A gold Bentley, and white gold Mercedes. What’s next – a gold Rolls Royce?
In a glitz race to see who owns the most outrageous symbol of unrestrained wealth, a white gold plated Bentley sports coupe was recently featured at a United Arab Emirates auto show. The car, which takes on a yellow gold hue when displayed under special lighting, is still “under wraps” as far as pertinent details go. These details include how much gold went into making this car, which represents the limits of ostentatious wealth representation of a region of the world – where the creation of the wealth is due to how much fossil fuels can be pumped or siphoned out of the ground – or seabed, as the case may be.
Outclassed? Abu Dhabi White Gold Mercedes
The car is said to be a Bentley model 66GTS sports racing coupe that is powered by a 626 horsepower supercharged engine and capable of accelerating the car from 0 to 62 mph in only 3.5 seconds. It can reach a top speed of 230 mph, which is not at all eco-friendly.
Unlike our previous white gold-plated Emirate job, a Mercedes Benz V 10 Quad Turbo sports coupe with a 1,600 hp engine that runs on bio-fuel, this gold plated pride of British engineering runs only on the refined black stuff that is said to be one of the causes of both global warming and climate change, and causing a “warmer future” for us all.
Putting these types of cars in their proper places, it doesn’t appear that many types of green or energy saving autos are popular in countries where fuel is still plentiful and much less expensive than in other parts of world. This includes a Saudi-Korean gas guzzling SUV, called (for want of a better name) the Gazi.
The Gazi -5 mpg?
This car, the Gazi, which is being “specially designed” to meet the driving demands of wealthy oil sheiks, may itself one day be gold plated as well.
But in respect to this gold plated Bentley, whose value is yet to be announced, at least it might be possible to make this car in hybrid version, to be more energy and environment conscious.
But then again, it’s like the old saying at a Rolls Royce dealership when the sales representative tells a prospective buyer: “my dear fellow –if you ask how much petrol this car consumes, it’s simply not for you!”
I suppose this can be said for a 626 hp white gold Bentley and a 1,600 hp white gold Mercedes Benz Quad Turbo; even if the latter actually runs on bio-fuel.
Read more on ostentatious Middle Eastern cars:
Abu Dhabi White Gold Mercedes Runs on Bio-fuel
Will The Saudis be the Last to Get Into the Gas Guzzler Biz?
Does Israel Really Need the Infiniti Luxury Car?
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Author: Maurice Picow
Maurice Picow grew up in Oklahoma City, U.S.A., where he received a B.S. Degree in Business Administration. Following graduation, Maurice embarked on a career as a real estate broker before making the decision to move to Israel. After arriving in Israel, he came involved in the insurance agency business and later in the moving and international relocation fields. Maurice became interested in writing news and commentary articles in the late 1990’s, and now writes feature articles for the The Jerusalem Post as well as being a regular contributor to Green Prophet. He has also written a non-fiction study on Islam, a two volume adventure novel, and is completing a romance novel about a forbidden love affair. Writing topics of particular interest for Green Prophet are those dealing with global warming and climate change, as well as clean technology - particularly electric cars.
Dear Good Friend,
This is Mr Frank. Nana ,from Takwa Village in Obuasi, Ghana- West Africa.
Actually, I am traditional Chief here in Ghana governing the Village of Obuasi where I have many hectare of land of Gold, inherited by my grandfathers.
We have managed to dig out about this 250 KG which I wanted to use your assistance to sell in your country. I will advise you to look for more buyer because we are try to expand our mining strategy, that means we are trying to purchase a mining equipment which will be more easier after selling this 250 KG
We have been selling to people who sell out to foreigners but I have discover that they are cheating us, that was why I decided to look for Direct buyers or foreign partner who will assist me in the selling of the product so that we can go into a long business relationship.
I wait to hear from you so that I can send you FCO which will enable us to move ahead.
My regards to your family
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Dear Sir / Madam
We representing a gold mining here in Mali in West Africa we are looking for gold buyers all over the world
Commodity: AU gold dust
Quantity: 3000 kgs
22 carat plus
Purity : 99.9
Commission to who link us to buyer to 2000 USD per kilo and it will be mention in agreement that will be involve
Price : 26.000 $ / KG
Origin :Rep. du Mali in west Africa
1_ Buyer or his representative have to come and verify the evidence of the product in Bamako Mali.
2_ Seller or his representative have to follow the buyer with the consignment to the refinery and take in consider the quantity of impurity to be deducted from the initial total quantity.
3 In case of intermediary who links us to a buyer, his commission 6%. We are ready to send export lincens to you certificate of origin. Copy of international passport. Lab result. etc
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I guess what you are trying to say Meme is that gold plated cars are not making the best use of our planet’s resources.
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