Look I don’t really mind that Melbourne’s Rod Maher paid $187,000 for a Nissan GT-R at a gobal charity auction. Even though it’s the same price as the new Black Edition GT-R it’s a good buy because it is one of only two made, Rod got a trip to the factory in Japan, he did a few laps of the circuit, he got to meet Australian supercar champs, Rick and Todd Kelly when he took delivery last month from Ferntree Gully Nissan and Usain Bolt, who they tell me is a runner, signed the glove box.
But what I do mind is that it’s gold.
Who makes gold cars? Porsche make yellow ones which are bad enough but gold? So when Ralph Debbas rang me to tell me about his new Lykan HyperSport I immediately asked ‘does it come in gold?’.
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