Look at what buying gas is paying for

[CatWoman]

It's owned by the family of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the former president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu-Dhabi. This car is SOLID SILVER

[Sanity Claws]

1. Silver tarnishes and is soft

Apparently he has more money than sense.

[Orrex]

2. Maybe he's sick of running over werewolves?

Used to be, he'd hit one and it would pop right back up again. Not so, with this baby!

[CatWoman]

15. LOLOLOL!!!

Maybe he's sick of running over werewolves?

[CatWoman]

16. LOLOLOL!!!

Maybe he's sick of running over werewolves?

[acmavm]

3. Obscene. Simply obscene.

[louis-t]

4. Must weigh a lot.

[dysfunctional press]

apparently the piker couldn't afford a gold one?

and yet he calls himself a man?

[Orrex]

8. That would be ostentatious

Subtlety's the key, you see.

[Warpy]

5. They'll need the silver bodywork

and the gold plumbing fixtures when the oil runs out.

You should see the conspicuous consumption in this country by hedge fund managers and the rest of the financial thieves. That silly car pales in comparison.

[The Straight Story]

6. Yeah, but I got something he can never have - my wife

:P

[Hydra]

7. Sweet!

Don't want to see his polishing bill when it turns funny colors, though.

Doesn't he know Auric Goldfinger had a solid gold Rolls Royce? That's the way to go!

[blondeatlast]

9. THIS is the kind of thing that needs to be driven into the psyches of the American driver.

:puke:

[NV Whino]

10. That's old news

He's since moved up to platinum.

[AlCzervik]

11. imagine being anywhere near that on a sunny day? You'd be blinded by the tackiness

and the sun beaming off of it.

[salvorhardin]

12. That's an urban legend -- the car is not solid silver

The car is not solid silver.

The photographs displayed above are genuine, but they don't quite depict an automobile "made from solid silver." The shiny appearance of the Audi A8 pictured here is not due to its being made of silver, but to a customization involving a special polishing technique used to produce a chrome-like finish, for which the car's Dubai owner engaged the firm Motoren Technik Mayer, based in Wettstetten, Germany.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/silveraudi.asp

[mrcheerful]

13. snopes is your friend

[ben_meyers]

14. Well except for being an Urban Legend

it's a good tale. I've been getting this e-mail for over a year. They also usually include photos of some big resort and try to pass it off as this guy's private residence.

That said, I still don't like paying the high gas prices.

[salvorhardin]

17. I hate high gas prices too

But tales like this are invidious in that they help to propagate a subtle form of bigotry. Furthermore, we decry the main stream media and the Bush administration for promoting misinformation so it would be nice if we stood above such practices ourselves. Granted, as such things go this is a relatively minor example.

[Adsos Letter]

18. But your point is a good one...

the most insidious propaganda entails many, many subtleties.