Mini Limo Madness

I can’t think of many ways to destroy the stylishness of the classic Mini, but spending a million on it wasn’t going to be an obvious one. So I find the following custom job a wide-eyed and bemusing stare.

This slightly (!) garish edition was designed by Juhan Losop from Metal Hammer, who is renowned for several unusual car and bike projects.

The Mini limo boasts plush interiors with a Philips Ambilight Fire Diamond 47’’ LCD TV installed inside. It also packs in 70 TFT monitors, 30 parking sensors, and 20 parking cameras inside.

The exteriors include wheels with 100 gold and multicolour wires which have specially made Swarovski crystal hubs which are 8 cm in diameter.

There are gold sputtered window films on front glasses (around 50 grams of pure gold was spent to make this film) and the body is made from around 1,000,000 Swarovski crystals.

When I first caught a glimpse of this, I thought it was a Lowrider-style custom build. Lowriders are over the top but its a style I love, with shiny distinct chrome finishings and personal airbrushed portrait artworks adorning their panels.

But this Mini doesn’t seem to have that style. It just smacks of having money poured on it in the most expensive and most unstylish way.

At a price tag of a million euros this is bound for a rich princess with too much money and no sense of the real world.

Via Born Rich

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