Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Gold-standard travel
Usually having car insurance is enough protection on the road for drivers, but apparently not the new owner of one particular Rolls Royce Phantom.
The car – which is expensive enough as it stands – has been decorated inside and out with 120kg of gold (reportedly worth more than £3million) and has been customised so that it is bullet-proof and grenade-proof!
If you want to know just how difficult this car would be to break into, it will apparently withstand 570 AK47 bullets and two grenades. Very precise. Would the car be ruined by 571 bullets? Who tested this?
Anyway, in case you're wondering who on earth might need this amount of protection, the car has been given to a super-rich Middle-Eastern businessman as a gift from a Liverpool-based designer who, guess what, works with gold.
Right, well the women among us are off to research this businessman and the designer to see whether they are eligible bachelors, and the men are going to see if they have an unmarried sister.
My Renault Clio could definitely do with a lick of gold.
Photo © The Car Spy via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
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