White Gold Benz

[Jenn]

Comment: So, it seems that this "global recession" has not impacted negatively on everyone. Check this out! It's a Mercedes Benz owned by an Abu Dhabi oil billionaire (naturally). Featuring the newly developed V10 quad turbo with 1,600 horsepower and 2800nm of torque? 0-100km/h in less than 2secs, 1/4 mile in 6.89 secs running on biofuel.

That is NOT stainless steel people. It's WHITE GOLD!!

[Jenn]

I expect it's simply another special polishing technique.

[Ryda Wong, EBfCo.]

Wouldn't gold be a very silly thing to put on the exterior of a car? It's a really soft metal, right?

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Ryda Wong, EBfCo.

Wouldn't gold be a very silly thing to put on the exterior of a car? It's a really soft metal, right?

Especially at the thickness of the body panels of a car.

[Jenn]

Originally Posted by Ryda Wong, EBfCo.

Wouldn't gold be a very silly thing to put on the exterior of a car? It's a really soft metal, right?

Soft and heavy.

[Singing in the Drizzle]

Originally Posted by Jenn

I expect it's simply another special polishing technique.

I agree, color is wrong for white gold or even silver. They are white metals and the color of the metal even when polished should have a white tinge to it even if very fante. The light is not the greatest in the picture, but I do not see that white in the color of the metal.

[Richard W]

It seems to be chromed, although nothing to say where that information came from:

http://www.autofiends.com/2008/10/ch...-tropy-topper/

http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/...d_in_dubai.php

(If a Bugatti Veyron picture turns up that's done like that, then it's one of these, polished aluminium and carbon fibre.)

[Tootsie Plunkette]

I found another site where someone claimed that "foiled" cars were currently popular in the Emirates. It's done by a German company, basically they shrink-wrap the car in a thin colored plastic sheet (metallic available). Check out the Ferrari in the fourth row of their gallery. So perhaps that's what's been done here.

[vanilla]

THe OP car is pretty to look at and I'm sure it is fun to drive, but it'd be a NFBSK to follow with the sun behind you!

vanilla(Ack, my eyes! The glare! The Glare! )pink