Jul 8 2008Money Can't Buy Classiness: A Gold Porsche

God, that thing is awful. Money is definitely wasted on the tasteless.

Hmm... wonder how much you can get if you pull off the spoiler...

IMO that's pretty badass.

I wonder how easily that would be to key....

Can you put gold on pets? When can I have that done?

Signed
Rich dude

It's not classy, and I guess it's not tasteful, but... I kind of agree with Count Orlock. There are actually dumber ways to spend your vast fortune. If it were me I'd prefer something in silver or platinum. Well, if it were me I'd prefer an awesome sports car that was just black, but if we're talking strictly about plating our cars with precious metals, silver would be nicer looking.

Granted, whoever had this done is probably a total dick.

IMO thats a big "f*** you" to UNICEF but hey the guy may prefer to spend his money on a tacky gold Porche but at least you can tell he has the balls to park that shit outside. it would be funny if he leaves it over night and the only thing left is the tires and the radio.

i actually think that's pretty cool man. haha.

Yoink!

pretty awesome. but dont park it in the wrong areas.

A "real" gold porsche. I wonder, exactly how long it would take for people to just start stripping parts off the poor thing. Probably 20 minutes before people just couldn't resist the urge...
http://prewife.com

Why is no one driving that car?

I'm sorry but anyone who thinks that thing looks cool is retarded. What's with the brick pattern? Oh, what's that, your normally functional motorized wing which is supposed to elevate at 55mph is stuck in the up position because gold plating got all over the motors?

What a tacky piece of sh*t. If the guy wants to prove he has money atleast buy a 911 GT3RS or a Carrera GT. Not some shitty 911 4S (not even the 911 turbo).

What a shame. *facepalm*

That car has got 'rapper' written all over it.

the song Golden Porche, by Mogwai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKOTYb9Yqo

Looks like it's parked across from a prison

Clem...I think you meant "wrapper", like the foil around a bar of Hershery's Special Dark chocolate...

I once worked for a world famous family and oversaw the completion of their West Palm Beach Estate. They had every surface that wasn't under foot coated with gold. Even the towel bars and toilet paper rods. Of course they also had beer on tap in every single room of the house, so it wasn't all bad. Funny thing was, his (Supermodel) wife wouldn't allow even one thing from their business into the house. I used to go to the bank and get her thousands in cash and she'd spend it in an hour.

I had 24/7 access to the estate and they were only there a couple of weeks at a time. I could have probably bedded several women there (huge home theater setup in master bedroom) but I was too dumb to dump my GF at the time. I guess I am also just not the type to take advantage although he was a pretty cool guy and probably wouldn't have minded. He was always trying to get me to drink beer while I was working....and by working I mean fantasizing about his wife or the red hot Asian housekeeper.

Good times.......

I wonder how difficult that gold would be to recover. I guess not that bad.

At current market value, the gold alone is worth almost 3/4 of a million dollars.

It's no surprise that you peons can't appreciate something as beautiful as a gold plated Porsche. Those of us who have actually worked hard to earn wealth deserve every penny we get. I know jealousy when I see it, and the fact that you people are either too stupid or too lazy to accumulate the affluence and class to afford luxuries such as gold plated Porsches speaks volumes about your collective lack of character. Rather than wasting your time making ill-informed and RIDICULOUS "criticisms" on the internet you should be working hard to contribute to society. Perhaps then, when the time comes, your financial rewards will allow you to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle. Until then you can all keep your mouths shut about things you don't understand.

at the value of gold right now i'm guessing this is a $16500 "paint " job

my mistake, its roughly a $500,000 paint job

Well said Carlton. You wouldn't believe the looks I get when I drive down 110th in my Saphire-encrusted Tercel. Yes, that's a Toyota. Impressive, I know.

Tell you what...throw a little hot-rod red on that...

Ryan # 13

i think that is a 911 turbo. the rear bumper gives tells me so with the grills. unless of course he threw on that bumper to fake it, which, i dont doubt.

but i do agree with you about the GT3 RS comment though.

current strike of gold is $921.30/oz
16oz/1 lb 1lb of gold = $14,740.80
50lbs on car
value of gold on car : 50 x 14,740.80 = 737,040.00

where I come from, 237,040 is a lot of money to be covered by a "roughly" Unless I'm at work, then that's almost nothing.

@20, good try but a real douche bag rich guy would be much more condescending.

anyone asking a car dealer if the car can be covered in gold
should be executed on the spot!!
this is just another example of rich peoples extremely bad taste .
and it is very inconsidered towards people who can not even afford
health care.

I personally have a pair of 30lb solid gold weights hanging from my testicles...so I'm better than that guy. oh and I have a penis that's more than 1/2"...which that guy obviously does not.

So, the only thing cool about it is that it's modeled after the yellow brick road. Wait, that's pretty gay.

gold? bullshit. shiny gold colored paint, yes.

This is about a $3000 paint job, not a $700,000 gold plating job. You people are gullible to the point of being retarded. Gold plating does not look like bricks, that's paint.

#31 if it is pure gold, be it leaf or plate, 50lbs of gold currently goes for about $725K...and that's that. If it's just paint with gold in it, different story. Unless there's 50lbs of pure gold in the paint.

check it yo bling bling my home slice. gold huh i would much rather there be platinum all over it. oh yeah i no real gold its not some paint job dim-witted monkey!! >:O

Looks horrible. I have a Porsche Boxster S myself and I love it. but would never do that. Mines speed yellow with matching interior .

@20

@20

i cant believe i am saying this, but i agree with the rich douchebag. That is a nice car, gold or not. in my opinion, if you don't have a ride that can top that (you know who you are), you can't talk

Weird, I was just thinking about this on my way home. A "silver" car passed and I realized it looked nothing like actual silver.

it will never be as cool as my diamond encrusted jeep grand cherokee

it actually looks like it's dirty

great, now tell me where to find it so i can work on slowly chipping off each piece with a chisel.

superficial said 50lbs, but nextconceptcars said 18kg(40lbs), thats where i got $500,000

but regardless of what it cost, it's still tacky

@41 No doubt.

wat is the pattern on the hood of the car? i cant quite make it out. other than that i dont think it looks that bad other than when u look closely at it, the brick pattern all around it is terrible, and wat is that gay pattern on the spoiler? as well as its a huge waste of money

It's not 18 kilograms of gold, it's 18 karat gold. It's covered in gold leaf, the brick patern is airbrushed on and then the whole thing is clear-coated.

That shit is BALLIN'... UNICEF? pssht.. They didn't help him earn that money so how is that affecting them. Get a life you salty ass haters. lol. Lawry's.

Well that's....really...really tacky.

@44

No, that's not gold leaf. Gold leaf does not polish. If you want reflective gold you have to electroplate a polished surface, or use a gold COLORED reflective paint.

And yes, everyone took a typo of "18KG" and ran with it, when it was supposed to say "18k", which is a bullshit lie anyway. It's just paint people, stop shitting your shorts.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH SHINEY!... hey a butterfly

#20, You definately need to buy some more friends

#20: tell that to people who do work hard and don't "accumulate the affluence." (idiot...you don't 'accumulate affluence'). Wealth is passed on...being rich, a lot of people can do. Many are correct, money doesn't buy taste, regardless of how much money a person has.

In a game, it would be cool, but in reality, it's terrible. It's like taking something that's awesome and making it look stupid (and inadvertently making it perform less well by adding 50lbs to it).

For the record I believe there is another demographic for those who loves shiny things. that is, namely, Stoners.

this kills the out look of the porsche.
a porsche is to suppose to look like a model , not a crack head . sorry man this car sucks . sorry to burst your bubble. :)

NEW PAINT JOB ANYONE ?

he could of just used some custom gold paint?

@20: No, buddy: I REALLY thinks this thing sucks from both an aesthetic and moral point of view. And to express my opinion I don't have to own such a terrible object I would be ashamed of driving.

It's bad enough the dude had a Porsche to begin with (could there be any more of a boring, stereotypical sports car for fat, uncool middle aged men?), but to cover that shit in gold too??? Money really can't buy taste - give those dollar bills to me and I'll put that shit to good use!

Porsche: the car for men with small penises.

a gold plated Porsche: the car for the man with an exceptionally small penis

#20 - Working hard should be rewarded, not shamelessly shown off. Unfortunately, nouveau riche is synonymous with bad taste, but if the bloke who commissioned this atrocity is in fact old money...a tiny wanker is obviously to blame. The assumption of jealousy should be no comfort to anybody trying to look down on the masses - I mean the dang thing is just plain ugly.

Can you imagine what the owner's teeth look like? His BONES are probably gold plated now.

this car is in Moscow, Russia. It's owned by a guy who owns the brand name "Simachev" which is a Russian designer.

@20
It's ***ts like you and the Porsche owner that make the rest of us jealous. Great, you made a fortune, well done you. Now **** off somewhere else and stop rubbing everyones nose in it. Yes you are rich and you have much bigger, better toys than us, but no amount of money will ever buy you out of being a complete ***t !

that is the most ugly porshe in the world...i know it sounds cool but this thing is hideous!!!

I, personally, would use a car, slam into it, and get out and start collecting all the gold pieces :D Ohh, what's that? A dead person? I didn't notice because all this gold covering this man shaped body.

I used to get speed that was a bit yellow, and if thats the color of your car then yuck man.

If you take a closer look, this car has Russian plates
lol

Dude... in my neighborhood I'm ashamed to be one of the few who can actually afford a bicycle, and everyone is trying to take that from me even.

At the current price of Pt, if this car were covered in 40lbs of Pt it would be a $1,303,680 "paint job". I would prefer 40 lbs of rhodium (it's prettier anyway), however, which would run me $6,176,000. Silver is not as resistant to corrosion as Au, Pt and Rh so I don't think it would be a great thing to put on the outside of a car. However, it wouldn't cost near as much. 40lbs = ~$14,000

I know there really isn't 40 lbs of gold on that car but it's fascinating to think about it.

It would take a major dumbass to leave that much gold sitting outside unless he paid a babysitter to watch over it. However, lots of people invest in gold and who cares where they put it? If they ever need the money back they can just take it off and sell it. Vanity is gay but.... to each his own.

its just a paint job. they sell paint on chrome also. people are dumb. do your research. this has no real gold on it.

just when i think there can be no more proof of asshattery in the world, some one manages to step across that line.

Gold. No gold. Paint. 40lbs or not 40lbs. It's ugly.

@20: Louie XVI was rather rich and quite fond of flaunting such. That didn't do him or Marie much good in the end.

that would look pretty sweet on a lamborghini but the porsche is a wast (even though it would be a wast of $ on any car)

i dont like this Car !

im just glad he didnt do that to a delorean. id have to kill them.

I think I'd get the side mirror o/

Carlton G. Weltheimer - July 8, 2008 12:04 PM

Wow what an idiot...read this guys comment it was number 20. I don't care how much money I have, I will never put gold plating on my car. That's not contributing to society either you idiot. I hope he crashes it...

Very cool.

For those who think it's actual gold, think again... not only would that be silly (and costly), it would be extremely impractical. The weight alone would cause the car to shake, and the slightest bump would cause it to deform (gold is maleable). It wouldn't even be gold plated.

They actually chromed the panels, tinted it gold/yellow colour, and added a very detailed paint job (like pin striping) to simulate gold bars and screws (as well as the cool tattoo on the spoiler).

I've seen the same thing done on an Audi A8 (just chrome plated). You've probably seen the Suadi prince's car (claimed to be silver, but was actually just chrome).

Really nice job though, would love to see it up close.

Cost of the paint job would probably cost close to 5-6 grand, but the plating alone would be around 8-10k (at least).

ugly ass bling

that is a travesty

man i would laff at you if you would crash whit your car

At least he can say he's got something that no one else has.

i think that is THE biggest waste of money.......
like is this person serious with life right now...

Whether rich or not this person obviously doesnt watch the news or read the newspaper , and if they do it just goes to show even more how ridiculously stupid there are. There are 100 of THOUSANDS of people Starving to death in the world, going through genocide and horrible things that we couldnt even imagine living thru, and these ppl deal with it on a DAILY BASIS...
could you imagine having fear in the back of your mind that your wife or children might get raped today? and you cant do shit about it,? either that or risk being killed and have them be raped anyway? could u imagine living almost day to day wondering how long your going to last one what little food u have and where ur going to get more to feed your family?

clearly this person has no concious or common sense becuase if i were going to WASTE 1/2 a million dollars id put it towards something WORTHWHILE! instead of trying to show of your whack ass car. it probably would have looked better just as a Porche with a nice paint job, like you went overboard.
It doesnt even look nice, it looks tacky and cheap, which is probably what this person wasnt going for, but agian, theyre f***ing dumb, so what more could you expect,
and as for you # 21... its nice and all that youre rich too so u feel the need to defend this waste of money, but if ur gonna sit there and defend that, you should be finding something better to do with your time and money as well, becuase your sitting here posting on this site yourself too...

Ok, so whats with all this hate here? and Paul is right it prob isnt real gold...

F**k off with the waste of money, thats freaking dope what that guy did to his car, not as cool as the chromed ferrari, rich ppl do this all the time, their houses are even more retarded.

Another thing, MAMiiFRESH take your starving children in the third world crap and shove it in your a$$ with a Franchi 12 guage SPAS-12 shotgun... he did go overboard, but dont tell me you wouldnt want to roll in a gold porsche, pussy would be jumping on that thing 24/7

comment #20 you are damn right! show off that money! and why y'all think its ugly? the brick thing and the fancy engraving detail on the spoiler is too much but its chromed! maybe because this is geekologie you cant appreciate this car properly, or get your facts straight about ITS NOT GOLD! its gold COLORED chrome, seen it done on a Carrera GT (I drove it :D), not nearly as expensive as gold. the guy shoulda done it on a lamborghini not a whack porsche

Oh and just to finish this off...

F**K UNICEF AND F**K YOU PUSSIES LIKE MAMii! YOU EARN YOUR MONEY YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!!!

@28 - Quit whining and get a job. Go back to school, get a degree and buy your own ridiculously shiny crap!
@20 - If you buy something to gain attention (anything covered in gold) and place it in public view, it is not up to you to determine what TYPE of attention you get back - go get huffy to Buffy, Therapist to the Wealthy and Insecure.

The car looks tarded, but we all have our silly "what I would buy if I hit the lottery" crap- and after water, food, shelter, warm clothing - it's all crap. Some of us like our crap shiny, gold, whatever - more power to the moron.
But if I ever see a piece of that vehicle "chipping", I'll have a new "grill" LMFAO

Just curious, how does adding 40 pounds of gold to the car, make it 50 pounds heavier?

Paint yes. Painted chrome? No. (Alsa corp) Mirrored paint. They sell any kind of paint you can think of. Heat reactive (hyper paint), chrome (silver and gold), marbleized, grains, shade shifters...

Gold base, masked brick lines and screws. That is not suppose to be a "tattoo" on the wing. It is simulated metal carving like old school gun and sword smithing (engraving).

Russians :)

:)), he must have the tiniest willy ever :))

As an owner of a 911 I am totally embarrassed and don't think that retards should be able to purchase a Porsche. Not only is it uglier then a can of smashed assholes it is a waste of money. If you have the money to gold plate your 911, why don't you gold plate your balls at the same time as an accessory. That way while you are driving down the highway playing with your rodent size penis you can flash your balls. Bling, Bling Bro!

The fruits of hard work? This car has Moscow plates on it. He probably got the money from the ex-Soviet company he bought at a fire sale price from the Russian government in the early 90s when everything was being privatized.

I think this guy got his idea from Hotwheels:

http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/1083308400/_i/2905885/1.jpg

I actually like it! Yes there are starving people everywhere so I understand the stance of it seeming wastefull to say the least but artistically I like the way it looks.
It made me envision doing a car yourself with gold leaf sheets
and also,if it was done in a brass or copper tone it could be
tweaked in steampunk fashion and look awesome!

i will have that car mate

It's a pussy magnet =]

LAST!!!!!!!!!!1!!!

am I the only person who thinks that the real problem with this porsche is not the gold but the gold brick pattern? If I were to have that done, I would have stripped the car down to the chassis, taken off all the pain and had the whole thing electro-plated in 18K gold... now that's tasteful

Yer, just looked for it on the map, the image is blocked.