The United Arab Emirate known as Dubai announced last week that despite their 900 mile skyscrapers where you can high five an asteroid and forgetting for a moment that you can simultaneously ski down a snowy slope while making love to the sun, they are in debt for an estimated 80 to 100 billion dollars. To give you an idea of how much money that is, you could essentially bring 2 of the 4 Beatles back from the dead and play Rock Band with them for like 11 hours with that kind of money.
But instead of contacting Zimbabwe (where the 100 billion dollar bills flow like fermented adansonia juice), they’ve turned to their neighbors to help quash this debt. The generous folks over in Abu Dhabi spotted them a couple o’ billions as a good neighbor does, but their debt is still very much an issue.
So you would think the fine folks in Dubai would realize that maybe now isn’t the greatest time to flaunt their wealth. Well f**k that! That’s because the 2009 Dubai International Motor Show drove into town, and debt or no debt, even Howie Mandel’s tiny chin hairs would stand on their tiny, germ-free ends after checking out cars like these.
Like the above car, the BMW ‘M1 Hommage,’ a name we assume is an “hommage” to the days when “Dubai” had “money.” Well done. You can see all the other various unaffordable vehicles below. Good on Dubai, for not letting a little thing like billions of dollars or debt stop them from doing what they do best: Bust money on wildly extravagant unnecessary luxuries. Du-Bye for now.
The Dubai International Motor Show
