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Golden Mercedes in Dubai

It actually doesn’t look that bad surprisingly. [Pictures]

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You know how they do this? I know how they do this, because I saw it at the Abu Dhabi Motor Show last month.

There’s this company–I forget its name, but I remember that it’s German–that specializes in car “foiling”: basically, it shrink-wraps a film on the car. At the show they had a couple of cars, mostly Mercedes, shrink-wrapped in shiny gold, shiny aluminum (looked horrible), and matte black (which is trendy here in the UAE now, and actually looks really cool).

My take: imagine the amount of fingerprints you’ll have to wipe off of your car everyday! Also, TACKY.

REAL GOLD!!?? :O
Umbay wai3! how much does it cost! :S anyway… it looks kinda nice in the pictures.. bs probibly shakla 5ara bil 9ij!

It’s definitely chrome. The lighting of the picture itself has a yellow tint where someone could easily could have mistaken the car to be gold; however, it is chrome. There is just one golden mercedes-an SLR- created out there, if one could see in the Top Gear issue a few months back (not sure when as my memory fails me) rumored to have belonged to Waleed Bin Talal.

I don’t know. I think it’s because we good people cannot accept, in our heart of hearts, that something so horrendously kitsch could ever, EVER be created. But I now sadly see that I stand mistaken *aghast*. What’s next, I ask myself. For the time being, I’ll be preparing my warm bath, razor blades and Nirvana’s Greatest Hits album for when I see gold plated kandoras/dishdashas hit Mall of the Emirates next.

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