The Star Of Rolls-Royce's Geneva Stand Will Be Painted With Actual Diamonds

We know of plenty of car makers who will charge you a few thousand pounds for a custom paint job, but this takes things to a whole new universe of excess
The Star Of Rolls-Royce's Geneva Stand Will Be Painted With Actual Diamonds

Feast your eyes on the very first Rolls-Royce to be finished in a paint made from diamonds. Yes, from actual crushed diamonds.

Rolls crushed 1000 ethically-sourced diamonds to create the finish they have since named Diamond Stardust, testing each and every stone to make sure it would have sufficient radiance when used in a paint.

This is what crushed diamonds look like...
This is what crushed diamonds look like...

Its makers ultimately had to combine the crushed diamonds with clear paint and work out a way to ensure a totally even spread of diamond particles throughout the liquid, while leaving each tiny granule undetectable by touch.

And this is no one-off showcase car. This car, a long-wheelbase Ghost named Elegance, was a customer order via the Rolls-Royce Bespoke programme. Somebody with far more money than us really did order a diamond-coated car.

Such is the success of the finished product that it’s now the spearhead of a new marketing strategy to emphasise the unbelievable capabilities of the Bespoke department. Bespoke, the company says, is Rolls-Royce. Your move, Bentley and Mercerdes…

Not bad on the inside, either
Not bad on the inside, either

In this case, two months of solid trying and testing by three specialists, day after day, was the work necessary to complete the project as the customer requested.

Elegance is going to be the centrepiece of the Rolls-Royce stand at the Geneva show, but we suspect that if you try to touch it, you’ll be removed from the stand by burly men and taken out back by the bins where your arms will be broken in many places.

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Comments

Anonymous

This is how they crushed them

03/06/2017 - 17:20 |
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HF_Martini6

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Nope, you know exactly what the only thing is that can crush a Diamond

03/06/2017 - 17:38 |
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6-6 Ginger

Damn, think of all the car parts you could have ordered with that money instead.

03/06/2017 - 17:22 |
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cries in student loans

03/07/2017 - 04:28 |
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Black Phillip

Rolls Royce will always be king

03/06/2017 - 17:28 |
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Charlie Nelson

Donald trump would be jelly.

03/06/2017 - 17:30 |
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Akashneel

Millions of years of human evolution and now this…

03/06/2017 - 17:32 |
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Harry Fletcher

That does not looked like crushed diamonds to me. Looks more like another expensive substance though…

03/06/2017 - 17:32 |
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Crushed diamonds is it’s street name

03/06/2017 - 17:38 |
140 | 0

*hint hint

03/06/2017 - 17:53 |
44 | 6

1000 ways to die - Guns N’ Noses ;)

03/06/2017 - 21:43 |
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Jakub Grzybacz

I can already hear BoostedBoris calling it f■cking crapitalist piece of sh■t

03/06/2017 - 17:41 |
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ElTiooJonny (#404GermanNotFound)

Because a Rolls-Royce wasn’t expensive enough #Baller

03/06/2017 - 17:53 |
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Dave 15

This is great and all but what I really want to know is: How much did it cost?

03/06/2017 - 18:06 |
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Fouck hahaha

When you have no sense of money and so much money… You buy that… S-class Maybach it’s far away better and less expensive!

03/06/2017 - 18:36 |
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But not a Rolls, the Maybach is way more useable I agree.

03/06/2017 - 19:12 |
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Thats the thing when people are looking at cars like this. They aren’t looking at useablility and MPG and stuff. They buy with their heart they go I like that one. and buy it. And the maybach may cost less and stuff but it does look boring from the outside.

03/07/2017 - 12:18 |
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