The 4WD with seats made of whale penis.. (those wacky Russians)

[SoCalDem]

The 4WD with seats made of whale penis
http://www.smh.com.au/drive/motor-news/the-4wd-with-seats-made-of-whale-penis-20091016-gzsq.html
RICHARD BLACKBURN
October 16, 2009

www.goldexchange-usa.com
Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition

If four-wheel-drives weren’t politically incorrect enough, a Russian car maker is offering one with whale penis leather trim. By RICHARD BLACKBURN.

A Russian armoured-car builder is boasting that its latest vehicle has seats covered with “whale-penis leather”. The €1 million ($1.6 million) Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition armoured car has been developed by the same company, RussoBaltique, that built armoured vehicles for Tsar Nicholas, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.

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The leather is not the only tacky accessory on the Prombron, which Dartz claims is the world’s most expensive SUV. The bulletproof windows are gold-plated, the exhaust is made of tungsten, the gauges are encrusted with diamonds and rubies and the exterior has a Kevlar coating.

The car also comes with three bottles of the world’s most expensive Vodka, RussoBaltique, although the website does warn prospective buyers not to drink and drive. The vehicle is being specially prepared for the ultra-exclusive Top Marques luxury motor show in Monaco next year.

Dartz’s armoured vehicles weigh roughly 4 tonnes, are powered by V8s putting out between 300kW and 400kW and are “rocket grenade-proof” according to the website. For those wondering just how may whales may need to be harvested to outfit the special edition, the answer is not many. The penis of the Blue Whale, for example, can grow up to 2.4 metres.

[Solly Mack]

1. Seats 4 - up to 6 if you polish the seats

[babylonsister]

2. Funny, I thought whale penises were used for scrimshaw because

they're similar to ivory. Don't ask me why I thought that. :crazy:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Humans are the ONLY mammal without a penile bone

odd things one learns in biology class that ahem STICK.

[HereSince1628]

6. I seem to remember bunnies also lack a baculum

My background is worms rather than vertebrates, but I seem to remember this from a lab animal care course I took in the way-back.

[demodonkey]

12. Horses do not have a penile bone either.

I ought to know; I stand stallions on my farm to outside mares. Part of my job is to make sure stallion is clean "in that area" in order to prevent infection transmission to the mare.

There is no bone in the equine penis; one of several similarities horses share with humans. However if you don't believe me you can also look this fact up.

Here is my senior stallion's website (he is now deceased.) http://www.sunnyksootzz.com

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Ah biology instructor was wrong

those little things one remembers...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Some people... by the way your triceratops

better watch out... or these Russians will outfit the next SUV with it's skin, and the hood with it's horns.

:-)

Happy holidays to you by the way.

:hi:

[spoony]

4. "the exterior has a Kevlar coating"

Not a bad idea because I can't imagine that thing NOT being keyed everywhere it goes.

[peekaloo]

7. Are the seats always in an upright position?

"trim"....penis....:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

8. hahahahahaha

good one:)

[BreweryYardRat]

9. Ew. The only bright side is that they wouldn't have gone out and harvested whales just for this.

They must have cut a deal with the Japanese or Norwegian whaling industry for their scraps. Something well-publicized like this will get scrutinized pretty closely -- they wouldn't go whaling illegally to upholster it. Too much possibility of getting caught.

And..."rocket grenade-proof?" Any bits on how long it'll be before someone tests that assertion?

[jmowreader]

13. In Russia? Ptobably not that long

It's a million-Euro car being built for service in a country with (1) a very active Mafia and (2) a LOT of bazookas floating around.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Specifically, it was to be Whale Penis FORESKIN upholstery, but they've pulled it out.

Series, the whale penis has been pulled out.

You probably heard about the Dartz Prombron recently, the ultra-luxury armored SUV from Russia that would feature, among other ne plus ultra materials, leather pulled from whale penis foreskin. Why whale foreskin? Someone told them it was the best so they jumped on it. Unfortunately, the attraction didn't last very long. They have issued a release saying they will release the penis from their options list. Apparently the company has had a rethink on their choice of interior materials after receiving negative responses to their announcement from Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, and even Pamela Anderson.

Personally, we think this might be more of a reaction to the new anti-whaling boat that the Sea Shephards have picked up for the upcoming season of Whale Wars: The newly rechristened Ady Gil, a 90 km/h semi-submersible tri-hull that holds the record for global circumnavigation. Whatever the reason, Dartz has Bobbitted the penis from the vehicle's spec sheet. In a brilliant press release that we couldn't possibly put into any better words, the company announced the change. Follow the jump to read the verbiage for yourself. Thanks for the tips, everyone!

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/10/foreskin-removal-dartz-prombron-drops-the-whale-penis/

The press release:

ARMORED CAR WITHOUT PENIS. LET'S SAVE THE WHALES.

One month ago DARTZ presented uberluxury armored car with whale penis interior - PROMBRON' (ex.RussoBaltique), lot of people name this car as DARTZ.KOMBAT. As the world's resonance was very huge and DARTZ got lot of angry e-mails from Greenpeace, WWF and also Pamela Anderson, DARTZ make strong decision to stop their plans regarding such interior.

"We have no any ideas to kill the whale or something like that. All we want - to make just luxury car. Real luxury car which will be world number one car. Our brand was started at 1869 when in Riga was opened Coach Factory or Russo Baltiysky Vagonnij Zavod - PBVZ, and first products was luxury train coaches. At 1907 was made a decision to open Car Department, and at 1909 first car left factory - the name of this car was RussoBalt. This was luxury and sport cars. At 1911 specially for Monaco Rally car got french style name - RussoBaltique. At 1912 factory made world first 4 x 4 wheel drive car, and at 1914 - armored car. All we want to unite luxury and armoring traditions of RussoBalt factory in one car, which brand celebrated 100 years now. At 1922 RussoBalt was renamed to PROMBRON' (ex.RussoBalt).

We just looking for most expensive products for this car - and that's why we choosed whale penis leathure when we checked it is most of most. After wave of protest we realised our mistake and make a decision not to use natural leathure at all. We will focus on world most advanced nanotechnologies to achieve interior highest quality using artificial materials which also was never used for cars. We want to tell our hello to all whales: "Our Sea Brothers! We all know that earth are stand on three whales - we will keep You live! We don't Earth fall down to Ocean!"

Also we make a decision to pay more attention to glass and on our new car model we will use glass which will be made by special technology - from artificial grown chrystals, which will be gold sputerred to cut IR and UV rays, which make driving inconvinient when sun shine.

Best regards,
Leonard F. Yankelovich
DARTZ.EU

So, it was fun while it lasted, but it didn't last long.

:P

[FedUpWithIt All]

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