A Russian armoured-car builder is boasting that its latest vehicle has seats covered with “whale-penis leather”.
The $1.6 million Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition armoured car has been developed by the same company, RussoBaltique, that built armoured vehicles for Tsar Nicholas, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.
On its official website, the company says the whale-penis leather is the same as that used by Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis on the yacht Christina O…
The leather is not the only tacky accessory on the Prombron, which Dartz claims is the world’s most expensive SUV.
The bulletproof windows are gold-plated, the exhaust is made of tungsten, the gauges are encrusted with diamonds and rubies and the exterior has a Kevlar coating…
Dartz’s armoured vehicles weigh roughly 4 tonnes, are powered by V8s putting out between 300kW and 400kW and are “rocket grenade-proof” according to the website.
The Giftmas surprise for the most paranoid Tea-Bagger in your family.
UPDATED: They, uh, decided not to use whale penis leather.
Thanks, Jägermeister
http://dartz.instablogs.com/entry/prombron-exrussobaltique-or-dartz-kombat-armored-car-which-shocked-the-world/
Specs says it has GM drivetrain and Suburban parts.
So it is an old GM product.
I can almost hear the Russian accent from that web page:
So You are rich and sucessfull, You need car to reflect how important Your life is. You need a car to show how cool You are. You need a car which will show that You are one and only. Of course You can buy HUMMER – but is it proof enough, luxury enough is it unique?
The Russians never really understood “a” and “the”.
Or proper personal pronouns, lol.
Expect to see hip hop artists buying them first. Then see rich, white suburban males who dream of being more ghetto than 50Cent buying them afterwards.
For running over Chechen grandmothers.
Arnold would want one…
Wouldn’t be the teapartiers…the Dems now represent the richest people in the country. The teapartiers are spending too much money on things like college or orthodonty for the kids.
Chances are it will end up in the 7-car garage of some elite Obama czar (formerly of Goldman Sachs) who hasn’t paid taxes in 30 years. Being washed by illegal immigrants paid less than the minimum wage.
That’s how the high-class Dems roll these days, get used to it, peons.
And don’t forget to pay YOUR taxes report Gramma for watching FOX and saying she’s unhappy with The Big O …. it’s everybody’s responsibility to be on the lookout for domestic terrorists.
Hmm, the interior is standard Chevy. It simply appears to be an armor plated Chevy Suburban.
Does it come with run-flats? At 2000 lbs of weight on each corner, I doubt it. Just shoot the tires out and it is immobilized.
Hmmm. I know that whales are classified as mammals. But can any part of something that lives in salt water, really be considered “hide”? And why the skin of whales’ wangs? Is this some kind of perverse Russian sales pitch. “Seats made from the male parts of endangered species”. I guess the Tiger penis leather wasn’t as appealing. Or there wasn’t enough of it to make even one seat cover. But come on! Why pick on the whales, when sharks are so well hated. Like I said, it most be part of some perverse sense of anti-eco conspicuous consumption. “Ha. My SUV’s seats covered with the skin of animals’ wangs, that everyone else idolizes. Free Willy’s willy skin seat covers.”
So while Congress considers whether all Americans are going to have to pay higher fuel bills, in a few years, to offset the carbon credits of their energy use. All in the name of saving the environment. Some Russian business gets away with making products from whale parts. Isn’t there some kind of international ban on whaling? And using products made from whales, regardless of who is still doing the whaling? And… if not, shouldn’t there be.
If the US has to start coughing up tens of billions, for carbon credits. Then the rest of the damn world ought to at least pretend like they give a damn about the environment, and cease more of their exploiting ways. But I doubt they will. It’s just an elaborate economic conspiracy to further dampen American commercial production. While all other nations get a much more favorable “credit allowance” or wavier. And the US’s most abundant energy resource, Coal, is declared a toxic to the whole world. Apparently everything the US possesses and does with it, is toxic to everyone else. What a great piece of convenient propaganda, to be used to destroy the US’s dominance in many areas of commerce and technology. I’m sure there are many in international investments, that would love to buy low in the third world markets, and then see the competing US markets be taken down several notches. They love the idea of the Kyoto Treaty. They’ll take advantage of that bit of market shift knowledge, in a heart beat.