Gold-plated High-performance Supercars Spotted in London

Gold Rolls Royce and Lamborghini

London, England is temporarily home to a collection of super expensive and glamorous high-performance bling machines, according to the British newspaper Metro.

A wealthy tourist from Saudi Arabia arrived in the country’s capital with several gold-plated supercars last weekend, providing pedestrians with a rare and likely much appreciated look at some gold-chrome eye candy.

A Rolls-Royce Phantom coupe, Bentley Flying Spur, and a six-wheel off-road Mercedes-Benz 663 (think Jurassic World) were among the many vehicles that were either parked outside the Mandarin Oriental hotel near Hyde Park, or found throughout Kensington.

A Lamborghini was also spotted, Metro reported.

Gold Lamborghini and Mercedes G Glass

The model appeared to be an Aventador LP 750-4 Superveloce Roadster, based on photos from the U.K. media outlet. If that’s the case, the vehicle—which made its global debut in California last year—is worth no less than $530,075 in the U.S. It’s also limited to just 500 units worldwide, and is considered by the Italian automaker to be the “purest, most sports-oriented and fastest series production Lamborghini ever.”

The beastly machine, a two-seat sports car with an open top, is built with a carbon fiber hood and aluminum front and rear frames. The rear spoiler is also made of carbon fiber. The carmaker used light materials to keep the vehicle’s weight to a minimum, since less mass generally helps a car’s performance (and fuel economy).

Overall, the roadster weighs in at 3,472 pounds—that’s 110 lb. less than its Aventador LP 700-4 Roadster sibling—which means that you can expect more grunt from under the hood.

The open-top SV gets a power boost of 50 horses, thanks in part to lightweight materials, and a naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V-12 engine. Total output is capped at 750 hp and 509 lb-ft of torque, and a seven-speed ISR gearbox (a semi-automatic transmission) helps the vehicle jet from 0 to 62 miles per hour in only 2.9 seconds. Maximum speed is a grin-inducing 217 mph.

It’s not clear how much the owner payed to wrap its sports cars in gold chrome, but the price may hover around $5,700 per vehicle. The cost of flying these high-performance bling machines over to London could be more than $28,500 per unit.

With that in mind, it seems the wealthy tourist also brought along a few non-gold supercars, including a black Lamborghini Aventador and a black and white McLaren P1.