The Note SV I drove included the $540 Convenience Package (backup camera, Divide-N-Hide floor and XM stereo), for a total of $17,320.
Ursula Erasmus, a German businesswoman who gave up her career as an importer of accessories from Asia last year because she "was sick of the stress of too many picky clients," and retired to Ibiza, decorated her 23-foot tepee with dozens of cow- and goat-hide floor coverings bought on eBay and a Balinese day bed, along with Native American drums and instruments.
"We don't know why they were hidden under the floor," she said.
The room does indeed have a striking look, like a bamboo forest on the moon (smoke extractors are hidden in the floor).
At Prada, security sensors are hidden in the floor at the entrance, but keeping shoplifters from exiting absolutely freely will offer more than the usual challenge.
Mirza Hamayou Shaukat, 45, is serving 15 years after customs tracked the heroin hidden in the floor tiles from Southampton to his home in Birmingham.
A motorized cart on metal rails ensured quick passage, while a steel elevator hidden beneath the floor tiles in a warehouse made the 40-foot descent to the tunnel's entrance feel like the slow drop into an unregulated mine shaft.
His parents were deeply involved in the resistance movement, with weapons hidden under their floor; the deputy German commandant, a secret anti-Nazi, helped to protect them as they successfully hid a young Jewish woman and a political prisoner who had escaped from Belsen.
"It seems like we're mad at you," said Adam Zibert, my 10-year-old nephew, as he sat next to his brother, Clay, 7. A table, normally hidden in the floor, comes with Swivel 'n Go for use when the seats are turned around.
