Chocolate covered Porsche?

[marvinp8700]

Back when we were but wee little Autobloggers, Easter was one of our favorite holidays. Not that we were religious, mind, we just really dug finding baskets filled with sugary treats nestled in plastic grass first thing in the morning. As far as we were concerned, you could keep your colored eggs, your jellybeans, your Cadbury creme eggs – heck, we weren't even that excited about those supernaturally yellow marshmallow Peep things – we wanted the Big Daddy – the solid chocolate bunny. You can imagine our horror, then, when at some point in our childhood, our long-eared cacao friend went on a diet, although we didn't know it right off. Oh, he looked about the same – and he even sported the same jaunty tinfoil jacket. But he weighed much less – he was – *shudder* – hollow. Empty inside like our little crestfallen Easter morning spirits. Thankfully, these many years later, Porsche Centrum Gelderland appears to be going some way towards healing our childhood wounds and restoring our faith in humanity. Well, if not humanity, at least in the validity of hollow chocolate treats. You see, the Dutch Porsche dealership has apparently taken a brand-new 911 Carrera S and as a sort of marketing stunt, they've gone and covered it in chocolate. According to AB tipster Patrick, in the absence of a giant dipping mechanism, they've used 175 kilos of molten goodness (that's about 385 pounds) to conceal Stuttgart's finest, reserving another couple kilos of white chocolate for detailing like the headlamps. Why on earth did they decide to do this? It's apparently for a Dutch holiday centered around "Sinterklaas" – Saint Nicholas – who was the Danish inspiration for Santa Claus. As the story goes, the holiday is held in The Netherlands on the evening of December 5, and one of the holiday's most storied traditions is that people buy or make chocolate letters in celebration – hence the milky goodness that is Centrum Gelderland's Choco997. The dipped Porsche will remain on display until Christmas, at which time we fully expect to see it wheeled into a walk-in freezer until it can to be thawed in time to make an appearance in our Easter basket next Spring. http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/17/d...n-milk-chocol/

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[TaekOne]

what in the world...


but that chocolate does look good :o

[å]

would have been better if it was an actual brick of chocolate carved to look like a porsche

[NOPD]

stupid

[ShaolinLueb]

Originally Posted by NOPD

stupid

some people just have way too much money and time.

[GSRRacer95]

Looks horrible. He should have smoothed it out.

[95SiR]

they should keep those fender flares.

[veen]

everything about that is fail

[dom93hatch]

i'd eat the hell out of it

[dj02]

well that was lame!

[reech-around]

wow, poor execution. i was expecting the final product to be smooth and umm...professional looking.

[TaekOne]

but the white porsche next to it

[jchoi]

ok that chocolate looks good but wtf..

Originally Posted by å

would have been better if it was an actual brick of chocolate carved to look like a porsche

+1

[canada]

I'd like to see how it looks in the end. The picture is mid process. You can polish chocolate to almost shine... and with white detail for the certain parts I bet it would look pretty good!

EDIT: nevermind... just saw the rest of the pics. Fail.