If a simple “I don’t know” is your answer to all of the above, then you probably haven’t heard of AMG SA of France, either. AMG is one of those medium-sized companies operating successfully on the global market, while also keeping a relatively low profi le. Working in a very specialised niche market, AMG have been able to establish subsidiaries in key locations in Europe and on the American continent.

Prince Aga Khan, the Duke of Windsor, Jacques Chirac, Yves Saint-Laurent, Celine Dion, Madonna, Sandra Bullock and Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lopez …

Not many trams are lucky enough to acquire an online fan base. One of the lucky few is the TMK2200 low-floor tram, produced by the Croatian company Končar. The TMK2200’s most loyal fans on YouTube refer to it as “the best tram on earth” and the “the prettiest tram ever”.

How much grain can you harvest in just eight hours? The answer is 551 tons – if you are sitting in the driver’s seat of the CR 9090 combine harvester produced by New Holland in Belgium. The 551 tons brought in by the CR 9090 actually set a Guinness World Record back in September 2008.

A slight, but unmistakable scent of vanilla pervades the hallway, and the attention of the visitor is captured by the nostalgic beauty of some antique Italian motorcycles decorating the room. What seems like the entrance to an exclusive spa or a fancy hang-out for motorcycle enthusiasts actually leads to a showroom for water taps and showerheads. But if you associate water taps and shower heads with the appropriate aisle in the DIY store, you need to think again.

Siberia, minus 50 °C. A giant truck rumbles along the gravel of the coal mines, with the powerful determination of an angry rhino. The giant used in the Siberian mines was manufactured in Scotland, just like its twin brother doing hard work in copper mines under the blazing Mexican sun.

Imagine a 82 m long, rock-eating submarine with four floors, as tall as a high rise building with 20 floors lying on its side. This monster is heavier than a dozen 747 jumbo jets and creeps forward through the earth behind a more than 9 m tall rotating
cutting face. Sounds a little outlandish to you? Product of a hyperactive imagination? If you thought that, you were wrong. This is not Hollywood, this is the Discovery Channel.

The rays of the morning sun reflect on the calm surface of the sea, before they reach the white lighthouse that has been operating for more than a hundred years. The small sailing boats are quietly bobbing up and down in their moorings, wooden houses with the characteristic low roofs line the waterfront and the cries of the seagulls are the only sounds that the wind carries.