Golden car ‘too shiny for the roads’

German authorities have ordered a golden Porsche off the road for being too shiny.

Hamburg’s Morgenpost reported that the 31-yearold driver was stopped in the northern city last week and told his Porsche Panamera, sporting a reflective gold foil finish, might blind other drivers and was a danger. He was told to remove the foil and reregister the car, but police say he continued to drive it.

The driver was stopped again on Wednesday and police took his keys, papers and licence plate, before the vehicle was towed to a garage. He was fined and will have to remove the foil to make the car legal again.