You bought Harrods for £1.5bn? Well, that's very nice sir... but we're still clamping

ronaneire

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298651/New-Harrods-owners-cars-worth-1-5m-CLAMPED.html

Looking on the bright side, at least the owners won't have much trouble stumping up the parking fine.
But even when you've just bought Harrods for £1.5billion, and the cars are among the fastest and most exclusive in the world, getting them clamped is still a bit of an inconvenience.
The uniquely liveried supercars belong to the Qatari royal family, which bought the flagship store three months ago.

On the left is a Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce, worth £350,000. In front of it is a bespoke specification Koenigsegg CCXR, one of only six in the world and worth a staggering £1.2million.

Nice

SeaFields

You spend a million quid on a car and you buy it in that colour? FFS

WindSock

That must have gotten them Al Fayad up when they saw it.

ToxicPaddy

Looks like a publicity stunt to me.. but if not, serves em right

ronaneire

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

Looks like a publicity stunt to me.. but if not, serves em right

My thinking as well.

Biggins

A full report: http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/2172/wwwthetimescoukttonewsu.jpg

Birneybau

Bloody Fordiners..

Going over there, taking their parking spaces!

AnonoBoy

Were they too scabby to pay the fine or what? Why is this news?

Brendog

If you are gonna park somewhere you shouldn't, don't chance it if the colour of your car stands out more than ****ING SUNLIGHT!!!!

orourkeda

You'd think they'd take the trouble to learn how to park them

Pherekydes

Important news...


...to the Daily Mail.

ciagr297

SeaFields wrote: »

You spend a million quid on a car and you buy it in that colour? FFS

agreed - they would look less like toy cars if they were silver, or even dark blue/black

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

Looks like a publicity stunt to me.. but if not, serves em right

could be, or an exercise to show the common shoppers (is there such a thing?)of Harrods that they have the same "problems"
reminds me of the Absolutely Fabulous episode where Eddie and Patsy did something similiar

kippy

Publicity stunt all the way............
And a good one at that......

bonerm

You'd think after paying £1.2m for a car that you could pick a decent colour to paint it.

Pix of it before they decided to mess it up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koenigsegg_CCXR_Edition_(1_von_2).jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koenigsegg_CCXR_Edition_(2_von_2).jpg

monkeyfudge

One of the cars has a top speed of 249mph?

What sort of a twat drives that around in London city centre traffic?

bonerm

monkeyfudge wrote: »

One of the cars has a top speed of 249mph?

What sort of a twat drives that around in London city centre traffic?

A rich twat (with a small penis).

WindSock

bonerm wrote: »

A rich twat (with a small penis).

A hermaphrodite?

Sykk

I can't believe no one's given the OP abuse over reading the daily mail yet.

monkeyfudge

WindSock wrote: »

A hermaphrodite?

That small penis is what we call a clitoris.

WindSock

monkeyfudge wrote: »

That small penis is what we call a clitoris.

If you were any good at lip reading would that make it rich clit chick lit?

Cookie_Monster

He'll probably just buy the clamping company and fire the douchebag who clamped him, just because he can.

manta356

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

He'll probably just buy the clamping company and fire the douchebag who clamped him, just because he can.

I'd do it if I was him

Biggins

bonerm wrote: »

You'd think after paying £1.2m for a car that you could pick a decent colour to paint it.

Pix of it before they decided to mess it up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koenigsegg_CCXR_Edition_(1_von_2).jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koenigsegg_CCXR_Edition_(2_von_2).jpg

Horrible colours they were re-painted.
Just goes to show - you can't buy taste.

monkeyfudge

Biggins wrote: »

Horrible colours they were re-painted.
Just goes to show - you can't buy taste.

They're the family's royal colours apparently.

Biggins

monkeyfudge wrote: »

They're the family's royal colours apparently.

Thanks for the info.
Still "yuck" colours.

magotch07

monkeyfudge wrote: »

One of the cars has a top speed of 249mph?

What sort of a twat drives that around in London city centre traffic?

a rich one

monkeyfudge

Biggins wrote: »

Thanks for the info.
Still "yuck" colours.

They're not too far off the Dublin GAA colours. Just need a darker blue stripe up the middle.

Biggins

monkeyfudge wrote: »

They're not too far off the Dublin GAA colours. Just need a darker blue stripe up the middle.

...Or some flames firing down the side.
As they are, they look like me in the morning after a hard nights session on the drink. :pac:

ejmaztec

It's heart-warming to see them not wasting their oil-money on useless extravagances:eek:.

danbohan

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

He'll probably just buy the clamping company and fire the douchebag who clamped him, just because he can.

''fire'' , your too nice !

ronaneire

Sykk wrote: »

I can't believe no one's given the OP abuse over reading the daily mail yet.

That is because I don't read the daily mail. I actually happened to stumble across it in another forum if really want to know! :P

MikeRoeSopht

how could a clamper clamp a car like that ?
if I owned that car and saw it was clamped I would murder the clamper literally.

those wheels alone are prob 10k each
surely the pic of the clamp may have scraped those wheels

besides hasn't anyone else learnt yet that the rich live under different rules to us poor folk

starbelgrade

monkeyfudge wrote: »

They're the family's royal colours apparently.

What are the family - a bunch of smurfs?