Luxury Or Predatory: Has This Crocodile Clad Bentley Taken It To The Limit?

While it’s hard to label the Russian nouveau riche’s consumption anything other than conspicuous, it is getting harder and harder for the vast nation’s overnight millionaires to stand out from the crowd, particularly when it comes to their cars. Now before you go shedding crocodile tears for the Motherland’s loaded, gaze upon the creation that is the Bentley Suitcase Croco.

 Sure, it looks like real crocodile hide but, ironically, it’s actually the skin of one of the Nile Crocodile’s natural prey, the African Buffalo. Doesn’t that just make you lay an egg? Anyway, the buffalo leather is embossed with a crocodile-esque pattern and painted the correct colors, processes that took the men behind the project – Igor Kozin, Robert Mauser, Igor Ryabov and Nikolai Mikhailov – some nine months to perfect.





 
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MSP6 - 3/23/2010 6:13:12 PM

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Bad taste

B7FAN - 3/24/2010 7:47:54 AM

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I thought the Mansory RR Ghost was bad. actually the worst of the worst is still the Mansory RR Ghost and this piece of shyt is in second at this point. why doesnt someone take a R8 and dip it in milk chocolate so its the most unique R8 on the road........

cdoke - 3/23/2010 6:20:15 PM

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Show me one made of real crocodile- until such time it is a mere simulacrum.

I have to admit that it is interesting in an odd, garish gauche sort of way.

cdoke - 3/23/2010 6:20:38 PM

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...not that I would ever been seen dead in one.

lexusrox123 - 3/23/2010 6:31:49 PM

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Call PETA! lol, I bet they'd go crazy over this thing.

theoptimisticpessimist - 3/23/2010 8:16:52 PM

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Main Entry: 2tacky
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): tacki·er; tacki·est
Etymology: tacky a low-class person
Date: 1862
1 a : characterized by lack of good breeding <couldn't run around downtown…in a bikini, which was tacky — Cyra McFadden> b : shabby, seedy <a tacky town whose citrus groves were blighted by smoke — Bryce Nelson>
2 : not having or exhibiting good taste: as a : marked by lack of style : dowdy b : marked by cheap showiness : gaudy <a tacky publicity stunt> <a tacky outfit>

Agent009 - 3/24/2010 8:44:34 AM

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LOL!

pennfootball - 3/24/2010 10:35:51 AM

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What do they do when it rains and the water ruins everything?