You Can Buy The Dartz Armored SUV From “The Dictator,” If That’s Your Thing
In a match made more in heaven than Crockett and Tubbs, Russian
purveyor of insanely customized luxury Dartz is providing Sacha Baron
Cohen’s new movie The Dictator with a few examples of its biggest SUV, the Prombron, which aspires to be the Simpsons Canyonero.
Yes, you, Mister Small Ruler Of An Oil-Rich Middle Eastern Nation, can
buy yourself one of eight examples of the very car His Excellency
Admiral General Aladeen of Wadiya can roll in.
As another Cohen character would say, “verry nice!”
Dartz is the sort of company that’s seemingly run by a 12-year old boy with a penchant for mid-90s MTV rap videos and an attention span shorter than the inkling sprouts of hair on his adolescent chest. The Dartz Aladeen Edition Prombron sounds like a planet from Star Wars but, unlike Alderaan, is certainly a real thing. Dartz takes pride in labeling itself as “The World’s Most Expensive Armored Car,” because it is. The base model Prombron is equipped with armor top to bottom, blast-proof windows, a V-8 engine producing 400 horsepower, the ability to withstand a rocket attack from certain members of the Shriners Club, a coffee maker, cloth seats—no leather, not anymore—a discount card for the same place Eliot Spitzer usually frequents (buy nine and you get a free lunch buffet), and a free Metallica t-shirt. But unlike those plebeian vehicles, this model is draped in gold. Because, you know, that’s just tempting fate and the assault rifle fire of angry Starbucks baristas in Oman.
The cost? Between $500,000 to $750,000, which, incidentally, is also the same cost of renting a hot-air balloon and dropping miniature solid-gold Oscar statuettes emblazoned with the phrase “I HAVE MORE MONEY THAN YOU” and Tony Robbins’ home phone number over certain neighborhoods in Brentwood. But hey, the car does get its fair share of screen time in The Dictator, and you could probably buy three or four General Lees for that price. Only 10 are earmarked for production, and we hear that Dartz will throw in a coupon for a Qdoba burrito if you buy two or more examples.
Who knows if the Russians are in on the joke—and who cares. The joke is that The Dictator satirizes the trappings of obnoxious Middle Eastern wealth, yet Dartz is offering its well-heeled customers a chance to live the dream without their tongues firmly in theirs—or someone else’s—cheeks. Logic? There is no logic in buying a gold SUV. Only hilarity. The ghost of Don Simpson would surely be proud.
Source: Yahoo! Autos
As another Cohen character would say, “verry nice!”
Dartz is the sort of company that’s seemingly run by a 12-year old boy with a penchant for mid-90s MTV rap videos and an attention span shorter than the inkling sprouts of hair on his adolescent chest. The Dartz Aladeen Edition Prombron sounds like a planet from Star Wars but, unlike Alderaan, is certainly a real thing. Dartz takes pride in labeling itself as “The World’s Most Expensive Armored Car,” because it is. The base model Prombron is equipped with armor top to bottom, blast-proof windows, a V-8 engine producing 400 horsepower, the ability to withstand a rocket attack from certain members of the Shriners Club, a coffee maker, cloth seats—no leather, not anymore—a discount card for the same place Eliot Spitzer usually frequents (buy nine and you get a free lunch buffet), and a free Metallica t-shirt. But unlike those plebeian vehicles, this model is draped in gold. Because, you know, that’s just tempting fate and the assault rifle fire of angry Starbucks baristas in Oman.
The cost? Between $500,000 to $750,000, which, incidentally, is also the same cost of renting a hot-air balloon and dropping miniature solid-gold Oscar statuettes emblazoned with the phrase “I HAVE MORE MONEY THAN YOU” and Tony Robbins’ home phone number over certain neighborhoods in Brentwood. But hey, the car does get its fair share of screen time in The Dictator, and you could probably buy three or four General Lees for that price. Only 10 are earmarked for production, and we hear that Dartz will throw in a coupon for a Qdoba burrito if you buy two or more examples.
Who knows if the Russians are in on the joke—and who cares. The joke is that The Dictator satirizes the trappings of obnoxious Middle Eastern wealth, yet Dartz is offering its well-heeled customers a chance to live the dream without their tongues firmly in theirs—or someone else’s—cheeks. Logic? There is no logic in buying a gold SUV. Only hilarity. The ghost of Don Simpson would surely be proud.
Source: Yahoo! Autos
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