Shine Bright Like a Diamond: 10 Extravagant Crystal-Encrusted Cars

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This bedazzled-looking Audi popped up at the Moscow Tuning Show in 2011. Instead of a full blanket of stones, this one has a more spaced out and floral design.

What you see above is a 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II that has been covered from bumper to bumper in finely cut Swarovski crystals. It took jeweler Edgar M three tedious, but precise, years to fit the rare car with its new shimmery coat. The premium ride car did not have a set price, but was be auctioned off, with proceeds going to the "Help in Motion" charity, a non-profit thath helps drug addicts.

Customizers and accessory aficionados Garson/D.A.D showed off their twin Swarovski crystal-studded SL600s at the Tokyo Auto Salon recently. Predominantly gold with silver accents, the Benz has a total of 300,000 crystals sitting on the exterior.

Let't take it up a notch for a hot minute. Gembella, a German tuning company, unveiled this car coating that uses real diamonds, not crystals. The "genuine" stones are ground up into dust and sprayed on for a shiny new exterior. We think we'll stick to the cheaper vinyl wraps, thanks.

If we were to design a car for the "Sex and the City" ladies, it'd probably end up looking like this. It's a cute, "stylish," space-concious car that has 280,000 Swarovski crystals on it.

We don't have many details on this specific car, but it was spotted in China, where extravagant cars have been on the rise as of late. Luxury car crashes have also be on the rise ...

Yep, you guess it. Swarovski again. Unlike the others, however, the Mini has a vibrant American theme, using up more than 1,000,000 stones. Not so mini, eh?

Cadillac actually has a gorgeous "Black Diamond" paint job that we'd kill to put on our cars, but this CTS is even a little more ostentatious. Embedded with 350,000 Swarovski crystals, the CTS has a pretty cool two-tone design along the roof line and side skirts. Oh, and the stones are "guaranteed to stay on even in a car wash."

P.G.O. was the next company to link up with Swarovski for the princess treatment, using more than 3,000,000 crystals for the treatment.

The second of the two SL600s, this one takes the lighter silvery finish. And yes, even the exhaust pipes are covered.