Real estate mogul Manny Khoshbin has a profound affection for seven-figure hypercars and an equally deep obsession with French luxury goods maker Hermès. In the past few years, he has purchased a $2.5 million Pagani Huayra and a $3 million Bugatti Chiron, which he then paid exorbitantly to have both of them customized by Hermès. But his latest purchase outshines both of those. Khoshbin has purchased one of only 106 $2.5 million McLaren Speedtails—the British boutique exotic-car brand’s hybrid-powered, super-aerodynamic, three-seat flagship—and then shipped it off to Hermès for extensive customization. Knowing this collaboration would happen, Khoshbin chose the 24th Speedtail off the production line, to honor Charles-Émile Hermès, son of the company’s founder, who moved the Hermès workshop, and retail store, to 24 Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris.
© Architectural Digest Designing and building the vehicle took an entire year.The resulting vehicle, which took a year to complete, features one-off touches found only on Khoshbin’s car. Hermès’s block-H brand iconography is etched or laser-cut into the midnight blue door covers and engine cover. The geographical coordinates to the Hermès atelier are printed on one of the digital side-view mirrors (the coordinates to the McLaren factory is on the other). The aerodynamic disc-like front-wheel covers are printed around the hub with “one-of-one, dressed by Hermès” and “VIN24.” And, perhaps most compellingly, thick Hermès handbag leather, in creamy white and golden brown, lines the seats, sills, dash, pillars, floor, headliner, steering wheel, and the front and rear luggage compartments.
We hope that Khoshbin doesn’t sully all of that precious leather while driving at those speeds.
