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

ronaneire · 30-07-2010 08:38AM #1

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 · 30-07-2010 08:54AM

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

WindSock · 30-07-2010 08:59AM

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

ToxicPaddy · 30-07-2010 09:00AM

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

ronaneire · 30-07-2010 09:06AM

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

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

My thinking as well.

Biggins · 30-07-2010 09:13AM

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

Birneybau · 30-07-2010 10:06AM

Bloody Fordiners..

Going over there, taking their parking spaces!

AnonoBoy · 30-07-2010 10:08AM

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

Brendog · 30-07-2010 10:09AM

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 · 30-07-2010 10:10AM

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

Pherekydes · 30-07-2010 10:11AM

Important news...

...to the Daily Mail.

ciagr297 · 30-07-2010 10:11AM

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 · 30-07-2010 10:14AM

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

bonerm · 30-07-2010 10:20AM

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 · 30-07-2010 10:21AM

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

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

bonerm · 30-07-2010 10:24AM

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 · 30-07-2010 10:27AM

bonerm wrote: »

A rich twat (with a small penis).

A hermaphrodite?

Sykk · 30-07-2010 10:29AM

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

monkeyfudge · 30-07-2010 10:30AM

WindSock wrote: »

A hermaphrodite?

That small penis is what we call a clitoris.

WindSock · 30-07-2010 10:35AM

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 · 30-07-2010 10:35AM

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

manta356 · 30-07-2010 11:51AM

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 · 30-07-2010 11:53AM

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 · 30-07-2010 11:54AM

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 · 30-07-2010 11:59AM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

They're the family's royal colours apparently.

Thanks for the info.
Still "yuck" colours.

magotch07 · 30-07-2010 12:04PM

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 · 30-07-2010 12:07PM

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 · 30-07-2010 12:10PM

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 · 30-07-2010 12:22PM

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

danbohan · 30-07-2010 06:41PM

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 · 30-07-2010 08:54PM

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

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

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