Gold cars yay or nay?

Arab Money

Ferrari 599 GTB in beautiful GOLD

Arab money does a whole lot more than buy you a spot on hip hop music videos, and its no secret. The key to most of the inventions in the Arab world is that there is disposable income, and so the boys come out to play BIG time.

Though not a very new phenomenon, one of the growing trends that can be seen in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and even Russia, is cars made of gold.

Golden Eye

Q8ty SLS and a golden Buggati Veryon

Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but gold is clearly what kingdoms are made of. The choice car are all high-end, with custom made Mercedes' and Ferrari's spotted on the highways. But this is also not too common. Why because the cost of having a car made of gold runs in excess of  694,000 KD (HOLY C***!!!!).

Mercedes SLR made of PURE WHITE GOLD!!

The car that made the rounds on the internet last year was a Mercedes made of pure white gold that belonged to a prince in Abu Dhabi. Though it runs on bio-fuel, the car was extravagant, to say the least.

But at least this particular beauty had specs to match any super car, including a V10 quad turbo with 1,600 horsepower, 2800nm of torque, and 0-100km/h in less than 2 seconds.

The Russian gold alloy BMW M5

Another such car is a BMW in Russia, owned by a big billionaire businessman there. It's not white gold this time but a gold alloy sheet metal was used to mold this M5.

You can visit here and here to ask on how to get your car wrapped or plated in gold. WARNING : Both shops are quite expensive!