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Five silly luxury-car options

It is obviously tough when you have too much money to actually know what to do with it all, but fortunately luxury car makers are here to soak up lots of those spare millions. But even they have to get really creative to appeal to the super rich. Today we take a look at five of the silliest and most excessive options available. Starlight roof

Ever wished you could admire the night sky from your car, but don’t want to mess your hair up by buying a convertible? Rolls-Royce has you covered there. Literally, thanks to its expensive and silly Starlight headliner system that features 800-1600 (depending on the model) fibre optic lights. Each headliner is hand made, with its own unique constellation: one owner reportedly asked for his coat of arms.

Granite trim

A dashboard slathered with wood, aluminium or carbon fibre not exclusive enough for you? Well then, how about stone? Mercedes-Benz offers a granite trim option in its Designo customisation range. Sounds heavy? Fear not, the layer of stone is only 1mm thick, which makes it seem kind of silly really. Oh, and it ain’t cheap either. Mercedes’ granite trim option in the Maybach limousine was $73,000!

Leather vents

While it was possible to spend a lot of money on leather in the original Porsche Panamera, one option stood out, both for its price and extreme silliness. For $3500 you could get the slats in the air vents wrapped in leather. Yep, you read that right: the Panamera could have leather air vents. You could also get a leather rear view mirror, leather sun visors and a leather luggage compartment cover. Why? No idea.

Carbon fibre

OK, so you decided to drop a couple of million on the baddest Volkswagen out there, and stopped to think: there must be a way to spend even more money and yet get slightly less. Bugatti had you covered there, because for about $430,000 you could get them to not paint it for you. The Veyron’s body featured a lot of carbon fibre and if you wanted to show that off, it would cost you to get them to not cover it in paint.

Another car

The Aston Martin Cygnet was originally conceived as a way to reduce Aston’s range-wide emission average, which is all very worthy (and misguided), but it was the way the company chose to present and market it that puts it on this list. If you bought a new DB9 or Vanquish you could add a tarted-up Toyota iQ to the garish leather headlining and awful James Bond-themed personalised number plate you also purchased.