Bid on a Benz Adventure

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 6th 2004 at 1:05AM

Mercedes-Benz USA and Saks Fifth Avenue have partnered to create a one-of-a-kind holiday gift package featuring the new 2006 Mercedes-Benz CLS500. Saks Fifth Avenue's annual "The Gift" holiday catalog will feature the unique adventure. It starts when you pick up your CLS500 from the Mercedes-Benz factory in Sindelfingen, Germany. Then you commence on a self-guided 6-day, 5-night European Delivery Rally Tour which takes your through Germany's Black Forest and the Austrian Alps and concludes in Munich. First class round-trip air fare from any U.S. city is included are hotels and food. After the tour, your Mercedes CLS500 is delivered to you in the United States and along the way it picks up a trunk full of booty including a Louis Vuitton Keepall duffel, CSX Diamond Chronograph by Michelle Watch, cashmere throws by Amicale, a Cartier keychain, Cole Haan boots, his and her Gucci sunglasses, a Tumi suitcase and a host of other treasures. Proceeds from the sale of this package will benefit Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation's leading children's literacy organization which provides new, free books and other literary resources to children each year.
Bidding for the CLS500 holiday gift package begins at $75,000, to commence on November 1 and to conclude on November 11, 2004. Auction bids are placed by calling (toll-free) 1-866-695-7257.

[via Fashion Week Daily]