Ridiculously Sparkly Mercedes-Benz at the Tokyo Auto Salon
This is ridiculous.
Remember the $350,000 Swarovski-studded Mercedes-Benz at the 2007 Moscow Millionaire Fair? Well, they've done it again.
The above photo is from the Tokyo Auto Salon 2009, and it features a customized Mercedes-Benz SL600 (aka the Luxury Crystal Benz) covered in 300,000 Swarovski crystals. We don't know how much it costs, but frankly, we weren't about to purchase it.
Even Barbie wouldn't get in that gaudy thing.
[via Luxury Launches]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John C. Randolph Jan 15th 2009 11:58PM
Why do you keep calling glass beads "crystals"? Is this "Swarovski" outfit paying you for promotion?
-jcr
Di Mar 15th 2009 8:11PM
Glass beads become crystal when lead is added to the glass, just as ordinary glassware isn't crystal unless it contains a minimum amount of lead, which makes reflect light in a certain (colorful) way. Swarovski is a leading manufacturer of many different and beautiful lead crystal items, but I would rather have my Benz without the crystals.
joe Mar 24th 2009 7:33AM
That benz would cost about 70-100 million Yen if it were commercially available but only some crazy rich dude would buy it.
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