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1. 1. khaled | January 24th, 2009 at 1:06 am

   Mark, the URL doesn’t work for some reason when clicking the [Pictures] button

2. 2. Rayboy | January 24th, 2009 at 1:09 am

   people have run out of ideas

3. 3. 3azeez | January 24th, 2009 at 1:12 am

   url?

4. 4. Mark | January 24th, 2009 at 1:23 am

   fixed the url

5. 5. Talloush | January 24th, 2009 at 1:35 am

   You know how they do this? I know how they do this, because I saw it at the Abu Dhabi Motor Show last month.

   There’s this company–I forget its name, but I remember that it’s German–that specializes in car “foiling”: basically, it shrink-wraps a film on the car. At the show they had a couple of cars, mostly Mercedes, shrink-wrapped in shiny gold, shiny aluminum (looked horrible), and matte black (which is trendy here in the UAE now, and actually looks really cool).

   My take: imagine the amount of fingerprints you’ll have to wipe off of your car everyday! Also, TACKY.

6. 6. z al mudhaf | January 24th, 2009 at 1:39 am

   foil-a-car.

7. 7. Dubai | January 24th, 2009 at 1:41 am

   In dubai there’s a german body shop where you can foil your car..

   http://www.foilacar.com/carprotectionfoil.php

8. 8. 3zizan | January 24th, 2009 at 2:21 am

   i saw one in dubai near mall emirate

9. 9. Famously Anonymous | January 24th, 2009 at 2:54 am

   ITS UGLY!!!!

10. 10. M3T4L | January 24th, 2009 at 6:43 am

    The license plates clearly say Abu Dhabi not Dubai, but w/e.

11. 11. desertguy | January 24th, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Where would you take it to fix scratches and dents?

12. 12. Intlxpatr | January 24th, 2009 at 8:18 am

    LOL, it looks like something James Bond would love, or maybe one of his super-villains!

13. 13. Ahmed25 | January 24th, 2009 at 9:33 am

    its chrome, not gold

14. 14. Randy | January 24th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    Yawwwwwwwwwn

15. 15. XV | January 24th, 2009 at 10:02 am

    it has “attention whore” written all over it

16. 16. Mark | January 24th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    Ahmed its GOLD not Chrome

17. 17. Ahmed25 | January 24th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

    the yellow lights make it look gold. but its chrome.

18. 18. ...... | January 24th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    REAL GOLD!!?? :O
    Umbay wai3! how much does it cost! :S anyway… it looks kinda nice in the pictures.. bs probibly shakla 5ara bil 9ij!

19. 19. holla | January 24th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    this reminds of the new ugly 7 series i saw in avenues. it looks like the new honda accord .

20. 20. alsalem | January 24th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    yeah, Ahmed’s right, its chrome! i think there are a few photos up on World Car Fans..

21. 21. Dubai | January 24th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    It’s not GOLD…. check out these pics

    http://www.ftesh.com/vb/showthread.php?t=7865

22. 22. gold | January 24th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    its gold or golden but not chrome. you can tell because the grill if chrome.

23. 23. mhl | January 24th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    its ugly

24. 24. george | January 24th, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    i heard that its ‘white gold’.

25. 25. Mark | January 24th, 2009 at 11:49 pm

    Its not chrome, its GOLD, can’t you guys see from the pictures? Gold is a yellowish color, Chrome is a whitish color. If you want to see how a chrome colored benz looks like check this
    http://www.chillnite.com/chrome-mercedes-in-dubai

26. 26. M. | January 25th, 2009 at 8:35 am

    It’s definitely chrome. The lighting of the picture itself has a yellow tint where someone could easily could have mistaken the car to be gold; however, it is chrome. There is just one golden mercedes-an SLR- created out there, if one could see in the Top Gear issue a few months back (not sure when as my memory fails me) rumored to have belonged to Waleed Bin Talal.

27. 27. Mathai | January 25th, 2009 at 8:53 am

    My eyes !!!

28. 28. Mark | January 25th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    Ok, one more time its NOT chrome It’s gold. Whats wrong with you people? its not a color balance issue, check this picture
    http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/01_merc_gold_c63moe.jpg
    notice the WHITE dishdashe and the GOLD benz.

29. 29. M. | January 25th, 2009 at 9:58 am

    I don’t know. I think it’s because we good people cannot accept, in our heart of hearts, that something so horrendously kitsch could ever, EVER be created. But I now sadly see that I stand mistaken *aghast*. What’s next, I ask myself. For the time being, I’ll be preparing my warm bath, razor blades and Nirvana’s Greatest Hits album for when I see gold plated kandoras/dishdashas hit Mall of the Emirates next.

30. 30. SWOS | January 26th, 2009 at 3:15 am

    can any1 pronounce hailag?

31. 31. Ghostface | January 26th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    It’s a new trend but I don’t think it will catch on. How much does having this done cost?

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