Uncompromising Design- Water Bottles

Water bottles and the materials they are made of have been making headlines for the last several months. Nalgene had been the Kleenex of water bottles until the BPA news. SIGG, another Swiss based company, has probably profited the most from water drinkers looking for BPA-free drinking bottles.SIGG bottles have a very clean design and shape. It's bottles have even been inducted into the Museum of Modern Art.

There is a new BPA-free bottle coming out later this summer that has a very interesting design called the KOR ONE from KOR Water. As you can see it has a very sleek design that is almost "imac-esque".
The company describes the KOR ONE as:

A healthy and sustainable lifestyle should be celebrated. Water was meant to be seen. Why then do almost all reusable bottles make hydration such a humbling experience? The KOR ONE suffers no compromises. Made from health-safe materials and designed with intuitive, surprising features, the KOR ONE takes sustainable hydration to another level.

Another company with a clean uncompromising design.

via- The Goat

The Rolls Royce RR4

Yesterday the Telegraph had a story on the new Rolls Royce RR4. The listed some minor details on the car and posted the image above. At first glance it is quite a departure from what is traditionally expected from Rolls Royce. But if you actually look closer you can see details that are inherently Rolls. Ian Cameron, the chief designer, said:

"The RR4 has a more informal presence than the Phantom, with a greater emphasis on driving. This is expressed through its slightly smaller dimensions and more organic form, yet with powerful, purposeful proportions. It is a true and uncompromising Rolls-Royce in every sense."

Looking over our 08/09 collection that will be out this fall, there are some pieces that might not be immediately recognizable as "KJUS". But as Mr. Cameron suggested about the RR4- they are true and uncompromising KJUS in every sense.

And like the RR4 sketch above sometimes it's hard to tell in reality what it'll actually look like-

According to Edmunds.com the RR4 will be priced between $250,000 and $280,000 and will be available in 2010. The men's Prime, a 4-way stretch down jacket with 4-way stretch lining and ultrasonic welded baffles will retail for $1,790 and be available in October of this year.

Uncompromising Speed

Today, Forbes released a list of the world's fastest cars, or more accurately, the world's fastest street legal cars. One car that we felt was missing from the list was Faster One from the Swiss company Weber Sportscars. The Faster One is reported to have reached a top speed of 248.5 mph. Here's what the company has to say about itself and the car on their website:

Legendary Swiss precision is no longer limited to the domain of creating of the world’s most prestigious chronographs. Using a unique combination of high-tech engineering and uncompromising innovative styling geared toward maximum aerodynamic efficiency, Weber Sportcars from Tobel in the Swiss canton Thurgau develops and builds the world’s fastest street-legal sports car.

The two-seater weight in at just 1,100 kilograms and is powered by a V8 engine with dual superchargers that produces 900 hp / 662.4 kW. Thanks to its exceptional power-to-weight ratio of 0.82 hp / 0.61 kW per kilogram, intelligent all-wheel drive and sophisticated aerodynamic properties the mid-engine racer sprints to 300 km/h in just 16.2 seconds and reaches a top speed of more than 420 km/h.

We can certainly appreciate a company that is all about uncompromising performance. We're kind of partial to last year's Marques Model:

Being Different and Uncompromising

KJUS is uncompromising, which sets us apart from our competitors. What sets you apart from yours. On resent travels in New England I visited a number of our dealers and some of their competitors. One of the major points at the SIA workshop I attended the other week, they showed a number of examples of shops and asked was if you brought someone blindfolded into your shop could they tell where they were or see something different and memorable?

One of the more memorable shop presentations on my trip was not in the shop, but outside- a huge pile of old ski boots. At The Startingate in Bondville, VT just outside of Stratton, they pride themselves on their boot fitting and they don't make compromises with this service. If a customer comes in with a boot they want fitted and that won't provide the best performance for that customer, out the second story window it goes into the boot pile. As a result they have developed a reputation for exceptional boot fitting service... and being a little crazy and different.

What do you do that is different?